1989 World Bobsleigh Championship
The 41st Bobsleigh World Championship took place in 1989 on the Pista olimpica di bob in Cortina d'Ampezzo , Italy . Cortina was the venue for the eighth time. While the GDR bobsleigh with Wolfgang Hoppe and Bogdan Musiol won the two-man world championship, there was a double victory for Switzerland in the four-man decision .
Results
Two-man bobsleigh
The four races took place on February 4th and 5th, 1989 with 38 bobsleighs from 22 countries.
space | country | athlete | Time (min) |
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1 | GDR I | Wolfgang Hoppe / Bogdan Musiol | 3: 38.05 |
2 | SUI I | Gustav Weder / Bruno Gerber | 3: 38.11 |
3 | URS I | Jānis Ķipurs / Aldis Intlers | 3: 39.89 |
4th | FRG I | Christian Schebitz / Leory Hieber | 3: 40.31 |
5 | SUI II | Nico Baracchi / Donat Acklin | 3: 40.66 |
6th | GDR II | Dietmar Falkenberg / Axel Jang | 3: 40.73 |
7th | CAN I | Greg Haydenluck / Cleve Langford | 3: 41.08 |
8th | FRG II | Anton Fischer / Christoph Langen | 3: 41.12 |
... |
Four-man bobsleigh
11./12. February 1989, 25 bobs
space | country | athlete | Time (min) |
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1 | SUI II |
Gustav Weder , Curdin Morell , Bruno Gerber , Lorenz Schindelholz |
3: 34.31 |
2 | SUI I |
Nico Baracchi , Christian Reich , Donat Acklin , René Mangold |
3: 34.6 |
3 | GDR I |
Wolfgang Hoppe , Bodo Ferl , Bogdan Musiol , Ingo Voge |
3: 34.81 |
4th | GDR II |
Harald Czudaj , Karsten Brannasch , Tino Bonk , Alexander Szelig |
3: 34.93 |
5 | AUT I |
Ingo Appelt , Gerhard Redl , Jürgen Mandl , Harald Winkler |
3: 35.07 |
6th | ITA I |
Pasquale Gesuito , Russo, Rottensteiner, Leonardi |
3: 35.61 |
... |
Medal table
space | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
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1 | Switzerland | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
2 | GDR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
3 | Soviet Union | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |