FIBT World Championships 1991

The FIBT World Championships 1991 took place in Altenberg, Germany (Bobsleigh) and Igls, Austria (Skeleton). This was Altenberg's first time hosting a championship event. Igls was hosting its third, doing so previously in 1935 (Two-man) and 1963. It marked the first time a unified German team competed since World War II with East Germany and West Germany having been unified the previous year.

Two man bobsleigh

Pos	Team	Time
Gold	Germany (Rudi Lochner, Markus Zimmerman)
Silver	Switzerland (Gustav Weder, Curdin Morell)
Bronze	Germany (Wolfgang Hoppe, René Hannemann)

Four man bobsleigh

Pos	Team	Time
Gold	Germany (Wolfgang Hoppe, Bogdan Musioł, Axel Kühn, Christoph Langen)
Silver	Switzerland (Gustav Weder, Bruno Gerber, Lorenz Schindelholz, Curdin Morell)
Bronze	Germany (Harald Czudaj, Tino Bonk, Axel Jang, Alexander Szelig)

Men's skeleton

Pos	Athlete	Time
Gold	Christian Auer (AUT)
Silver	Andi Schmid (AUT)
Bronze	Michael Grünberger (AUT)

This was the first sweep in any event of the championships.

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	2	0	2	4
2	Austria (AUT)	1	1	1	3
3	Switzerland (SUI)	0	2	0	2
Totals (3 nations)		3	3	3	9

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