The IBSF World Championships (known as the FIBT World Championships until 2015), part of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation , have taken place on an annual basis since 1930 . Starting with 2002, no World Championships being held in non- Winter Olympic years. A two-man event was included in 1931 with a combined championship occurring in 1947 . Men's skeleton was introduced as a championship of its own in 1982 while women's bobsleigh and skeleton events were introduced in 2000 . 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, was held from 2007 to 2019 . In 2020 it was replaced with skeleton mixed team event, consisting of one run each of men's and women's skeleton. Women's monobob event was included in 2021 .
4-441: Debuted: 1930. Medal table Debuted: 1931. Medal table Debuted: 2000. Medal table Debuted: 2021 Medal table Debuted: 1982 Medal table Debuted: 2000 Medal table Debuted: 2020. Medal table Debuted: 2007 Medal table 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
8-542: A crew (P – bobsledder won all own medals as a pilot; B – bobsledder won all own medals as a brakeman / brakewoman and / or as a pusher; B/P – bobsledder won own medals firstly as a brakeman / brakewoman and / or as a pusher and then as a pilot). * not including one medal in the Two-man event at the 2013 World Championships as he was replaced due to injury after the first of four heats FIBT World Championships 2013 The FIBT World Championships 2013 took place at
12-497: The St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun in St. Moritz , Switzerland , for the record twenty-second time, after hosting the event previously in 1931 (Four-man), 1935 (Four-man), 1937 (Four-man), 1938 (Two-man), 1939 (Two-man), 1947 , 1955 , 1957 , 1959 , 1965 , 1970 , 1974 , 1977 , 1982 , 1987 , 1989 ( Skeleton ), 1990 (Bobsleigh), 1997 (Bobsleigh), 1998 (Skeleton), 2001 (Men's bobsleigh), and 2007 . Switzerland
16-610: Was scheduled to host the 2012 World Championships , but the 2012 location was switched to Lake Placid, New York , 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 Olympic track in Sochi . The mixed team event – consisting of one run each of men's skeleton, women's skeleton, 2-man bobsleigh, and 2-women bobsleigh – debuted at
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