1985 World Bobsleigh Championship

The 38th Bobsleigh World Championships took place in 1985 for the third time on the Italian natural ice rink in Cervinia .

Men

Two-man bobsleigh

Date: 19./20. January 1985
Participants: 29 teams from 16 countries

space	country	athlete	1st run min	2nd run min	3rd run min	4th run min	End time min
1	GDR I	Wolfgang Hoppe Dietmar Schauerhammer	1: 04.87	1: 05.35	1: 04.39	1: 04.11	4: 18.72
2	GDR II	Detlef Richter Steffen Grummt	1: 05.75	1: 04.64	1: 04.67	1: 04.70	4: 19.76 +1.04 s
3	URS I	Zintis Ekmanis Nikolai Schirow	1: 05.52	1: 05.50	1: 05.61	1: 05.74	4: 22.37 + 3.65 s
4th	SUI II	Erich Schärer André Kiser	1: 06.12	1: 05.54	1: 05.58	1: 05.29	4: 22.53 + 3.81 s
5	SUI I	Hans Hiltebrand Meinhard Müller	1: 06.27	1: 05.88	1: 05.20	1: 05.37	4: 22.72 + 4.00 s
6th	URS II	Jānis Ķipurs Māris Poikāns	1: 05.99	1: 06.04	1: 05.27	1: 06.05	4: 23.35 + 4.63 s

Four-man bobsleigh

Date: 26./27. January 1985
Participants: 23 teams from 14 countries

space	country	athlete	1st run min	2nd run min	3rd run min	4th run min	End time min
1	GDR I	Bernhard Lehmann Matthias Trübner Ingo Voge Steffen Grummt	1: 03.52	1: 03.91	1: 02.97	1: 03.66	4: 14.06
2	GDR II	Detlef Richter Dietmar Jerke Bodo Ferl Matthias Legler	1: 04.04	1: 04.09	1: 03.31	1: 03.19	4: 14.63 +0: ​​57 s
3	SUI I	Silvio Giobellina Heinz Stettler Urs Salzmann Rico Freiermuth	1: 03.82	1: 03.90	1: 03.61	1: 03.48	4: 14.81 +0.75 s
4th	SUI II	Ralph Pichler Celeste Poltera Gustav Weder Roland Beerli	1: 03.91	1: 04.26	1: 03.66	1: 03.48	4: 15.31 +1.25 s
5	ITA II	Wolf Pasquale Gesuito Beikirchner Stefano Ticci	1: 04.15	1: 04.45	1: 03.65	1: 03.44	4: 15.69 +1.63 s
6th	AUT I	Peter Kienast Franz Siegl Christian Mark Gerhard Redl	1: 04.10	1: 04.33	1: 03.86	1: 03.43	4: 15.72 +1.66 s

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	German Democratic Republic	2	2	0	4th
2	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
2	Soviet Union	0	0	1	1

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport85. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1985, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 234 .
• New Germany . 17 and 23rd Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1985, ISSN  0323-3375 .

Web links

• Archive Bobsleigh and Sled Association Germany