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 .