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Replaced From 1963

Igls 1964 luge track

Olympia-Rodelbahn 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
1,064 m
Drop
113 m
Curves
18

Men's course. The official report gives 910 m and an 86 m drop for women and doubles. Contemporary reports give 546 m for women and 1,064 m for doubles.

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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
1,178m
Drop
113m
Curves
18
Top speed
141km/h
Peak load
2.3g
Reference run
0:43.80
Curve-by-curve guide · 18 curves

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

  1. 1 5° left Kink 1.0 g · 39 km/h
  2. 2 14° left Kink 1.1 g · 56 km/h
  3. 3 7° right Kink 1.0 g · 74 km/h
  4. 4 20° right 1.4 g · 89 km/h
  5. 5 4° right Kink 1.0 g · 97 km/h
  6. 6 12° left 1.3 g · 101 km/h
  7. 7 24° left 1.8 g · 105 km/h
  8. 8 6° left 1.1 g · 109 km/h
  9. 9 15° right 1.6 g · 109 km/h
  10. 10 7° right 1.1 g · 109 km/h
  11. 11 22° left 2.1 g · 109 km/h
  12. 12 5° left 1.1 g · 116 km/h
  13. 13 14° left 1.5 g · 117 km/h
  14. 14 22° right 2.3 g · 116 km/h
  15. 15 5° right 1.1 g · 116 km/h
  16. 16 16° left 1.7 g · 116 km/h
  17. 17 7° right 1.3 g · 116 km/h
  18. 18 21° right 2.1 g · 141 km/h

The story

Built beside the bobsleigh track between 1961 and 1963, with Paul Aste as local site manager, this concrete luge run was the venue when luge made its Olympic debut at the 1964 Innsbruck Games. It had 18 curves, natural ice and a maximum gradient of just over 18%. Before the Games, a British luger was killed in a training run. A combined track built for the 1976 Games replaced it.

  • Luge made its Olympic debut here in 1964, with men's, women's and doubles events.
  • Its steepest section reached a gradient of 18.18%.

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

Men's luge 1964
Women's luge 1964
Doubles luge 1964