Italy national bobsleigh team

The sport of bobsleigh began to spread in Italy at the beginning of the 20th century, especially in Trentino and Veneto, where Federico Terschak introduced it in Cortina d'Ampezzo. In 1922, the first Italian bobsleigh championship was organised along the road of Falzarego Pass, while the following year Raffaele Zardini built the bobsleigh track in Ronco. The Italian bobsleigh team debuted at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix with the five-man bobsleigh. In 1925 the Bob Club of Italy was founded, which the following year established the Italian Ice Sports Federation (Federazione italiana sport del ghiaccio, FISG), which also included the Italian Skating Federation (Federazione italiana di pattinaggio) and the Italian Ice Hockey Federation (Federazione italiana di hockey sul ghiaccio). In 1973, Italy's national military team was formed, which took part in the first edition of Military World Bobsleigh Championships in Cervinia. After a break of more than 30 years, the Air Force Sports Centre resumed winter sports activities in 2012 so that its athletes could take part in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. == Participation in the Winter Olympics ==

The Italian national bobsleigh team has always taken part in at least one discipline at every Winter Olympics (except at Squaw Valley in 1960, when the organising committee did not organise any bobsleight competitions for economic reasons), winning a total of 12 Olympic medals. Italian women made their debut with the two-woman bobsleigh at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, while in Turin 2006 they won their first and so far only medal. The largest number of Olympic medals (six) was won by Eugenio Monti, known as the Rosso volante ('Flying Red'), in whose memory the Olympic track in Cortina d'Ampezzo was named. Men's four-man bobsleigh Men's two-man bobsleigh Women's two-woman bobsleigh Women's monobob Olympic medals Olympic medalists , the 'Flying Red', won 6 olympic medals. == See also ==