Bobsleigh World Championship 1971

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The 28th Bobsleigh World Championship took place in Cervinia , Italy in 1971 . The Italians Gianfranco Gaspari and Mario Armano became the two-man bobsleigh world champions, while Switzerland won the four-man bobsleigh title .

Results

Two-man bobsleigh

Only the first two runs on Saturday, January 23rd, were counted, as the competition on Sunday had to be stopped during the third run due to heavy snowfall.

space country athlete Time (min)
1 ITA Gianfranco Gaspari / Mario Armano 2: 22.80
2 ITA Enzo Vicario / Corrado Dal Fabbro 2: 22.98
3 AUT Herbert Gruber / Josef Oberhauser 2: 23.38
4th FRG Wolfgang Zimmerer / Peter Utzschneider ...
0 ...

Four-man bobsleigh

Because of several falls, the first two runs on January 30th were canceled. Only two races held on January 31st were included in the ranking.

space country athlete Time (min)
1 SUI I René Stadler , Max Forster ,
Erich Schärer , Peter Schärer 		2: 19.35
2 ITA I Oscar D'Andrea , Alessandro Bignozzi ,
Antonio Brabcaccio , Renzo Caldera 		2: 19.47
3 FRG Wolfgang Zimmerer , Stefan Gaisreiter ,
Walter Steinbauer , Peter Utzschneider 		...

Medal table

space country gold silver bronze total
1 Italy 1 2 0 3
2 Switzerland 1 0 0 1
3 BR Germany 0 0 1 1
Austria 0 0 1 1