European Bobsleigh Championship 2009

The 2009 European Bobsleigh Championship was held from January 16 to January 18, 2009 on the bobsleigh run in St. Moritz . It was held parallel to the sixth race of the 2008/09 Bobsleigh World Cup and the 2009 European Skeleton Championships .

For the evaluation of the European Championship, the results of the non-European bobsleigh teams were simply deleted from the World Cup evaluation, separate races did not take place. Germany became the most successful nation with two gold, silver and bronze medals each. By winning the two-man bobsleigh, André Lange became the most successful athlete at the European Bobsleigh Championships . With seven gold, six silver and four bronze medals, he overtook the previous record holder Christoph Langen (7 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze). Thomas Florschütz celebrated his first European Championship medals with a silver in a four and a bronze in a two. In the women's two-man bobsleigh, Sandra Kiriasis won her fourth European title in a row, which means that the German women have remained unbeaten at the European championships that have been held since 2004. The European Championship premiere of the team competition, which was actually planned to conclude the event, was canceled by the FIBT for organizational reasons, since the time for packing the sled for transport overseas would have been too short if the race had been held.

Two-man bob men

space	bob	Run 1 place	Run 2 place	Total time lag
1	Germany - Bob GER 1 André Lange Martin Putze	1: 06.23 1	1: 05.87 1	2: 12.10
2	Switzerland - Bob SUI 1 Beat Hefti Thomas Lamparter	1: 06.33 3	1: 05.87 1	2: 12.23 +0.13
3	Germany - Bob GER 2 Thomas Florschütz Marc Kühne	1: 06.52 6	1: 05.87 1	2: 12.39 +0.29
4th	Austria - Bob AUT 1 Wolfgang Stampfer Martin Lachkovics	1: 06.33 2	1: 06.09 6	2: 12.42 +0.32
5	Germany - Bob GER 3 Karl Angerer Gregor Bermbach	1: 06.48 5	1: 06.07 5	2: 12.55 +0.45
6th	Latvia - Bob LAT 2 Jānis Miņins Daumants Dreiškens	1: 06.54 8	1: 06.06 4	2: 12.60 +0.50
7th	Switzerland - Bob SUI 2 Ivo Rüegg Cédric Grand	1: 06.42 4	1: 06.26 7	2: 12.68 +0.58
8th	Austria - Bob AUT 2 Jürgen Loacker Jürgen Mayer	1: 06.61 9	1: 06.26 7	2: 12.87 +0.77
9	Italy - Bobsleigh ITA 1 Simone Bertazzo Samuele Romanini	1: 06.75 10	1: 06.42 10	2: 13.17 +1.07
10	Russia - Bob RUS 1 Alexander Zubkov Filip Yegorov	1: 06.78 11	1: 06.40 9	2: 13.18 +1.08

Date: January 17th, 2009 The
World Cup race featured 24 two-man bobsleighs, including 21 European teams. The Canadians Pierre Lueders and David Bissett won the World Cup race with a margin of 0.02 seconds over André Lange and Martin Putze .

Four-man bob men

space	bob	Run 1 place	Run 2 place	Total time lag
1	Russia - Bob RUS 1 Alexander Zubkov Roman Oreschnikow Dmitri Trunenkow Dmitri Stjopuschkin	1: 05.20 1	1: 05.28 3	2: 10.48
2	Germany - Bob GER 3 Thomas Florschütz Marc Kühne Andreas Barucha Alexander Metzger	1: 05.61 4	1: 05.18 2	2: 10.79 +0.31
3	Germany - Bob GER 2 Karl Angerer Andreas Udvari Thomas Pöge Gregor Bermbach	1: 05.53 2	1: 05.28 3	2: 10.81 +0.33
4th	Austria - Bob AUT 1 Wolfgang Stampfer Johannes Wipplinger Gerhard Koehler Martin Lachkovics	1: 05.69 6	1: 05.13 1	2: 10.82 +0.34
5	Switzerland - Bob SUI 2 Beat Hefti Alex Baumann Thomas Lamparter Christian Aebli	1: 05.58 3	1: 05.37 7	2: 10.95 +0.47
6th	Switzerland - Bob SUI 1 Ivo Rüegg Jürg Egger Cédric Grand Patrick Blöchliger	1: 05.76 8	1: 05.29 5	2: 11.05 +0.57
7th	Germany - Bob GER 1 André Lange René Hoppe Alexander Rödiger Martin Putze	1: 05.78 9	1: 05.40 8	2: 11.18 +0.70
8th	Latvia - Bob LAT 1 Jānis Miņins Daumants Dreiškens Oskars Melbārdis Intars Dambis	1: 05.84 11	1: 05.36 6	2: 11.20 +0.72
9	Switzerland - Bob SUI 3 Daniel Schmid Markus Lüthi Thomas Küttner Florian Willisegger	1: 05.79 10	1: 05.69 11	2: 11.48 +1.00
10	Latvia - Bob LAT 2 Edgars Maskalāns Ainārs Podnieks Raivis Broks Reinis Rozītis	1: 05.90 12	1: 05.59 9	2: 11.49 +1.01

