The team relay competition in luge at the 2026 Winter Olympics was held on 12 February at the Cortina Sliding Centre in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Following the introduction of women's doubles to the Olympic program, the relay was expanded to four legs. Germany, represented by Julia Taubitz, Tobias Wendl / Tobias Arlt, Max Langenhan, and Dajana Eitberger / Magdalena Matschina, won the event. Austria were second and Italy third.
Background Germany are the defending Olympic champions, having won every event since its introduction in 2014. From their 2022 gold medal winning lineup only the doubles pair of Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt qualified, with both Natalie Geisenberger and Johannes Ludwig have retired from competitions. Austria won the silver medal; in 2026 only Wolfgang Kindl and Thomas Steu qualified as Madeleine Egle was serving at the time her 20 month suspension for an anti-doping rule violation for whereabouts failures, while Kindl replaced Lorenz Koller as Steu's partner in the men's doubles. Latvia were the bronze medalist with Kristers Aparjods and the doubles pair of Mārtiņš Bots and Roberts Plūme qualified for the event, while Elīza Tīruma retired from competitions. Germany were leading the standing at the 2025–26 Luge World Cup and are also the 2025 World champions ahead of Austria and Canada. Both of the two doubles pairs from the world title winning team (Hannes Orlamünder and Paul Gubitz for the men and Jessica Degenhardt and Cheyenne Rosenthal) had failed to qualify, while Canada will miss the event altogether as they did not have an athlete that qualified for the men's singles event.
Qualification
Summary Number of sleds Athletes totalNation
Results Rank Bib Country Women'ssingles Men'sdoubles Men's singles Women'sdoubles TotalFinal results Behind 9Julia TaubitzTobias Wendl / Tobias ArltMax LangenhanDajana Eitberger / Magdalena Matschina 55.633 55.219 54.691 56.129 3:41.6727Lisa SchulteThomas Steu / Wolfgang KindlJonas MüllerSelina Egle / Lara Kipp55.95955.37054.727 56.1583:42.214 +0.5428Verena HoferEmanuel Rieder / Simon KainzwaldnerDominik FischnallerAndrea Vötter / Marion Oberhofer 55.830 55.332 55.088 56.271 3:42.521 +0.84946Elīna Ieva BotaMārtiņš Bots / Roberts PlūmeKristers AparjodsMarta Robežniece / Kitija Bogdanova 55.684 55.800 54.989 56.276 3:42.749 +1.07755Ashley FarquharsonMarcus Mueller / Ansel HaugsjaaJonathan GustafsonChevonne Forgan / Sophia Kirkby 55.771 55.281 55.197 56.527 3:42.776 +1.10464Yulianna TunytskaIhor Hoi / Nazarii KachmarAndriy MandziyOlena Stetskiv / Oleksandra Mokh 56.392 57.025 55.498 57.259 3:46.174 +4.50272Wang PeixuanJubayi Saikeyi / Hou ShuoBao ZhenyuGulijienaiti Adikeyoumu / Zhao Jiaying 56.760 56.368 56.364 57.350 3:46.842 +5.17083Klaudia DomaradzkaWojciech Chmielewski / Michał GancarczykMateusz SochowiczNikola Domowicz / Dominika Piwkowska 57.174 55.832 57.208 57.120 3:47.334 +5.662 9 1 Ioana BuzatoiuVasile Gitlan / Darius ȘerbanValentin CrețuRaluca Strămăturaru / Mihaela-Carmen Manolescu 56.794 59.710 55.591 57.836 3:49.931 +8.259
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