For the Winter Olympics, there have been six venues that have been or will be used for skeleton. When the Winter Olympics were in St. Moritz, they took place at the Cresta Run for both 1928 and 1948. Since being re-introduced at the 2002 Winter Olympics, skeleton has shared the same venue with the other sliding sports of bobsleigh and luge.
Games | Venue | Other sports hosted at venue for those games | Capacity | Ref. |
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1928 St. Moritz | Cresta Run | None | Not listed. | [1] |
1948 St. Moritz | Cresta Run | None | Not listed. | [2] |
2002 Salt Lake City | Utah Olympic Park (includes bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track) | Bobsleigh, Luge, Nordic combined (ski jumping), Ski Jumping | 18,100(ski jumping) 15,000 (bobsleigh, luge, skeleton) | [3] |
2006 Turin | Cesana Pariol | Bobsleigh, Luge | 4,400 | [4] |
2010 Vancouver | The Whistler Sliding Centre | Bobsleigh, Luge | 12,000 | [5] |
2014 Sochi | Sliding Center Sanki | Bobsleigh, Luge | 9,000 | [6] |
2018 PyeongChang | Olympic Sliding Centre | Bobsleigh, Luge | 7,000 (including 6,000 standing) | [7] |
2022 Beijing | Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track | Bobsleigh, Luge |
For the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland, a total of five sports venues were used. The main stadium hosted the figure skating, ice hockey, and speed skating events. Skeleton was first held at the Cresta Run. Bobsleigh was held at the bob run. St. Moritz itself served as cross-country skiing venue and the cross-country part of the Nordic combined event. Weather gave two events run at these games problems, creating the largest margin of victory in Olympic history for one and the cancellation of the other.
For the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland, a total of eight sports venues were used. The five venues used for the 1928 Winter Olympics were reused for these games. Three new venues were added for alpine skiing which had been added to the Winter Olympics program twelve years earlier in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. As of 2015, the bob run continues to be used for bobsleigh and the Cresta Run for skeleton while alpine skiing remains popular in St. Moritz.