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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.
Season Winner Runner-up Third place 1984–85: Jeffrey Jost: Nick Phipps Silvio Giobellina 1985–86 Ekkehard Fasser Walter Delle Karth: Matt Roy: 1986–87: Matt Roy: Wolfgang Hoppe
The FIBT World Championships 2008 ran February 11–24, 2008 in Altenberg, Germany for the fifth time, having done so in 1991 , 1994 , 1999 (skeleton), and 2000 (men's bobsleigh).
She finished in the top 10 on her Bobsleigh World Cup debut in January 2017, and later in the season, she finished seventh at an event in St. Moritz. [8] She was Great Britain's reserve athlete for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. [8] In 2019, Douglas and Mica McNeill finished sixth in the 2-women bobsleigh event in Königssee. [9]
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.
The FIBT World Championships 2003 took place in Lake Placid, New York, United States (Men's bobsleigh), Winterberg, Germany (Women's bobsleigh), and Nagano, Japan (Men's and women's Skeleton). Lake Placid hosted the championship event for the eighth time, doing so previously in 1949 , 1961 , 1969 , 1973 , 1978 , 1983 , and 1997 (Skeleton).
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).
The FIBT World Championships 1995 took place in Winterberg, Germany and on 1–5 March [1] in Lillehammer, Norway . This was the first time both cities hosted a championship event. Two man bobsleigh