Lake Placid, NY – The Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) is excited to announce that the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation (IBSF) has awarded the 2025 IBSF World Championships and the 2022 IBSF World Push Championships to Lake Placid.  Both events will be held at Mt. Van Hoevenberg, which has been fully modernized with improvements including the new Mountain Pass Lodge, updated track refrigeration, indoor push facilities, and an expanded start house.   

The 2025 IBSF World Championships will be the last World Championships before the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milan/Cortina, and the eleventh World Championships hosted by Lake Placid since it became the first Bobsled track in North America in 1930.  Lake Placid hosted the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics in Bobsled, and the World Championships will celebrate 95 years of sliding sports at Mt. Van Hoevenberg. 

The 2022 IBSF World Push Championships will be in the new Start House at the Mountain Pass Lodge at Mt. Van Hoevenberg. This will be first time the World Push Championships will be held in the United States, and they feature the top athletes in the sport. This event will be an opportunity for the Olympians from Beijing to face off with rising talent at Lake Placid’s new indoor ice track, the only such facility in the USA.

“Our year-round training and event facilities at Mt. Van Hoevenberg are world class standard setters,” said ORDA President & CEO Mike Pratt.  “Since the 1932 Olympic Winter Games, our sliding community has proudly hosted athletes from around the globe, and we are excited for our recent modernizations to further support the exciting sports of bobsled and skeleton here in Lake Placid.”

IBSF President and IOC Winter Olympic Chair, Ivo Ferriani stated, “The entire International Bobsled and Skeleton community is looking forward to the 2025 World Championships returning to Lake Placid’s demanding track, which has such an incredible legacy.  This will be a critical World Championships a year out of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan/Cortina.”

 “There is nothing quite like competing for a World Championship on your home soil, especially the year before an Olympics.  Lake Placid is a training home for Team USA in Bobsled and Skeleton, and I am personally excited to see athletes reach beyond their wildest dreams for a World Championship at Mt. Van Hoevenberg,” said USA Bobsled & Skeleton CEO, Aron McGuire.   

The Olympic Regional Development Authority, Mt. Van Hoevenberg, and USA Bobsled and Skeleton look forward to welcoming athletes to both events in 2022 and 2025.