Editing Cresta Run (section)

==Women and the Cresta==
Although since 1929 until December 2018 rules<ref name="Cresta">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/26/british-mother-becomes-first-woman-descend-cresta-run-since/ |title=British mother becomes first woman to descend Cresta Run since ban on females is lifted |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date= 26 January 2019|access-date=2019-01-28|last1=Wilson |first1=Jeremy }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cresta-run.com/ride-the-cresta/facts-about-the-cresta/ |title=Facts about the Cresta |access-date=2015-01-13 |archive-date=2018-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305202844/http://www.cresta-run.com/ride-the-cresta/facts-about-the-cresta/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> forbade women riders, it was not always so.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://bianca.penlib.du.edu/search/?searchscope=2&searchtype=o&searcharg=705974 | title=University of Denver Libraries - Title: Notes on tobogganing at St. M… | access-date=2019-10-13 | archive-date=2013-11-13 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20131113070555/http://bianca.penlib.du.edu/search/?searchscope=2&searchtype=o&searcharg=705974 | url-status=dead }}</ref> 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.<ref name="Cresta"/>

Towards the end of the season, there is a ''Ladies Event'' in which women compete from Junction by invitation only.