Luge World Cup Explained

The Luge World Cup season is a yearly competition first organized by the International Luge Federation since 1977–78. The World Cup is the highest level season-long competition in the sport.

Men's singles

Season	Winner	Runner-up	Third
1977–78
1978–79
1979–80
1980–81		none awarded
1981–82	(3)
1982–83	(3)
1983–84
1984–85
1985–86
1986–87	(3)
1987–88
1988–89
1989–90	(2)
1990–91
1991–92
1992–93
1993–94
1994–95
1995–96
1996–97
1997–98
1998–99
1999–2000
2000–01
2001–02	(10)
2002–03
2003–04
2004–05
2005–06
2006–07
2007–08
2008–09
2009–10
2010–11	(10)
2011–12
2012–13
2013–14
2014–15
2015–16
2016–17
2017–18
2018–19
2019–20	(2)
2020–21	(7)
2021–22
2022–23
2023–24

Medals:

World Cup Stages medals (as of 2022/23):

Rank	Country	First podium	Most recent	Podium sweeps	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1		1991	2023	21	119	116	109	344
2		1978	2023	8	99	74	86	259
3		1979	2023	3	56	55	76	187
4		1998	2022	1	38	46	21	105
5		1978	1990	4	17	21	15	53
6		2012	1990		11	7	9	27
7		1986	2020		10	26	20	56
8		1981	1990		7	6	6	19
9		1992	2023		3	6	11	20
10		1983	2018		1	3	4	8
11		1980	1980		1	0	0	1
12		2018	2018		0	1	0	1
13		2007	2014		0	0	4	4
14		1982	1982		0	0	1	1
		2001	2001		0	0	1	1

World Cup races

Rank	Athlete	Country	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1			1993	2014	57	26	26	103
2	Felix Loch		2009	2023	50	21	21	92
3			1985	2006	34	18	18	71
4			1984	2002	33	17	23	73
5			1998	2014	15	12	12	39
6	Semen Pavlichenko		2015	2021	13	11	0	24
7			1978	1987	11	7	4	22
8			2002	2014	10	23	24	57
9			1985	2001	10	23	7	40
10	Wolfgang Kindl		2014	2023	10	11	13	34

Notes:

• Georg Hackl from West Germany also won 3 gold, 5 silver, and 8 bronze competing in doubles in 1985–1990.
• Albert Demchenko from Russia also won 1 silver and 1 bronze competing in doubles in 1992–1993.

Women's singles

Season	Winner	Runner-up	Third
1977–78
1978–79
1979–80
1980–81	(3)
1981–82
1982–83
1983–84		none awarded
1984–85
1985–86
1986–87	(2)
1987–88
1988–89
1989–90	(2)
1990–91
1991–92	(2)
1992–93
1993–94
1994–95
1995–96
1996–97
1997–98	(2)
1998–99
1999–2000
2000–01
2001–02
2002–03
2003–04	(4)
2004–05
2005–06
2006–07
2007–08
2008–09
2009–10
2010–11
2011–12	(5)
2012–13
2013–14
2014–15
2015–16
2016–17
2017–18
2018–19
2019–20
2020–21	(8)
2021–22
2022–23
2023–24	(4)

Medals:

World Cup Stages medals (as of 2022/23):

Rank	Country	First podium	Most recent	Podium sweeps	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1		1991	2023	113	231	212	174	617
2		1978	1990	10	36	33	23	92
3		1979	2020		22	17	21	60
4		1978	2023		21	25	48	94
5		2011	2022		18	11	19	48
6		1987	2023	1	16	24	24	64
7		1978	1991	2	8	13	17	38
8		1978	1990	1	5	4	4	13
9		1988	2019		4	11	19	34
10		1992	2023		2	8	10	20
11		1981	1986		2	2	1	5
12		1995	2009		0	3	5	8
13		1979	1979		0	0	1	1
		2021	2021		0	0	1	1

