List of Olympic venues in bobsleigh

Portrait of the start of the St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun in 1905. The venue hosted the bobsleigh events for both the 1928 and the 1948 Winter Olympics.
Cesana Pariol hosted the bobsleigh events for the 2006 Winter Olympics in neighboring Turin.

For the Winter Olympics, there are 21 venues that have or will host bobsleigh. Initially the only sliding sport for the Winter Games, it was first combined with luge in 1976. It has been that way since 1984 and skeleton since 2002.

Games Venue Other sports hosted at venue for those games Capacity Ref.
1924 ChamonixLa Piste de Bobsleigh des PellerinsNoneNot listed. [1]
1928 St. MoritzSt. Moritz-Celerina Olympic BobrunNoneNot listed [2]
1932 Lake PlacidMt. Van Hoevenberg Bob-RunNone12500 [3]
1936 Garmisch-PartenkirchenRiesserseeIce hockey, Speed skating17,940 (Bobsleigh), 16,000 (Ice hockey, Speed skating) [4]
1948 St. MortizSt. Moritz-Celerina Olympic BobrunNoneNot listed. [5]
1952 Oslo Korketrekkeren None Not listed [6]
1956 Cortina d'AmpezzoLa piste bobNone4,650 [7]
1964 InnsbruckBob und Rodelbahn IglsLuge (separate track)Not listed. [8]
1968 GrenoblePiste de BobsleighNoneNot listed. [9]
1972 SapporoMt. Teine Bobsleigh CourseNoneNot listed. [10]
1976 InnsbruckKominierte Kunsteisbahn für Bob-Rodel IglsLugeNot listed. [11]
1980 Lake PlacidMt. Van Hoevenberg Bob and Luge RunLuge (Separate track)11,000 (bobsleigh) [12]
1984 SarajevoTrebevićLuge4,000 (luge)
7,500 (bobsleigh)		 [13]
1988 CalgaryCanada Olympic Park (includes bobsleigh/luge track)Freestyle skiing (demonstration), Luge, Nordic combined (ski jumping), Ski jumping25,000 (bobsleigh/luge)
35,000 (ski jumping)
15,000 (freestyle)		 [14]
1992 AlbertvilleLa PlagneLugeNot listed. [15]
1994 LillehammerLillehammer Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge TrackLuge10,000 [16]
1998 NaganoSpiralLuge10,000 [17]
2002 Salt Lake CityUtah Olympic Park (bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track)Luge, Nordic combined (ski jumping), Skeleton, Ski Jumping18,100(ski jumping)
15,000 (bobsleigh, luge, skeleton)		 [18]
2006 TurinCesana PariolLuge, Skeleton4,400 [19]
2010 Vancouver The Whistler Sliding Centre Luge, Skeleton 12,000 [20]
2014 SochiSliding Center SankiLuge, Skeleton9,000 [21]
2018 PyeongChangAlpensia Sliding CentreLuge, Skeleton11,000

References

  1. ↑ 1924 Olympic Games official report (combines Chamonix and Paris). Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine. pp. 652-3. (in French)
  2. ↑ 1928 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2011-02-16 at WebCite Part 2. pp. 12-13. (in French) Accessed 10 October 2010.
  3. ↑ 1932 Winter Olympic Games official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine. pp. 30, 39-41, 50-1, 141, 157-66. Accessed 12 October 2010.
  4. ↑ 1936 Olympic Winter Games official report. Archived 2007-08-09 at the Wayback Machine. pp. 70, 71, 74, 132-40, 153, 408-419. Accessed 16 October 2010. (in German)
  5. ↑ 1948 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine. pp. 6, 23. Accessed 18 October 2010. (in French) & (in German)
  6. ↑ 1952 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine. p. 38.
  7. ↑ The Official Report of the Organising Committee of the VIIth Winter Olympic Games 1956 at Cortina. (1956) CONI. pp. 175-9, 191. Accessed 24 October 2010. (in English) & (in Italian)
  8. ↑ 1964 Winter Olympic Games Official report. Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine. pp. 40, 65, 69, 165, 178, 180. Accessed 30 October 2010. (in German)
  9. ↑ 1968 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine. pp. 104-105. Accessed 1 November 2010. (in English) & (in French)
  10. ↑ 1972 Olympic Winter Games official report. pp. 129, 252, 273-80. Accessed 6 November 2010. (in English) & (in French)
  11. ↑ 1976 Winter Olympics official report Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine., pp. 143-5, 153, 186-7, 206-208. Accessed 10 November 2010. (in English), (in French), and (in German)
  12. ↑ 1980 Winter Olympic Games official report - Volume 1. pp. 57-66. Accessed 16 November 2010. (in English) & (in French)
  13. ↑ 1984 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2011-12-21 at WebCite pp. 61, 64-70, 107, 180, 184. Accessed 22 November 2010. (in English), (in French), & (in Serbo-Croatian)
  14. ↑ 1988 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2011-01-14 at the Wayback Machine. Part 1. pp. 110-27. Accessed 29 November 2010. (in English) & (in French)
  15. ↑ 1992 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine. pp. 92-95, 350-5. Accessed 5 December 2010. (in English) & (in French)
  16. ↑ 1994 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2010-12-02 at the Wayback Machine. Volume 3. pp. 37-41. Accessed 8 December 2010.
  17. ↑ 1998 Winter Olympics official report Volume 2. pp. 184-5, 226-9. Accessed 12 December 2010.
  18. ↑ 2002 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 84-7. Accessed 21 December 2010.
  19. ↑ 2006 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 3. pp. 61-3. Accessed 27 December 2010. (in English) & (in Italian)
  20. ↑ "Venues–The Whistler Sliding Centre". Vancouver Organizing Committee. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
  21. ↑ Sochi2014.com profile of the Russian National Sliding Centre. Accessed 31 December 2010.
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