Skeleton World Championship 2008

The 20th Skeleton World Championship took place from February 18 to 24, 2008 in Altenberg . It was part of the FIBT world championship, in addition to competitions for men and women in skeleton , the world championships in three bobsleigh classes and a team competition with two bobsleighs and two skeletons each were held.

The German athletes use the home advantage on the difficult Altenberg track and won two of the three disciplines and four of nine medals. The third gold went to Kristan Bromley, the reigning European champion and winner of the overall World Cup , who also won a gold medal in this sport for his home country for the first time and the first medal for a male Brit in skeleton. Anja Huber became double world champion after her victory at the European Championship. This makes her the first double world champion and first German world champion since Diana Sartor in 2004.

Results

team

space	nation	athlete	Terms	rank	End time
1	Germany	Sebastian Haupt bobsleigh team Sandra Kiriasis Anja Huber bobsleigh team Matthias Höpfner	59.74 58.89 1: 01.85 56.72	2 2 1 1	3: 57.20
2	Canada	Jon Montgomery Bobsleigh Team Kaillie Humphries Michelle Kelly Bobsleigh Team Lyndon Rush	1: 00.19 59.00 1: 02.52 57.27	4 3 4 3	3: 58.98 +1.78
3	United States	Zach Lund bobsleigh team Erin Pac Katie Uhlaender bobsleigh team Steven Holcomb	59.62 1: 00.07 1: 02.22 57.16	1 5 2 2	3: 59.07 +1.87
4th	United Kingdom	Anthony Sawyer bobsleigh team Nicola Minichiello Amy Williams bobsleigh team John Jackson	1: 00.23 58.74 1: 02.27 58.27	5 1 3 6	3: 59.51 +2.31
5	Russia	Alexander Tretyakov bobsleigh team Wiktoria Tokowaia Swetlana Trunowa bobsleigh team Dimitri Abramowitsch	1: 00.17 1: 00.85 1: 03.66 57.28	3 6 5 4	4: 01.96 +4.76
6th	Switzerland	Daniel Mächler bobsleigh team Sabina Hafner Jessica Kilian bobsleigh team Daniel Schmid	1: 00.27 59.66 1: 05.52 57.43	6 4 6 5	4: 02.88 +5.68

Date: February 18, 2008 - There were eight teams at the start, one fewer than when this competition was held in the previous year.

Men

space	athlete	nation	Terms	rank	End time
1	Kristan Bromley	United Kingdom	58.13 58.90 58.23 59.45	1 2 3 10	3: 54.71
2	Jon Montgomery	Canada	58.33 59.27 58.16 59.63	3 10 1 14	3: 55.39 +0.68
3	Frank Rommel	Germany	58.46 59.16 58.25 59.58	5 6 4 12	3: 55.45 +0.74
4th	Florian Grassl	Germany	58.15 59.08 58.18 1: 00.09	2 5 2 17	3: 55.50 +0.79
5	Martin's course	Latvia	59.18 58.73 58.93 59.36	10 1 6 8	3: 56.20 +1.49
6th	Zach Lund	United States	58.43 59.37 59.22 59.26	4 15 8 7	3: 56.28 +1.57
7th	Sebastian Haupt	Germany	58.94 59.36 59.23 59.12	8 14 9 3	3: 56.65 +1.94
8th	Jeff Pain	Canada	58.65 59.26 58.87 59.98	6 9 5 15	3: 56.76 +2.05
9	Alexander Tretyakov	Russia	59.12 58.98 59.58 59.22	9 3 10 5	3: 56.90 +2.19
10	Adam Pengilly	United Kingdom	59.25 59.04 59.05 59.62	11 4 7 13	3: 56.96 +2.25
11	Tomass Dukurs	Latvia	59.73 59.27 1: 00.18 59.12	20 10 13 3	3: 58.30 +3.59
12	Eric Bernotas	United States	59.41 59.2 1: 00.66 59.07	13 8 15 2	3: 58.39 +3.68
13	Ben Sandford	New Zealand	58.93 59.49 59.86 1: 00.38	7 17 11 20	3: 58.66 +3.95
14th	Markus Penz	Austria	59.66 59.28 1: 00.21 59.56	18 12 14 11	3: 58.71 +4.00
15th	Michael Douglas	Canada	59.67 59.24 59.97 59.99	19 7 12 16	3: 58.87 +4.16
16	Kazuhiro Koshi	Japan	59.35 59.60 1: 00.67 59.42	12 18 16 9	3: 59.04 +4.33
17th	Anthony Sawyer	United Kingdom	59.60 59.37 1: 01.58 59.24	16 15 20 6	3: 59.79 +5.08
18th	Daniel Mächler	Switzerland	59.47 59.33 1: 00.81 1: 00.21	14 13 17 19	3: 59.82 +5.11
19th	Alexander Mutowin	Russia	59.93 1: 00.47 1: 01.11 59.02	21 21 18 1	4: 00.53 +5.82
20th	Caleb Smith	United States	59.62 59.97 1: 01.42 1: 00.12	17 19 19 18	4: 01.13 +6.42
21st	Iain Roberts	New Zealand	1: 00.17 1: 00.74 1: 01.77	23 22 23	3: 02.68
22nd	Masaru Inada	Japan	1: 00.05 1: 01.23 1: 01.62	22 24 22	3: 02.90
23	Stefan Mörker	Switzerland	1: 00.28 1: 00.93 1: 01.90	24 23 24	3: 03.11
24	Peter van Wees	Netherlands	1: 00.81 1: 01.25 1: 01.58	25 25 20	3: 03.64
25th	Patrick Shannon	Ireland	1: 01.50 1: 01.93 1: 03.17	27 26 25	3: 06.60
26th	In-ho cho	South Korea	1: 01.46 1: 02.80 1: 03.89	26 28 28	3: 08.15
27	Other Mirambell	Spain	1: 01.87 1: 02.04 1: 04.81	28 27 29	3: 08.72
28	Anže Šetina	Slovenia	1: 02.49 1: 03.17 1: 03.66	30 29 26	3: 09.32
29	Ivan Pokos	Croatia	1: 02.10 1: 04.35 1: 03.75	29 30 27	3: 10.20
30th	Pavel Kubík	Czech Republic	1: 06.39 1: 05.62 1: 08.39	31 31 30	3: 20.40
31	Matthias Guggenberger	Austria	59.58 1: 00.16 dns	15 20

