FIBT World Championships 2001

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2001 World Championships
Location St. Moritz, Switzerland
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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The FIBT World Championships 2001 took place in St. Moritz, Switzerland (Men's bobsleigh) and Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Women's bobsleigh, and men's and women's Skeleton). The Swiss city had hosted the event for the record twentieth time, doing so previously in 1931 (Four-man), 1935 (Four-man), 1937 (Four-man), 1938 (Two-man), 1939 (Two-man), 1947, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1965, 1970, 1974, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1989 (Skeleton), 1990 (Bobsleigh), 1997 (Bobsleigh), and 1998 (Skeleton). Calgary hosted the championship event for the third time, doing so previously in 1992 (Skeleton) and 1996.

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Bobsleigh

Two man

PosTeamTime
GoldFlag of Germany.svg  Germany (Christoph Langen, Marco Jakobs)
SilverFlag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland (Reto Götschi, Cédric Grand)
BronzeFlag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland (Martin Annen, Beat Hefti)

Four man

PosTeamTime
GoldFlag of Germany.svg  Germany (Christoph Langen, Markus Zimmermann, Sven Peter, Alex Metzger)
SilverFlag of Germany.svg  Germany (André Lange, Lars Behrendt. René Hoppe, Carsten Embach)
BronzeFlag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland (Christian Reich, Steve Anderhub, Urs Aeberhand, Domenic Keller)

Two woman

PosTeamTime
GoldFlag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland (Françoise Burdet, Katharina Sutter)
SilverFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States (Jean Racine, Jennifer Davidson)
BronzeFlag of Germany.svg  Germany (Susi Erdmann, Tanja Hess)

Skeleton

Men

PosAthleteTime
GoldFlag of Austria.svg  Martin Rettl  (AUT)
SilverFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Jeff Pain  (CAN)
BronzeFlag of the United States.svg  Lincoln DeWitt  (USA)

Women

PosAthleteTime
GoldFlag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Maya Pedersen  (SUI)
SilverFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  Alex Coomber  (GBR)
BronzeFlag of the United States.svg  Tricia Stumpf  (USA)

Coomber earned the first medal for Great Britain at the championships since 1966.

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland  (SUI)2125
2Flag of Germany.svg  Germany  (GER)2114
3Flag of Austria.svg  Austria  (AUT)1001
4Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States  (USA)0123
5Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada  (CAN)0101
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain  (GBR)0101
Totals (6 entries)55515

References

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