Olympia Looping

Olympia Looping
Full layout at night
Oktoberfest
Status	Operating
Opening date	September 17, 1989
General statistics
Type	Steel
Manufacturer	Anton Schwarzkopf
Designer	Werner Stengel
Lift/launch system	Drive tire lift hill
Height	110 ft (34 m)
Drop	99 ft (30 m)
Length	4,101 ft (1,250 m)
Speed	52 mph (84 km/h)
Inversions	5
Duration	1:45
Max vertical angle	52°
G-force	5.2
Height restriction	54 in (137 cm)
Trains	Several trains with 5 cars. Riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows for a total of 20 riders per train.

Olympia Looping (AKA Munich Looping) is a portable steel roller coaster built by Anton Schwarzkopf. It is the largest portable roller coaster in the world, and the only one with 5 loops. It appears at many carnivals in Germany, most notably the Oktoberfest, where it made its debut in 1989. It is named for its 5 vertical loops, which resemble the Olympic rings. Although they are clothoid-shaped, their shape is closer to circular than the ones on most other roller coasters, so they exert unusually high g-forces on the passengers (up to 5.2 g^[1]). The entire structure weighs 900 tons and requires a space 85 m wide by 36 m deep.

Incidents

On September 27, 2008, a driving motor failed on the ride, stranding over 20 Oktoberfest attendees at the top of the first hill. They were freed with the help of the Munich Fire Department.^[2]

Awards

Olympia Looping's full layout from the Ferris wheel

The ride was ranked in the Steel Roller Coasters Poll 11 Year Results Table awards from 1999 to 2010. Below is the table of the rankings of the traveling roller coaster.

Mitch Hawker's Best Roller Coaster Poll: Best Steel-Tracked Roller Coaster
Year	1999	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Ranking	14[3]	16[3]	43[3]	48[3]	68[3]	56[3]	37[3]	53[3]	46[3]	83[3]	57[3]

References

1. "Olympia Looping homepage (in German)". Retrieved 2007-09-10.
2. "tz-online.de".
3. "Best Steel Roller Coaster Poll 11 year results table". BestRollerCoasterPoll.com. Retrieved October 1, 2012.