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.
| 1990 World Championships | |
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| Location | St. Moritz, Switzerland Königssee, West Germany |
Two man bobsleigh edit
| Pos | Team | Time |
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| Gold |  Switzerland (Gustav Weder, Bruno Gerber)
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| Silver |  East Germany (Harald Czudaj, Axel Jang)
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| Bronze | East Germany (Wolfgang Hoppe, Bogdan Musioł)
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Four-man bobsleigh edit
| Pos | Team | Time |
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| Gold | Switzerland (Gustav Weder, Bruno Gerber, Lorenz Schindelholz, Curdin Morell)
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| Silver | East Germany (Harald Czudaj, Tino Bonk, Alexander Szelig, Axel Jang)
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| Bronze |  Austria (Ingo Appelt, Gerhard Redl, Jürgen Mandl, Harald Winkler)
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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 edit
| Pos | Athlete | Time |
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| Gold | Michael Grünberger (AUT)
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| Silver | Andi Schmid (AUT)
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| Bronze |  Gregor Stähli (SUI)
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Medal table edit
| 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 edit
- 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.