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Replaced From 1963

Igls 1964 bob track

Olympia-Bobbahn Igls (1964)

Igls, Innsbruck, Tyrol · Austria

Replaced by the combined track built for the 1976 Games.

No mapped line survives for this track yet.

Real track · Published figures

First raced
1963
Length
1,506 m
Drop
138 m
Curves
14

Some accounts give 13 curves.

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

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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
1,471m
Drop
138m
Curves
14
Top speed
146km/h
Peak load
2.3g
Reference run
0:49.70
Curve-by-curve guide · 14 curves

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

  1. 1 14° left Startkurve 1.0 g · 74 km/h
  2. 2 28° right Hohes S 1.2 g · 95 km/h
  3. 3 29° left Hohes S 1.7 g · 112 km/h
  4. 4 29° right Stützenkurve 1.4 g · 112 km/h
  5. 5 29° left Höcker 1.4 g · 111 km/h
  6. 6 29° right Fuchsloch 1.4 g · 110 km/h
  7. 7 30° left Hohle Gasse 1.5 g · 115 km/h
  8. 8 29° right Schanze 1.6 g · 116 km/h
  9. 9 30° left Hexenkessel 1.7 g · 130 km/h
  10. 10 30° right Nadelöhr-S 1.7 g · 133 km/h
  11. 11 30° left Nadelöhr-S 2.0 g · 146 km/h
  12. 12 30° right Burlepautz 2.0 g · 144 km/h
  13. 13 30° left Weckauf 2.0 g · 142 km/h
  14. 14 30° right Zielkurve 2.3 g · 145 km/h

The story

Built between 1961 and 1963 alongside a separate luge run, with Paul Aste as local site manager, this concrete bobsleigh track at Igls used natural ice. Its first big event, the 1963 World Championships, brought twenty injuries. A year later it hosted the bobsleigh events of the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Olympics, and European Championships followed until 1971. A combined refrigerated track, built for the 1976 Games, took its place.

  • The 1963 World Championships here produced twenty injuries.
  • Its steepest section reached a gradient of 14.04%.

Today

The combined track built for the 1976 Games replaced it at Igls.

See the place on OpenStreetMap

Racing history

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

Olympic Games

Two-man bob 1964
Four-man bob 1964

World Championships

Two-man bob 1963
Four-man bob 1963

Continental championships and cups

Two-man bob 1967
Four-man bob 1967–1971