Bobsleigh World Championship 2001

The 50th Bobsleigh World Championship took place in 2001 in St. Moritz , Switzerland (men) and in Calgary , Canada (women). The World Cup was held for the 18th time in St. Moritz.

Men

Two-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	time
1	GER	Christoph Langen Marco Jakobs	4: 16.78 min
2	SUI	Reto Götschi Cédric Grand	+0.95 s
3	SUI	Martin Annen Beat Hefti	+1.06 s
4th	SUI	Christian Reich Steve Anderhub	+1.60 s
5	CAN	Pierre Lueders Ken Leblanc	+2.09 s
6th	GER	René Spies Franz Sagmeister	+2.76 s
7th	United States	Mike Dionne John Kasper	+3.31 s
8th	ITA	Günther Huber Antonio Tartaglia	+3.40 s
9	RUS	Yevgeny Popov Alexei Andryunin	+3.54 s
10	FRA	Bruno Mingeon Éric Le Chanony	+3.87 s

Date: 27./28. January 2001

A total of 33 teams were at the start. Latvia I only finished the first two runs.

Four-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	time
1	GER	Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann Sven Peter Alex Metzger	4: 10.45 min
2	GER	André Lange Lars Behrendt René Hoppe Carsten Embach	+1.24 s
3	SUI	Christian Reich Steve Anderhub Urs Aeberhard Domenic Keller	+1.50 s
4th	LAT	Sandis Prousts Marcis Rullis Matiss Zacmanis Janis Ozols	+1.58 s
5	SUI	Reto Götschi Alexander Quiblier Beat Hefti Cederic Grand	+1.59 s
6th	GER	Matthias Benesch Torsten Voss Udo Lehmann Stefan Barucha	+1.80 s
7th	FRA	Bruno Mingeon Éric Le Chanony Christophe Fouquet Max Robert	+2.54 s
8th	RUS	Yevgeny Popov Pyotr Makarchuk Sergei Golubew Alexei Andryunin	+2.66 s
9	United States	Mike Dionne John Kasper Douglas Sharp Earl Shepherd	+2.67 s
10	GBR	Sean Olsson Scott Rider Phil Goedluck Markus Adam	+2.87 s

Date: 3rd / 4th February 2001

A total of 28 teams were at the start.

Women

Two-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	time
1	SUI	Françoise Burdet Katharina Sutter
2	United States	Jean Racine Jennifer Davidson
3	GER	Susi Erdmann Tanja Hess

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Germany	2	1	1	4th
2	Switzerland	1	1	2	4th
3	United States	0	1	0	1