The IBSF World Championships (known as the FIBT World Championships until 2015), part of the
International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation
The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF), originally known by the French name ''Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing'' (FIBT), is the international sports federation for bobsleigh and skeleton. It acts as a ...
, have taken place on an annual basis since
1930
Events
January
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. Starting with 2002, championships of non-
Winter Olympic
The Winter Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were hel ...
years have not been held. A two-man event was included in
1931
Events
January
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* January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa.
* January 22 – Sir I ...
with a combined championship occurring in
1947. Men's
skeleton was introduced as a championship of its own in
1982 while women'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 skeleton events were introduced in
2000
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. Both the women's bobsleigh and skeleton events were merged with the men's bobsleigh events at the
2004 championships. A mixed team event, consisting of one run each of men's skeleton, women's skeleton, 2-man bobsleigh, and 2-women bobsleigh debuted in
2007.
Host cities
Bobsleigh
Four-man
Debuted: 1930.
Medal table
Two-man
Debuted: 1931.
Medal table
Two-woman
Debuted: 2000.
Medal table
Women's Monobob
Debuted: 2021
Medal table
Skeleton
Men
Debuted: 1982
Medal table
Women
Debuted: 2000
Medal table
Mixed team
Debuted: 2020.
Medal table
Mixed team (bobsleigh and skeleton)
Debuted: 2007
Medal table
IBSF World Championships cumulative medal count
*Updated after the
IBSF World Championships 2021.
Bobsleigh
Skeleton
Mixed team (bobsleigh and skeleton)
Overall
Multiple medalists
Boldface denotes active athletes and highest medal count among all athletes (including these who not included in these tables) per type. "Position" denotes position of bobsledder in a crew (P – bobsledder won all own medals as a pilot; B – bobsledder won all own medals as a brakeman / brakewoman; B/P – bobsledder won own medals firstly as a brakeman / brakewoman and then as a pilot).
Men's bobsleigh
Women's bobsleigh
Men's skeleton
Women's skeleton
References
2-Man bobsleigh World Champions
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Recurring sporting events established in 1930
World Championships
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...
World Championships
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...
World championships in winter sports