Luge at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	3	1	1	5
2	United States	0	1	1	2
3	Italy	0	1	0	1
4	Austria	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		3	3	3	9

Germany led the medal table, with five medals, including a sweep of the gold medals. The two medals for the United States, both in the doubles event, were the first won by a country outside of Europe or the Soviet Union.^[1]

Event[1]	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's singles details	Georg Hackl  Germany	3:18.436	Armin Zöggeler  Italy	3:18.939	Jens Müller  Germany	3:19.093
Women's singles details	Silke Kraushaar  Germany	3:23.779	Barbara Niedernhuber  Germany	3:23.781	Angelika Neuner  Austria	3:24.253
Doubles details	Germany Stefan Krauße Jan Behrendt	1:41.105	United States Chris Thorpe Gordy Sheer	1:41.127	United States Mark Grimmette Brian Martin	1:41.217

Twenty-four nations participated in Luge at the Nagano Games. India, South Korea, New Zealand and Venezuela made their Olympic luge debuts.^[1]