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St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun

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workers a total of three weeks to construct the track. Construction follows the entire length of the track from start to finish. Because it is a natural track, length and elevation changes occur annually during construction. Once construction is completed, the fifteen workers split up into respective
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The track is constructed out of ice-covered snow, and as such, the track is not exactly identical from year to year. The track construction begins around the middle of November and takes a crew of fifteen
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sections to maintain their area during the season which is done every afternoon and can take up to four hours. Once the bobsleigh and skeleton season concludes in early March, track dismantling begins.
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Named for British bobsledders Nash and Dixon, gold medalists in the two-man event at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, the only members of the St. Moritz Bobsleigh Club to ever do so.
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to repair their sled. Nash and Dixon would win gold in the event at those games. This turn serves as the start point to luge for the women's singles and men's doubles event.
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The track, with 19 curves, is 1,722 meters long with an elevation difference of 130 meters and an average grade of 8.14%. The curves were given most of their names by the
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was created. Because of the popularity of the sport, fund raising for the track was completed in 1903 with
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1904 and is the oldest bobsleigh track in the world. It is also the only one that is naturally
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in the Swiss Army, who was president of the St. Moritz Bobsleigh Club from 1922 to 1969.
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After the president of the St. Moritz Bobsleigh Club from 1969 to 2011.
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portrait of the start of the St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun in 1905.
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Named after a wall used to support the bobsleigh and skeleton turn.
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held in St. Moritz only to die later that year during the
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Sarajevo Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track at Mt. Trebević
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When you exit this corner you can see the train bridge.
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The track was initially created for winter guests from
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Index


Johannes Martini
bobsleigh
Switzerland
New Year's Day
refrigerated
skeleton
luge
Great Britain
St. Moritz Bobsleigh Club
CHF
bobsleigh events
1928
1948 Winter Olympics
1948 games
horse-shoe
stones
Dracula

British
Dracula
Gunter Sachs
Snake
Eugenio Monti
two-man event at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Innsbruck
Anthony Nash
Robin Dixon
Horse-Shoe
Omega

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