Alpine Skiing venues
Two Alpine skiing resorts were built for the Sarajevo 1984 Games. Regularly modernised since then, they host thousands of tourists each year.
The Bjelasnica resort, located close to the Igman venues, hosted the men’s Alpine skiing events. Jahorina was created for the women’s Alpine skiing events.
Bjelasnica is a modern ski resort that attracts 20,000 to 30,000 people a day during the winter. Its facilities include eight lifts and seven runs offering 12.5km of skiing. Two of these runs were homologated by the FIS for use at the 2019 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival. Bjelasnica has hosted FIS Europa Cup snowboard events in the past, but had to cancel the slopestyle competition scheduled for February 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Having undergone continual development since 2000, the resort also boasts several hotels, apartment complexes and restaurants, as well as a newly installed snow-making system complete with two lakes.
The nearby Mount Jahorina is the largest and most popular ski resort in the country, with 25km of slopes available. Its eight FIS-homologated runs include the three Olympic runs and are used by elite skiers for training. They also host international competitions, such as the FIS Cup Jahorina, last held in 2019. It too has a new snow-making system and extensive facilities for visitors, including restaurants, bars, clubs and hotels. Located some 35 kilometres to the south of Sarajevo, Jahorina suffered no damage during the Bosnian War as there was no fighting in this area.