1951 World Bobsleigh Championship
The 12th Bobsleigh World Championship took place in Alpe d'Huez in France in 1951 . The bobsleigh athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany, who took part in a bobsleigh world championship for the first time after the end of the Second World War , won both world championship titles.
Results
Two-man bobsleigh
space | country | athlete | Time (min) |
---|---|---|---|
1 | FRG I | Andreas Ostler / Lorenz Nieberl | 5: 11.94 |
2 | United States | Stanley Benham / Patrick Martin | 5: 15.33 |
3 | SUI I | Felix Endrich / Werner Spring | 5: 16.48 |
4th | ITA I | ... | ... |
5 | SUI II | ... | ... |
6th | FRG II | Hans Winkler / Sylvester Wackerle | 5: 23.63 |
Date: 27./28. January 1951
Four-man bobsleigh
space | country | athlete | Time (min) |
---|---|---|---|
1 | FRG I |
Andreas Ostler , Xaver Leitl , Michael Pössinger , Lorenz Nieberl |
2: 24.94 (1: 13.33 / 1: 11.61) |
2 | USA I |
Stanley Benham , Patrick Martin , James Atkinson , Gary Sheffield |
2: 26.50 |
3 | SUI I |
Franz Kapus , Franz Stöckli , Hans Bolli , Heinrich Angst |
2: 26.66 |
4th | FRG II |
Franz Kemser , Fred Wagenknecht , Heinz Wendlinger , Jonny Rundholz |
2: 26.71 |
5 | ITA I | ... | 2: 27.93 |
6th | AUT II | ... | 2: 30.56 |
7th | SWE I | ... | 2: 30.71 |
8th | ITA II | ... | 2: 31.90 |
9 | AUT I | ... | 2: 31.91 |
10 | FRA I | ... | 2: 33.10 |
11 | SUI II | ... | 2: 34.26 |
12 | SWE II | ... | 2: 37.10 |
The four-bobsleigh World Championship was decided in two races on January 31, 1951.
Medal table
space | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | BR Germany | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
2 | United States | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
3 | Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |