International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation (IBSF)

With medals set to be awarded in as many as five disciplines on the first weekend (March 6-9), the 2025 IBSF Bobsleigh + Skeleton World Championships in Lake Placid are about to begin. 🤩 Athletes from a total of 38 nations – the highest number of nations represented in IBSF World Championship history – have qualified to start in Lake Placid. With 20 corners, more than any other track in the world, the Mt Van Hoevenberg Combination Bobsled, Skeleton & Luge Track is a good match for the incredible sliders competing in the bobsleigh and skeleton – be it on the famous “Devil’s Highway” (corners 4 to 9), Benham’s Bend (corner 14) or “The Heart” omega curve (corners 19 to 20). The organisers of the World Championships in Lake Placid will welcome the 300 or so athletes, plus their coaches, support teams and the officials, with a huge opening celebration on the evening of 5 March before racing begins. ✨ Read more: https://lnkd.in/dhMPmhPf 📷 Viesturs Lācis | IBSF #IBSF #IBSFWorldChs2025

Are you taking your first steps into coaching, a team manager or a parent? Then join the IBSF Coach Education Level 1 program in La Plagne from 12-14 March with former top athletes and experienced, longtime coaches Nicola Minichiello and Joska le Conté! 🤩 The course is designed as first level of the IBSF-accredited Coach Education pathway and will cover a range of topics including preparation, warm-up, health and safety, coaching preparation and equipment safety. 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆: Ethics, communication styles, logistics, TC Meetings, safety in sliding, values 𝗘𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Basic ice principles, giving effective feedback 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰: Pushing overview, basic ice driving principles, corner entries and exits, basic IBSF Rules, E-License-System Learn more ▶️ https://lnkd.in/dZehN2w4 📷 Viesturs Lācis | IBSF #IBSF #IBSFAcademy

BTS: Look into Material Control 🛷⚒️ After every race, sleds go into Material Control and are inspected by our professional crew, to ensure teams follow the rules and it's a fair competition for everyone. This season we've partnered with Mitutoyo America Corporation for even more precise measurements. #IBSF #WorldCup #Mitutoyo

⭐Let the pinnacle of sliding begin – warm up for the IBSF World Championships 2025 in Lake Placid (USA)!   Over 300 athletes from 38 nations 🌎- the highest number of countries ever seen at an IBSF World Championships - will come together on 6-16 March at the legendary Mt Van Hoevenberg sliding track.    With the most number of curves - 20 - of any competitive sliding track in the world, Mt Van Hoevenberg requires absolute precision by athletes to go down in the IBSF World Championships history books.    💬 “We’ll be marking 25 years of women’s World Championship bobsleigh and skeleton as Lake Placid hosts its eleventh World Championships, while honoring the remarkable legacy of this venue as host to the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics with less than a year to go to Milano Cortina 2026. The IBSF Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships is a unique ten-day sliding festival - where the most thrilling sports on ice take center stage, moving hearts and minds with fascinating human stories and journeys” - Ivo Ferriani, President of IBSF   Learn more about what to expect and check out our exclusive preview ▶️ https://lnkd.in/dTJzZCv7 #IBSF #IBSFWorldChs2025

🤝Great to cooperate with the Nationale Anti Doping Agentur Deutschland (NADA) for this weekend’s #bobsleigh races at the Europe Cup in Winterberg! If you are onsite, pass by and discover fun activities in English and in German, informing about the importance of clean sport. Also check out IBSF’s anti-doping section with lots of valuable resources at 👉 https://lnkd.in/dNGTyXf4 Being educated about this important topic is key for prevention! #IBSF

The IBSF Junior World Championships in Altenberg, Saxony, proved to be a playground for well-known names in #bobsleigh. The sons & daughters of successful bobsleigh pilots competed in the title fights in the Eastern Ore Mountains. And with some success, as a glance at the results lists shows, and a special feature. 🛷 Read more: https://lnkd.in/dd4XMVbR 📷 Viesturs Lācis | IBSF #IBSF

