Luge at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Women's singles

The women's singles competition in luge at the 2026 Winter Olympics was held on 9 February (heats 1 and 2) and 10 February (heats 3 and 4), at the Cortina Sliding Centre in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Julia Taubitz of Germany won the event, Elīna Ieva Bota of Latvia won the silver medal, and Ashley Farquharson of the United States bronze. For all of them, these were first Olympic medals.

Luge women's singles at the XXV Olympic Winter Games
Luge pictogram
Venue	Cortina Sliding Centre
Date	9, 10 February 2026
Competitors	25 from 15 nations
Winning time	3:30.625
Medalists
Julia Taubitz  Germany Elīna Ieva Bota  Latvia Ashley Farquharson  United States

Background

The 2022 Olympic champion, Natalie Geisenberger, retired from competitions. The bronze medalist, Tatiana Ivanova, was barred from participation, since after the Russian invasion to Ukraine Russian athletes could only compete in neutral status, and Ivanova did not obtain one. The silver medalist, Anna Berreiter, qualified for the 2026 Olympics. Lisa Schulte was leading the singles standing of 2025–26 Luge World Cup before the Olympics, even though she has not won a single event. Julia Taubitz was the 2025 World champion, with Merle Fräbel second and Emily Sweeney third. Sweeney changed her name to Fischnaller in the meanwhile, following her marriage to Dominik Fischnaller.

Qualification

Main article: Luge at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Qualification

Summary

Number of sleds	Athletes total	Nation
3	9	Austria  Germany  United States
2	8	Canada  Italy  Latvia  Ukraine
1	8	Argentina  China  Individual Neutral Athletes  Poland  Romania  South Korea  Sweden  Switzerland

Results

Rank	Bib	Athlete	Country	Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Run 3	Rank	Run 4	Rank	Total	Behind
	1	Julia Taubitz	Germany	52.638	2	52.550 TR	1	52.730	1	52.707	1	3:30.625
	3	Elīna Ieva Bota	Latvia	52.878	5	52.805	3	52.939	4	52.921	6	3:31.543	+0.918
	16	Ashley Farquharson	United States	52.862	4	52.934	7	52.877	3	52.909	4	3:31.582	+0.957
4	11	Verena Hofer	Italy	52.861	3	52.882	4	52.977	5	52.925	7	3:31.645	+1.020
5	7	Sandra Robatscher	Italy	52.886	6	52.915	5	53.026	7	52.905	3	3:31.732	+1.107
6	10	Anna Berreiter	Germany	53.051	10	53.004	10	53.009	6	52.946	8	3:32.010	+1.385
7	2	Lisa Schulte	Austria	52.945	8	52.921	6	53.070	9	53.126	12	3:32.062	+1.437
8	5	Merle Fräbel	Germany	52.590 TR	1	52.659	2	54.144	20	52.779	2	3:32.172	+1.547
9	12	Natalie Maag	Switzerland	53.051	10	53.148	12	53.169	11	53.039	9	3:32.407	+1.782
10	4	Hannah Prock	Austria	53.131	12	53.230	14	53.271	12	53.131	13	3:32.763	+2.138
11	8	Dorothea Schwarz	Austria	53.595	16	53.052	11	53.080	10	53.103	11	3:32.830	+2.205
12	17	Emily Fischnaller	United States	52.892	7	52.980	9	52.876	2	54.287	19	3:33.035	+2.410
13	13	Daria Olesik	Individual Neutral Athletes	53.289	13	53.362	15	53.348	14	53.211	14	3:33.210	+2.585
14	6	Summer Britcher	United States	53.389	15	53.225	13	53.516	15	53.423	16	3:33.553	+2.928
15	15	Embyr-Lee Susko	Canada	53.028	9	54.390	21	53.294	13	53.090	10	3:33.802	+3.177
16	9	Kendija Aparjode	Latvia	55.059	24	52.961	8	53.049	8	52.919	5	3:33.988	+3.363
17	14	Trinity Ellis	Canada	53.351	14	53.510	16	54.065	19	53.403	15	3:34.329	+3.704
18	24	Yulianna Tunytska	Ukraine	53.713	18	53.626	18	53.884	18	53.600	17	3:34.823	+4.198
19	25	Tove Kohala	Sweden	54.425	22	53.615	17	53.740	17	53.708	18	3:35.488	+4.863
20	19	Olena Smaha	Ukraine	53.619	17	54.027	19	53.678	16	54.364	20	3:35.688	+5.063
21	20	Wang Peixuan	China	53.897	19	54.460	22	54.274	22	Did not advance		2:42.631	—
22	23	Verónica Ravenna	Argentina	54.038	20	54.517	24	54.341	23			2:42.896
23	21	Klaudia Domaradzka	Poland	54.663	23	54.310	20	54.365	24			2:43.338
24	18	Jung Hye-sun	South Korea	55.118	25	54.469	23	54.194	21			2:43.781
25	22	Corina Buzățoiu	Romania	54.062	21	55.786	25	54.418	25			2:44.266