have had the slowest ride from Junction, with a time of 380 seconds. Women and the Cresta Although since 1929 until December 2018 rules forbade women riders, it was not always so. For example, T. A. Cook records that, in 1895, various trials were made by women on the Cresta, testing different riding positions and different styles of toboggan—although at that time women riders were encouraged to use only the lower half of the course. Vera Barclay rode the Cresta Run from Top. She was followed by a young American, Charles Lowe Boorum, Jnr., who said, "See you at the finish". Boorum started too fast and slid into Church Leap at such a speed that he crashed at the Shuttlecock, was hit by his toboggan and died from a fractured skull that evening. In 2019 Carina Evans, of Britain, became the first woman to descend the Cresta Run from Top, since the ban on women riders was lifted in 2018. Towards the end of the season, there is a Ladies Event in which women compete from Junction by invitation only. References External links Cresta Run FAQ page, includes some of the assertions noted or quoted above. Background and Course description Course on jogmap.de The Cresta Run on Google Maps Shuttlecock Club Venues of the 1928 Winter Olympics Venues of the 1948 Winter Olympics Olympic skeleton venues Bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton tracks Sports venues in Switzerland Sport in St. Moritz Buildings and structures in Graubünden