Whistler Olympic Park

Whistler Olympic Park is 117km from Vancouver and will host the biathlon, cross country, nordic combined and ski jumping sports at the Games.

The cross-country venue includes 10 kilometres of competition trails in two distinct five-kilometre loops and a 150-metre-long stadium area. Over the men’s 50-kilometre race, the athletes will climb approximately 2,000 vertical metres (more than twice the vertical of the men’s downhill course at Whistler Creekside). The winning time for this race is expected to be around two hours.

The biathlon venue includes four kilometres of competition trails, a 150-metre-long stadium and state-of-the-art shooting range. The range has 30 shooting positions and lanes. A fully electronic target system able to detect and report the precise time and location of each bullet fired. The automated and electronic target system will change the size of the targets automatically in between the prone and standing shooting rounds. The elevation at the elevation at the lowest point on the four-kilometre course is 850 metres and the elevation at the highest point is 891 metres.

The ski jumping venue includes large hill and normal hill ski jumps, coaching stands and a state-of-the-art technical building known as the judges’ tower. Jumping hills have three distinct parts: the in-run where the jumpers gain speed and take off into flight; the landing hill which the jumpers fly over and then land on; and the outrun area at the bottom used to stop. The in-runs include one of the world’s most sophisticated ski jump snow refrigeration and track setting systems. The angle of takeoff is 11 degrees below the horizontal plane and the maximum in-run and landing hill slope angle is 35 degrees. On the normal hill, the maximum flight distance down the landing hill is 106 metres. On the large hill, the maximum flight distance is 140 metres. This distance is known as the hill size and is often used to identify the jump hills. The elevation difference from the top of the in-run to the bottom of landing hill is 100 metres.