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Igls

Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck

Igls, Innsbruck, Tyrol · Austria

Bobsleigh races here; for luge, the rebuilt lower section faces a pre-test on 23–26 October 2026, with approval only after a training week on 15–18 November.

Start Lowest point Mapped line 1,572 m, including run-out and start spurs. Shape © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Real track · Published figures

Opened
1975
Status
Racing today
Length
1,220 m
Drop
98 m
Curves
14

Length is the FIL men's luge figure; other published lengths are 1,218 m and 1,270 m. The drop is from the track's own article; one listing gives 124 m. Since the rebuild the operator gives 1,399 m, about 102 m of drop and 15 bends, with a 360-degree Kreisel; older figures give 14 curves and 270 degrees.

Explore the track

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
1,250m
Drop
96m
Curves
14
Top speed
129km/h
Peak load
5.1g
Reference run
0:52.63
Curve-by-curve guide · 14 curves

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

  1. Curve 1 11° left Kink 1.0 g · 46 km/h
  2. Curve 2 179° right 1.8 g · 58 km/h
  3. Curve 3 177° left 2.3 g · 70 km/h
  4. Curve 4 33° right Upper labyrinth 1.3 g · 83 km/h
  5. Curve 5 28° left Upper labyrinth 1.7 g · 89 km/h
  6. Curve 6 34° right Upper labyrinth 1.6 g · 91 km/h
  7. Curve 7 266° left Kreisel 5.1 g · 105 km/h
  8. Curve 8 65° right 2.6 g · 102 km/h
  9. Curve 9 69° left 2.8 g · 99 km/h
  10. Curve 10 124° left 4.3 g · 117 km/h
  11. Curve 11 20° right Lower labyrinth 2.0 g · 123 km/h
  12. Curve 12 21° left Lower labyrinth 2.8 g · 127 km/h
  13. Curve 13 22° right Lower labyrinth 1.8 g · 128 km/h
  14. Curve 14 89° left 4.5 g · 125 km/h

The story

Igls sits on the slopes above Innsbruck and has hosted two Winter Olympics. The 1964 Games used separate bob and luge runs, but for 1976 the site gained one refrigerated track, the first built new for both bobsleigh and luge and the first Olympic track the two shared; skeleton came later. It has since staged World Championships in all three sports and the 2012 Youth Olympics. A costly rebuild of the lower section in 2024 and 2025 left luge waiting for fresh approval.

  • The 1976 Olympic track was the first built new for both bobsleigh and luge, and the first Olympic track the two shared.
  • Its Kreisel is a 270-degree turn in older figures and a 360-degree turn by the operator's count today.
  • The lower section was rebuilt over 20 months for about 30 million euros, then failed luge approval twice in November 2025.

Today

A refrigerated concrete track with a Kreisel turn and a newly rebuilt lower section.

See the place on OpenStreetMap
The bob and luge tracks at Igls against the Nordkette range, around 1963.
The bob and luge tracks at Igls against the Nordkette range, around 1963. Photo: Sammlung Risch-Lau, Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek, CC BY 4.0.
Curve 14 of the Igls track.
Curve 14 of the Igls track. Photo: Auto1234, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Racing history

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

Olympic Games

Two-man bob 1976
Four-man bob 1976
Men's luge 1976
Women's luge 1976
Doubles luge 1976

World Championships

Two-man bob 1993–2016
Four-man bob 1993–2016
Women's bob 2016
Men's luge 1977–2017
Women's luge 1977–2017
Doubles luge 1977–2017
Luge team relay 2017
Men's skeleton 1991–2016
Women's skeleton 2000–2016

World Cup

Two-man bob 2023–2025
Four-man bob 2023–2025
Women's bob 2023–2025
Women's monobob 2023–2025
Para bobsleigh 2015
Men's skeleton 2023
Women's skeleton 2023

Continental championships and cups

Two-man bob 1978–2018
Four-man bob 1978–2024
Women's bob 2010–2018
Para bobsleigh 2018–2023
Men's luge 1990–2024
Women's luge 1990–2024
Doubles luge 1990–2024
Women's doubles luge 2024
Luge team relay 2024
Men's skeleton 1981–2019
Women's skeleton 2010–2019