Lillehammer’s Olympic spirit burns bright 🔥🇳🇴   It's been amazing to watch the world’s best bobsleigh and skeleton athletes compete at Lillehammer Olympic Sliding Centre IBSF World Cup and Europa Cup races these days... and there is more to come this weekend! This is a magical venue 🪄, which will also host the 2027 IBSF Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships!   👉 Most northerly track in the world 👉 1994 Winter Olympic Games & Winter Youth Olympic Games 2016 host 👉 Long legacy: training camps + international competitions + year-round tourism    🎥 Anders Huuse - IBSF Honorary Member from Norway, IBSF Attaché of Olympic Winter Games Lillehammer 1994 and owner of Hunderfossen Adventure Park in close proximity to Lillehammer Olympic Sliding Centre - has been a pioneer in blending sport with tourism, contributing to the long legacy. 📰 Lillehammer’s Olympic spirit fuels IBSF World Cup races - read more about this iconic venue and Hunderfossen Winter Park's Ice Art Exhibition attended by Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway - https://lnkd.in/d6HF8kn9 #IBSF #Lillehammer International Olympic Committee – IOC Norges idrettsforbund Lillehammer Olympiapark AS

The Women's Skeleton World Championships are celebrating their 25th birthday. On February 12/13, 2000, the title was awarded for the first time on the Olympic track in Innsbruck-Igls. After four runs, Steffi Hanzlik from Germany entered the history books as the first female World Champion. Silver went to Mellisa Hollingsworth from Canada, bronze was won by Tricia Stumpf from the USA. A total of 17 participants from eleven nations took part in the event. ✨ In 1995, the international federation allowed men's and women's skeleton to be an official discipline alongside women's bobsleigh. The World Federation then intensified its efforts with regard to women's bobsleigh and skeleton. The Canadian Robert F. Storey, President of the World Federation at the time, appointed the Swiss Heinz Thoma as Skeleton Coordinator. On October 2, 1999, the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) included women's and men's skeleton as well as women's bobsleigh in the program for the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dAWFGkTZ 📷 Siegfried Kachel #IBSF

For bobsleigh athletes, the 2024/25 pre-Olympic season in the IBSF World Cup will come to a close in Lillehammer 🇳🇴. In the four disciplines of women’s monobob, 2-man bobsleigh, 2-woman bobsleigh and 4-man bobsleigh, athletes will be racing to win their final points for the overall World Cup standings, which will also count towards their qualification for the 2025 IBSF World Championships in Lake Placid 🇺🇸. Lillehammer is set to host the IBSF World Championships in 2027. Here's everything you need to know about the upcoming IBSF World Cup race: https://lnkd.in/dm7jdgTq 📷 Viesturs Lācis | IBSF #IBSF #WorldCup

Seven years ago, the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games ❄️ were in full swing. These Games have provided for some amazing legacies as we highlight with our story about young, ambitious and inspiring bobsledder  Agnese Campeol from Thailand. Agnese benefits from a program of the PyeongChang 2018 & Gangwon 2024 Legacy Foundation as well as from additional assistance from the International Olympic Committee – IOC 's Olympic Solidarity program. With her extraordinary talent and hard work she won silver in women’s monobob at Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Korea when she was 17.  One year on, she just finished third overall in the 2-woman bobsleigh at the North American Cup 2024/2025 and now has her sights on participating in the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games. On her side as mentor through a dedicated IBSF program - one of bobsleigh’s greats and Agnese’s biggest role model: Kaillie Armbruster Humphries from the United States, five-time World Champion, four-time Olympic medallist and first women’s monobob Olympic champion at Beijing 2022. Read the full story 👉: https://lnkd.in/gNcvV2JJ #IBSF PyeongChang 2018 Legacy Foundation | Fondazione Milano Cortina 2026 | USA Bobsled/Skeleton