The Olympia Eisschnellaufbahn is a

speed skating Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long-track speed skating, short-track speed skating, and marathon speed skat ...

venue located in

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. The outdoor venue hosted the

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events both for the

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...

and the

1976 Events January * January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 18 – Full diplomatic ...

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and the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics. It is part of the

OlympiaWorld Innsbruck OlympiaWorld Innsbruck is a multi-purpose sports facility complex in Innsbruck, Austria. It was opened in 1963. The complex served as the Olympic Park of the 1964 Winter Olympics, 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympics, as well as the Youth Olympic Games, ...

consortium that is responsible for maintaining venues that hosted both the 1964 and the 1976 Winter Olympics.

References

1964 Winter Olympics official report.
p. 142.
1976 Winter Olympics official report.
pp. 205–7. * Venues of the 1964 Winter Olympics Venues of the 1976 Winter Olympics Olympic speed skating venues Speed skating in Austria Speed skating venues Venues of the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics Sports venues in Tyrol (federal state) Buildings and structures in Innsbruck Sport in Innsbruck {{Winter-Olympic-venue-stub