Luge at the 1976 Winter Olympics – Men's singles

Men's singles at the XII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck
Dates	4–7 February
Competitors	43 from 15 nations
Winning time	3:27.688
Medalists
Dettlef Günther  East Germany Josef Fendt  West Germany Hans Rinn  East Germany

The men's singles luge competition at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck was held from 4 to 7 February, at Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck.

Silver medalist Josef Fendt served as President of the International Luge Federation (FIL) from 1994 to 2020.

Results

Rank	Athlete	Country	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total
	Dettlef Günther	East Germany	52.381	52.107	51.418	51.782	3:27.688
	Josef Fendt	West Germany	52.694	51.933	51.749	51.820	3:28.196
	Hans Rinn	East Germany	52.916	51.968	51.690	52.000	3:28.574
4	Hans-Heinrich Winckler	East Germany	52.848	52.328	52.069	52.209	3:29.454
5	Manfred Schmid	Austria	52.973	52.073	52.113	52.352	3:29.511
6	Anton Winkler	West Germany	52.755	52.194	52.219	52.352	3:29.520
7	Reinhold Sulzbacher	Austria	53.137	52.491	52.204	52.566	3:30.398
8	Dainis Bremze	Soviet Union	52.984	52.567	52.364	52.661	3:30.576
9	Rudolf Schmid	Austria	52.933	53.806	52.361	52.319	3:31.419
10	Vladimir Shitov	Soviet Union	53.485	53.025	52.927	53.133	3:32.570
11	Karl Brunner	Italy	53.916	53.228	53.023	53.021	3:33.188
12	Jan Kasielski	Poland	53.969	53.551	53.115	53.554	3:34.189
13	Aigars Krikis	Soviet Union	54.243	53.415	53.273	53.764	3:34.695
14	Stanislav Ptáčník	Czechoslovakia	54.450	53.810	53.207	53.371	3:34.838
15	Stefan Kjernholm	Sweden	54.382	53.495	53.502	53.611	3:34.990
16	Mirosław Więckowski	Poland	54.739	53.782	53.113	53.586	3:35.220
17	Michael Gårdebäck	Sweden	54.662	53.887	53.701	53.898	3:36.148
18	Jindřich Zeman	Czechoslovakia	54.377	53.974	53.748	54.068	3:36.167
19	Andrzej Piekoszewski	Poland	54.474	54.166	53.502	54.117	3:36.259
20	Morten Nordeide Johansen	Norway	54.460	53.899	54.155	54.365	3:36.879
21	Nils Vinberg	Sweden	54.916	54.494	54.640	54.429	3:38.479
22	Christian Strøm	Norway	55.125	54.603	54.347	54.717	3:38.792
23	Vladimír Resl	Czechoslovakia	54.109	59.068	53.418	53.640	3:40.235
24	Hidetoshi Sato	Japan	55.699	55.142	54.906	55.184	3:40.931
25	Richard Cavanaugh	United States	56.186	55.669	54.572	54.930	3:41.357
26	James Murray	United States	56.269	55.554	55.142	55.187	3:42.152
27	Kazuaki Ichikawa	Japan	56.252	55.502	55.400	55.288	3:42.442
28	Terry O'Brien	United States	56.366	55.647	55.172	55.351	3:42.536
29	Michel de Carvalho	Great Britain	56.340	55.412	55.277	55.636	3:42.665
30	Jeremy Palmer-Tomkinson	Great Britain	57.056	54.881	54.959	55.828	3:42.724
31	Larry Arbuthnot	Canada	56.691	55.380	55.085	55.628	3:42.784
32	Max Beck	Liechtenstein	56.748	55.388	55.614	57.032	3:44.782
33	Richard Liversedge	Great Britain	56.721	55.997	55.989	56.132	3:44.839
34	Shieh Wei-cheng	Republic of China	56.256	56.213	56.914	55.817	3:45.200
35	Michael Shragge	Canada	57.950	55.812	56.656	55.828	3:46.246
36	Bjørn Dyrdahl	Norway	04.969	54.185	53.911	53.979	3:47.044
37	Peter Gschnitzer	Italy	54.051	53.812	53.357	27.540	4:08.760
38	Huang Liu-chong	Republic of China	55.405	42.821	49.520	54.900	5:22.646
-	Stefan Hölzlwimmer	West Germany	52.766	52.226	52.036	DNF	-
-	Paul Hildgartner	Italy	54.300	53.400	53.800	DNF	-
-	Wolfgang Schädler	Liechtenstein	56.858	56.185	55.755	DNF	-
-	Rainer Gassner	Liechtenstein	DNF	-	-	-	-
-	Denis Michaud	Canada	DQ	-	-	-	-