List of Olympic venues in alpine skiing

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Mount Tofana hosted the downhill and giant slalom events for the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Tofane.jpg
Mount Tofana hosted the downhill and giant slalom events for the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo.
The Mount Eniwa Downhill Course was used for the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo. Mt Eniwa(200703).jpg
The Mount Eniwa Downhill Course was used for the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo.

For the Winter Olympics, there are 37 venues that have been or will be used for alpine skiing. Most of the events took place in multiple locations at the Winter Olympics, though a single venue for all events has been used in recent Games in an effort to lessen economic and environmental concerns.

GamesVenueOther sports hosted at venues for those gamesCapacityRef.
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Gudiberg (combined-slalom)None24,000 [1]
Kreuzjoch (combined - downhill)NoneNot listed. [1]
Kreuzeck (downhill finish line)None17,000 [1]
1948 St. Moritz Piz Nair NoneNot listed. [2]
1952 Oslo Norefjell (downhill, giant slalom)NoneNot listed [3]
Rødkleiva (slalom)NoneNot listed [4]
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Mount Faloria (giant slalom)None7,920 (men) [5]
Mount Tofana (downhill, slalom)None12,080 (men's slalom) [5]
1960 Squaw Valley Squaw Valley Ski Resort None9,650 [6]
1964 Innsbruck Axamer Lizum (all but men's downhill)NoneNot listed [7]
Patscherkofel (men's downhill)NoneNot listed. [7]
1968 Grenoble Chamrousse (men)NoneNot listed. [8]
Recoin de Chamrousse (women)NoneNot listed. [8]
1972 Sapporo Mount Eniwa Downhill Course (downhill)NoneNot listed. [9]
Mt. Teine Alpine Skiing courses (giant slalom, slalom)NoneNot listed. [10]
1976 Innsbruck Axamer Lizum (all but men's downhill)NoneNot listed. [11]
Patscherkofel (men's downhill)NoneNot listed [12]
1980 Lake Placid Whiteface Mountain NoneNot listed [13]
1984 Sarajevo Bjelašnica (men)NoneNot listed. [14]
Jahorina ski resort (women)None10,000 [15]
1988 Calgary Nakiska Freestyle skiing (demonstration)Not listed. [16]
1992 Albertville Les Ménuires (men's slalom)NoneNot listed. [17]
Méribel (women)None3,000 [18]
Val-d'Isère (men's downhill, super-giant slalom, giant slalom, combined)NoneNot listed. [19]
1994 Lillehammer Lillehammer Olympic Alpine Centre Hafjell (combined, giant slalom, slalom)NoneNot listed. [20]
Lillehammer Olympic Alpine Centre Kvitfjell (combined, downhill, super giant slalom)NoneNot listed. [21]
1998 Nagano Happōone Resort (combined, downhill, super-g)None20,000 [22]
Mount Higashidate (giant slalom)None20,000 [23]
Mount Yakebitai (slalom) Snowboarding (giant slalom)20,000 [24]
2002 Salt Lake City Deer Valley (slalom) Freestyle skiing 13,400 [25]
Park City Mountain Resort (giant slalom) Snowboarding 16,000 [26]
Snowbasin (combined, downhill, super-g)None22,500 [27]
2006 Turin San Sicario Fraiteve (women's combined (downhill), downhill, super-g)None6,160 [28]
Sestriere Borgata (men's combined (downhill), downhill, super-g)None6,800 [29]
Sestriere Colle (combined (slalom), giant slalom, slalom)None7,900 [29]
2010 Vancouver Whistler Creekside None7,600 [30]
2014 Sochi Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort None10,000 [31]
2018 PyeongChang Jeongseon Alpine Centre (combined, downhill, super-g)None18,000 [32]
Yongpyong Alpine Centre (giant slalom, slalom)None18,000 [32]
2022 Beijing Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Centre None4,800
2026 Milan-Cortina Olimpia delle Tofane (women's)None1,000 (main grandstand)
Pista Stelvio (men's) Ski mountaineering Not listed.
2030 French Alps Courchevel (men's)NoneNot listed.
Méribel (women's)NoneNot listed.
2034 Salt Lake City-Utah Snowbasin Resort None19,000

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For the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, a total of ten sports venues were used. Most venues were constructed between the 1964 Winter Games in Innsbruck and the 1968 Games. Thawing was an issue for the four-man bobsleigh run. They were limited to only two runs. Thawing also affected the men's 500 m speed skating event. Electronic timing in alpine skiing affected the results of the women's giant slalom event. It gave Canada's Nancy Greene a headache for two days despite her gold medal in the event.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Venues of the 1976 Winter Olympics</span>

For the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, a total of eight sports venues were used. The games were originally awarded to Denver, Colorado in the United States in 1970, but they withdrew in the wake of Colorado residents voting against it for environmental and cost reasons in November 1972. This led to the International Olympic Committee opening up the bids for the games again, eventually awarding them to Innsbruck in February 1973. The Austrian city, having hosted the Winter Olympics in 1964, was in the process of having the venues used for those Games before Denver's with clear cutting of the alpine skiing venues, lessening of the amount of cross-country skiing routes, upgrading the ski jumps, adding lighting in the indoor sports arena to accommodate color television, and the construction of a combination bobsleigh and luge track. After the 1976 Games, the venues have remained in use, hosting events in Nordic skiing and the sliding sports. They hosted some of the events for the Winter Universiade in 2005 and seven of the eight venues served as host for the first Winter Youth Olympic Games in 2012.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Venues of the 1980 Winter Olympics</span>