Date: January 18, 2009 The
World Cup race featured 25 four-man bobsleighs, 22 of which were European teams. The American Todd Hays finished fifth with his team, Pierre Lueders' four-man bobsleigh came eighth.

Two-man bob women

space	bob	Run 1 place	Run 2 place	Total time lag
1	Germany - Bob GER 1 Sandra Kiriasis Berit Wiacker	1: 09.20 1	1: 08.20 1	2: 17.40
2	Germany - Bob GER 2 Cathleen Martini Janine Tischer	1: 09.73 3	1: 08.63 2	2: 18.36 +0.96
3	United Kingdom - Bob GBR 1 Nicola Minichiello Gillian Cooke	1: 09.68 2	1: 09.07 3	2: 18.75 +1.35
4th	Germany - Bob GER 3 Claudia Schramm Nicole Herschmann	1: 10.14 6	1: 09.35 4	2: 19.49 +2.09
5	Switzerland - Bob SUI 1 Sabina Hafner Anne Dietrich	1: 09.78 4	1: 09.85 6	2: 19.63 +2.23
6th	Netherlands - Bob NED 1 Esme Kamphuis Tine Veenstra	1: 10.18 7	1: 09.61 5	2: 19.79 + 2.39
7th	Switzerland - Bob SUI 2 Fabienne Meyer Marina Gilardoni	1: 10.10 5	1: 10.18 7	2: 20.28 +2.88
8th	Switzerland - Bob SUI 3 Isabel Baumann Cora Huber	1: 10.23 8	1: 10.38 9	2: 20.61 +3.21
9	Italy - Bobsleigh ITA 1 Jessica Gillarduzzi Laura Curione	1: 10.81 10	1: 10.31 8	2: 21.12 +3.72
10	Italy - Bob ITA 2 Francesca Iossi Eleonora Guelpa	1: 10.93 11	1: 10.67 10	2: 21.60 +4.20

Date: January 16, 2009
19 two-man bobsleighs competed in the World Cup, including 13 European teams. The North American duos Erin Pac / Elana Meyers ( USA 2 ), Helen Upperton / Jennifer Ciochetti ( CAN 1 ) and Shauna Rohbock / Valerie Fleming ( USA 1 ) finished fourth to sixth. Kaillie Humphries / Heather Moyse ( CAN 1 ), who finished second after the first run, could not finish the second run.

Medal table

space	nation	gold	silver	bronze
1	Germany	2	2	2
2	Russia	1	0	0
3	Switzerland	0	1	0
4th	United Kingdom	0	0	1

Web links

• Results on bsd-portal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ bsd-portal.de: Lange celebrates 7th EM gold / Florschütz wins bronze ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 17, 2009  
2. ↑ bsd-portal.de: Kiriasis celebrates 4th EM gold in a row / Martini wins silver ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 16, 2009  
3. ↑ bsd-portal.de: Silver & Bronze for Florschütz and Angerer in the big sled  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , January 18, 2009
4. ↑ Results of two-man bobsleigh on fibt.com
5. ↑ Results of four-man bobsleigh on fibt.com
6. ↑ Results of two-man bob women on fibt.com