Luge at the 1964 Winter Olympics – Men's singles

Men's singles
at the IX Olympic Winter Games
Men's singles; at the IX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck
Dates	January 30-February 4
Competitors	38 from 12 nations
Winning time	3:26.77
Medalists
	1968 →

The men's singles luge competition at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck was held from 30 January to 4 February, at Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck.^[1] Tragedy affected the event as British luger Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypecki was killed during a practice run on January 23, seven days before the start of the competition.^[2]

Results

Rank^[1]	Athlete	Country	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total
	Thomas Köhler	United Team of Germany	51.27	51.53	51.50	52.47	3:26.77
	Klaus-Michael Bonsack	United Team of Germany	51.61	51.33	51.68	52.42	3:27.04
	Hans Plenk	United Team of Germany	52.12	52.25	52.31	53.47	3:30.15
4	Rolf Greger Strøm	Norway	52.60	52.81	52.62	53.18	3:31.21
5	Josef Feistmantl	Austria	52.14	52.58	53.51	53.11	3:31.34
6	Mieczysław Pawełkiewicz	Poland	54.00	52.70	52.66	53.66	3:33.02
7	Carlo Prinoth	Italy	53.01	53.36	53.70	53.42	3:33.49
8	Franz Tiefenbacher	Austria	53.31	53.04	54.00	53.51	3:33.86
9	Manfred Schmid	Austria	53.27	52.86	53.82	54.09	3:34.04
10	Jan Hamřík	Czechoslovakia	53.57	53.24	53.65	53.91	3:34.37
11	Lucjan Kudzia	Poland	53.11	55.44	52.36	53.51	3:34.42
12	Horst Urban	Czechoslovakia	53.32	53.13	54.13	53.92	3:34.50
13	Francis Feltman	United States	52.91	53.43	54.13	54.58	3:35.05
14	Mogens Christensen	Norway	54.43	55.00	53.80	54.44	3:37.67
15	Giampaolo Ambrosi	Italy	54.31	54.50	54.96	55.29	3:39.06
16	Walter Außendorfer	Italy	55.47	55.02	54.85	54.83	3:40.17
17	Tom Neely	United States	54.62	55.40	55.04	55.12	3:40.18
18	Emil Egli	Switzerland	55.01	56.24	54.80	55.51	3:41.56
19	Jan-Axel Strøm	Norway	55.78	55.27	55.15	55.78	3:41.98
20	Arnold Gartmann	Switzerland	55.17	55.27	55.74	55.97	3:42.15
21	Reinhold Senn	Austria	52.32	63.85	53.43	53.37	3:42.97
22	Mike Hessel	United States	55.31	55.50	56.12	56.37	3:43.30
23	Giovanni Graber	Italy	56.44	61.66	54.80	55.50	3:48.40
24	Jiří Hujer	Czechoslovakia	56.05	55.11	64.80	57.44	3:53.40
25	Keith Schellenberg	Great Britain	58.69	59.06	58.14	58.87	3:54.76
26	Ulrich Jucker	Switzerland	63.81	55.92	57.41	58.10	3:55.24
27	Hans Nägele	Liechtenstein	59.65	64.56	60.65	61.43	4:06.29
28	Jerzy Wojnar	Poland	64.47	53.14	70.72	63.36	4:11.69
29	George Farmer	United States	56.78	86.81	57.00	56.01	4:16.60
30	Magnus Schädler	Liechtenstein	63.16	63.26	65.75	64.94	4:17.11
31	Jean-Pierre Gottschall	Switzerland	63.05	64.82	61.85	82.36	4:32.08
-	Doug Anakin	Canada	?	?	DNS	-	-
-	Matiás Stinnes	Argentina	?	?	DNS	-	-
-	Gordon Porteus	Great Britain	60.98	DQ	-	-	-
-	Johann Schädler	Liechtenstein	63.16	DNF	-	-	-
-	Edward Fender	Poland	DNF	-	-	-	-
-	Fritz Nachmann	United Team of Germany	DNF	-	-	-	-
-	Roland Urban	Czechoslovakia	DNF	-	-	-	-

References

^ ^a ^b "Offizieller Bericht der IX. Olympischen Winterspiele Innsbruck 1964" (PDF), Austrian Federal Publishing House for Instruction, Science and Art, Vienna and Munich, LA84 Foundation, 1964, retrieved January 20, 2014
^ "Luge at the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Games: Men's Singles". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2020.

[OfficialReport-1] "Offizieller Bericht der IX. Olympischen Winterspiele Innsbruck 1964" (PDF), Austrian Federal Publishing House for Instruction, Science and Art, Vienna and Munich, LA84 Foundation, 1964, retrieved January 20, 2014

[SR-2] "Luge at the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Games: Men's Singles". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2020.

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