For the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, United States, a total of seven sports venues were used. All five of the venues used for the 1932 Winter Olympics were also used at the 1980 Winter Games with adjustments. These adjustments included electronic scoreboards, increased refrigeration, and the addition of a separate luge track. This was the last Winter Olympics where there were separate bobsleigh and luge tracks. The closest finish in Olympic history in cross-country skiing led skiing officials to time future events in hundredths of a second rather than tenths of a second. This would also apply to biathlon events. Eric Heiden won five gold medals at the speed skating oval while the "Miracle on Ice" took place between Americans and Soviets at the Olympic Center. In the late 1990s, the luge track was demolished and a new combination track was constructed in time for the only Winter Goodwill Games held. The sliding venue was named to the American National Register of Historical Places in February 2010.

For the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, a total of nine sports venues were used. The idea for the Games came around from a 1968 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development study on promoting winter tourism in Yugoslavia. After Sarajevo was awarded the 1984 Games in 1978, venue construction and renovation took place between 1979 and 1983. Weather postponed the men's downhill alpine skiing event three times before it was finally run. The men's cross-country skiing 30 km event was run during a blizzard. After the games, all but one of the venues were damaged during the Bosnian War and the siege of Sarajevo. After the war, Zetra Ice Hall was rebuilt and is in use as of 2010.

References

  1. 1 2 3 1936 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2007-08-09 at the Wayback Machine pp. 139, 289-303. Accessed 16 October 2010.(in German)
  2. ↑ 1948 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 6, 21. Accessed 18 October 2010. (in French and German)
  3. ↑ Organising Committee for the VI Winter Olympic Games (1952) Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine p. 36.
  4. ↑ 1952 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine p. 35.
  5. 1 2 The Official Report of the Organising Committee of the VIIth Winter Olympic Games 1956 at Cortina. (1956) CONI. pp. 165-79, 191. Accessed 24 October 2010. (in English and Italian)
  6. ↑ 1960 Winter Olympics official report. pp. 99-102. Accessed 27 October 2010.
  7. 1 2 1964 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine pp. 78, 82-85. Accessed 30 October 2010.(in German)
  8. 1 2 1968 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine pp. 77-84. Accessed 1 November 2010.(in English and French)
  9. ↑ 1972 Winter Olympics official report. pp. 281-4. Accessed 6 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. 198–201. Accessed 10 November 2010. (in English, French, and German)
  12. ↑ 1976 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine p. 198. Accessed 10 November 2010. (in English, French, and German)
  13. ↑ 1980 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 1. pp. 20-8. Accessed 16 November 2010. (in English and French)
  14. ↑ 1984 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2011-11-26 at the Wayback Machine pp. 18-23, 107. Accessed 22 November 2010. (in English, French, and Serbo-Croatian)
  15. ↑ 1984 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2011-11-26 at the Wayback Machine pp. 24-7, 107. Accessed 22 November 2010. (in English, French, and Serbo-Croatian)
  16. ↑ 1988 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2011-01-14 at the Wayback Machine Part 1. pp. 128-43. Accessed 29 November 2010. (in English and French)
  17. ↑ 1992 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine pp. 100-1. Accessed 5 December 2010. (in English and French)
  18. ↑ 1992 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine pp. 106-9. Accessed 5 December 2010. (in English and French)
  19. ↑ 1992 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine pp. 114-7. Accessed 5 December 2010. (in English and French)
  20. ↑ 1994 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2010-12-02 at the Wayback Machine Volume 3. pp. 42-6. Accessed 8 December 2010.
  21. ↑ 1994 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2010-12-02 at the Wayback Machine Volume 3. pp. 47-50. Accessed 8 December 2010.
  22. ↑ 1998 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 186-90. Accessed 12 December 2010.
  23. ↑ 1998 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 191-3. Accessed 12 December 2010.
  24. ↑ 1998 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 194-7. Accessed 12 December 2010.
  25. ↑ 2002 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 1. pp. 76-7. Accessed 21 December 2010.
  26. ↑ 2002 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 1. pp. 78-9. Accessed 21 December 2010.
  27. ↑ 2002 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 1. pp. 74-5. Accessed 21 December 2010.
  28. ↑ 2006 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 3. pp. 79-80. Accessed 27 December 2010. (in English and Italian)
  29. 1 2 2006 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 3. pp. 83-5. Accessed 27 December 2010. (in English and Italian)
  30. ↑ "Venues–Whistler Creekside". Vancouver Organizing Committee. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
  31. ↑ Sochi2014.com profile of the Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort. Accessed 31 December 2010.
  32. 1 2 PyeongChang 2018 candidate file Archived 2011-08-29 at the Wayback Machine Section 9. pp. 020-021. Accessed 8 September 2010. (in English and French)
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