2003 World Bobsleigh Championship

The 51st Bobsleigh World Championship took place in 2003 in Lake Placid in the United States (men) and in Winterberg in Germany (women). The World Championships were held for the seventh time in Lake Placid. It was held parallel to the 2003 Skeleton World Championship .

Men

Two-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	time
1	GER	André Lange Kevin Kuske	3: 39.77 min
2	CAN	Pierre Lueders Giulio Zardo	+0.31 s
3	GER	René Spies Franz Sagmeister	+0.73 s
4th	United States	Todd Hays Randy Jones	+0.89 s
5	LAT	Gatis Guts Intars Dicmanis	+1.76 s
6th	AUT	Wolfgang Stampfer Klaus Seelos	+1.88 s
7th	LAT	Sandis Prūsis Mārcis Rullis	+2.09 s
8th	MON	Patrice Servelle Sébastien Gattuso	+2.16 s
9	CAN	Jayson Krause Florian Linder	+2.18 s
10	FRA	Bruno Mingeon Christophe Fouquet	+2.56 s
11	SUI	Ralph Rüegg Urs Aeberhard	+2.94 s

Date: February 16, 2003

A total of 24 teams started, of which 21 were able to classify. Among others, Martin Annen and Andi Gees (SUI 1) were disqualified because they were 4 kg overweight (after the 2nd round) and Ivo Danilevič (TCH 1) because the runners were too warm.

Four-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	time
1	GER	André Lange René Hoppe Kevin Kuske Carsten Embach
2	United States	Todd Hays Bill Schuffenhauer Randy Jones Garrett Hines
3	RUS	Alexander Zubkov Alexei Seliwerstow Sergei Golubow Dmitri Stepushkin

Date: February 23, 2003

A total of 17 teams were at the start.

Women

Two-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	time
1	GER	Susi Erdmann Anne Dietrich
2	GER	Sandra Prokoff Ulrike Holzner
3	GER	Cathleen Martini Yvonne Cernota

Date: February 1, 2003

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Germany	3	1	2	6th
2	Canada	0	1	0	1
2	United States	0	1	0	1
3	Russia	0	0	1	1

Web links

• Results of the men's two-man bobsleigh on bobsleighsport.com
• Men's four-man bobsleigh results on bobsleighsport.com