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FIBT World Championships 1985

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Winter sport championship held in 1985
1985 World Championships
LocationCervinia, Italy
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The FIBT World Championships 1985 took place in Cervinia, Italy for the third time, having hosted the event previously in 1971 and 1975. Except for competitions in St. Moritz, Switzerland and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, it would be the last time a championship would be hosted on a naturally refrigerated track with all other competitions taking place on artificially refrigerated ones.

Two man bobsleigh

Pos Team Time
Gold  East Germany (Wolfgang Hoppe, Dietmar Schauerhammer)
Silver  East Germany (Detlef Richter, Steffen Grummt)
Bronze  Soviet Union (Sintis Ekmanis, Nikolay Zhirov)

The Soviets earned their first medal at these championships.

Four man bobsleigh

Pos Team Time
Gold  East Germany (Bernhard Lehmann, Matthias Trübner, Ingo Voge, Steffen Grummt)
Silver  East Germany (Detlef Richter, Dietmar Jerke, Bodo Ferl, Matthias Legler)
Bronze  Switzerland (Silvio Giobellina, Heinz Stettler, Urs Salzmann, Rico Freiermuth)

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 East Germany (GDR)2204
2 Soviet Union (URS)0011
 Switzerland (SUI)0011
Totals (3 entries)2226


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