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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.
List of International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (formerly Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing) World Championships that have taken place since 1930. Subcategories This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.
The FIBT World Championships 2001 took place in St. Moritz, Switzerland (Men's bobsleigh) and Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Women's bobsleigh, and men's and women's Skeleton).
Hansjörg Hirschbühl (born 21 May 1937) was a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. [1] His team won a bronze medal in the four-man event at the 1960 FIBT World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo.
The FIBT World Championships 2000 took place in Altenberg, Germany (men's bobsleigh), Winterberg, Germany (women's bobsleigh), and Igls, Austria (men's and women's skeleton). Altenberg hosted the championship event for the fourth time, doing so previously in 1991 (bobsleigh), 1994 (skeleton), and 1999 (skeleton).
It is the first time Altenberg has hosted all of those events at one championship, and also includes the mixed team event (one run each of men's skeleton, women's skeleton, 2-man bobsleigh, and 2-women bobsleigh) that debuted at the 2007 championships. Training for the events took place February 12–14 for two-man and two-woman bobsleigh, and ...
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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.