Olympic bobsleigh and toboggan run Trebević

Olympic bobsleigh and toboggan run Trebević
Track during the 1983 European Bobsleigh Championship
place	Sarajevo , Bosnia and Herzegovina
owner	KJP ZOI'84 OCS
Installation	1982
Shutdown	1992
Orbit data Maximum height difference 129 m begin length Curves Bob start 1,300 m 13 Skeleton start  m Toboggan start men 1,210 m 13 Toboggan start women 993 m 11 Double-seater start  m

Coordinates: 43 ° 50 ′ 28 "  N , 18 ° 26 ′ 32"  E

The Olympia Bobsleigh and Luge Track Trebević ( Bosnian Olimpijska staza za bob i sankanje Trebević ) was an artificial ice rink on the northern slope of Mount Trebević on the southern outskirts of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo . The track was the venue for the competitions in luge and bobsleigh at the 1984 Winter Olympics .

The cable car can be reached on foot in a few minutes from the mountain station of the Trebević cable car . The ruins of the Bistrik kula observatory are not far from the finish area .

history

Plan of the train

When the 1984 Winter Olympics were awarded to Sarajevo in 1977 , a bobsleigh and toboggan run had to be built. After the building permit was granted, work began on June 1, 1981 and was completed on September 30, 1982 at a total cost of YUD 563,209,000 . The first international competition to be held on the track was the 1983 European Bobsleigh Championship . After the Olympic Winter Games, the track was used for World Cup races until the beginning of the Bosnian War in 1991. The track was also the venue for the European Skeleton Championships in 1985 , 1987 and 1988 . The railway was badly damaged during the war. In the course of the siege of Sarajevo , the railway high above the city was used by Bosnian Serb troops as an artillery position. After the end of the war, the area around the bobsled run was mined until the 2000s. Nevertheless, the railway itself was u. a. used for graffiti and cycling. Restoration work began in 2014 so that the track can be used for summer tobogganing and other summer activities. With the hosting of the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival 2019 in Sarajevo, there were considerations to hold races on the track, but these plans were not implemented due to the high costs.

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Web links

Commons : Sarajevo bobsleigh and luge track  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ruined and neglected, Sarajevo tracks still hold hope for some. Retrieved November 24, 2019 .