  We study the properties of the electroweak sphaleron on a finite lattice. The
cooling algorithm for saddle points is used to obtain the static classical
solutions of the SU(2)-Higgs field theory. Results are presented for
$M_H=\infty, M_W, 0.75M_W$. After performing finite size scaling we find good
agreement with the results obtained from variational approaches. Of relevance
for numerical determinations of the transition rate is that the lattice
artefacts are surprisingly small for $M_W\approx M_H$.
