The FIBT World Championships 2012 took place from 13 to 26 February 2012 at the
bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in
Lake Placid, New York
Lake Placid is a village in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,303.
The village of Lake Placid is near the center of the town of North Elba, southwest of Plattsburg ...
for the tenth time. Lake Placid had previously hosted the World Championships in
1949,
1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 (K ...
,
1969
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon.
Events January
* January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.
* January 5
**Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
,
1973
Events January
* January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
* January 15 – Vietnam War: ...
,
1978,
1983
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.
Events January
* January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning ...
,
1997
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(
skeleton),
2003 (men's
bobsleigh
Bobsleigh or bobsled is a team winter sport that involves making timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Feder ...
), and
2009.
Lake Placid was awarded the
2013 championships at the 2009 FIBT Annual Congress meeting in
Moscow
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on 31 May 2009, but the 2013 location was switched to
St. Moritz,
Switzerland, in December 2010. The FIBT switched the locations to accommodate a shorter trip for athletes and equipment to Sochi, Russia, in 2013 so that athletes will gain practice time on the
2014
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Olympic track in
Sochi.
Bobsleigh
Two-man
Four-man
Two-woman
Skeleton
Men
Women
Mixed team
The mixed team eventconsisting of one run each of men's skeleton, women's skeleton, 2-man bobsleigh, and 2-women bobsleighdebuted at the
2007 championships. The United States won its first mixed team championship, halting Germany's streak of four consecutive championships since the event was introduced.
Medal table
References
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{{Bobsleigh-Skeleton World Championships
IBSF World Championships
International sports competitions hosted by the United States
Sports in Lake Placid, New York
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2012 in skeleton
2012 in American sports
Bobsleigh in the United States