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List of Olympic venues in bobsleigh

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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 19 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 Chamonix La Piste de Bobsleigh des Pellerins None Not listed. [1]
1928 St. Moritz St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun None Not listed [2]
1932 Lake Placid Mt. Van Hoevenberg Bob-Run None 12,500 [3]
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Riessersee Ice hockey, Speed skating 17,940 (Bobsleigh), 16,000 (Ice hockey, Speed skating) [4]
1948 St. Mortiz St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun None Not listed. [5]
1952 Oslo Korketrekkeren None Not listed [6]
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Pista di bob None 4,650 [7]
1964 Innsbruck Bob und Rodelbahn Igls Luge (separate track) Not listed. [8]
1968 Grenoble Piste de Bobsleigh None Not listed. [9]
1972 Sapporo Mt. Teine Bobsleigh Course None Not listed. [10]
1976 Innsbruck Kominierte Kunsteisbahn für Bob-Rodel Igls Luge Not listed. [11]
1980 Lake Placid Mt. Van Hoevenberg Bob and Luge Run Luge (Separate track) 11,000 (bobsleigh) [12]
1984 Sarajevo Trebević Luge 4,000 (luge)
7,500 (bobsleigh) 		[13]
1988 Calgary Canada Olympic Park (includes bobsleigh/luge track) Freestyle skiing (demonstration), Luge, Nordic combined (ski jumping), Ski jumping 25,000 (bobsleigh/luge)
35,000 (ski jumping)
15,000 (freestyle) 		[14]
1992 Albertville La Plagne Luge Not listed. [15]
1994 Lillehammer Lillehammer Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track Luge 10,000 [16]
1998 Nagano Spiral Luge 10,000 [17]
2002 Salt Lake City Utah Olympic Park Track Luge, Skeleton 15,000 [18]
2006 Turin Cesana Pariol Luge, Skeleton 4,400 [19]
2010 Vancouver The Whistler Sliding Centre Luge, Skeleton 12,000 [20]
2014 Sochi Sliding Center Sanki Luge, Skeleton 9,000 [21]
2018 PyeongChang Olympic Sliding Centre Luge, Skeleton 7,000 (including 6,000 standing) [22]
2022 Beijing Yanqing National Sliding Centre Luge, Skeleton 10,000 (including 8,500 standing)
2026 Milan-Cortina Eugenio Monti Olympic Track Luge, Skeleton Not listed.
2030 French Alps La Plagne Luge, Skeleton 16,000
2034 Salt Lake City-Utah Utah Olympic Park Track Luge, Skeleton 12,000

References

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  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 2010-12-17 at the Wayback Machine 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 and 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 and 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 and French)
  10. ^ 1972 Olympic Winter Games official report. pp. 129, 252, 273-80. Accessed 6 November 2010. (in English and 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 and French), and (in German)
  12. ^ 1980 Winter Olympic Games official report - Volume 1. pp. 57-66. Accessed 16 November 2010. (in English and French)
  13. ^ 1984 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2011-11-26 at the Wayback Machine pp. 61, 64-70, 107, 180, 184. Accessed 22 November 2010. (in English, French, and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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.
  22. ^ "2018 Winter Olympics official website – Olympic Sliding Centre". Archived from the original on 10 February 2018.
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