1978 World Bobsleigh Championship

The 33rd World Bobsleigh Championship was held for the fifth time in 1978 in Lake Placid , United States .

Men

Two-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	time
1	SUI I	Erich Schärer Josef Benz	4: 22.89 min
2	GDR II	Meinhard Taken Raimund Bethge	+1.89 s
3	FRG I	Jakob Resch Walter Barefoot	+1.94 s
4th	SUI II	Hans Hiltebrand Piaget	+2.07 s
5	GDR I	Horst Schönau Harald Seifert	+2.17 s
6th	FRG II	Peter Hell Dieter Gebhard	+2.46 s

Date: 4th / 5th February 1978

Four-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	time
1	GDR II	Horst Schönau Harald Seifert Horst Bernhardt Bogdan Musiol	4: 17.50 min
2	SUI I	Erich Schärer Ulrich Bächli Rudolf Marti Josef Benz	+0.17 s
3	GDR I	Meinhard Nehmer Raimund Bethge Bernhard Germeshausen Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt	+0.41 s
4th	AUT II	Walter Delle Karth jun. Kurt Oberhöller Hans Eichinger Franz Jakob	+0.70 s
5	SUI II	Peter Schärer	+1.93 s
6th	USA I	Vincent	+1.99 s
...	...	...	...
DNF	AUT I	Manfred Stengl Heinrich Bergmüller Lukas Rettenbacher Bernhard Purkrabek	Fall in the 2nd run

Date: 11./12. February 1978

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	German Democratic Republic	1	1	1	3
2	Switzerland	1	1	0	2
3	BR Germany	0	0	1	1

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1979 . Sportverlag Berlin, 1978, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 178 .
• Workers newspaper . Vorwärts-Verlag , February 14, 1978, ZDB -ID 820650-8 , p. 10 .