Luge at the 1972 Winter Olympics – Men's singles

Men's singles at the XI Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Sapporo Teine
Dates	4–7 February
Competitors	45 from 13 nations
Winning time	3:27.58
Medalists
Wolfgang Scheidel  East Germany Harald Ehrig  East Germany Wolfram Fiedler  East Germany

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