Johannes Ludwig capped his best career season with Olympic men’s luge gold at the Beijing Games for the sport’s leading nation Germany on Sunday. Ludwig, 35, set a track record in the first run Saturday and shocked all rivals by improving it Sunday as the first man out in the third run en route to victory on the demanding 1,583-metres course which includes a full 360 degree turn. He clinched Germany’s 11th gold in 16 men’s singles events, and a 35th overall in the sport, in 3 minutes 48.735 seconds. Former world champion Wolfgang Kindl of Austria had trailed by only four hundredths overnight b…