FIBT World Championships 1990


The FIBT World Championships 1990 took place in St. Moritz, Switzerland and Königssee, West Germany. St. Moritz hosted a championship event for the record seventeenth time. The Swiss city had hosted the event previously in 1931, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1965, 1970, 1974, 1977, 1982, 1987, and 1989. Meanwhile, Königssee hosted a championship event for the third time, doing so previously in 1979 and 1986.

Two man bobsleigh

Four-man bobsleigh

A controversy was created when Weder was caught overnight by officials scraping off ice at a difficult corner of the track. Bobsleigh officials allowed him to compete, and he won his first world championship in the four-man event.

Men's skeleton

Medal table