Bobsleigh World Championship 2013
The 59th Bobsleigh World Championship took place from January 21 to February 5, 2013 in the Swiss winter sports resort of St. Moritz . The venue was the Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina , the oldest natural bobsleigh rink in the world. After 1931, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1965, 1970, 1974, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1990, 1997, 2001 and 2007, St. Moritz hosted the Bobsleigh World Championship for the 20th time.
St. Moritz was originally chosen on June 9, 2008 by the congress of the International Bobsleigh and Sledge Federation (FIBT) held in Chianciano Terme as the venue for the 2012 Bobsleigh World Championship. On May 31, 2009, at the FIBT Congress in Moscow, the 2013 World Bobsleigh Championship was awarded to Lake Placid. However, the venues were changed in September 2010. The change was made for cost reasons, as a training week is planned on the Olympic course in Sochi at the end of the 2012/13 season and there are significantly lower transport costs from Switzerland.
Results
Women
Two-man bobsleigh
Date: 25./26. January 2013
Men
Two-man bobsleigh
Date: 26./27. January 2013
1 brakeman Kevin Kuske was injured in the first run in the thigh and was subsequently by Andreas Bredau replaced
Four-man bobsleigh
space | country | athlete | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Germany |
Maximilian Arndt Marko Hübenbecker Alexander Rödiger Martin Putze |
4: 20.67 min |
2 | Russia |
Alexander Zubkov Alexei Negodailo Dmitri Trunenkow Maxim Mokroussow |
+ 0.47 s |
3 | United States |
Steven Holcomb Justin Olsen Steven Langton Curtis Tomasevicz |
+ 0.59 s |
4th | Switzerland |
Beat Hefti Alex Baumann Thomas Lamparter Jürg Egger |
+ 0.63 s |
5 | United Kingdom |
John James Jackson Stuart Benson Bruce Tasker Joel Fearon |
+ 0.66 s |
6th | Switzerland |
Rico Peter Thomas Ruf Patrick Blöchliger Simon Friedli |
+ 0.67 s |
7th | Germany |
Thomas Florschütz Andreas Bredau Ronny Listner Thomas Blaschek |
+ 0.74 s |
8th | Germany |
Manuel Machata Jannis Baker Jan Speer Christian Poser |
+ 1.01 s |
9 | Latvia |
Edgars Maskalāns Daumants Dreiškens Arvis Vilkaste Intars Dambis |
+ 1.12 s |
10 | Russia |
Alexander Kasyanow Pyotr Moissejew Maxim Belugin Kirill Antjuch |
+ 2.62 s |
Date: 2/3 February 2013
team
Date: January 27, 2013
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 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
2 | United States | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
3 | Canada | 1 | - | 1 | 2 |
Web links
- Official website
- Bobsleigh Two men results (PDF; 141 kB)
- Bobsleigh Four men results (PDF; 141 kB)
- Bobsleigh Two woman results (PDF; 132 kB)
- Skeleton men results (PDF; 139 kB)
- Skeleton women results (PDF; 136 kB)
- Mixed team results (PDF; 121 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Nachrichten.ch: Exchange between St. Moritz and Lake Placid . Retrieved July 20, 2011.