Bobsleigh World Championship 2009
The 56th Bobsleigh World Championship took place from February 20 to March 1, 2009 in Lake Placid , New York , United States . It was held parallel to the 2009 Skeleton World Championship .
Results
Women
Two-man bobsleigh
space | country | athlete | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | United Kingdom I. |
Nicola Minichiello Gillian Cooke |
3: 48.22 min |
2 | United States I. |
Shauna Rohbock Elana Meyers |
+ 0.38 s |
3 | Germany II |
Cathleen Martini Janine Tischer |
+ 0.62 s |
4th | Canada I. |
Helen Upperton Jennifer Ciochetti |
+ 0.71 s |
5 | Canada II |
Kaillie Humphries Heather Moyse |
+ 0.75 s |
6th | United States II |
Erin Pac Michelle Rzepkae |
+ 0.78 s |
7th | Germany I. |
Sandra Kiriasis Berit Wiacker |
+ 0.97 s |
8th | Switzerland I. |
Sabina Hafner Anne Dietrich |
+ 0.99 s |
9 | Germany III |
Claudia Schramm Nicole Herschmann |
+ 1.68 s |
10 | United States III |
Bree Schaaf Emily Azevedo |
+ 1.97 s |
Date: 20./21. February 2009
Men
Two-man bobsleigh
space | country | athlete | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Switzerland I. |
Ivo Rüegg Cédric Grand |
3: 42.20 min |
2 | Germany II |
Thomas Florschütz Marc Kühne |
+ 0.22 s |
3 | United States I. |
Steven Holcomb Curtis Tomasevicz |
+ 0.40 s |
4th | Russia I. |
Alexander Zubkov Alexei Wojewoda |
+ 0.54 s |
5 | Germany I. |
André Lange Kevin Kuske |
+ 0.92 s |
6th | Canada I. |
Pierre Lueders David Bissett |
+ 1.32 s |
7th | Canada II |
Lyndon Rush Lascelles Brown |
+ 1.45 s |
8th | Russia II |
Dmitri Abramowitsch Sergei Prudnikow |
+ 1.71 s |
9 | Germany III |
Karl Angerer Gregor Bermbach |
+ 1.97 s |
10 | Switzerland II |
Daniel Schmid Roman Handschin |
+ 1.97 s |
Date: 21./22. February 2009
Four-man bobsleigh
space | country | athlete | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | United States I. |
Steven Holcomb Justin Olsen Steve Mesler Curtis Tomasevicz |
3: 36.61 min |
2 | Germany II |
André Lange Alexander Rödiger Kevin Kuske Martin Putze |
+ 0.97 s |
3 | Latvia I |
Jānis Miņins Daumants Dreiškens Oskars Melbārdis Intars Dambis |
+ 1.00 s |
Date: February 28/1. March 2009
team
Date: February 22, 2009
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 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4th |
2 | United States | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4th |
3 | Switzerland | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
4th | United Kingdom | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
5 | Latvia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |