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 FIBT [World Championships 1931|1931], FIBT [World Championships 1935|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