Olympia Looping, Steel roller coaster at Oktoberfest, Munich, Germany

The Olympia Looping is a portable steel roller coaster whose five vertical loops are painted in the colours of the Olympic rings. Its 1,250-metre track reaches a height of 32.5 metres and carries up to five trains, each with five or seven cars seating four riders. The structure weighs 900 tonnes and needs a footprint 86.5 metres wide and 38.5 metres deep.

The roller coaster was designed by German engineers Anton Schwarzkopf and Werner Stengel and debuted in 1989 at Munich's Oktoberfest. Since then, it has traveled as a mobile attraction to festivals across Europe.

The five loops take the colours of the Olympic rings, which gave the ride its name; during planning it was called Fünfer Looping, following the earlier Doppel Looping and Dreier Looping. In London the ride runs as Munich Looping, with München Looping on its own signage, to avoid Olympic references and match the Bavarian theme of Hyde Park Winter Wonderland.

The structure needs a footprint 86.5 m wide and 38.5 m deep, so it only fits large fairgrounds; at Oktoberfest it stands in the Theresienwiese. Trains run with five or seven cars of four seats, and up to five trains circulate at once. The 34 m lift hill turns 180 degrees on the way up, and the on-ride photo is taken after the final helix.

The five loops are clothoid-shaped but closer to circular than on most coasters, so riders feel up to 5.2 g. The structure weighs 900 tonnes and needs a plot 85 m wide by 36 m deep. At Oktoberfest and London's Winter Wonderland, seven-car trains run instead of the usual five.