Bobsleigh World Championship 2007

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The 54th Bobsleigh World Championship took place from January 24th to February 4th 2007 at the Olympia Bobrun in St. Moritz , Switzerland . It was held parallel to the 2007 Skeleton World Championship .

Men

Two-man bobsleigh

space country athlete time
1 GER I André Lange
Kevin Kuske
4: 26.62 min
2 SUI I Ivo Rüegg
Tommy Herzog
+ 0.19 s
3 ITA I Simone Bertazzo
Samuele Romanini
+ 0.66 s
4th USA I Steven Holcomb
Brock Kreitzburg
+ 0.88 s
5 SUI II Daniel Schmid
Thomas Lamparter
+ 0.99 s
6th AUT I Wolfgang Stampfer
Martin Lachkovics
+ 1.53 s

Date: Jan 28, 2007

Four-man bobsleigh

space country athlete time
1 SUI I Ivo Rüegg
Thomas Lamparter
Beat Hefti
Cédric Grand
4: 20.86 min
2 CAN I Pierre Lueders
Ken Kotyk
David Bissett
Lascelles Brown
+ 0.23 s
3 GER I André Lange
René Hoppe
Kevin Kuske
Martin Putze
+ 0.24 s
4th USA I Steven Holcomb
Brock Kreitzburg
Pavle Jovanovic
Steve Mesler
+ 0.26 s
5 GBR I Lee Johnston
Steven Smith
Allyn Condon
Dan Money
+ 0.77 s
6th RUS I Yevgeny Popov
Roman Oreschnikow
Dmitri Trunenkow
Dmitri Stjopuschkin
+ 0.94 s

Date: February 4, 2007

Women

Two-man bobsleigh

space country athlete time
1 GER II Sandra Kiriasis
Romy Logsch
4: 33.84 min
2 GER I Cathleen Martini
Janine Tischer
+ 2.05 s
3 USA I Shauna Rohbock
Valerie Fleming
+ 2.43 s
4th GER III Susi Erdmann
Anja Schneiderheinze-Stöckel
+ 2.57 s
5 SUI I Maya Bamert
Anne Dietrich
+ 2.75 s
6th CAN I Helen Upperton
Jennifer Ciochetti
+ 2.96 s

Date: February 3, 2007

team

space country athlete time
1 GER Two-man bobsleigh men
Karl Angerer , Marc Kühne
two-man bobsleigh women
Sandra Kiriasis , Berit Wiacker
Skeleton
Frank Kleber , Monique Riekewald
4: 43.04 min
2 United States Two-man bobsleigh men
Mike Kohn , Curtis Tomasevicz
two-man bobsleigh women
Erin Pac , Emily Azevedo
Skeleton
Eric Bernotas , Noelle Pikus-Pace
+ 0.17 s
3 SUI Two-man bobsleigh men
Ivo Rüegg , Thomas Lamparter
two-man bobsleigh women
Sabina Hafner , Katharina Sutter
Skeleton
Gregor Stähli , Maya Pedersen-Bieri
+ 0.68 s
4th CAN Two-man bobsleigh men
Lyndon Rush , Rob Gray
two-man bobsleigh women
Amanda Stepenko , Jaime Cruickshank
Skeleton
Paul Boehm , Amy Gough
+ 2.14 s
5 RUS Two-man bobsleigh men
Dimitri Abramowitsch , Alexei Andrynin
two-man bobsleigh women
Alewtina Kowalenko , Jana Vinochodowa
Skeleton
Sergei Tschudinow , Ekaterina Mironowa
+ 3.58 s
6th LAT Two-man bobsleigh men
Mihail Arhipov , Intars Dambis
two-man bobsleigh women
Aiva Aparjode , Anita Kozica
Skeleton
Tomass Dukurs , Undīne Vītola
+ 4.76 s

Date: February 1, 2007

A total of nine teams were at the start. These consisted of one male and one female skeleton pilot and one male and one female two-man bobsleigh team. First the male skeleton pilot started, then the women's bobsleigh team, then the female skeleton pilot and finally the men's bobsleigh team. Only one run was carried out at a time, the four individual runs were added to an overall result.

Medal table

space country gold silver bronze total
1 GermanyGermany Germany 3 1 1 5
2 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 1 1 1 3
3 United StatesUnited States United States - 1 1 2
4th CanadaCanada Canada - 1 - 1
5 ItalyItaly Italy - - 1 1