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Racing today Since 1885

Cresta Run

Cresta Run

St. Moritz, Graubünden · Switzerland

Open every winter as a private club run.

Start Lowest point Mapped line 1,363 m, including run-out and start spurs. Shape © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Real track · Published figures

Opened
1885
Status
Racing today
Length
1,213 m
Drop
157 m

Length from the Top start is 1,212.5 m; gradients range from 1 in 2.8 to 1 in 8.7.

Explore the track

The Slidensa model, drawn over the real ground. Follow the run into every curve.

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In Slidensa

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Game model · Two-man bobsleigh reference run. These lengths, speeds and loads come from Slidensa’s physics and can differ from the real track’s published figures.

Length
1,318m
Drop
157m
Curves
10
Top speed
161km/h
Peak load
5.0g
Reference run
0:43.38
Curve-by-curve guide · 10 curves

The three curves in lime pull hardest in the reference run.

  1. 1 39° left Church Leap 1.6 g · 84 km/h
  2. 2 23° right Curzon 1.6 g · 87 km/h
  3. 3 46° left Brabazon 2.5 g · 96 km/h
  4. 6 79° right Battledore 2.2 g · 118 km/h
  5. 4 33° right Thoma 2.2 g · 109 km/h
  6. 5 32° right Rise 1.8 g · 113 km/h
  7. 7 87° left Shuttlecock 5.0 g · 119 km/h
  8. 8 27° right Stream 3.1 g · 157 km/h
  9. 10 39° right Scylla and Charybdis 4.1 g · 155 km/h
  10. 9 14° right Bulpetts 2.2 g · 155 km/h

The story

The Cresta Run in St. Moritz dates from the winter of 1884/85 and is run by a private club, the St. Moritz Tobogganing Club. Riders go head-first on a toboggan, the ancestor of skeleton, down a natural ice channel rebuilt every season. It was the Olympic skeleton course in 1928 and 1948. Women were barred from 1929 until December 2018, and in 2019 Carina Evans became the first woman to ride from the Top.

  • Riders who fall at the Shuttlecock corner become members of the Shuttlecock Club.
  • The record from the Top, 49.92 s, was set by Lord Wrottesley in 2015.
  • The Church Leap passes beneath the town's Leaning Tower.

Today

A natural ice run rebuilt each winter, with a Top start and a lower Junction start.

See the place on OpenStreetMap
A rider on the ice at the top of the Cresta Run, St. Moritz.
A rider on the ice at the top of the Cresta Run, St. Moritz. Photo: Gerovital1 at English Wikipedia, Public domain.

Racing history

Earliest and latest recorded race of each event at this level, from published results.

Olympic Games

Men's skeleton 1928–1948