1990 European Bobsleigh Championships

The 1990 European Bobsleigh Championship was held on 23/24. January (two-man bobsleigh) and 27./28. January (four-man bobsleigh) on the Olympic track in Igls .

Two-man bob men

A record field of 62 teams from 25 nations started the two-man bobsleigh European Championship. Four races were held, with races 1 and 2 on January 23, and races 3 and 4 on January 24, 1990. The two-man bobsleigh decision was lacking in attractiveness, as it took place in the middle of the week and part of the world's top bobsleigh , including the three top GDR bobsleighs , was missing, as they were preparing for the bobsleigh world championships that took place in early February 1990.

space	bob	Total time lag
1	Switzerland I. Gustav Weder Curdin Morell	3: 33.33
2	Soviet Union II Zintis Ekmanis Juris Tone	3: 34.21 +0.88
3	Soviet Union I. Māris Poikāns Andrei Gorochow	3: 34.52 +1.19
4th	Federal Republic of Germany I. Rudi Lochner Markus Zimmermann	3: 34.68 +1.35
5	German Democratic Republic II Ulrich Höfke Ulf Behrendt	3: 34.98 +1.65
6th	Federal Republic of Germany II Dirk Wiese Olaf Hampel	3: 35.21 +1.88

Four-man bob men

The four-man European Championship took place on January 27th and 28th, 1989, with races 1 and 2 on January 27th and races 3 and 4 on January 28th. A total of 29 teams started. As in the previous year, the victory went to Austria. The fight for the medals was very close, in the end eight hundredths of a second were between first and third place, silver and bronze were only separated by a hundredth.

space	bob	Total time lag
1	Austria I. Peter Kienast Thomas Schroll Martin Riedl Johann Lindner	3: 30.59
2	Austria II Ingo Appelt Gerhard Redl Jürgen Mandl Harald Winkler	3: 31.06 +0.47
3	Switzerland I. Gustav Weder Bruno Gerber Lorenz Schindelholz Curdin Morell	3: 07/31 +0.48
4th	Federal Republic of Germany I. Dirk Wiese Thorsten Wölm Oliver Rogge Olaf Hampel	3: 31.62 +1.03
5	German Democratic Republic I. Dietmar Falkenberg Raik Iffarth Ludwig Gautsch Volker Schulz	3: 31.87 +1.28
6th	Federal Republic of Germany III Rudi Lochner Matthias Zieschang Uwe Höring Christoph Langen	3: 32.41 +1.82

Medal table

space	nation	gold	silver	bronze
1	Austria	1	1	0
2	Switzerland	1	0	1
3	Soviet Union	0	1	1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 25, 1990 p. 8
2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of January 29, 1990 p. 7