Pista olimpica Eugenio Monti

Track 2007

place

Cortina d'Ampezzo , Italy

Installation

1923

Shutdown

January 2008

Orbit data
Maximum height difference	120.45 m
begin	length	Curves
Bob start	1350 m	13
Skeleton start	1350 m	13
Toboggan start men	m
Toboggan start women	m
Double-seater start	m

46.5455 12.128Coordinates: 46 ° 32 '43.8 " N , 12 ° 7' 40.8" E

The Pista olimpica Eugenio Monti is an artificial ice rink for bobsleigh and skeleton in the Italian municipality of Cortina d'Ampezzo . The track is named after the most successful Italian bobsleigh pilot Eugenio Monti . The railway achieved fame through the film James Bond 007 - On a Deadly Mission .

history

Eugenio Monti and Renzo Alverà (1956)

Between 1905 and 1906, bobsleighing was first practiced in Cortina d'Ampezzo on a snow-covered road to Pocol . In 1911 an attempt was made to build an artificial bobsled run near the city center. However, the project failed due to the lack of financial resources. In 1923, the bobsled run in Cortina d'Ampezzo was finally built with a length of 1200 meters. In 1928 , the first international competition took place on the track with the Academic Winter Games , a predecessor of the Universiade . In order to meet the standards of other railways, a conversion took place in 1936. The finish area was relocated and the length of the route extended to 1500 meters with 15 curves. In 1937 , a two-man bobsleigh World Championship took place on the track for the first time . At the Bobsleigh World Cup in 1939 , the four-man bobsleigh took place on the track, in which the Swiss Reto Capadrutt had a fatal accident. Another renovation took place in 1948, when all the curves were rebuilt after the Second World War and the track was extended to 1700 meters and 16 curves.

With the award of the 1956 Winter Olympics to Cortina d'Ampezzo , the Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano began to allow the railway to be significantly rebuilt. After the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo in 1952 , large display boards and electronic timekeeping were installed on the Pista olimpica. During the Olympic Games, the track was 1,720 meters long, had 16 curves and a height difference of 152 meters.

Since no bobsleigh run was built for the 1960 Winter Olympics , another world championship was held on the Pista olimpica in the same year .

At the 1966 World Cup , the four-man bobsleigh competition was canceled after the fatal accident of the German Anton Pensperger . He received the gold medal posthumously as well as his team members Ludwig Siebert , Helmut Wurzer and Roland Eberhart . Another fatality occurred at the 1981 World Cup in the four-man bobsleigh when the American Jimmy Morgan had an accident in the four-man bobsleigh on February 8. As a result, the route has been reduced to the current length and number of turns. A week later the filming of the film James Bond 007 - On a Fatal Mission took place on the train . On February 17, 1981, a racing sled was thrown off the track and the 23-year-old Italian stuntman Paolo Rigon, who was behind the wheel, was killed. After the death of the Italian bobsleigh pilot Eugenio Monti in 2003, the track was renamed from Pista olimpica di bob to Pista olimpica Eugenio Monti in early 2004 in his honor . In January 2008 the railway was closed. The track is to be renovated for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo so that the bobsleigh, luge and skeleton competitions can take place there.

Records

discipline	record	Nation / athletes	date	time
Bob - two men	begin	Canada Pierre Lueders & Giulio Zardo	January 19, 2002	04.84 s
Bob - two men	train	Germany Thomas Florschütz & Sascha Schelter	January 12, 2006	52.80 s
Bob - foursome men	begin	Switzerland Martin Annen , Andi Gees , Beat Hefti & Cédric Grand	December 19, 2004	04.74 s
Bob - foursome men	train	France Bruno Mingeon , Emmanuel Hostache , Christophe Fourquet & Max Robert	January 16, 2000	51.96 s
Bob - two women	begin	Canada Helen Upperton & Jennifer Ciochetti	January 12, 2007	05.29 s
Bob - two women	train	Germany Sandra Kiriasis & Romy Logsch	January 12, 2007	54.60 s

Championships held

Winter Olympics : 1956 , 2026
World Championships : 1937 (two), 1939 (four), 1950 , 1954 , 1960 , 1966 , 1981 , 1989 , 1999
European Championships : 1965 , 1970 , 1982 , 2000 , 2002 , 2007
Italian Championships: 1930, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1978 , 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008

Picture gallery

World Championship 1966

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Olympic Report from 1956. (PDF; kB) International Olympic Committee , archived from the original on August 28, 2008 ; accessed on April 19, 2020 (English).
^ Steve Rubin, Siegfried Tesche: The background story to 25 years of Bond Kino Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-89324-026-8 , pp. 158–170.
^ Siegfried Tesche: Accidents on the Bond Set: On the Road on a Fatal Mission. In: welt.de. August 21, 2017, accessed April 19, 2020 .
↑ Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo wins the bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics. International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation , June 24, 2019, accessed on April 19, 2020 .

[olympia_report-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Olympic Report from 1956. (PDF; kB) International Olympic Committee , archived from the original on August 28, 2008 ; accessed on April 19, 2020 (English).

[2] Steve Rubin, Siegfried Tesche: The background story to 25 years of Bond Kino Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-89324-026-8 , pp. 158–170.

[3] Siegfried Tesche: Accidents on the Bond Set: On the Road on a Fatal Mission. In: welt.de. August 21, 2017, accessed April 19, 2020 .

[4] Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo wins the bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics. International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation , June 24, 2019, accessed on April 19, 2020 .