The ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism emphasizes the support of the Olympic Games for the
successful hosting of the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games. It is known that the influence of the
temperature of the sled runner on the results of the bobsleigh and skeleton, which is a sled sport in the
winter season, is considered to be significant. Traditionally, a contact thermometer is used to measure the
temperature of the runner. In this paper, we propose a temperature measurement method using a
non-contact thermal imaging camera that can efficiently measure temperature of a runner. To verify the
possibility of the proposed new method, the temperature of the bobsleigh and the skeleton runner are
measured using contact thermometer and non - contact thermal imaging camera, respectively, and the
measured temperatures are compared. Experiments show that there is little error when both the bobsleigh
and the skeleton are close to the measurement distance from the infrared camera. However, it was
confirmed that the error increases as the measurement distance increases. The temperature error of the
skeleton runner was more than that of the bobsleigh. The reason for this problem is due to the resolution
of the thermal imaging camera. Because of the use of low resolution thermal imaging camera, it was
confirmed that the temperature difference between the thinner runner and the background is larger in the
thermal image pixels at relatively long distances. The skeleton showed a larger error because the thickness
of the bobslay runner was greater than the thickness of the skeleton runner. It is considered that the
problem is that the range of measurable distance is expanded as the use of a high resolution thermal
imaging camera is used.