List of Olympic venues in skeleton
Start at the Cresta Run in St. Moritz, host of the skeleton events for both the 1928 and 1948 Winter Olympics.
Turn 16 at The Whistler Sliding Centre in 2008. For the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the venue hosted the skeleton events.
For the Winter Olympics, there have been six venues that have been or will be used for skeleton. When the Winter Olympics were in St. Moritz, they took place at the Cresta Run for both 1928 and 1948. Since being re-introduced at the 2002 Winter Olympics, skeleton has shared the same venue with the other sliding sports of bobsleigh and luge.
Games |
Venue |
Other sports hosted at venue for those games |
Capacity |
Ref. |
1928 St. Moritz | Cresta Run | None | Not listed. |
[1] |
1948 St. Moritz | Cresta Run | None | Not listed. |
[2] |
2002 Salt Lake City | Utah Olympic Park (includes bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track) | Bobsleigh, Luge, Nordic combined (ski jumping), Ski Jumping | 18,100(ski jumping) 15,000 (bobsleigh, luge, skeleton) |
[3] |
2006 Turin | Cesana Pariol | Bobsleigh, Luge | 4,400 |
[4] |
2010 Vancouver |
The Whistler Sliding Centre |
Bobsleigh, Luge |
12,000 |
[5] |
2014 Sochi | Sliding Center Sanki | Bobsleigh, Luge | 9,000 |
[6] |
2018 PyeongChang | Alpensia Sliding Centre | Bobsleigh, Luge | 11,000 |
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