World Cup races

Rank	Athlete	Country	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1			2007	2022	52	49	17	118
2			1990	2007	38	26	8	72
3			2004	2019	37	31	12	80
4			1992	2008	26	27	14	77
5	Julia Taubitz		2017	2023	21	14	11	46
6	Tatiana Ivanova		2011	2022	17	7	10	34
7			1985	1996	13	9	11	33
8			1987	1998	13	8	8	29
9			1990	1997	11	11	6	28
10	Dajana Eitberger		2014	2023	10	9	20	39

Men's doubles

Season	Winner	Runner-up	Third
1977–78	Peter Gschnitzer Karl Brunner	Hans Brandner Balthasar Schwarm	Stefan Hölzlwimmer Rudolf Grosswang
1978–79	Peter Gschnitzer (2) Karl Brunner (2)	Georg Fluckinger Karl Schrott	Hans Brandner Balthasar Schwarm
1979–80	Günther Lemmerer Reinhold Sulzbacher	Georg Fluckinger Karl Schrott	Peter Gschnitzer Karl Brunner
1980–81	Günther Lemmerer Reinhold Sulzbacher	Hansjörg Raffl Karl Brunner	Hans Stangassinger Franz Wembacher
1981–82	Günther Lemmerer (3) Reinhold Sulzbacher (3)	Georg Fluckinger Franz Wilhelmer	Juris Eisaks Einārs Veikša
1982–83	Hansjörg Raffl Norbert Huber	Hans Stangassinger Franz Wembacher	Thomas Schwab Wolfgang Staudinger
1983–84	Jörg Hoffmann Jochen Pietzsch	Georg Fluckinger Franz Wilhelmer	none awarded
		Hansjörg Raffl Norbert Huber
1984–85	Hansjörg Raffl Norbert Huber	Georg Fluckinger Franz Wilhelmer	René Keller Lutz Kühnlenz
1985–86	Hansjörg Raffl Norbert Huber	Thomas Schwab Wolfgang Staudinger	Stefan Ilsanker Georg Hackl
1986–87	Thomas Schwab Wolfgang Staudinger	Stefan Ilsanker Georg Hackl	Hansjörg Raffl Norbert Huber
1987–88	Yevgeny Belousov Aleksandr Belyakov	Stefan Ilsanker Georg Hackl	Hansjörg Raffl Norbert Huber
			Vitaliy Melnik Dimitriy Alekseyev
1988–89	Hansjörg Raffl Norbert Huber	Stefan Krauße Jan Behrendt	Jörg Hoffmann Jochen Pietzsch
1989–90	Hansjörg Raffl Norbert Huber	Kurt Brugger Wilfried Huber	Stefan Ilsanker Georg Hackl
1990–91	Hansjörg Raffl Norbert Huber	Stefan Krauße Jan Behrendt	Kurt Brugger Wilfried Huber
1991–92	Hansjörg Raffl Norbert Huber	Yves Mankel Thomas Rudolph	Stefan Krauße Jan Behrendt
1992–93	Hansjörg Raffl (8) Norbert Huber (8)	Kurt Brugger Wilfried Huber	Stefan Krauße Jan Behrendt
1993–94	Stefan Krauße Jan Behrendt	Tobias Schiegl Markus Schiegl	Steffen Skel Steffen Wöller
1994–95	Stefan Krauße Jan Behrendt	Kurt Brugger Wilfried Huber	Chris Thorpe Gordy Sheer
1995–96	Stefan Krauße (3) Jan Behrendt (3)	Yves Mankel Thomas Rudolph	Chris Thorpe Gordy Sheer
1996–97	Chris Thorpe Gordy Sheer	Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder	Tobias Schiegl Markus Schiegl
1997–98	Mark Grimmette Brian Martin	Kurt Brugger Wilfried Huber	Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder
1998–99	Mark Grimmette Brian Martin	Tobias Schiegl Markus Schiegl	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch
1999–2000	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	Steffen Skel Steffen Wöller	Mark Grimmette Brian Martin
2000–01	Steffen Skel Steffen Wöller	André Florschütz Torsten Wustlich	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch
2001–02	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	Steffen Skel Steffen Wöller	Tobias Schiegl Markus Schiegl
2002–03	Mark Grimmette (3) Brian Martin (3)	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	Tobias Schiegl Markus Schiegl
2003–04	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	André Florschütz Torsten Wustlich	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber
2004–05	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	André Florschütz Torsten Wustlich	Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger
2005–06	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	André Florschütz Torsten Wustlich
2006–07	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder
2007–08	Patric Leitner (6) Alexander Resch (6)	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger
2008–09	Christian Oberstolz (2) Patrick Gruber (2)	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger
2009–10	André Florschütz Torsten Wustlich	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber
2010–11	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber
2011–12	Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken
2012–13	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	Peter Penz Georg Fischler
2013–14	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber
2014–15	Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	Andris Šics Juris Šics
2015–16	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	Peter Penz Georg Fischler
2016–17	Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	Matt Mortensen Jayson Terdiman
2017–18	Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	Peter Penz Georg Fischler
2018–19	Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	Thomas Steu Lorenz Koller	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt
2019–20	Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	Andris Šics Juris Šics
2020–21	Thomas Steu Lorenz Koller	Andris Šics Juris Šics	Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken
2021–22	Toni Eggert (6) Sascha Benecken (6)	Andris Šics Juris Šics	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt
2022–23	Tobias Wendl (5) Tobias Arlt (5)	Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	Mārtiņš Bots Roberts Plūme
2023–24	Thomas Steu (2) Wolfgang Kindl	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	Mārtiņš Bots Roberts Plūme

