Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships 2021

Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships 2021
train	SachsenEnergie ice canal
place	Altenberg
Beginning	February 1, 2021
The End	February 14, 2021
sports	Bobsleigh , skeleton

The 2021 Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships will take place from February 1 to February 14, 2021 in the SachsenEnergie-Eiskanal in Altenberg. The world champions in bobsleigh and skeleton are determined.

Award

The venue for the world championships was determined by the delegates of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation , IBSF for short, in Salt Lake City in June 2017 . The Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run in Lake Placid prevailed against the Olympic Bob Run in St. Moritz with 24 to 19 votes . On September 15, 2020, the world association announced that the title competitions would be relocated from Lake Placid to Altenberg due to the COVID-19 pandemic . In return, the Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships are to be held in Lake Placid in 2025 .

Time schedule

The runs take place over 13 days. The following plan shows the training runs in blue and the medal decisions in yellow.

sport	discipline		February 2nd	3 February	February 4th	February 5th	February 6th	February 7th	February 8	February 9	February 10th	February 11th	February 12th	13th February	14th of February
Bobsleigh	Women	Two-man bobsleigh	•	•	•	•	•
		Monobob								•	•	•		•	•
	Men	Two-man bobsleigh	•	•	•		•	•
		Four-man bobsleigh								•	•	•		•	•
skeleton	Women								•	•	•	•	•
	Men								•	•	•	•	•
	Mixed team													•

Medal table

Status after 5 of 7 competitions

place	country
1	Germany	4th	4th	3	11
2	United States	1	-	-	1
3	Bobsleigh Federation of Russia	-	1	2	3
total		5	5	5	15th

Medalist

sport	competition		gold		silver		bronze
			athlete	time	athlete	time	athlete	time
Bobsleigh	Women	Two-man bobsleigh	United States Kaillie Humphries Lolo Jones	3: 48.26 min	Germany Kim Kalicki Ann-Christin Strack	3: 48.61 min	Germany Laura Nolte Deborah Levi	3: 49.27 min
		Monobob
	Men	Two-man bobsleigh	Germany Francesco Friedrich Alexander Schüller	3: 39.78 min	Germany Johannes Lochner Eric Franke	3: 41.83 min	Germany Hans Peter Hannighofer Christian Röder	3: 42.01 min
		Four-man bobsleigh
skeleton	Women		Tina Hermann	3: 52.97 min	Jacqueline Lölling	3: 53.08 min	Jelena Nikitina	3: 54.65 min
	Men		Christopher Grotheer	3: 46.31 min	Alexander Tretyakov	3: 46.59 min	Alexander Gassner	3: 47.51 min
	Mixed team		Germany Tina Hermann Christopher Grotheer	1: 55.41 min	Germany Jacqueline Lölling Alexander Gassner	1: 55.55 min (+0.14)	Bobsleigh Federation of Russia Jelena Nikitina Alexander Tretyakov	1: 55.56 min (+0.15)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lake Placid hosts the IBSF World Championships Bobsleigh & Skeleton 2021. IBSF press release of June 28, 2017, accessed on March 11, 2019
2. ↑ Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships will take place again in Altenberg. In: mdr.de. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , September 15, 2020, accessed on September 15, 2020 . 
3. ↑ BMW IBSF Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships 2021 - Relocation from Lake Placid to Altenberg, Germany to ensure the health and safety of world athletes. September 15, 2020, accessed February 7, 2021 .