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Demolished 1972–2000

Sapporo 1972 bob track

Mt. Teine bobsleigh course

Mount Teine, Sapporo, Hokkaido · Japan

Dormant since 1998; the finish house had been removed by 2024.

No mapped line survives for this track yet.

Real track · Published figures

First raced
1972
Last raced
2000
Length
1,563 m
Drop
132 m
Curves
14

National championships are documented through 1996. City officials described the course in 2017 as dormant since 1998. Later accounts give 2000 as the closure year.

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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
1,522m
Drop
132m
Curves
14
Top speed
139km/h
Peak load
2.2g
Reference run
0:51.92
Curve-by-curve guide · 14 curves

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

  1. 1 19° left Kink 1.1 g · 69 km/h
  2. 2 26° right 1.2 g · 90 km/h
  3. 3 28° left 1.3 g · 102 km/h
  4. 4 29° right 1.5 g · 117 km/h
  5. 5 29° left 1.5 g · 122 km/h
  6. 6 30° right 1.5 g · 121 km/h
  7. 7 29° left 1.5 g · 126 km/h
  8. 8 29° right 1.7 g · 130 km/h
  9. 9 30° left 1.7 g · 135 km/h
  10. 10 30° right 1.7 g · 135 km/h
  11. 11 29° left 1.7 g · 132 km/h
  12. 12 29° right 1.6 g · 130 km/h
  13. 13 30° left 1.6 g · 128 km/h
  14. 14 25° right 2.2 g · 139 km/h

The story

This reinforced-concrete track on Mount Teine hosted the bobsleigh events of the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics. It cost 433 million yen and continued to host the All-Japan Bobsleigh Championships through 1996. Sapporo city says it became dormant after Japanese training and races moved to Nagano in 1998. Its finish house, topped with Olympic rings, still stood as a ruin in 2012 and had been removed by 2024.

  • Sixty ice workers took 20 days to lay its 13.5 cm coat of ice, lit by 127 lamps.
  • Its ring-topped finish house was still standing as a ruin in 2012, more than a decade after closure.

Today

Nothing of the track is left; its finish house, crowned with Olympic rings, stood as a ruin after closure and had been removed by 2024.

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Racing history

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

Olympic Games

Two-man bob 1972
Four-man bob 1972