FIBT World Championships 2011 explained

2011 World Championships
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Location:	Konigssee, Germany
Dates:	February 14-27
Previous:	Lake Placid 2009
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The FIBT World Championships 2011 took place 14 February – 27 February 2011 in Königssee, Germany, for the fifth time, doing so previously in 1979, 1986, and 1990 (skeleton), and 2004. In 2007, the championships were awarded to Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy over Winterberg Germany, but Cortina withdrew in February 2009 to a series of issues.

Original selection

Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, was selected 21–13 over Winterberg, Germany, at the FIBT annual conference in London, England, on 2 June 2007.^[1]

It was to have been Cortina's tenth time hosting the event, having done so previously in 1937 (two-man), 1939 (four-man), 1950, 1954, 1960, 1966, 1981, 1989 (bobsleigh), and 1999 (bobsleigh).

The track was to have undergone a homologation to accommodate skeleton during the 2007–08 World Cup season in order for it to be used for the event, but that did not happen. Skeleton was last competed at Cortina in 1992. A World Cup event was set to take place in January 2009, but was cancelled to technical issues.^[1]

On 28 February 2009, it was announced at the world championships in Lake Placid, New York, in the United States that Königssee was selected in cooperation with the FIBT and the Bob- und Schlittenverband für Deutschland (BSD - German bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton federation).

Bobsleigh

Two-man

Switzerland's duo of Ivo Rüegg and Cédric Grand are the defending world champions. Germany's André Lange and Kevin Kuske are the Olympic champions. Grand and Lange retired after the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Rank	Bib	Athlete	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total	Behind
	1	Alexandr Zubkov Alexey Voyevoda	50.31	50.25	50.20	49.96	3:20.72
	16	Thomas Florschütz Kevin Kuske	50.50	50.17	50.29	49.94	3:20.90	+0.18
	2	Manuel Machata Andreas Bredau	50.51	50.26	50.24	49.89	3:20.90	+0.18
	6	Beat Hefti Thomas Lamparter	50.56	50.06	50.59	49.79	3:21.00	+0.28
	7	Karl Angerer Alexander Rödiger	50.85	50.28	50.27	49.87	3:21.27	+0.55
	4	Steve Holcomb Steven Langton	50.60	50.38	50.26	50.27	3:21.51	+0.79
	3	Simone Bertazzo Matteo Torchio	50.62	50.40	50.31	50.18	3:21.51	+0.79
	26	Nicolae Istrate Florin Cezar Craciun	50.73	50.47	50.47	50.39	3:22.06	+1.34
	5	Lyndon Rush Neville Wright	51.05	50.53	50.51	50.14	3:22.23	+1.51
10	9	Gregor Baumann Alex Baumann	50.89	50.59	50.53	50.24	3:22.25	+1.53
11	14	Francesco Friedrich Marko Huebenbecker	50.80	50.68	50.49	50.31	3:22.28	+1.56
12	8	Patrice Servelle Lascelles Brown	50.96	50.71	50.55	50.24	3:22.46	+1.74
13	19	Oskars Melbārdis Intars Dambis	50.70	50.78	50.57	50.49	3:22.54	+1.82
14	11	Jürgen Loacker Matthias Adolf	50.97	51.14	50.45	50.37	3:22.93	+2.21
15	17	Dawid Kupczyk Marcin Niewiara	50.98	50.56	50.85	50.66	3:23.05	+2.33
16	13	Edgars Maskalāns Daumants Dreiškens	51.10	50.85	50.76	50.40	3:23.11	+2.39
17	10	Alexander Kasjanov Maxim Belugin	51.17	50.80	50.72	50.48	3:23.17	+2.45
18	22	Edwin van Calker Sybren Jansma	51.24	50.92	50.60	50.61	3:23.37	+2.65
19	18	Chris Spring Timothy Randall	51.05	50.84	50.88	50.74	3:23.51	+2.79
20	20	John James Jackson Bruce Tasker	51.04	50.93	50.87	50.92	3:23.76	+3.04
21	24	Jan Vrba Jan Stokláska	51.24	50.93	50.71
22	12	John Napier Laszlo Vandracsek	51.09	50.95	50.90
23	15	Alexey Gorlachev Alexander Ryabov	51.37	50.79	50.80
24	23	Rico Peter Thomas Ruf	51.20	51.08	50.85
25	21	Cory Butner Johnny Quinn	51.46	50.86	51.02
26	28	Lamin Deen Richard Sharman	51.45	51.34	51.49
27	27	Thibault Alexis Godefroy Vincent Daniel Ricard	51.78	51.35	51.38
28	31	Bruno Meyerhans Jürgen Berginz	52.24	51.73	51.63
29	30	Marc Sluszny Lino Vandoorne	52.82	52.92	52.16
30	25	Heath Spence Dustin MacPherson	53.10	52.65	52.24
31	32	Ivan Šola Nikola Nimac	54.38	53.65	53.36
	29	Vuk Rađenović Slobodan Matijević