Medals:

Women's doubles

Season	Winner	Runner-up	Third
2022–23	Andrea Vötter Marion Oberhofer	Selina Egle Lara Michaela Kipp	Jessica Degenhardt Cheyenne Rosenthal
2023–24	Andrea Vötter Marion Oberhofer	Jessica Degenhardt Cheyenne Rosenthal	Dajana Eitberger Saskia Schirmer

Medals:

Team World Cup

Season	Winner	Runner-up	Third
2003–04	Germany	Italy	Austria
2004–05	Germany	Italy	United States
2005–06	Italy	Austria	none awarded
		Germany
		United States
2006–07	Canada	United States	Germany
2007–08	Germany	United States	Austria
2008–09	Germany	Austria	United States
2009–10	Germany	Austria	Canada
2010–11	Germany	Italy	Russia
2011–12	Germany	Canada	Russia
2012–13	Germany	Italy	United States
2013–14	Germany	Canada	United States
2014–15	Germany	Russia	United States
2015–16	Germany	Russia	United States
2016–17	Germany	Latvia	Russia
2017–18	Germany	Austria	Canada
2018–19	Germany	Russia	Latvia
2019–20	Italy	none awarded	Germany
	Russia
2020–21	Germany	Russia	Latvia
2021–22	Germany	Latvia	Austria
2022–23	Germany	Latvia	Austria
2023–24	Germany	Austria	United States

Medals:

Multiple winners

Men

Rank	Athlete	Country	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1			1983	1998	11	3	3	17
2			1995	2014	10	4	1	15
3			1985	2002	10	2	2	14
4			1979	1993	8	3	2	13
5	Felix Loch		2010	2024	7	3	4	14
6			2012	2023	6	4	1	11
			2012	2023	6	4	1	11
8			1999	2010	6	3	2	11
			1999	2010	6	3	2	11
10	Tobias Arlt		2011	2024	5	6	2	13
	Tobias Wendl		2011	2024	5	6	2	13

Women

Rank	Athlete	Country	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1			2008	2022	8	4	2	14
2			1998	2008	5	6	–	11
3			2006	2017	5	2	5	12
4			1995	2006	4	4	1	9
5	Julia Taubitz		2019	2024	4	2	–	6
6			1978	1981	3	1	–	4
7			1989	1998	2	4	–	6
8			1983	1989	2	1	2	5
9			1985	1987	2	1	–	3
10			1988	1990	2	–	1	3
			1991	1994	2	–	1	3

See also

• Overall Cup Winners

References

• List of men's doubles luge World Cup champions since 1978.
• List of men's singles luge World Cup champions since 1978.
• List of women's singles luge World Cup champions since 1978.

See main article: world cups.