FIBT World Championships 1990

Bobsleigh and skeleton world championships

1990 World Championships

Location| St. Moritz, Switzerland
Königssee, West Germany

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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.

## Two man bobsleigh

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Pos  | Team  | Time

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Gold  |  Switzerland (Gustav Weder, Bruno Gerber)  |
Silver  |  East Germany (Harald Czudaj, Axel Jang)  |
Bronze  |  East Germany (Wolfgang Hoppe, Bogdan Musioł)  |

## Four-man bobsleigh

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Pos  | Team  | Time

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Gold  |  Switzerland (Gustav Weder, Bruno Gerber, Lorenz Schindelholz, Curdin Morell)  |
Silver  |  East Germany (Harald Czudaj, Tino Bonk, Alexander Szelig, Axel Jang)  |
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

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Pos  | Athlete  | Time

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Gold  |  Michael Grünberger (AUT) |
Silver  |  Andi Schmid (AUT) |
Bronze  |  Gregor Stähli (SUI) |

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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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

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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.

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