FIBT World Championships 1996

The FIBT World Championships 1996 took place in Calgary, Alberta, Canada for a second time, hosting the event previously in 1992 (Skeleton). It marked the first time the bobsleigh and skeleton competition took place in the same location at the championships since 1982.

Two man bobsleigh

Pos Team Time
Gold  Germany (Christoph Langen, Markus Zimmerman)
Silver  Canada (Pierre Lueders, Dave MacEachern)
Bronze   Switzerland (Reto Götschi, Guido Acklin)

Four man bobsleigh

Pos Team Time
Gold  Germany (Christoph Langen, Markus Zimmerman, Sven Rühr, Olav Hampel)
Silver   Switzerland (Marcel Rohner, Markus Wasser, Thomas Schreiber, Roland Tanner)
Bronze  Germany (Wolfgang Hoppe, Thorsten Voss, Sven Peter, Carsten Embach)

Men's skeleton

Pos Athlete Time
Gold  Ryan Davenport (CAN)
Silver  Franz Plangger (AUT)
Bronze  Christian Auer (AUT)

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Germany 2 0 1 3
2  Canada 1 1 0 2
3  Austria 0 1 1 2
4   Switzerland 0 1 1 2

References

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