1991 European Bobsleigh Championship

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The 1991 European Bobsleigh Championship was held on January 22nd (two-man bobsleigh) and 27 January (four-man bobsleigh) on the natural ice rink in Cervinia , Italy . As in the previous year, there were no top German bobsleighs preparing for the World Championships in Altenberg at the European Championships .

Two-man bob men

The two-man bobsleigh European Championship took place on January 22, 1991 in two races.

space bob Total time
lag
1 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland I.
Gustav Weder
Bruno Gerber
2: 09.08
2 GermanyGermany Germany II
Volker Dietrich
Peer Joechel
2: 09.19
+0.11
3 ItalyItaly Italy I
Günther Huber
Stefano Ticci
2: 09.32
+0.24
4th GermanyGermany Germany I.
Rudi Lochner
Markus Zimmermann
2: 09.35
+0.27
5 AustriaAustria Austria I.
Ingo Appelt
Thomas Schroll
2: 09.49
+0.41

Four-man bob men

The four-man bobsleigh championships took place on January 27, 1991 in two races.

space bob Total time
lag
1 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland I.
Gustav Weder
Bruno Gerber
Lorenz Schindelholz
Curdin Morell
2: 02.99
2 GermanyGermany Germany I.
Dirk Wiese
Thorsten Wölm
Oliver Rogge
Olaf Hampel
2: 03.47
+0.48
3 GermanyGermany Germany II
Volker Dietrich
Sven Rühr
Frank Jacob
Thomas Rex
2: 03.55
+0.56

Medal table

space nation gold silver bronze
1 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 2 0 0
2 GermanyGermany Germany 0 2 1
3 ItalyItaly Italy 0 0 1

Individual evidence

  1. Berliner Zeitung of January 23, 1991 p. 25
  2. Berliner Zeitung of January 28, 1991 p. 19