FIBT World Championships 2008

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Official logo of the FIBT World Championships 2008.
Official logo of the FIBT World Championships 2008.

The FIBT World Championships 2008 ran February 11-24, 2008 in Altenberg, Germany for the fifth time, having done so in 1991 (bobsleigh), 1994 (skeleton), 1999 (skeleton), and 2000 (men's bobsleigh). It is the first time Altenberg has hosted all of the events at one championship. Training for the events took place February 12-14 for two-man and two-woman bobsleigh, and February 19-20 for skeleton and four-man bobsleigh.

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[edit] Non-competitive events

  • Practice for men's and women's bobsleigh was cancelled on February 12th to fog and moist air which affected track visibility. Additional training took place on the 13th.[1]

[edit] Bobsleigh

[edit] Two man

February 16-17, 2008. 30 sleds were scheduled to compete.[1] 26 sleds finished with one team disqualifed after the first run, one team not finishing the second run, and two teams not starting after the third run.[2] Lange and Kuske won their third two-man world championship and fifth overall.[3]

Pos Team Time
Gold Flag of Germany Germany (Andre Lange, Kevin Kuske) 3:40.58
Silver Flag of Germany Germany (Thomas Florschuetz, Mirko Paetzold) + 1.06
Bronze Flag of Russia Russia (Alexandre Zoubkov, Alexey Voevoda) + 1.39

[edit] Four man

February 23-24, 2008. 24 sleds competed with 20 finishing. Lange swept both events with the fastest times in each heat.[4] It was his second sweep at the FIBT World Championships, having done so in 2003 and his third overall, counting the 2006 Winter Olympics.[5]

Pos Team Time
Gold Flag of Germany Germany (André Lange, René Hoppe, Kevin Kuske, Martin Putze) 3:36.26
Silver Flag of Russia Russia (Alexander Zubkov, Roman Oreshnikov, Dmitry Trunenkov, Dmitriy Stepushkin) +2.02
Bronze Flag of Germany Germany (Matthias Höpfner, Ronny Listner, Thomas Pöge, Alex Mann) +2.59

[edit] Two woman

February 15-16, 2008. 25 sleds were scheduled to compete.[1] 23 sleds actually did with one withdrawing after the first run, one withdrawing after the second run, and two crashing out during the fourth run.[6] This event marks the first ever sweep in the bobsleigh part of the championships' history and the only the second time ever in any event in the championships' history with Austria being the first to do so in skeleton at Igls in 1991. Counting the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, this is Kiriasis's fourth straight World or Olympic championships in this event.[7] Several crashes occurred the two-day event.[7]

Pos Team Time
Gold Flag of Germany Germany (Sandra Kiriasis, Romy Logsch) 3:49.50
Silver Flag of Germany Germany (Cathleen Martini, Janine Tischer) + 0.26
Bronze Flag of Germany Germany (Claudia Schramm, Nicole Herschmann) + 1.12

[edit] Skeleton

[edit] Men

February 21-22, 2008. Bromley is the first British athlete to win a world championship since 1965.[8] Changing ice conditions complicated the sliding, causing five top sliders to leave their starting grooves.[8]

Pos Athlete Time
Gold Flag of the United Kingdom Kristan Bromley (GBR) 3:54.71
Silver Flag of Canada Jon Montgomery (CAN) +0.68
Bronze Flag of Germany Frank Rommel (GER) +0.74

[edit] Women

February 22-23, 2008. Huber won her second gold of the while Uhlaender won her second medal of the championships.[9] It was Germany's fourth gold at the championships.[10]

Pos Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Germany Anja Huber (GER) 4:02.78
Silver Flag of the United States Katie Uhlaender (USA) +0.30
Bronze Flag of Germany Kerstin Jürgens (GER) +1.12

[edit] Mixed team

February 18, 2008. Six teams took part in the event. Germany won their third gold medal in these championships.[11][12]

Pos Team Time
Gold Flag of Germany Germany (Sebastian Haupt, Sandra Kiriasis, Berit Wiacker, Anja Huber, Matthias Höpfner, Alex Mann) 3:57.20
Silver Flag of Canada Canada (Jon Montgomery, Kaillie Humphries, Jenni Hucul, Michelle Kelly, Lyndon Rush, Nathan Cross) + 1.78
Bronze Flag of the United States United States (Zach Lund, Erin Pac, Emily Azevedo, Katie Uhlaender, Steven Holcomb, Curtis Tomasevicz) + 1.87

[edit] Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Flag of Germany Germany 5 2 4 11
2 Flag of Canada Canada 0 2 0 2
3 Flag of the United States United States 0 1 1 2
4 Flag of Russia Russia 0 1 1 2
5 Flag of the United Kingdom United Kingdom 1 0 0 1

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ a b c http://www.fibt.com/index.php?id=88&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=341&tx_ttnews[backPid]=94&L=0
  2. ^ Two-man bobsleigh World Championships results. - accessed February 17, 2008.
  3. ^ http://www.fibt.com/index.php?id=88&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=349&tx_ttnews[backPid]=2&cHash=979f0e3b34
  4. ^ Four-man bobsleigh world championships results. - accessed February 24, 2008.
  5. ^ http://www.fibt.com/index.php?id=88&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=363&tx_ttnews[backPid]=2&cHash=1c74e45323
  6. ^ Two-woman bobsleigh final results - accessed February 16, 2008.
  7. ^ a b http://www.fibt.com/index.php?id=88&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=346&tx_ttnews[backPid]=2&cHash=15297083d3
  8. ^ a b http://www.fibt.com/index.php?id=88&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=356&tx_ttnews[backPid]=2&cHash=2927b6b5ec
  9. ^ Women's skeleton world championship results - accessed February 23, 2008.
  10. ^ http://www.fibt.com/index.php?id=88&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=361&tx_ttnews[backPid]=2&cHash=108c0946ad
  11. ^ FIBT mixed team World Championship results. - accessed February 22, 2008.
  12. ^ http://www.fibt.com/index.php?id=88&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=351&tx_ttnews[backPid]=2&cHash=17f4e20798
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