European bobsleigh championship 1987

The 1987 European Bobsleigh Championship was held in Cervinia , Italy . Wolfgang Hoppe successfully defended his title in the two-man bobsleigh from the previous year and also won the four-man bobsleigh competition.

Two-man bob men

Date: 24.-25. January 1987

space	bob	Total time lag
1	German Democratic Republic - Bob GDR 1 Wolfgang Hoppe Dietmar Schauerhammer	4: 15.72
2	USSR - Bob URS 1 Jānis Ķipurs Vladimir Alexandrov	4: 16.17 +0.45
3	Switzerland - Bob SUI 3 Gustav Weder Bernd Gerber	4: 16.84 +1.12
4th	Switzerland - Bob SUI 1 Ralph Pichler Celeste Poltera	4: 17.44 +1.72
5	BR Germany - Bob FRG 1 Anton Fischer Christoph Langen	4: 17.57 +1.85
6th	German Democratic Republic - Bob GDR 2 Bernhard Lehmann Bogdan Musiol  Switzerland - Bob SUI 2 Hans Hiltebrand André Kiser	4: 18.04 +2.32
8th	German Democratic Republic - Bob GDR 3 Volker Dietrich Bodo Ferl	4: 19.72 +4.00

Four-man bob men

Date: January 31 - February 1, 1987

space	bob	Total time lag
1	German Democratic Republic - Bob GDR 1 Wolfgang Hoppe Bogdan Musiol Roland Wetzig Dietmar Schauerhammer	4: 09.49
2	Switzerland - Bob SUI 1 Ralph Pichler Heinrich Notter Edgar Dietsche Celeste Poltera	4: 09.58 +0.09
3	Switzerland - Bob SUI 2 Ekkehard Fasser Kurt Meier Werner Stocker Rolf Strittmatter	4: 10.21 +0.72
4th	Italy - Bobsleigh ITA 1 Ivo Ferriani Bertoldi Thomas Rottensteiner Stefano Ticci	4: 11.00 +1.51
5	German Democratic Republic - Bob GDR 3 Volker Dietrich Bodo Ferl Ingo Voge Dietmar Jerke	4: 11.15 +1.66
6th	USSR - Bob URS 1 Māris Poikāns Roshkalns Abolinsch Ivars Bērzups	4: 11.55 +2.06
...	...	...
8th	German Democratic Republic - Bob GDR 3 Dietmar Falkenberg Torsten Körner Roch Ludwig Jahn	4: 11.76 +2.27

Medal table

space	nation	gold	silver	bronze
1	German Democratic Republic	2	-	-
2	Switzerland	-	1	2
3	Soviet Union	-	1	-

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport87. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1987, ISBN 3-328-00229-4 , ISSN  0232-203X , p. 210-211 .

Web links

• Archive Bobsleigh and Sled Association Germany