Luge FIL World Cup 2025 - 2026

[copravolley 539]

Where can I see the current Olympic rankings? There's no link on Wikipedia. In my opinion, after the last World Cup, Italy should have had 3 people in the men's single, not the USA – the 3 athlete from the USA wasn't even in the top 20 recently, while here Gufler-Ita,  was 12th.

[clemsonbeav 226]

2 minutes ago, copravolley said:

Where can I see the current Olympic rankings? There's no link on Wikipedia. In my opinion, after the last World Cup, Italy should have had 3 people in the men's single, not the USA – the 3 athlete from the USA wasn't even in the top 20 recently, while here Gufler-Ita,  was 12th.

Here is World Cup Standings, but I don't know if that's what you want: https://www.fil-luge.org/en/overall-scores?event_season_id=33.

 

I also don't know how they determined who got to compete, but perhaps Host Country extra quota?

[copravolley 539]

I also wonder if China will accept its quota in the women's doubles? If so, Germany will only have one doubles, which will increase Italy's medal chances. I'm asking about China because their women's doubles is very weak and frequently suffers DNFs, and I suspect they'll send them to the Olympics. On the other hand, without it, they won't be able to compete on the team. Is anyone here from China here and know that`s country's policy in such cases? It means someone is qualified but very weak and has no chance of winning a medal. 

[Grassmarket 4,081]

2 minutes ago, copravolley said:

I also wonder if China will accept its quota in the women's doubles? If so, Germany will only have one doubles, which will increase Italy's medal chances. I'm asking about China because their women's doubles is very weak and frequently suffers DNFs, and I suspect they'll send them to the Olympics. On the other hand, without it, they won't be able to compete on the team. Is anyone here from China here and know that`s country's policy in such cases? It means someone is qualified but very weak and has no chance of winning a medal. 

One of their riders is from Xinjiang, so absolutely they will take them. 

[copravolley 539]

6 minutes ago, clemsonbeav said:

Here is World Cup Standings, but I don't know if that's what you want: https://www.fil-luge.org/en/overall-scores?event_season_id=33.

 

I also don't know how they determined who got to compete, but perhaps Host Country extra quota?

For me there's a World Cup in Winterberg- it doesn't count toward Olympic qualification, and there's no test event in Cortina- it does. The World Cup ranking isn't the same as the Olympic ranking and the latter isn't listed anywhere. Unfortunately, the Luge federation is performing poorly, unlike the FIS, which has up-to-date standings.

[copravolley 539]

5 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

One of their riders is from Xinjiang, so absolutely they will take them. 

They don't have a quota in men's singles either, but I guess they'll be able to added this Q? There are actually only 8 teams with Q in team relay from possibily 11. But I'm just surprised China isn't competing in team events this season... I think that apart from Germany, everyone is interested in China participating in women's doubles

Edited December 15, 2025 by copravolley

[clemsonbeav 226]

22 hours ago, copravolley said:

Where can I see the current Olympic rankings? There's no link on Wikipedia. In my opinion, after the last World Cup, Italy should have had 3 people in the men's single, not the USA – the 3 athlete from the USA wasn't even in the top 20 recently, while here Gufler-Ita,  was 12th.

It seems there is no separate Olympic ranking, only World Cup ranking...at least, it's World Cup ranking that FIL will use to determine quotas.  Per FIL: "Qualification for the Olympic luge competitions at Milano Cortina 2026 is based on the World Cup ranking list of the Olympic season."

[copravolley 539]

8 minutes ago, clemsonbeav said:

It seems there is no separate Olympic ranking, only World Cup ranking...at least, it's World Cup ranking that FIL will use to determine quotas.  Per FIL: "Qualification for the Olympic luge competitions at Milano Cortina 2026 is based on the World Cup ranking list of the Olympic season."

The Cortina race will definitely be included in this ranking, as this information was recently announced. That's why everyone competed there, but not in Winterberg.

[clemsonbeav 226]

4 minutes ago, copravolley said:

The Cortina race will definitely be included in this ranking, as this information was recently announced. That's why everyone competed there, but not in Winterberg.

Yes, I later saw in the official qualifying docs that info.  Guess we'll keep looking!

[avlar 470]

Ukrainian resources reported in the morning that 3 russian lugers lost their AIN statuses.

 

All 3 of them did not start today at the training session before the 3rd stage of the World Cup.

 

https://www.fil-luge.org/cdn/uploads/wc-luge-training-group-b-12-16-2025.pdf

 

19 AIN GORBATSEVICH, Aleksandr DNS DNS DNS

22 AIN MAZUR, Sofiia DNS DNS DNS

24 AIN SHAMOVA, Kseniia DNS DNS DNS

 

Other 3 russian lugers took part in the session. 

 

I do not think we will have some official communication from the FIL. 

I think they are to busy calculation qualification points manually.