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Ice sledge racing is a Paralympic sport where contestants use a lightweight sledge and propel themselves using two poles. As a modern organized sport, it was available as a Paralympic sport between 1980–1988 and 1994–1998. It is contested using a speed skating rink with a 400 meters (1,300 ft) circumference.
Ice sledge speed racing was contested at the Winter Paralympic Games from the second Winter Games in 1980, to the 1988 Winter Games, and then at the 1994 and 1998 Winter Games. The events were held indoors for the first time at the 1994 Paralympics in Lillehammer .
The Cresta Run and the SMTC were founded by devotees of sledding (tobogganing in English) who adopted a head-first technique of racing down an icy run, as opposed to the feet-first and somewhat faster luge race. Both evolving sports were natural extensions of the invention of steerable sleds during the early 1870s by British guests of the Kulm ...
"1998 Nagano - Ice sledge speed racing". International Paralympic Committee (IPC). 2010; IPC Historical Results Database - General Search, International Paralympic Committee (IPC) "Nagano 1998". paralympia.de. 2010
Pages in category "Paralympic medalists in ice sledge speed racing" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Ice sledge speed racing at the 1988 Winter Paralympics consisted of twelve events, eight for men and four for women. Medal summary. Men's events. Event Gold ...
Ice sledge speed racing at the 1994 Winter Paralympics consisted of eight events, four for men and four for women.. Athletes from seven countries (Norway, Austria, Canada, Estonia, Iceland, Japan and the Netherlands) took part and Norway pulled off an almost complete clean sweep of the medals, winning all eight gold medals, all eight silver, and seven of the eight bronze - with the sole other ...
Sledding, sledging or sleighing is a winter sport typically carried out in a prone or seated position on a vehicle generically known as a sled (North American), a sledge (British), or a sleigh. It is the basis of three Olympic sports: luge , skeleton and bobsledding .