Piste de bobsleigh des Pélerins

Piste de bobsleigh des Pélerins
The Swiss bobsleigh team, Olympic champion from 1924
place	Chamonix-Mont-Blanc , Haute-Savoie department
Orbit data Maximum height difference 156.29 m begin length Curves Bob start 1464.97 m 19th Skeleton start  m Toboggan start men  m Toboggan start women  m Double-seater start  m

Coordinates: 45 ° 54 ′ 55 ″  N , 6 ° 52 ′ 19 ″  E

The Piste de bobsleigh des Pélerins was a bobsled run in the French commune of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc .

history

After the IOC awarded the 1924 Winter Olympics to Chamonix in June 1922 , the municipality committed itself to building appropriate competition facilities, including a bobsleigh run. The railway was built in what is now the Les Pélerins district . This was 1464.97 meters long and consisted of 19 curves. The difference in altitude between start and finish was 156.29 meters.

Even after the Olympic Games, further competitions took place on the track. After five athletes died and two others were injured at the French Bobsleigh Championships in 1950, the track was closed due to this high risk.

Web links

• Prendre ses repères: la semaine internationale de sports d'hiver à Chamonix (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Piste de bobsleigh of Pélerins. Retrieved June 2, 2019 (French).