1983 World Bobsleigh Championship

The 37th World Bobsleigh Championship was held in 1983 Lake Placid in the United States . It was the sixth world championship that was held there.

Men

Two-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	time
1	SUI	Ralph Pichler Urs Leuthold	4: 01.42 min
2	SUI	Erich Schärer Max Rüegg	+1.31 s
3	GDR	Wolfgang Hoppe Dietmar Schauerhammer	+2.89 s
4th	ITA	Guerrino Ghedina Paolo Scaramuzza	+3.37 s
5	AUT	Walter Delle Karth jun. Johann Lindner	+3.82 s
6th	FRG	Andreas Weikenstorfer Hans Jürgen Hartmann	+4.09 s
7th	FRG	Klaus Kopp Hans-Joachim Shoemaker	+4.44 s
...	...	...	...
20th0	GDR	Detlef Richter Ingo Voge	+10.75 s

Date: 19./20. February 1983

Four-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	time
1	SUI II	Ekkehard Fasser Hans Märchy Kurt Poletti Rolf Strittmatter	3: 57.24 min
2	FRG I	Klaus Kopp Gerhard Oechsle Günther Neuburger Hans-Joachim Schuhmacher	+0.56 s
3	GDR I	Detlef Richter Thomas Forch Henry Gerlach Dietmar Jerke	+0.87 s
4th	GDR II	Wolfgang Hoppe Roland Wetzig Dietmar Schauerhammer Ingo Voge	+1.18 s
5	AUT II	Walter Delle Karth jun. Johann Lindner Günter Krispel Ferdinand Grössing	+2.37 s
6th	USA I	Renton Chuck Leonowicz Hopper Flanagan	+3.30 s

Date: 26./27. February 1983

Medal table

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

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport83. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1983, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 229 .