Bobsleigh World Championship 1981

The 35th Bobsleigh World Championship took place for the seventh time in 1981 at the Pista olimpica di bob in Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy .

Men

Two-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	time
1	GDR I	Bernhard Germeshausen Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt	4: 54.27 min
2	GDR II	Horst Schönau Andreas Kirchner	+0.81 s
3	SUI I	Erich Schärer Josef Benz	+1.05 s
4th	SUI II	Hans Hiltebrand Walter Rahm	+1.57 s
5	ITA I	Marco Bellodis Sorice	+5.03 s
6th	AUT I	Fritz Sperling Franz Koefel	+5.48 s

Date: January 30th / February 1st, 1981

Four-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	time
1	GDR I	Bernhard Germeshausen Henry Gerlach Matthias Trübner Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt	4: 50.90 min
2	SUI II	Hans Hiltebrand Kurt Poletti Franz Weinberger Franz Isenegger	+2.22 s
3	SUI I	Erich Schärer Max Rüegg Tony Rüegg Josef Benz	+2.86 s
4th	GDR II	Bernhard Lehmann Bogdan Musiol Roland Wetzig Eberhard Weise	+3.85 s
5	AUT II	Franz Paulweber	+4.42 s
6th	AUT I	Walter Delle Karth jun.	+5.96 s

Date: 7./8. February 1981

Medal table

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

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport81. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1981, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 217 .