9°50′42″E / 46.5025749°N 9.8450459°E / 46.5025749; 9.8450459 Cresta Run The Cresta Run is a natural ice skeleton racing toboggan track in eastern Switzerland...
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Bobsleigh (redirect from Bobsled run)
the winter of 1884, Badrutt had a purpose-built run constructed near the hamlet of Cresta. The Cresta Run remains the oldest in the world and is the home...
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The Vauxhall Cresta is a British automobile which was produced by Vauxhall from 1954 to 1972. The Cresta was introduced in 1954 as an upmarket version...
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Cresta Run (1924 – 1939) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. As a two-year-old in 1926 she showed steady improvement, winning two of her...
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Clifton Wrottesley (section Cresta Run)
is also a rider of the Cresta Run, St Moritz, Switzerland. He has ridden on the Run since the 1988–89 season, won his Cresta colours in 1996, and has...
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the Cresta Run. Although skeleton "sliders" use equipment similar to that of Cresta "riders", the two sports are different: while skeleton is run on the...
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Look up cresta in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cresta may refer to: Cresta, Gauteng, a suburb in South Africa CRESTA, Catastrophe Risk Evaluating and...
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in St Moritz. At that time the sport was called cresta, and St. Moritz had the most famous Cresta Run, dating to 1884. In many locations the sport was...
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in St. Moritz. At that time the sport was called cresta, and St. Moritz had the most famous Cresta Run, dating to 1884. In many locations the sport was...
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Moritz Tobogganing Club (2019–2020). "Annual Report - The Cresta Run". Annual Report of The Cresta Run. 100: 308. Small, Steve (1994). The Guinness Complete...
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Smith (with David Churchill), Saffron is caught attempting to descend the Cresta Run in St. Moritz (for male skiers only) due to her forgetting that she had...
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Wittering near Peterborough. Green was the captain of the RAF team at the Cresta Run, where he used an experimental French toboggan and held the Inter-Services...
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At this time he recorded the albums Triumph in the Air and Cresta Run. Calver went on to run British Youth for Christ and the Evangelical Alliance, and...
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was contested on the Cresta Run track. Olympia Bob Run was built in 1897 and modernized for the 1948 Games, while the Cresta Run was first constructed...
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Switzerland, including ice hockey at St Moritz and tobogganing on the Cresta Run. She is probably among the world's first three female film-makers, after...
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1860s onwards, tourism became more and more important to the village. The Cresta Run opened in 1884, the St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun in 1904 and the...
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snowboarding, and hiking, and nearby there is also the world-famous Cresta Run toboggan course. The year-round population is 5,600, with some 3,000 seasonal...
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St. Moritz, Switzerland 1884 – St Moritz Tobogganing Club (SMTC) and Cresta Run founded in St. Moritz, Switzerland 1884 – First organized meeting for...
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1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old fillies. It is run on the Rowley Mile at Newmarket over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres)...
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jumping), Ski jumping St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun – Bobsleigh Cresta Run – Skeleton Athletes from 25 nations competed at these Games, up from 16...
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the power of Speed. He also explores the risks of rapid transit, meets Cresta Run riders in St Moritz and talks to the chief test pilot of the Eurofighter...
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event at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz. A cup competition on the Cresta Run in St. Moritz is named in his honor. 1948 men's skeleton results October...
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was accidentally killed on 19 January 1907 whilst toboganning on the Cresta Run at St Moritz, Switzerland. He is buried in Dawlish Parish Churchyard where...
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roles in Ann Jellicoe's Shelley; Sir Francis Harker in N.F. Simpson's The Cresta Run and Pte Atterclife in John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance. In 1966...
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slide, In Series 4 features a Skateboard & changed in Series 5–11 with a Cresta-Run style cart with volts and sparks. Sneaky Slip-n-Slide – Another tube slide...
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1963 at age 71.[citation needed] Beckett frequently took part in the Cresta Run, St Moritz, Switzerland.[citation needed] His interest in aviation included...
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Wrottesley, 14th Baronet, 6th Baron Wrottesley (born 1968), Irish Olympian and Cresta Run rider William Fox-Pitt (born 1969), three-day eventing rider James Landale...
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1952 to 1953.[citation needed] In 1955, then 71 years old, he won the Cresta Run Coronation Cup at an average speed of 71 km/h (44 mph). Moore-Brabazon...
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good one and the early pace was strong. Day produced the filly with a late run on the outside to take the lead inside the final furlong and won comfortably...
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mountaineering, and in 1911, he competed in the Bott handicap on the Cresta Run at St. Moritz, Engadine in Switzerland. Hood excelled at ice skating,...
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