Four-man

The Olympic and World champions are the American foursome of Steven Holcomb, Justin Olsen, Steve Mesler, and Curtis Tomasevicz.

Rank	Bib	Athlete	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total	Behind
	1	Manuel Machata Richard Adjei Andreas Bredau Christian Poser	48.65	48.79	49.26	49.88	3:16.58
	4	Karl Angerer Christian Friedrich Alex Mann Gregor Bermbach	48.74	48.92	49.31	50.13	3:17.10	+0.52
	2	Steve Holcomb Justin Olsen Steven Langton Curtis Tomasevicz	48.81	49.01	49.46	49.98	3:17.26	+0.68
	3	Alexandr Zubkov Filipp Yegorov Dmitry Trunenkov Nikolay Hrenkov	48.78	49.00	49.39	50.28	3:17.45	+0.87
	10	Maximilian Arndt Jan Speer Alexander Rödiger Martin Putze	49.05	48.92	49.48	50.00	3:17.45	+0.87
	6	Lyndon Rush David Bissett Cody Sorensen Neville Wright	48.87	49.00	49.56	50.08	3:17.51	+0.93
	15	Thomas Florschütz Ronny Listner Kevin Kuske Andreas Barucha	49.01	49.09	49.48	50.16	3:17.74	+1.16
	8	Gregor Baumann Patrick Bloechliger Alex Baumann Juerg Egger	49.06	49.06	49.64	50.21	3:17.97	+1.39
	7	Edgars Maskalāns Daumants Dreiškens Ugis Zalims Intars Dambis	49.06	49.10	49.69	50.53	3:18.38	+1.80
10	5	Alexander Kasjanov Andrey Yurkov Dmitriy Stepushkin Maxim Belugin	49.02	49.14	49.77	50.55	3:18.48	+1.90
11	12	Alexey Gorlachev Petr Moiseev Alexey Kireev Sergey Prudnikov	49.29	49.07	49.89	50.52	3:18.77	+2.19
12	14	Beat Hefti Roman Handschin Thomas Lamparter Manuel Luethi	49.22	49.13	49.88	50.55	3:18.78	+2.20
13	18	Jürgen Loacker Juergen Mayer Matthias Adolf Martin Lachkovics	49.16	49.22	50.03	50.41	3:18.82	+2.24
14	22	Chris Spring Timothy Randall Derek Plug Graeme Rinholm	49.17	49.27	50.02	50.60	3:19.06	+2.48
15	24	Oskars Melbārdis Raivis Broks Mihails Arhipovs Janis Strenga	49.48	49.34	49.86	50.47	3:19.15	+2.57
16	25	Edwin van Calker Yannick Greiner Sybren Jansma Arno Klaassen	49.27	49.18	50.04	50.68	3:19.17	+2.59
17	16	Jan Vrba Dominik Suchý Martin Bohmann Jan Stokláska	49.27	49.22	50.20	50.76	3:19.45	+2.87
18	17	Dawid Kupczyk Michal Kasperowicz Marcin Niewiara Paweł Mróz	49.28	49.29	50.21	50.73	3:19.51	+2.93
19	13	John Napier Jared Clugston Laszlo Vandracsek Jesse Beckom	49.31	49.21	50.44	51.09	3:20.05	+3.47
20	9	Simone Bertazzo Matteo Torchio Samuele Romanini Sergio Riva	49.38	49.54	50.51	51.05	3:20.48	+3.90
21	23	Rico Peter Thomas Ruf Fabio Badraun Thomas Landolt	49.54	49.42	50.62
22	21	John James Jackson Dave Smith Bruce Tasker Christopher Wolley	49.59	49.53	50.67
23	20	Nicolae Istrate Ionuţ Andrei Bogdan Laurentiu Otava Florin Cezar Craciun	49.65	49.56	50.89
24	28	Vuk Radjenovic Uros Stegel Milos Savic Damjan Zlatnar	49.96	49.88	51.20
25	33	Hiroshi Suzuki Tohru Sakurai Ryuichi Kobayashi Kota Imai	49.96	50.00	51.49
26	29	Thibault Alexis Godefroy Alexandre Lhomel Julien Bernard-Godet Alexandre Jolivet	50.13	49.94	51.40
27	19	Milan Jagnešák Martin Tešovič Andrej Bician Juraj Mokrás	50.01	50.00	51.58
28	26	Cory Butner Codie Bascue Kameron Hart Johnny Quinn	50.15	50.00	51.56
29	27	Dorin-Alexandru Grigore Emilian Pertea Danut Stancu Florin Barcacila Bogdan	50.16	50.34	51.63
30	32	Ivan Šola Drazen Silic Mate Mezulić Igor Marić	50.84	50.38	52.00
31	31	Heath Spence Christian Wulff Joshua Kelly Dustin MacPherson	50.78	50.81	52.85
32	30	Marc Sluszny Thomas Siech Lino Vandoorne Korneel Deblock	51.37	51.76	53.63
	11	Patrice Servelle Joffrey Tocant Lascelles Brown Elly Lefort	49.42	49.67

