Olimpia delle Tofane is a downhill ski course in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, on the lower slopes of the Tofane. It staged the men's downhill of the 1956 Winter Olympics and is the regular venue of the women's World Cup races at Cortina. It hosted the women's races of the 2021 World Championships, the women's alpine skiing events of the 2026 Winter Olympics, and the para-alpine skiing events of the 2026 Winter Paralympics.
The best-known section of the course is the Tofana Schuss, a steep chute that passes between two high rock outcrops near the top of the run. Lindsey Vonn won a record twelve World Cup races on the course, six each in downhill and super-G.
Course
The downhill starts at above sea level and drops over about to the finish at ; the maximum gradient is 65% and the average 30%.
The race opens near the Rifugio Pomedes with the Tofana Schuss, a wall with a gradient of up to 65% that funnels the racers over a jump between two rock outcrops about twenty seconds into the run; speeds there reach about . A blind left turn named the Delta follows; hang gliders () launch from the spot in summer. The Duca d'Aosta jump, beside the hut where the super-G starts, leads into the middle part of the course, where the Gran Curvone and the Scarpadon combine fast turns, technical stretches and changes of gradient; other named passages include the Primo Muro, the Secondo Muro and the Diagonale. The lower course runs across the Pale di Rumerlo and ends with a final traverse and a man-made finish jump nicknamed the "tooth".
Olympics
Men's events YearEventDateGoldSilverBronze 1956 DH3 February 1956 Toni Sailer Raymond Fellay Anderl Molterer
Women's events YearTypeDateGoldSilverBronze 2026 DH8 February 2026 Breezy Johnson Emma Aicher Sofia GoggiaSG12 February 2026 Federica Brignone Romane Miradoli Cornelia HütterGS15 February 2026 Federica Brignone Thea Louise Stjernesund Sara Hector SL18 February 2026 Mikaela Shiffrin Camille Rast Anna Swenn-Larsson
Women's team combined YearTypeDateGoldSilverBronze 2026 TKB10 February 2026
World Championships
Men's events YearEventDateGoldSilverBronze 1956 DH3 February 1956 Toni Sailer Raymond Fellay Anderl Molterer 2021 AC15 February 2021 Marco Schwarz Alexis Pinturault Loïc Meillard
Women's events YearEventDateGoldSilverBronze 2021 SG11 February 2021 Lara Gut-Behrami Corinne Suter Mikaela ShiffrinDH13 February 2021 Corinne Suter Kira Weidle Lara Gut-Behrami AC15 February 2021 Mikaela Shiffrin Petra Vlhová Michelle Gisin GS18 February 2021 Lara Gut-Behrami Mikaela Shiffrin Katharina Liensberger
World Cup
Men TypeSeasonDateWinnerSecondThird50 DH 1968/69 9 February 1969 Josef Minsch Jean-Pierre Augert Hans Peter Rohr268 DH 1977/78 22 December 1977 Herbert Plank Bernhard Russi Peter Wirnsberger341 SL 1979/80 10 March 1980 Ingemar Stenmark Aleksandr Zhirov Christian Orlainsky342 GS 11 March 1980 Ingemar Stenmark Hans Enn Joël Gaspoz387 SL 1981/82 14 December 1981 Steve Mahre Phil Mahre Ingemar Stenmark388 GS 15 December 1981 Boris Strel Phil Mahre Joël Gaspoz475 DH1983/84 2 February 1984 Helmut Höflehner Urs Räber Conradin Cathomen688 DH 1989/90 3 February 1990 Kristian Ghedina Daniel Mahrer Helmut Höflehner689 DH 4 February 1990 Helmut Höflehner Franz Heinzer Atle Skårdal DH 2019/20 18 March 2020 cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic SG 19 March 2020 GS 21 March 2020 SL 22 March 2020 1880 SG 2022/23 28 January 2023 Marco Odermatt A. Aamodt Kilde Mattia Casse1881 SG 29 January 2023 Marco Odermatt Dominik Paris Daniel Hemetsberger
Women