The men's singles luge competition at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo took place from 4 to 7 February, at Sapporo Teine.
Results Rank Athlete Country Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total Wolfgang Scheidel 52.17 52.06 51.58 51.77 3:27.58 Harald Ehrig 52.60 52.32 51.74 51.73 3:28.39 Wolfram Fiedler 53.04 52.55 51.61 51.53 3:28.73 4 Klaus-Michael Bonsack 52.98 52.72 51.54 51.92 3:29.16 5 Leonhard Nagenrauft 53.00 52.79 51.97 51.91 3:29.67 6 Josef Fendt 53.03 52.73 52.25 52.02 3:30.03 7 Manfred Schmid 53.06 52.80 52.19 52.00 3:30.05 8 Paul Hildgartner 53.66 52.76 51.94 52.19 3:30.55 9 Karl Brunner 53.14 53.26 52.28 52.19 3:30.87 10 Josef Feistmantl 53.18 53.11 52.52 52.51 3:31.32 11 Emilio Lechner 53.59 53.49 52.20 52.13 3:31.41 12 Janusz Grzemowski 53.07 53.12 52.66 52.59 3:31.44 13 Lucjan Kudzia 54.14 53.58 52.36 52.75 3:32.83 14 Christian Strøm 53.79 53.68 52.46 53.08 3:33.01 15 Wolfgang Winkler 54.07 53.53 52.66 52.82 3:33.08 16 Rudolf Schmid 54.33 53.93 52.74 52.76 3:33.76 17 Hans Wimmer 54.09 53.82 52.62 53.27 3:33.80 18 Masako Eguchi 54.09 53.37 52.78 53.57 3:33.81 19 Ryszard Gawior 54.72 54.09 53.26 52.87 3:34.94 20 Kazuaki Ichikawa 54.09 54.21 53.29 53.40 3:34.99 21 Leo Atzwanger 54.41 54.32 53.38 53.22 3:35.33 22 Stephen Sinding 54.98 54.05 53.19 53.19 3:35.41 23 Franz Schachner 54.67 54.38 53.40 53.17 3:35.62 24 Masatoshi Kobayashi 55.30 54.43 53.00 53.66 3:36.39 25 Larry Arbuthnot 54.11 54.17 54.17 54.12 3:36.57 26 Satoru Arai 54.76 55.07 53.75 53.73 3:37.31 27 Mirosław Więckowski 54.43 54.82 54.61 53.75 3:37.61 28 James Murray 55.31 55.22 53.94 53.46 3:37.93 29 Yury Yegorov 55.08 54.58 54.64 53.70 3:38.00 30 Bjørn Dyrdahl 54.73 55.13 54.67 53.52 3:38.05 31 Terry O'Brien 55.41 55.17 54.02 53.64 3:38.24 32 Ralph Havens 55.17 54.84 54.31 54.00 3:38.32 33 Sergey Osipov 55.48 55.27 54.06 54.18 3:38.99 34 Jonnie Woodall 55.11 55.21 54.78 55.05 3:40.15 35 David McComb 55.20 56.14 54.52 54.57 3:40.43 36 Pierre Larchier 55.86 56.28 54.68 54.94 3:41.76 37 Viktor Ilyin 56.12 55.50 55.21 55.25 3:42.08 38 Doug Hansen 55.73 55.94 55.20 55.35 3:42.22 39 Werner Sele 56.39 56.04 55.03 54.92 3:42.38 40 Jeremy Palmer-Tomkinson 57.23 55.59 55.36 55.43 3:43.61 41 Yury Svetikov 1:00.82 55.01 54.08 53.78 3:43.69 42 Richard Liversedge 57.38 57.08 55.71 56.32 3:46.49 43 Rupert Deen 59.21 59.65 58.00 58.58 3:55.44 44 Bob Rock Jr. 55.98 55.25 53.85 1:13.96 3:59.04 - Paul Nielsen DNF - - - -
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