1987 World Bobsleigh Championship

In 1987, the 40th Bobsleigh World Championship took place for the 15th time in St. Moritz , Switzerland .

Men

Two-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	time
1	SUI I	Ralph Pichler Celeste Poltera	4: 33.09 min
2	SUI II	Hans Hiltebrand André Kiser	+0.36 s
	GDR I	Wolfgang Hoppe Dietmar Schauerhammer
4th	URS I	Jānis Ķipurs Vladimir Alexandrov	+1.40 s
5	FRG I	Anton Fischer Christoph Langen	+2.51 s
6th	GBR I	Nick Phipps Cearns	+2.88 s

Date: 10./11. January 1987

Four-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	time
1	SUI II	Hans Hiltebrand Urs Fehlmann Erwin Fassbind André Kiser	4: 22.65 min
2	GDR I	Wolfgang Hoppe Bogdan Musiol ( Andreas Kirchner ) Roland Wetzig Dietmar Schauerhammer	+0.26 s
3	SUI I	Ralph Pichler Heinrich Notter Edgar Dietsche Celeste Poltera	+1.11 s
4th	FRG II	Anton Fischer Florian Cruciger Uwe Eisenreich Christoph Langen	+1.87 s
5	AUT I	Peter Kienast Siegfried Zwerschina Christian Mark Kurt Teigl	+2.14 s
6th	GBR I	Nick Phipps Thorne Cearns Alec Leonce	+2.37 s

Date: 17./18. January 1987

Medal table

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

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport87. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1987, ISBN 3-328-00229-4 , ISSN  0232-203X , p. 210 .