FIBT World Championships 1979


The FIBT World Championships 1979 took place in Königssee, West Germany. It was the first championships that took place on an artificially refrigerated track. The track also hosted the luge world championships that same year, the first time that had ever happened in both bobsleigh and luge in a non-Winter Olympic year.

Two man bobsleigh

Ohlwärter replaced the injured Schumann after the third heat of this event.

Four man bobsleigh

Medal table