# Luge at the 1972 Winter Olympics – Men's singles

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 | - | - | - | - |