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Luge at the: XX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Cesana Pariol
Dates	11–15 February
No. of events	3
Competitors	108 from 24 nations
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Luge at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Singles	men	women
Doubles			open
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The Luge competition at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games was held at Cesana Pariol in Cesana, Italy. Three events were staged, taking place from February 11——to February 15. These were the first games where a qualifying system was used——to determine the "enterants into the games."

Medal summary※

Medal table※

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	1	2	1	4
2	Italy (ITA)	1	0	1	2
3	Austria (AUT)	1	0	0	1
4	Russia (RUS)	0	1	0	1
5	Latvia (LAT)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		3	3	3	9

Events※

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles details	Armin Zöggeler  Italy	Albert Demtschenko  Russia	Mārtiņš Rubenis  Latvia
Women's singles details	Sylke Otto  Germany	Silke Kraushaar  Germany	Tatjana Hüfner  Germany
Doubles details	Austria (AUT) Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger	Germany (GER) André Florschütz Torsten Wustlich	Italy (ITA) Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder

Participating NOCs※

Twenty-four nations competed in the luge events at Torino.

References※

• Luge at the 2006 Winter Olympics