Disciplines: Luge, Skeleton, Bobsleigh


When Innsbruck was selected to host the 1964 Winter Olympic Games, two years before the start of the Games construction began on two individual artificial ice-tracks at the foot of the Patscherkofel mountain. Measuring 1,506 metres in length, and featuring 13 bends and a vertical drop of 136 metres, the bobsleigh run was, upon its opening, one of the most spectacular artificial ice-tracks in the world.

Then, two years before the Winter Olympics returned to Innsbruck in 1976, the separate tracks were removed and replaced with a single combined ice-track. This meant that, for the first time, all competitions of the disciplines bobsleigh, luge and skeleton could be held on the same course, making the artificial ice-track in the village of Igls near Innsbruck an example followed by numerous other tracks across the globe.

Today, the Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck hosts the best ice-track athletes in the world every year as part of Bobsleigh World Cup, Luge World Cup and Skeleton World Cup races, and will offer the perfect conditions for the competitions of the 1st Winter Youth Olympic Games.

For more information visit the official website at www.olympiaworld.at .