Qualification criteria Youth Olympic Games 2024 in Korea appoved by IOC Executive Board

Lausanne (IOC/FIL) The principles of the qualification system for the 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Gangwon were on the agenda of the two-day meeting of the Executive Board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at the Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 9 September 2022, in which some EB members joined remotely.

The qualification criteria in luge, for the Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG) GANGWON 2024 in Pyeongchang (KOR) were discussed in advance by the IOC, in cooperation with the FIL, in principle as follows:

The YOG 2024 will be held in five Olympic disciplines (single-seater female and male, double-seater female and male and in the team relay). The total quota of participating athletes is limited to 100 lugers. This means 20 male and 20 female singles and 15 male and 15 female doubles.

The age requirement for participation in the YOG 2024, from 19 January to 1 February 2024, is that the athletes were born between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2009.

In order to participate in the Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games, all athletes must also have competed in at least three races in either the Continental Cup, Youth A World Cup, Junior World Cup or General Class World Cup during the pre-Olympic (2022/2023) and Youth Olympic seasons (1 October 2023 to 10 December 2023). During these two competition periods, the athletes or doubles duos must have scored at least ten World Cup points in the Continental Cup, Youth A World Cup, Junior World Cup or World Cup in the General Class races. At least one of these races must have taken place during the 2023/2024 Youth Olympic Season by 10 December 2023.