About Bobsleigh
Bobsleigh has featured at every Winter Olympics (save one - Squaw Valley 1960), this sport is an iconic part of the Games. It is one of the three sliding sports on the programme, alongside the skeleton and luge.
The women's monobob will debut in Beijing 2022, after the event was part of the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne.
All events are held over four heats on two (2) consecutive days, two heats per day.
Results are calculated by adding the times of all competition heats together, with the lowest aggregate time winning. At least one race heat must be conducted for the race to be officially valid. At least two heats are needed for a competition.
OLYMPIC HISTORY
In 1924, a four-man race took place at the first ever Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix. A two-man event was added at the 1932 Lake Placid Games in a format that has remained to the present. The first women's bobsleigh event—the two-woman bobsled —was held in 2002. At the Winter Youth Olympic Games Lillehammer 2016, monobob had its Olympic debut. In the new solo discipline, athletes use a bob that is identical to those of all their competitors, giving pride of place to the driving, with the value of the equipment having no bearing. The women’s event is now on the programme of Beijing 2022.
sports
NZ Fast facts
Olympic Games
- No. of athletes
- 12
- No. of games
- 4
- First appearance
- 1988
