page_title: Utah Olympic Park Track
section_title: Statistics
hierarchical_section_title: Utah Olympic Park Track / Statistics
caption_attribution_description: English: Utah Olympic Park - USA Luge Junior National Team Athlete, Matt Wolbach, slides through curve 6 while participating in the 2010 "Utah Winter Games". Park City, Utah, USA. Utah Olympic Park bobsleigh/luge/skeleton track
context_page_description: The Utah Olympic Park Track is a bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in the United States, located in the Utah Olympic Park near Park City, Utah. During the 2002 Winter Olympics in nearby Salt Lake City, the track hosted the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton events. Today the track still serves as a training center for Olympic and development level athletes, and hosts numerous local and international competitions. It is one of two tracks in the nation, the other is at Mt. Van Hoevenberg near Lake Placid, New York.
context_section_description: The elevation at the base is 6,982 feet (2,128 m) above sea level.
  The turn names were given by John Morgan during Speed Channel's World Cup bobsleigh coverage on December 17 & 23, 2006. All curves shown are bobsleigh curves. Men's singles' luge joins after turn two while women's singles and men's doubles luge joining after turn three. Turns 1, 2, 3, 13, and 15 do not have turn names. The section between curves 14 and 15 is the fastest, leading into a long finish straight that was referred by Morgan as the "Graveyard" section because you could lose both time and speed if you hit the walls leading to that turn.
  Up until 2009, the track was considered the "World's Fastest Ice" and was where American luger Tony Benshoof set the highest recorded luge speed of 86.6 miles per hour (139.4 km/h) on October 16, 2001, which made the Guinness Book of World Records. Benshoof's speed record was eclipsed at the 2008-09 Luge World Cup season finale at the Whistler Sliding Centre in British Columbia, Canada, when Felix Loch of Germany reached a top speed of 153.98 km/h (95.68 mph) on February 21, 2009.
caption: USA Luge Junior National Team Athlete, Matt Wolbach, slides through curve 6 during the "2010 Utah Winter Games"
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