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.
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
Summary Number of sleds Athletes totalNation 3 9 2 8 1 8
Results Rank Bib Athlete Country Run 1 Rank Run 2 Rank Run 3 Rank Run 4 Rank TotalFinal results Behind 1 Julia Taubitz 52.638 2 52.550 TR 1 52.730 1 52.707 1 3:30.625 3 Elīna Ieva Bota 52.878 5 52.805 3 52.939 4 52.921 6 3:31.543 +0.918 16 Ashley Farquharson 52.862 4 52.934 7 52.877 3 52.909 4 3:31.582 +0.957 4 11 Verena Hofer 52.861 3 52.882 4 52.977 5 52.925 7 3:31.645 +1.020 5 7 Sandra Robatscher 52.886 6 52.915 5 53.026 7 52.905 3 3:31.732 +1.107 6 10 Anna Berreiter 53.051 10 53.004 10 53.009 6 52.946 8 3:32.010 +1.385 7 2 Lisa Schulte 52.945 8 52.921 6 53.070 9 53.126 12 3:32.062 +1.437 8 5 Merle Fräbel 52.590 TR 1 52.659 2 54.144 20 52.779 2 3:32.172 +1.547 9 12 Natalie Maag 53.051 10 53.148 12 53.169 11 53.039 9 3:32.407 +1.782 10 4 Hannah Prock 53.131 12 53.230 14 53.271 12 53.131 13 3:32.763 +2.138 11 8 Dorothea Schwarz 53.595 16 53.052 11 53.080 10 53.103 11 3:32.830 +2.205 12 17 Emily Fischnaller 52.892 7 52.980 9 52.876 2 54.287 19 3:33.035 +2.410 13 13 Daria Olesik 53.289 13 53.362 15 53.348 14 53.211 14 3:33.210 +2.585 14 6 Summer Britcher 53.389 15 53.225 13 53.516 15 53.423 16 3:33.553 +2.928 15 15 Embyr-Lee Susko 53.028 9 54.390 21 53.294 13 53.090 10 3:33.802 +3.177 16 9 Kendija Aparjode 55.059 24 52.961 8 53.049 8 52.919 5 3:33.988 +3.363 17 14 Trinity Ellis 53.351 14 53.510 16 54.065 19 53.403 15 3:34.329 +3.704 18 24 Yulianna Tunytska 53.713 18 53.626 18 53.884 18 53.600 17 3:34.823 +4.198 19 25 Tove Kohala 54.425 22 53.615 17 53.740 17 53.708 18 3:35.488 +4.863 20 19 Olena Smaha 53.619 17 54.027 19 53.678 16 54.364 20 3:35.688 +5.063 21 20 Wang Peixuan 53.897 19 54.460 22 54.274 22 2:42.631 22 23 Verónica Ravenna 54.038 20 54.517 24 54.341 23 2:42.896 23 21 Klaudia Domaradzka 54.663 23 54.310 20 54.365 24 2:43.338 24 18 Jung Hye-sun 55.118 25 54.469 23 54.194 21 2:43.781 25 22 Corina Buzățoiu 54.062 21 55.786 25 54.418 25 2:44.266
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