Bobsleigh World Championship 2004

The 52nd Bobsleigh World Championship took place on February 24th and 25th, 2004 in Königssee in Germany . The World Cup was held for the third time in Königssee.

Men

Two-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	time
1	CAN	Pierre Lueders Giulio Zardo	3: 18.30 min
2	GER	Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann	+0.22 s
3	GER	André Lange Kevin Kuske	+0.58 s
4th	MON	Patrice Servelle Sébastien Gattuso	+1.33 s
5	GER	Matthias Höpfner Franz Sagmeister	+1.57 s
6th	SUI	Ivo Rüegg Beat Hefti	+1.70 s
7th	United States	Todd Hays Pavle Jovanovic	+1.76 s
8th	SUI	Martin Annen Cédric Grand	+1.88 s
9	RUS	Alexander Zubkov Filipp Yegorov	+2.18 s
10	LAT	Gatis Guts Intars Dicmanis	+2.24 s

Date: February 24, 2004

A total of 37 teams from 23 countries started. 35 of them were able to classify.

Four-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	time
1	GER	André Lange Udo Lehmann Kevin Kuske René Hoppe	3: 15.08 min
2	GER	Christoph Langen Christoph Heyder Enrico Kühn Jens Nohka	+0.35 s
3	United States	Todd Hays Pavle Jovanovic Bill Schuffenhauer Steve Mesler	+1.05 s
4th	GER	Matthias Höpfner Marc Kühne Andreas Barucha Stefan Barucha	+1.29 s
5	SUI	Ralph Rüegg Daniel Mächler Beat Hefti Christian Aebli	+1.62 s
6th	CAN	Pierre Lueders Marty Robertson Ken Kotyk Giulio Zardo	+1.89 s
7th	RUS	Alexander Zubkov Alexei Seliwjorstow Sergei Golubew Filipp Yegorow	+1.93 s
8th	ITA	Fabrizio Tosini Samuele Romanini Luca Ottolino Intars Dicmanis	+2.11 s
9	LAT	Jānis Miņins Juris Latišs Ainārs Podnieks Jānis Ozols	+2.17 s
10	FRA	Bruno Mingeon Emmanuel Hostache Christophe Fouquet Alexandre Arbez	+2.39 s

Date: February 25, 2004

A total of 27 teams were at the start.

Women

Two-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	time
1	GER	Susi Erdmann Kristina Bader
2	GER	Sandra Prokoff Anja Schneiderheinze
3	United States	Jean Racine Vonetta Flowers
4th	GER	Cathleen Martini Yvonne Cernota

Date: February 24, 2004

Erdmann won a medal for the third time in a row and had a different brakeman each time. Fourth place Yvonne Cernota died two weeks later in a training accident on the same bobsled run.

Medal table

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bobsleigh rider Yvonne Cernota had a fatal accident

Web links

• Men's four-man bobsleigh results on bobsleighsport.com