Luge at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Luge at the 1976 Winter Olympics consisted of three events at Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck. The competition took place between 4 and 7 February 1976.^[1][2]

Luge at the XII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck
Dates	4–7 February 1976
Competitors	94 from 16 nations
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Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	3	1	1	5
2	West Germany	0	2	1	3
3	Austria	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		3	3	3	9

Germany dominated the medal table with eight medals (with an exception of an Austrian bronze medal), including an East German sweep of the gold medals.^[1]

Events

Event[1]	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's singles details	Dettlef Günther  East Germany	3:27.688	Josef Fendt  West Germany	3:28.196	Hans Rinn  East Germany	3:28.574
Women's singles details	Margit Schumann  East Germany	2:50.621	Ute Rührold  East Germany	2:50.846	Elisabeth Demleitner  West Germany	2:51.056
Doubles details	East Germany (GDR) Hans Rinn Norbert Hahn	1:25.604	West Germany (FRG) Hans Brandner Balthasar Schwarm	1:25.889	Austria (AUT) Rudolf Schmid Franz Schachner	1:25.919

Participating NOCs

Sixteen nations participated in Luge at the Innsbruck Games. Chinese Taipei made their Olympic luge debut.^[1]

•  Austria (7)
•  Canada (8)
•  France (1)
•  West Germany (8)
•  Great Britain (4)
•  East Germany (9)
•  Italy (8)
•  Japan (5)
•  Liechtenstein (3)
•  Norway (7)
•  Poland (9)
•  Republic of China (2)
•  Sweden (5)
•  Czechoslovakia (4)
•  Soviet Union (6)
•  United States (9)