FIBT World Championships 2007

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2007 World Championships
LocationSt. Moritz, Switzerland

The FIBT World Championships 2007 took place in St. Moritz, Switzerland for the record twenty-first 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), 1998 (Skeleton), and 2001 (Men's bobsleigh). The mixed team event consisting of one run each of men's skeleton, women's skeleton, 2-man bobsleigh, and 2-women bobsleigh debuted at these championships.

Bobsleigh

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Two man

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Pos Team Athletes Time Behind
1st place, gold medalist(s) File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany André Lange
Kevin Kuske
4:26.62
2nd place, silver medalist(s) File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Switzerland Ivo Rüegg
Aleksandr Streltsov
Tommy Herzog[a]
4:26.81 +0.19
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy Simone Bertazzo
Samuele Romanini
4:27.28 +0.66
4 File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Steven Holcomb
Brock Kreitzburg
4:27.50 +0.88
5 File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Switzerland Thomas Lamparter
Daniel Schmid
4:27.61 +0.99
6 File:Flag of Austria.svg Austria Wolfgang Stampfer
Martin Lachkovics
4:28.15 +1.53
7 File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Pierre Lueders
David Bissett
4:28.24 +1.62
  1. ^ Herzog replaced the injured Streltsov after the third heat of this event.

Four man

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Pos Team Athletes Time Behind
1st place, gold medalist(s) File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Switzerland Ivo Rüegg
Thomas Lamparter
Beat Hefti
Cédric Grand
4:20.86
2nd place, silver medalist(s) File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Pierre Lueders
Ken Kotyk
David Bissett
Lascelles Brown
4:21.09 +0.23
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany André Lange
René Hoppe
Kevin Kuske
Martin Putze
4:21.10 +0.24

Two woman

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Pos Team Athletes Time Behind
1st place, gold medalist(s) File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany Sandra Kiriasis
Romy Logsch
4:33.84
2nd place, silver medalist(s) File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany Cathleen Martini
Janine Tischer
4:35.89 +2.05
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Shauna Rohbock
Valerie Fleming
4:36.27 +2.43

Skeleton

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Pos Athlete Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Gregor Stähli (SUI)
2nd place, silver medalist(s) File:Flag of the United States.svg Eric Bernotas (USA)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) File:Flag of the United States.svg Zach Lund (USA)

Women

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Pos Athlete Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) File:Flag of the United States.svg Noelle Pikus-Pace (USA)
2nd place, silver medalist(s) File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Maya Pedersen (SUI)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) File:Flag of the United States.svg Katie Uhlaender (USA)

Pikus-Pace is the first American woman to win a gold medal in bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton at the World Championship level.

Mixed team

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Pos Team Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany (Frank Kleber, Sandra Kiriasis, Berit Wiacker, Monique Riekewald, Karl Angerer, Marc Kühne)
2nd place, silver medalist(s) File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States (Eric Bernotas, Erin Pac, Emily Azevedo, Noelle Pikus-Pace, Mike Kohn, Curtis Tomasevicz)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Switzerland (Gregor Stähli, Sabrina Hafner, Katharina Sutter, Maya Pedersen, Ivo Rüegg, Thomas Lamparter)

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany (GER)3115
2File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Switzerland (SUI)2215
3File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States (USA)1236
4File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada (CAN)0101
5File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy (ITA)0011
Totals (5 entries)66618

References

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