The 81 metre long track is only the second of its type to be opened in Europe.

At the opening ceremony held in Schaan for the facility was Liechtenstein’s Prime Minister Adrian Hasler and BVL President Iwan J. Ackermann.

A demonstration of how the track will be used was done by Beat Hefti of Switzerland, a silver medallist in the two-man bobsleigh competition at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.

“The mobile track also allows us to demonstrate the sport at public or company events and promote bobsleigh,” Ackermann said.

Srecko Kranz, the BVL’s head of sport, said the track will be beneficial for training the country’s bobsleigh athletes, adding it will help with ambitions to become regular contenders at major competitions.

“This push track is perfect to learn how to push a sled and how to get in,” Kranz said.

“We want to get four runs at the Olympic Games and World Championshops and also two runs at the European Championships, Europe and World Cup.

“For that, we have to be in top 20 in the world.”

Liechtenstein have competed at all the Winter Olympics apart from one since the 1936 Games in German resort Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

The country has won nine Winter Olympic medals - two golds, two silvers and five bronze - with all of them coming in Alpine skiing.

Hanni Wenzel owns both the golds, which she claimed in the slalom and giant slalom contests at Lake Placid 1980.

She also collected a silver downhill silver at the same Games and a slalom bronze four years earlier in Innsbruck.