FIBT World Championships 1985

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The FIBT World Championships 1985 took place in Cervinia, Italy for the third time, having hosted the event previously in 1971 and 1975. Except for competitions in St. Moritz, Switzerland and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, it would be the last time a championship would be hosted on a naturally refrigerated track with all other competitions taking place on artificially refrigerated ones.

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[edit] Two man bobsleigh

Pos Team Time
Gold Flag of the German Democratic Republic East Germany (Wolfgang Hoppe, Dietmar Schauerhammer)
Silver Flag of the German Democratic Republic East Germany (Detlef Richter, Steffen Grummt)
Bronze Flag of the Soviet Union Soviet Union (Sintis Ekmanis, Nikolay Zhirov)

The Soviets earned their first medal at these championships.

[edit] Four man bobsleigh

Pos Team Time
Gold Flag of the German Democratic Republic East Germany (Bernhard Lehmann, Matthias Trübner, Ingo Voge, Steffen Grummt)
Silver Flag of the German Democratic Republic East Germany (Detlef Richter, Dietmar Jerke, Bodo Ferl, Matthias Legler)
Bronze Flag of Switzerland Switzerland (Silvio Giobellina, Heinz Stettler, Urs Salzmann, Rico Freiermuth)

[edit] Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Flag of the German Democratic Republic East Germany 2 2 0 4
2 Flag of the Soviet Union Soviet Union 0 0 1 1
3 Flag of Switzerland Switzerland 0 0 1 1

[edit] References