• Source: FIBT World Championships 1979

The FIBT World Championships 1979 took place in Königssee, West Germany. It was the first championships that took place on an artificially refrigerated track. The track also hosted the luge world championships that same year, the first time that had ever happened in both bobsleigh and luge in a non-Winter Olympic year (Igls hosted both events for the 1976 games in neighboring Innsbruck.).




Two man bobsleigh



Ohlwärter replaced the injured Schumann after the third heat of this event.




Four man bobsleigh






Medal table






References


2-Man bobsleigh World Champions
4-Man bobsleigh World Champions

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• FIBT World Championships 1979
• IBSF World Championships (bobsleigh and skeleton)
• Bobsleigh and Skeleton European Championship
• FIBT World Championships 2011
• FIBT World Championships 1981
• FIBT World Championships 1986
• List of world sports championships
• Königssee bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track
• Dieter Gebard
• FIBT World Championships 2004