1982 World Bobsleigh Championship

The 36th Bobsleigh World Championship took place for the 14th time in St. Moritz , Switzerland in 1982 .

Men

Two-man bobsleigh

Date: 6./7. February 1982

space	country	athlete	1st run min	2nd run min	3rd run min	4th run min	End time min
1	SUI I	Erich Schärer Max Rüegg	1: 10.27	1: 10.16	1: 10.01 track record	1: 10.89	4: 41.33
2	SUI II	Hans Hiltebrand Ulrich Bächli	1: 10.15 track record	1: 10.50	1: 10.54	1: 10.67	4: 41.86 +0.53 s
3	GDR I	Horst Schönau Andreas Kirchner	1: 10.39	1: 10.47	1: 10.65	1: 10.49	4: 42.00 +0.67 s
4th	GDR II	Detlef Richter Dietmar Schauerhammer	1: 10.62	1: 10.98	1: 11.34	1: 11.22	4: 44.16 + 2.83 s
5	FRG II	Andreas Weikenstorfer Hans Jürgen Hartmann	1: 10.98	1: 10.90	1: 11.42	1: 11.46	4: 44.76 + 3.43 s
6th	URS II	Jānis Ķipurs Aivars Šnepsts	1: 11.03	1: 11.13	1: 11.02	1: 12.06	4: 45.24 + 3.91 s

Four-man bobsleigh

Date: 13./14. February 1982

space	country	athlete	1st run min	2nd run min	3rd run min	4th run min	End time min
1	SUI I	Silvio Giobellina Heinz Stettler Urs Salzmann Rico Freiermuth	1: 07.58 track record	1: 08.12	1: 08.07	1: 08.17	4: 31.94
2	GDR II	Bernhard Lehmann Roland Wetzig Bogdan Musiol Eberhard Weise	1: 07.89	1: 08.02	1: 08.12	1: 08.93	4: 32.96 +1.02 s
3	SUI II	Erich Schärer Franz Isenegger Tony Rüegg Max Rüegg	1: 08.01	1: 08.43	1: 08.30	1: 08.41	4: 33.15 +1.21 s
4th	AUT I	Fritz Sperling Franz Köfel Andreas Schwab Gerhard Redl	1: 08.52	1: 08.48	1: 08.56	1: 08.89	4: 34.45 + 2.51 s
5	GDR I	Horst Schönau Andreas Kirchner Dietmar Schauerhammer Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt	1: 08.25	1: 08.71	1: 08.76	1: 09.00	4: 34.72 + 2.78 s
6th	AUT II	Franz Paulweber Haid Heis Gerhard fence screen	1: 08.67	1: 09.24	1: 08.66	1: 09.14	4: 35.71 + 3.77 s
7th	URS II	Jānis Ķipurs					4: 36.60 +4.66 s
8th	FRG II	Anton Fischer					4: 37.43 + 5.49 s
9	FRG I	Andreas Weikenstorfer					4: 37.71 + 5.77 s
10	GBR II	Jonnie Woodall					4: 37.98 +6.04 s

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Switzerland	2	1	1	4th
2	German Democratic Republic	0	1	1	2

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport82. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1982, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 237 .
• German sport echo . Sportverlag Berlin, ISSN  0323-8628 (1982).