Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which individual athletes or teams of two to four athletes make timed speed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh.

Bobsleigh In the beginning, bobsleigh was mainly a sport for the wealthy and adventurous, who met in the winter sports resorts of the Alps for competitions and parties.

Find out more about Olympic Bobsleigh, including videos, images, facts and interviews with Olympic champions and athletes. Learn about the history.

Bobsledding is the sport of sliding down an ice-covered natural or artificial incline on a four-runner sled, called a bobsled, bobsleigh, or bob, that carries one, two, or four persons. Learn more about the …

The 2025–26 Bobsleigh World Cup (official: BMW IBSF Bobsleigh World Cup) was a multi-race series over a season of bobsleigh, organised by International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF). [1] …

In 1923, the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation (IBSF), originally Fédération internationale de bobsleigh et de tobogganing (FIBT) was founded and the following year a four-man race took …

Nov 16, 2025 · Not enough, and you can lose control. That's the balancing act of bobsleigh! 👀 Find out how the world's best bobsledders fight for every hundredth of a second.

Germany’s Laura Nolte has celebrated her 27th birthday by edging out her American rivals to win the two-woman bobsled test event on the new track for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

Feb 21, 2026 · Bobsleigh pilot Jakob Mandlbauer had to be helped off the track by medics and his team-mates on a stretcher after a big crash in the Winter Olympics. The Austrian, 27, was competing in the …

The Winter Olympics bobsled competition features four types of races: two-man, four-man, two-woman, and monobob.