Date: 21./22. February 2008 - There were 31 athletes at the start, the same number as last year. After the third run, only the top 20 qualified for the final fourth run. Matthias Guggenberger did not compete after the second run.

Women

space	athlete	nation	Terms	rank	End time
1	Anja Huber	Germany	1: 00.29 1: 02.18 59.60 1: 00.71	1 6 1 4	4: 02.78
2	Katie Uhlaender	United States	1: 00.47 1: 02.29 59.89 1: 00.43	2 7 2 2	4: 03.08 +0.30
3	Kerstin Juergens	Germany	1: 01.15 1: 02.31 1: 00.46 59.98	4 8 7 1	4: 03.90 +1.12
4th	Michelle Kelly	Canada	1: 00.99 1: 01.97 1: 00.00 1: 01.11	3 3 3 8	4: 04.07 +1.29
5	Amy Williams	United Kingdom	1: 01.94 1: 01.57 1: 00.08 1: 00.53	7 1 4 3	4: 04.12 +1.34
6th	Mellisa Hollingsworth	Canada	1: 01.15 1: 02.56 1: 00.30 1: 00.82	4 13 5 6	4: 04.83 +2.05
7th	Marion Trott	Germany	1: 01.69 1: 02.12 1: 00.36 1: 00.84	6 5 6 7	4: 05.01 +2.23
8th	Sara Reid	Canada	1: 03.60 1: 01.95 1: 00.46 1: 00.81	12 2 7 5	4: 06.82 +4.04
9	Maggie Davies	United Kingdom	1: 02.96 1: 02.32 1: 00.58 1: 02.16	9 9 9 17	4: 08.02 +5.24
10	Svetlana Trunova	Russia	1: 03.19 1: 02.37 1: 00.69 1: 01.78	10 10 10 13	4: 08.03 +5.25
11	Carla Pavan	Canada	1: 02.86 1: 02.58 1: 01.25 1: 01.65	8 14 11 10	4: 08.34 +5.56
12	Melissa Hoar	Australia	1: 04.72 1: 02.08 1: 01.40 1: 01.78	19 4 14 14	4: 09.98 +7.20
13	Keslie Tomlinson	United States	1: 04.42 1: 02.42 1: 01.44 1: 01.79	16 11 15 15	4: 10.07 +7.29
14th	Emma Lincoln-Smith	Australia	1: 03.27 1: 03.81 1: 01.49 1: 01.57	11 20 16 9	4: 10.14 +7.36
15th	Michelle Steele	Australia	1: 03.63 1: 03.53 1: 01.31 1: 01.68	13 17 13 11	4: 10.15 +7.37
16	Olga Korobkina	Russia	1: 04.56 1: 02.52 1: 01.29 1: 02.23	17 12 12 18	4: 10.60 +7.82
17th	Tionette Stoddard	New Zealand	1: 03.64 1: 03.39 1: 02.51 1: 01.68	14 16 20 11	4: 11.22 +8.44
18th	Jessica Kilian	Switzerland	1: 04.21 1: 03.58 1: 01.52 1: 02.04	15 19 17 16	4: 11.35 +8.57
19th	Courtney Yamada	United States	1: 04.65 1: 03.23 1: 02.51 1: 02.48	18 15 20 19	4: 12.87 +10.09
20th	Eiko Nakayama	Japan	1: 04.83 1: 03.53 1: 01.75 1: 03.79	20 17 18 20	4: 13.90 +11.12
21st	Louise Corcoran	New Zealand	1: 05.15 1: 05.38 1: 02.35	22 22 19	3: 12.88
22nd	Janine Flock	Austria	1: 05.18 1: 05.32 1: 02.57	23 21 22	3: 13.07
23	Michaela Glässer	Czech Republic	1: 04.96 1: 05.86 1: 02.59	21 23 23	3: 13.41
24	Barbara Hosch	Switzerland	1: 06.62 1: 06.33 1: 03.52	25 24 25	3: 16.47
25th	Joska Le Conté	Netherlands	1: 06.39 1: 09.28 1: 02.60	24 25 24	3: 18.27
26th	Te'a Karvinen	Finland	1: 08.81 1: 09.73 1: 04.91	26 26 26	3: 23.45

Date: 22./23. February 2008 - There were 26 athletes at the start, three more than in the previous year. After the third run, the field of starters was reduced, only the best 20 drivers were allowed to compete in the final fourth run.

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1.	Germany	2	-	2	4th
2.	United Kingdom	1	-	-	1
3.	Canada	-	2	-	2
4th	United States	-	1	1	2

Web links

• Men (PDF; 167 kB) Women (PDF; 163 kB) Team relay (164 kB; PDF)