FIBT World Championships 2001

The FIBT World Championships 2001 took place in St. Moritz, Switzerland (Men's bobsleigh) and Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Women's bobsleigh, and men's and women's Skeleton). The Swiss city had hosted the event for the record twentieth time, doing so 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 (Skelton), 1990 (Bobsleigh), 1997 (Bobsleigh), and 1998 (Skeleton). Calgary hosted the championship event for the third time, doing so previously in 1992 (Skeleton) and 1996.

Bobsleigh

Pos	Team	Time
Gold	Germany (Christoph Langen, Marco Jacobs)
Silver	Switzerland (Reto Götschi, Cedric Grand)
Bronze	Switzerland (Martin Annen, Beat Hefti)

Pos	Team	Time
Gold	Germany (Christoph Langen, Markus Zimmermann, Sven Peter, Alex Metzger)
Silver	Germany (André Lange, Lars Behrendt. René Hoppe, Carsten Embach)
Bronze	Switzerland (Christian Reich, Steve Anderhub, Urs Aeberhand, Domenic Keller)

Pos	Team	Time
Gold	Switzerland (Françoise Burdet, Katharina Sutter)
Silver	United States (Jean Racine, Jennifer Davidson)
Bronze	Germany (Susi Erdmann, Tanja Hess)

Coomber earned the first medal for Great Britain at the championships since 1966.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Switzerland	2	1	2	5
2	Germany	2	1	1	4
3	United States	0	1	2	3
4	Austria	1	0	0	1
5	Canada	0	1	0	1
6	Great Britain	0	1	0	1

IBSF World Championships

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