Two-woman

The British duo of Nicole Minichiello and Gillian Cooke are the defending World Champions. Canada's Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse are the Olympic champions. Minichiello will not compete this season to injuries sustained during the 2010 Winter Olympics. Humphries and Moyse won Canada's first ever World Championship medal in women's bobsleigh with their bronze medal performance.^[2]

Rank	Bib	Athlete	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total	Behind
	2	Cathleen Martini Romy Logsch	51.36	51.41	51.69	51.65	3:26.11
	4	Shauna Rohbock Valerie Fleming	51.44	51.44	51.85	51.60	3:26.33	+0.22
	3	Kaillie Humphries Heather Moyse	51.36	51.59	52.01	51.78	3:26.74	+0.63
	1	Sandra Kiriasis Berit Wiacker	51.56	51.40	52.08	51.77	3:26.81	+0.70
	5	Helen Upperton Shelley-Ann Brown	51.55	51.58	52.03	51.83	3:26.99	+0.88
	6	Esmé Kamphuis Judith Vis	51.87	51.78	51.92	51.95	3:27.52	+1.41
	9	Sabina Hafner Caroline Spahni	51.76	51.77	52.24	51.97	3:27.74	+1.63
	8	Anja Schneiderheinze Christin Senkel	51.74	51.77	52.52	52.06	3:28.09	+1.98
	14	Elana Meyers Jamie Greubel	51.78	51.78	52.68	52.09	3:28.33	+2.22
10	10	Bree Schaaf Emily Azevedo	51.80	51.99	52.54	52.01	3:28.34	+2.23
11	7	Fabienne Meyer Hanne Schenk	51.61	52.03	52.95	51.94	3:28.53	+2.42
12	15	Olga Fyodorova Yulia Timofeeva	52.02	52.01	52.32	52.31	3:28.66	+2.55
13	11	Paula Walker Rebekah Wilson	52.00	51.85	52.89	51.94	3:28.68	+2.57
14	18	Astrid Loch-Wilkinson Fiona Cullen	52.05	52.17	52.73	52.52	3:29.47	+3.36
15	12	Anastasiya Skulkina Margarita Ismailova	52.25	52.40	52.63	52.24	3:29.52	+3.41
16	13	Christina Hengster Anna Feichtner	52.13	52.12	53.02	52.85	3:30.12	+4.01
17	17	Elfje Willemsen Anouska Hellebuyck	52.37	52.81	52.90	52.49	3:30.57	+4.46
18	16	Viktoria Tokovaya Natalya Kalashnik	52.55	52.78	53.26	53.13	3:31.72	+5.61
19	19	Carmen Tronescu Alina Vera Savin	53.01	53.19	53.22	53.28	3:32.70	+6.59
20	22	Andreea Olimpia Popescu Maria Dragan	52.91	52.97	53.31	53.56	3:32.75	+6.64
21	20	Fiona Harrison Gillian Cooke	53.35	53.01	53.70
22	21	Eva Willemarck Els de Groote	53.31	53.54	53.24

Skeleton

Men

Switzerland's Gregor Stähli is the defending World champion. Canada's Jon Montgomery is the Olympic champion.

