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IBSF World Championships (bobsleigh and skeleton)

The IBSF World Championships (known as the FIBT World Championships until 2015), part of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, have taken place on an annual basis since 1930. Starting with 2002, no World Championships being held in non-Winter Olympic years. A two-man event was included in 1931 with a combined championship occurring in 1947. Men's skeleton was introduced as a championship of its own in 1982 while women's bobsleigh and skeleton events were introduced in 2000. Both the women's bobsleigh and skeleton events were merged with the men's bobsleigh events at the 2004 championships. A mixed team event, consisting of one run each of men's skeleton, women's skeleton, 2-man bobsleigh, and 2-women bobsleigh, was held from 2007 to 2019. In 2020 it was replaced with skeleton mixed team event, consisting of one run each of men's and women's skeleton. Women's monobob event was included in 2021.

Host cities

Bobsleigh

Four-man

Debuted: 1930.

  1. ^ 1933 FIBT World Championship event was not held.
  2. ^ The 1966 FIBT World Championship event in Cortina d'Ampezzo was abandoned following the death of Toni Pensperger of West Germany during competition. A posthumous gold medal was given to Pensperger, Ludwig Siebert, Helmut Werzer, and Roland Ebert.
  3. ^ The 1967 FIBT World Championship event in Alpe d'Huez was cancelled to insufficient conditions of the track caused by high temperatures.

Medal table

Two-man

Debuted: 1931.

  1. ^ Ohlwärter replaced the injured Schumann after the third heat of the 1979 event.
  2. ^ Ranzi replaced the injured Costa after the first heat of the 1999 event.
  3. ^ Herzog replaced the injured Streltsov after the third heat of the 2007 event.
  4. ^ Bredau replaced the injured Kuske after the first heat of the 2013 event.

Medal table

Two-woman

Debuted: 2000.

Medal table

Women's Monobob

Debuted: 2021

Medal table

Skeleton

Men

Debuted: 1982

Medal table

Women

Debuted: 2000

Medal table

Mixed team

Debuted: 2020.

Medal table

Mixed team (bobsleigh and skeleton)

Debuted: 2007

Medal table

IBSF World Championships cumulative medal count

Bobsleigh

Skeleton

Mixed team (bobsleigh and skeleton)

Overall

Multiple medalists

Boldface denotes active athletes and highest medal count among all athletes (including these who not included in these tables) per type. "Position" denotes position of bobsledder in a crew (P – bobsledder won all own medals as a pilot; B – bobsledder won all own medals as a brakeman / brakewoman and / or as a pusher; B/P – bobsledder won own medals firstly as a brakeman / brakewoman and / or as a pusher and then as a pilot).

Men's bobsleigh

* not including one medal in the Two-man event at the 2013 World Championships as he was replaced due to injury after the first of four heats

Women's bobsleigh

Men's skeleton

Women's skeleton

References