Bobsleigh World Championship 2008

The 55th Bobsleigh World Championship took place from February 11th to 24th, 2008 on the Altenberg bobsleigh track in Altenberg , Germany . It was held parallel to the 2008 Skeleton World Championship .

Men

Two-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	time
1	GER I	André Lange Kevin Kuske	3: 40.58 min
2	GER II	Thomas Florschütz Mirko Pätzold	+ 1.06 s
3	RUS I	Alexander Zubkov Alexei Wojewoda	+ 1.39 s

Date: 16./17. February 2008

Four-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	time
1	GER I	André Lange René Hoppe Kevin Kuske Martin Putze	3: 36.26 min
2	RUS I	Alexander Zubkov Roman Oreschnikow Dmitri Trunenkow Dmitri Stepushkin	+ 2.02 s
3	GER III	Matthias Höpfner Ronny Listner Alexander Mann Thomas Pöge	+ 2.59 s

Date: 23./24. February 2008

Women

Two-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	time
1	GER I	Sandra Kiriasis Romy Logsch	3: 49.5 min
2	GER II	Cathleen Martini Janine Tischer	+ 0.26 s
3	GER III	Claudia Schramm Nicole Herschmann	+ 1.32 s

Date: 15./16. February 2008

team

space	country	athlete	time
1	GER	Sebastian Haupt Sandra Kiriasis Berit Wiacker Anja Huber Matthias Höpfner Alexander Mann	3: 57.2 min
2	CAN	Jon Montgomery Kaillie Humphries Jenni Hucul Michelle Kelly Lyndon Rush Nathan Cross	+ 1.78 s
3	United States	Zach Lund Erin Pac Emily Azevedo Katie Uhlaender Steven Holcomb Curtis Tomasevicz	+ 1.87 s

Date: February 18, 2008

The teams 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	Germany	4th	2	2	8th
2	Russia	-	1	1	2
3	Canada	-	1	-	1
4th	United States	-	-	1	1

Web links

Commons : Bobsleigh World Championships 2008  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website ( memento of April 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )