List of Olympic venues in skeleton

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Start at the Cresta Run in St. Moritz, host of the skeleton events for both the 1928 and 1948 Winter Olympics. Image-Start Cresta.jpg
Start at the Cresta Run in St. Moritz, host of the skeleton events for both the 1928 and 1948 Winter Olympics.
Turn 16 at The Whistler Sliding Centre in 2008. For the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the venue hosted the skeleton events. Whistler bobsleigh.jpg
Turn 16 at The Whistler Sliding Centre in 2008. For the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the venue hosted the skeleton events.

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.

GamesVenueOther sports hosted at venue for those gamesCapacityRef.
1928 St. Moritz Cresta Run NoneNot listed. [1]
1948 St. Moritz Cresta Run NoneNot 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

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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.

References

  1. 1928 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2010-12-17 at the Wayback Machine Part 2. p. 14. (in French) Accessed 10 October 2010.
  2. 1948 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 6, 23. Accessed 18 October 2010. (in French and German)
  3. 2002 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 84-7. Accessed 21 December 2010.
  4. 2006 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2010-05-06 at the Wayback Machine Volume 3. pp. 61-3. Accessed 27 December 2010. (in English and Italian)
  5. "VenuesThe Whistler Sliding Centre". Vancouver Organizing Committee. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
  6. Sochi2014.com profile of the Russian National Sliding Centre. Accessed 31 December 2010.
  7. "2018 Winter Olympics official website – Olympic Sliding Centre". Archived from the original on 10 February 2018.