Winterberg bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track

The Winterberg bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track is a bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track located in Winterberg, Germany. It is the only track of its kind in the world with a turn that has corporate sponsorship with turn seven being sponsored by Veltins, a German brewery who has its headquarters located in neighboring Meschede.

History

Completed in 1977, the track underwent a redesign of its start house area where the women's luge start house was moved from before turn four to near the men's luge start house prior to turn one in 2006. [http://www.fil-luge.org/news/news-detail/article/new-start-area-for-the-luge-and-bobsleigh-track-in-winterberg.html?tx_ttnews%5BpS%5D=1157061600&tx_ttnews%5BpL%5D=2591999&tx_ttnews%5Barc%5D=1&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=157&cHash=a82c1313f9 FIL-Luge.org September 14, 2006 article on Winterberg's start house area reconstruction.] - accessed February 20, 2008.] This was done under the auspices of the International Bobsleigh and Tobogganing Federation (FIBT) and the International Luge Federation (FIL) and included a completely covered sled storage area, new changing rooms, and facilities for coaches and officials. [http://www.fil-luge.org/news/news-detail/article/a-lot-is-being-done-at-the-worlds-artificially-iced-tracks.html?tx_ttnews%5BpS%5D=1162335600&tx_ttnews%5BpL%5D=2591999&tx_ttnews%5Barc%5D=1&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=157&cHash=9f9b736e8c FIL-Luge.org November 23, 2006 article on several track modifications, construction, and future plans, including Winterberg.] - accessed February 20, 2008.] The women's singles luge start house was integrated near the men's singles luge start house during the construction. The track hosted the first two-woman bobsleigh world championships in 2000. [http://sports123.com/bob/ww-2.html List of two-woman bobsleigh championship medalists since 2000.] ]

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Championships hosted

*FIBT World Championships: 1995 (bobsleigh), [ [http://sports123.com/bob/mw-2.html List of two-man bobsleigh championship medalists since 1931.] ] 2000 (women's bobsleigh), 2003
*FIL European Luge Championships: 1982, 1992, 2000, 2006 [ [http://sports123.com/lug/me-s.html List of men's singles luge European championship medalists since 1914] ]
*FIL World Luge Championships: 1989, 1991 [ [http://sports123.com/lug/mw-s.html List of Men's singles luge World championship medalists since 1955] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.bsd-portal.de/index.php?id=370 BSD-portal.de track profile] de icon
* [http://fibt.pixabit.de/index.php?id=159&track_id=15&L=0 FIBT track profile] - Click on video to ride down the track. Men's and women's singles luge will intersect with the bobsleigh and skeleton part of the track prior to turn one while men's doubles luge will intersect with the track prior to turn four.
* [http://www.fil-luge.org/filext/Track/winterberg_en.htm FIL-Luge track profile]
* [http://www.bobbahn.de/ Official website] en icon & de icon