The FIBT World Championships 1974 took place in
St. Moritz,
Switzerland for the record twelfth time. The
Swiss city had hosted the event previously in
1931
Events
January
* January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics.
* January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa.
* January 22 – Sir I ...
(Four-man),
1935 (Four-man),
1937 (Four-man),
1938 (Two-man),
1939 (Two-man),
1947,
1955,
1957
1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year ...
,
1959
Events January
* January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
* January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...
,
1965, and
1970
Events
January
* January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC.
* January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). Between 10,000 and ...
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Two man bobsleigh
Four man bobsleigh
Medal table
References
2-Man bobsleigh World Champions
{{Bobsleigh-Skeleton World Championships
IBSF World Championships
Sport in St. Moritz
1974 in bobsleigh
International sports competitions hosted by Switzerland
Bobsleigh in Switzerland
1974 in Swiss sport