Rank	Bib	Athlete	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total	Behind
	1	Martins Dukurs	51.18	50.67	50.94	50.91	3:23.70
	5	Aleksandr Tretyakov	51.43	51.14	51.62	51.25	3:25.44	+1.74
	3	Frank Rommel	51.71	51.14	51.53	51.30	3:25.68	+1.98
	2	Sandro Stielicke	51.42	51.13	51.87	51.56	3:25.98	+2.28
	6	Michi Halilović	51.29	51.13	51.68	51.89	3:25.99	+2.29
	12	Kristan Bromley	51.48	51.23	51.85	51.72	3:26.28	+2.58
	7	Matthew Antoine	51.92	51.50	51.98	51.37	3:26.77	+3.07
	15	Alexander Kröckel	51.79	51.57	52.13	51.66	3:27.15	+3.45
	8	Tomass Dukurs	51.75	51.45	52.25	51.77	3:27.22	+3.52
10	4	Sergey Chudinov	51.83	51.65	52.14	51.91	3:27.53	+3.83
11	9	Jon Montgomery	51.74	51.43	52.53	51.96	3:27.66	+3.96
12	21	Ben Sandford	51.99	51.63	52.42	51.94	3:27.98	+4.28
13	14	Michael Douglas	52.23	51.48	52.50	51.86	3:28.07	+4.37
14	11	Chris Type	52.23	51.47	52.50	51.88	3:28.08	+4.38
15	13	John Fairbairn	51.96	51.52	52.93	52.01	3:28.42	+4.72
16	16	Andy Wood	52.24	51.57	52.66	52.46	3:28.93	+5.23
17	10	John Daly	52.08	52.30	52.39	52.63	3:29.40	+5.70
18	20	Anže Šetina	52.25	52.34	52.70	52.31	3:29.60	+5.90
19	23	Hiroatsu Takahashi	51.83	52.17	52.89	53.05	3:29.94	+6.24
20	18	Pascal Oswald	53.63	51.78	52.25	52.29	3:29.95	+6.25
21	28	Lukas Kummer	52.50	52.30	52.88
22	19	Matthias Guggenberger	52.48	52.61	53.07
23	27	John Farrow	52.42	52.53	53.34
24	22	Maurizio Oioli	52.74	52.71	53.00
25	17	Kyle Tress	52.97	52.47	53.02
26	24	Ander Mirambell	52.86	52.49	53.18
27	25	Yuki Sasahara	53.49	52.66	53.10
28	26	Giovanni Mulassano	53.29	53.13	53.90
29	33	Jakub Holoubek	54.02	53.37	53.64
30	32	Emilio Strapasson	54.17	54.00	53.58
31	30	Dorin Dumitru Velicu	55.13	52.55	54.20
32	31	Matt Skolnik	54.08	53.36	54.57
33	29	Bradley Chalupski	54.56	54.34	54.88
34	34	Lee Webster	54.69	54.76	54.72

Women

Germany's Marion Thees (Trott until summer 2010) is the defending World champion. Britain's Amy Williams is the Olympic champion.

Rank	Bib	Athlete	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total	Behind
	4	Marion Thees	52.22	52.21	52.07	52.01	3:28.51
	1	Anja Huber	52.44	52.14	52.35	52.46	3:29.39	+0.88
	3	Mellisa Hollingsworth	52.64	52.34	52.46	52.30	3:29.74	+1.23
	2	Shelley Rudman	53.14	52.45	52.24	52.22	3:30.05	+1.54
	10	Olga Potylitsina	53.10	52.50	52.40	52.70	3:30.70	+2.19
	8	Katharina Heinz	52.88	52.68	52.76	52.55	3:30.87	+2.36
	5	Amy Gough	52.81	52.64	52.84	52.70	3:30.99	+2.48
	7	Darla Deschamps	53.00	52.64	52.87	52.70	3:31.21	+2.70
	17	Katie Uhlaender	53.36	52.75	52.58	52.82	3:31.51	+3.00
10	19	Yelena Yudina	53.29	52.73	52.76	52.87	3:31.65	+3.14
11	25	Robynne Thompson	53.07	53.46	53.55	53.06	3:33.14	+4.63
12	9	Emma Lincoln-Smith	53.33	53.62	53.45	52.83	3:33.23	+4.72
13	6	Donna Creighton	53.48	53.20	53.55	53.06	3:33.29	+4.78
14	13	Katharine Eustace	54.12	52.91	53.60	52.77	3:33.40	+4.89
15	15	Lucy Chaffer	53.75	53.72	53.00	53.53	3:34.00	+5.49
16	16	Kimber Gabryszak	53.80	53.78	53.10	53.49	3:34.17	+5.66
17	18	Joska Le Conté	54.15	53.43	53.41	53.40	3:34.39	+5.88
18	11	Nozomi Komuro	54.11	53.36	53.44	53.49	3:34.40	+5.89
19	14	Janine Flock	53.33	53.57	53.82	54.31	3:35.03	+6.52
20	23	Jessica Kilian	53.75	53.68	53.70	54.61	3:35.74	+7.23
21	22	Michaela Glässer	54.07	53.52	53.60
22	20	Maria Orlova	53.59	53.74	53.95
23	12	Anne O'Shea	53.65	53.89	53.87
24	21	Barbara Hosch	54.62	54.61	53.96
25	26	Delia Andreea Ivas	54.51	54.44	54.65
26	24	Maria Marinela Mazilu	55.22	55.48	54.85

