1998 Skeleton World Championship

The 1998 Skeleton World Championship was held on January 30th and 31st, 1998 in St. Moritz , Switzerland . In contrast to the Bobsleigh World Championships , a skeleton world championship was held in the Olympic year because skeleton was not yet an Olympic discipline at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano .

Men

space	athlete	country	time
1	Willi Schneider	Germany	4: 29.59
2	Alain Wicki	Switzerland	+1.19
3	Felix Poletti	Switzerland	+1.29
4th	Andy Boehme	Germany	+1.99
5	Kristan Bromley	United Kingdom	+2.54
6th	Jeff Pain	Canada	+2.86
7th	Chris Soule	United States	+3.06
8th	Steve Anson	United Kingdom	+4.12
9	Kazuhiro Koshi	Japan	+4.30
10	Jim Shea	United States	+4.84
11	Renato Bussola	Italy	+5.14
12	Ryan Davenport	Canada	+5.34
13	Walter Stern	Austria	+5.54
14th	Mario Guggenberger	Austria	+6.34
15th	AJ Collins	United Kingdom	+6.62
16	Terry Holland	United States	+6.63
17th	Franz Plangger	Austria	+7.19
18th	Urs Vescoli	Switzerland	+8.18
19th	Christian Steger	Italy	+8.62
20th	Philippe Cavoret	France	+9.59
21st	Bill O'Chee	Australia	3: 29.16
22nd	Erik Skollerud	Norway	3: 29.43
23	Pascal Richard	Canada	3: 29.99
24	Pavel Lubas	Czech Republic	3: 30.43
25th	Håvard Engelien	Norway	3: 30.99
26th	Marek Jiricko	Czech Republic	3: 31.00
27	David Duverney	France	3: 31.12
28	Martin Burkhard	South Africa	3: 33.61
29	Toshinari Miyamoto	Japan	3: 34.53
30th	Jaime Tapia	Chile	3: 37.76
31	Alexander Trenin	Russia	3: 42.26

Date: January 30th and 31st, 1998

A total of 31 participants took part. Only the 20 best-placed starters were allowed to take part in the fourth and final run.

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Germany	1	0	0	1
2	Switzerland	0	1	1	2

Web links

• Results at davenportsleds.ca