Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh

Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
Plan of the train
place	Innsbruck , Austria
Installation	1973/74
Orbit data Maximum height difference 100 m begin length Curves Bob start 1270 m 14th Skeleton start 1270 m 14th Toboggan start men 1270 m 14th Toboggan start women 870 m 10 Double-seater start 870 m 10

Coordinates: 47 ° 13 ′ 17.1 ″  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 52.5 ″  E

The artificial ice rink Bob-Rodel Igls is the first artificial ice rink for tobogganing, skeleton and bobsleigh in Austria and is located in Innsbruck - Igls .

Orbit data

The bobsleigh run has a total length of 1270 m and has a total of 14 curves with roundabouts. The surface of the ice is approximately 5500 m². The maximum curve height is 7 m and the total length of the installed cooling pipes is approximately 80 km.

history

Bobsleigh World Cup 2011 in Innsbruck-Igls

As early as 1935, the world championships went to Innsbruck-Igls for the first time. At that time the route ran from Römerstraße to the valley station of the Patscherkofelbahn . Because of several accidents in the target curve, the track was closed many years later. When the Olympic Winter Games were awarded to Innsbruck in 1964 , the construction of the Olympic bobsleigh run Igls began in 1962. Two separate artificial ice rinks made of concrete were built below the Patscherkofel. The bobsled run was 1506 m long and had 13 curves.

In 1974, an artificial ice rink was built for the 1976 Winter Olympics . The groundbreaking took place on March 29, 1974 by Minister of Education Fred Sinowatz . This facility was expanded several times in the following years. In 1981, next to the Bobcafé, the run was extended by another curve. The new women's start was moved to the fifth corner in the 1990/91 season. In 1993 the bobsleigh world championship was organized . In 1998, the extension of the finish line was completed. The general renovation of the concrete pipe was completed in 2004.

Since 2004, Igls has hosted the Wok World Championships several times .

Records

Starting records

Two-man bobsleigh	4-man bobsleigh men	Two-man bobsleigh women
4.96  s - December 3, 2011  Oskars Melbārdis / Daumants Dreiškens	4.93s - January 20, 2013  Latvia Oskars Melbārdis Daumants Dreiškens Arvis Vilkaste Intars Dambis	5.38s - Jan 19, 2014  Elana Meyers Taylor / Aja Evans

Skeleton men	Skeleton women	Toboggan men	Toboggan women	Toboggan double
4.72 s - January 8, 2016  Alexander Tretyakov	5.11s - January 8, 2016  Jelena Nikitina	5,319s - November 27, 2011  Johannes Ludwig	2.030s - November 18, 2017  Natalie Geisenberger	2.015s - November 18, 2017  Peter Penz / Georg Fischler

Track records

Two-man bobsleigh	4-man bobsleigh men	Two-man bobsleigh women
51.25s - February 12, 2016  Francesco Friedrich / Thorsten Margis	50.61s - February 20, 2016  Germany Francesco Friedrich Candy Bauer Georg Bermbach Thorsten Margis	52.94s - February 12, 2016  Anja Schneiderheinze / Annika Drazek

Skeleton men	Skeleton women	Toboggan men	Toboggan women	Toboggan double
51.88s - February 3, 2017  Martin's course	53.74s - February 14, 2016  Tina Hermann	49.823s - January 29, 2017  Wolfgang Kindl	39.745s - November 24, 2018  Julia Taubitz	39,468s - January 28, 2017  Toni Eggert / Sascha Benecken

Luge team relay

• 2: 08.474 minutes (January 29, 2017): Tatjana Hüfner - Johannes Ludwig - Toni Eggert / Sascha Benecken ( Germany ) 

Luge sprint

• Men: 32,466 s - Dominik Fischnaller , January 27, 2017 
• Ladies: 29,887s - Natalie Geisenberger , November 25, 2018 
• Two-seater: 29.783 s - Toni Eggert / Sascha Benecken , January 27, 2017 

Web links

Commons : Igls bobsleigh and toboggan run  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh

Individual evidence

1. ↑ “It's getting serious in Innsbruck” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 30, 1974, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).