FIBT World Championships 1990
Bobsleigh and skeleton world championships
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The FIBT World Championships 1990 took place in St. Moritz, Switzerland (Bobsleigh) and Königssee, West Germany (Skeleton). St. Moritz hosted a championship event for the record seventeenth time. The Swiss city had hosted the event previously in 1931 (Four-man), 1935 (Four-man), 1937 (Four-man), 1938 (Two-man), 1939 (Two-man), 1947, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1965, 1970, 1974, 1977, 1982, 1987, and 1989 (Skeleton). Meanwhile, Königssee hosted a championship event for the third time, doing so previously in 1979 and 1986.
| 1990 World Championships | |
|---|---|
| Location | St. Moritz, Switzerland Königssee, West Germany |
Two man bobsleigh
| Pos | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Gold |  Switzerland (Gustav Weder, Bruno Gerber) |
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| Silver |  East Germany (Harald Czudaj, Axel Jang) |
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| Bronze | East Germany (Wolfgang Hoppe, Bogdan Musioł) |
Four-man bobsleigh
| Pos | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Gold | Switzerland (Gustav Weder, Bruno Gerber, Lorenz Schindelholz, Curdin Morell) |
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| Silver | East Germany (Harald Czudaj, Tino Bonk, Alexander Szelig, Axel Jang) |
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| Bronze |  Austria (Ingo Appelt, Gerhard Redl, Jürgen Mandl, Harald Winkler) |
A controversy was created when Weder was caught overnight by officials scraping off ice at a difficult corner of the track. Bobsleigh officials allowed him to compete, and he won his first world championship in the four-man event.
Men's skeleton
| Pos | Athlete | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Gold | Michael Grünberger (AUT) |
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| Silver | Andi Schmid (AUT) |
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| Bronze | Gregor Stähli (SUI) |
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Switzerland (SUI) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | Austria (AUT) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | East Germany (GDR) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Totals (3 entries) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | |
References
- 2-Man bobsleigh World Champions
- 4-Man bobsleigh World Champions[permanent dead link]
- Men's skeleton World Champions
- Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2009). "Bobsleigh: Two-Man". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 159.