IBSF World Championships 2020

The 2020 IBSF World Championships were held in Altenberg, Germany from 21 February to 1 March 2020.^[1]

This World Championships saw the introduction of a skeleton mixed team event, consisting of one run each of men's and women's skeleton. This was also the first World Championship, since its introduction at the 2007 championships, without the mixed-sleds mixed team event, consisting of one run each of men's skeleton, women's skeleton, 2-man bobsleigh, and 2-women bobsleigh.

Schedule

Six events were held.^[2]

All times are local (UTC+1).

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany*	5	4	2	11
2	United States	1	0	0	1
3	Canada	0	1	1	2
4	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
5	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Latvia	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		6	6	6	18

Bobsleigh

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Two-man[3] details	Germany Francesco Friedrich Thorsten Margis	3:40.44	Germany Johannes Lochner Christopher Weber	3:42.09	Latvia Oskars Ķibermanis Matīss Miknis	3:42.23
Four-man[4] details	Germany Francesco Friedrich Candy Bauer Martin Grothkopp Alexander Schüller	3:36.09	Germany Johannes Lochner Florian Bauer Christopher Weber Christian Rasp	3:36.14	Germany Nico Walther Paul Krenz Joshua Bluhm Eric Franke	3:36.32
Two-woman[5] details	United States Kaillie Humphries Lauren Gibbs	3:45.49	Germany Kim Kalicki Kira Lipperheide	3:45.86	Canada Christine de Bruin Kristen Bujnowski	3:46.55

Skeleton

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men[6] details	Christopher Grotheer  Germany	3:44.81	Axel Jungk  Germany	3:44.83	Alexander Gassner  Germany	3:44.86
Women[7] details	Tina Hermann  Germany	3:54.52	Marina Gilardoni  Switzerland	3:54.74	Janine Flock  Austria	3:55.43
Skeleton mixed team[8] details	Germany Jacqueline Lölling Alexander Gassner	1:55.39	Canada Jane Channell Dave Greszczyszyn	1:55.40	Italy Valentina Margaglio Mattia Gaspari	1:55.82

References

External links

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