page_title: Luge
section_title: Olympic medal table
hierarchical_section_title: Luge / Olympic medal table
caption_attribution_description: Armin Zöggeler am Start beim Rodel-Weltcup 2005 in Oberhof
context_page_description: A luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine and feet-first. A luger steers by using the calf muscles to flex the sled's runners or by exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the seat. Racing sleds weigh 21–25 kg for singles and 25–30 kg for doubles. Luge is also the name of an Olympic sport.
  Lugers can reach speeds of 140 km/h. Austrian Manuel Pfister reached a top speed of 154 km/h on a track in Whistler, Canada, prior to the 2010 Winter Olympics. Lugers compete against a timer in one of the most precisely timed sports in the world—to one one-thousandth of a second on artificial tracks.
  The first recorded use of the term "luge" dates to 1905 and derives from the Savoy/Swiss dialect of the French word luge, meaning "small coasting sled".
caption: Armin Zöggeler is an Italian luger, and is the first - and so far the only - athlete to have won one medal in six consecutive Olympics.
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