| | Event type
Singles, Women
| Date | 4 – 7 February 1976 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Kunsteis-Bob- und Rodelbahn, Igls | |
| Participants | 26 from 12 countries | |
| Format | Four runs, total time determined placement. | |
| Details | Curves: 10 Length: 870 m Start Altitude: ? Vertical Drop: 72 m | |
There was little doubt that the women’s luge title would go to Margit Schumann (DDR). Since placing 3rd at the previous Winter Olympics, she had won all three world titles and all three European titles. The first run gave her a narrow margin over West Germany’s Monika Scheftschik, but Schumann performed poorly in the second heat. A 7th place left her back in fifth place halfway the competition. The second day was again business as usual. Schumann won both runs, breaking the track record of the day before by a quarter of a second, and moving into first place. As she had four years earlier, Ute Rührold won the silver medal, followed by the 1971 World Champion, Elisabeth Demleitner.
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Time | Run #1 | Run #2 | Run #3 | Run #4 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Margit Schumann |  GDR | 2:50.621 | 42.854 (1) | 42.830 (7) | 42.285 (1) | 42.652 (1) | Gold | ||
| 2 | Ute Rührold | GDR | 2:50.846 | 42.926 (3) | 42.708 (3) | 42.439 (3) | 42.773 (2) | Silver | ||
| 3 | Elisabeth Demleitner |  FRG | 2:51.056 | 43.138 (7) | 42.535 (1) | 42.388 (2) | 42.995 (7) | Bronze | ||
| 4 | Eva-Maria Wernicke | GDR | 2:51.262 | 43.007 (5) | 42.646 (2) | 42.711 (7) | 42.898 (4) | |||
| 5 | Antonia Mayr |  AUT | 2:51.360 | 42.949 (4) | 42.812 (6) | 42.633 (5) | 42.966 (6) | |||
| 6 | Margit Graf | AUT | 2:51.459 | 43.094 (6) | 42.790 (5) | 42.555 (4) | 43.020 (8) | |||
| 7 | Monika Scheftschik | FRG | 2:51.540 | 42.863 (2) | 42.732 (4) | 42.981 (9) | 42.964 (5) | |||
| 8 | Angelika Schafferer | AUT | 2:52.322 | 43.444 (8) | 43.007 (9) | 42.793 (8) | 43.078 (9) | |||
| 9 | Vera Zozuļa |  URS | 2:52.661 | 44.179 (14) | 42.973 (8) | 42.651 (6) | 42.858 (3) | |||
| 10 | Dana Spálenská |  TCH | 2:53.206 | 43.560 (9) | 43.063 (10) | 43.178 (12) | 43.405 (11) | |||
| 11 | Sarah Felder |  ITA | 2:53.623 | 44.056 (12) | 43.118 (11) | 43.075 (10) | 43.374 (10) | |||
| 12 | Teresa Bugajczyk |  POL | 2:53.929 | 43.621 (10) | 43.701 (12) | 43.157 (11) | 43.450 (12) | |||
| 13 | Barbara Piecha | POL | 2:54.960 | 44.060 (13) | 43.722 (13) | 43.378 (13) | 43.800 (14) | |||
| 14 | Halina Kanasz | POL | 2:56.335 | 43.967 (11) | 45.138 (18) | 43.499 (14) | 43.731 (13) | |||
| 15 | Veronica Holmsten |  SWE | 2:58.608 | 44.751 (15) | 44.635 (15) | 44.456 (15) | 44.766 (16) | |||
| 16 | Marie-Luise Rainer | ITA | 2:59.531 | 44.943 (16) | 44.848 (16) | 44.768 (16) | 44.972 (17) | |||
| 17 | Marie-Thérèse Bonnet |  FRA | 2:59.810 | 44.947 (17) | 44.966 (17) | 44.888 (19) | 45.009 (18) | |||
| 18 | Agneta Lindskog | SWE | 2:59.943 | 46.050 (23) | 44.581 (14) | 44.771 (17) | 44.541 (15) | |||
| 19 | Mieko Ogawa |  JPN | 3:00.730 | 45.341 (18) | 45.263 (20) | 44.907 (20) | 45.219 (19) | |||
| 20 | Teruko Yamada | JPN | 3:00.808 | 45.482 (20) | 45.155 (19) | 44.943 (21) | 45.228 (20) | |||
| 21 | Kathleen Ann Homstad |  USA | 3:01.351 | 45.413 (19) | 45.744 (23) | 44.848 (18) | 45.346 (22) | |||
| 22 | Carole Keyes |  CAN | 3:01.883 | 45.654 (21) | 45.692 (21) | 45.200 (22) | 45.337 (21) | |||
| 23 | Mary Jane Bowie | CAN | 3:02.341 | 45.804 (22) | 45.719 (22) | 45.352 (23) | 45.466 (23) | |||
| 24 | Karen Roberts | USA | 3:04.083 | 46.366 (24) | 46.142 (25) | 45.581 (24) | 45.994 (24) | |||
| 25 | Maura Haponski | USA | 3:04.571 | 46.547 (26) | 45.877 (24) | 45.818 (25) | 46.329 (25) | |||
| 26 | Julie Chase | CAN | 3:13.522 | 46.529 (25) | 46.570 (26) | 51.633 (26) | 48.790 (26) |