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. Germany won its fourth consecutive mixed team championship.

Rank	Bib	Athlete	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total	Behind
	11	Michi Halilović Sandra Kiriasis / Stephanie Schneider Marion Thees Francesco Friedrich / Florian Becke	51.40	51.60	52.82	50.27	3:26.09
	6	Frank Rommel Cathleen Martini / Kristin Steinert Anja Huber Karl Angerer / Alex Mann	51.52	51.50	52.74	50.39	3:26.15	+0.06
	4	Jon Montgomery Kaillie Humphries / Heather Moyse Mellisa Hollingsworth Lyndon Rush / Cody Sorensen	51.54	51.40	53.67	50.35	3:26.96	+0.87
	3	Kristan Bromley Paula Walker / Rebekah Wilson Shelley Rudman John James Jackson / Bruce Tasker	51.85	51.72	53.34	50.83	3:27.74	+1.65
	5	Sergey Chudinov Olga Fyodorova / Yulia Timofeeva Olga Potelitcina Alexandr Zubkov / Alexey Voyevoda	51.97	51.91	53.90	50.28	3:28.06	+1.97
	14	Aleksandr Tretyakov Anastasiya Skulkina / Margarita Ismailova Yelena Yudina Alexander Kasjanov / Maxim Belugin	51.50	52.18	53.89	50.67	3:28.24	+2.15
	10	Michael Douglas Helen Upperton / Shelley-Ann Brown Amy Gough Chris Spring / Derek Plug	52.49	51.61	53.97	50.89	3:28.96	+2.87
	15	John Daly Elana Meyers / Kristi Koplin Anne O'Shea John Napier / Jesse Beckom	51.88	51.84	55.05	50.58	3:29.35	+3.26
	12	Matthew Antoine Bree Schaaf / Emily Azevedo Katie Uhlaender Steve Holcomb / Curtis Tomasevicz	52.61	51.81	54.66	50.45	3:29.53	+3.44
10	2	Pascal Oswald Sabina Hafner / Michelle Huwiler Jessica Kilian Gregor Baumann / Juerg Egger	52.91	51.73	54.91	50.34	3:29.89	+3.80
11	13	Matthias Guggenberger Christina Hengster / Inga Versen Janine Flock Jürgen Loacker / Johannes Wipplinger	52.43	52.81	54.65	50.75	3:30.64	+4.55
12	9	Lukas Kummer Fabienne Meyer / Eveline Gerber Barbara Hosch Rico Peter / Fabio Badraun	53.06	51.93	55.41	50.81	3:31.21	+5.12
13	1	Andy Wood Fiona Harrison / Gillian Cooke Donna Creighton Lamin Deen / Richard Sharman	53.21	53.16	54.24	51.15	3:31.76	+5.67
14	7	John Farrow Astrid Loch-Wilkinson / Jamie Hedge Emma Lincoln-Smith Heath Spence / Joshua Kelly	53.41	52.33	54.09	52.50	3:32.33	+6.24
15	8	Silviu Alexandru Mesarosi Carmen Tronescu / Alina Vera Savin Maria Marinela Mazilu Nicolae Istrate / Florin Cezar Craciun	53.44	53.26	55.67	50.72	3:33.09	+7.00

External links

Official website

Notes and References

FIBT awards 2011 championships to Cortina d'Ampezzo - deadlink from www.bobsleigh.com
News: Canada wins 1st-ever women's world bobsled medal. 19 February 2011. CBC. 19 February 2011.