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List of combined men's bobsleigh World Cup champions: 1985–2007; List of four-man bobsleigh World Cup champions since 1985; List of two-man bobsleigh World Cup champions since 1985; List of two-woman bobsleigh World Cup champions since 1995
Former Army World Class Athlete Program bobsledder Steven Holcomb, front right, leads USA-1, AKA "The Night Train", team of Justin Olsen, Steve Mesler and Curtis Tomasevicz to a start time of 4.77 seconds in the third heat of the Olympic four-man bobsled event in Whistler, British Columbia at the 2010 Winter Olympics. The quartet won the first ...
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 .
Jeffrey Jost (sometimes listed as Jeff Jost) is an American bobsledder who competed from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. He won the Bobsleigh World Cup four-man event in 1984–85, although at the time, that classification was unofficial.
The Swiss bobsleigh team from Davos, c. 1910 An East German bobsleigh in 1951, Oberhof track, East Germany The 1913 Saint-Moritz Bobsleigh Derby Cup; photo by Albert Ewald. Although sledding on snow or ice had long been popular in many northern countries, the origins of bobsleighing as a modern sport are relatively recent. Early bobsled mask
Shimer also won three bronze medals at the FIBT World Championships with one in the two-man event and two in the four-man event (1993, 1997). He won the 1992–3 Bobsleigh World Cup championships both in the four-man and the combined men's events. Shimer retired after the 2002 Winter Olympics and became head coach of the US men's bobsleigh team.
Bobsleigh was added to the track in the 1970s in time for the track to host their sports' championship event in 1979, the first time any track would host both bobsleigh and luge in the same year in a non-Winter Olympic year (the track in Igls, Austria, was the first to do this at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck). [5] [6] [7]
1988 bobsleigh two-man results; 1988 bobsleigh four-man results; 1992 bobsleigh two-man results; 1992 bobsleigh four-man results; 1994 bobsleigh two-man results; 1994 bobsleigh four-man results; BBC.co.uk 2002 article on Tout's doping suspension. British Olympic Association profile; List of combined men's bobsleigh World Cup champions: 1985-2007