FIBT World Championships 1997

The FIBT World Championships 1997 took place in St. Moritz, Switzerland (Bobsleigh) and Lake Placid, New York, United States (Skeleton). St. Moritz hosted a championship event for the record eighteenth time. The Swiss city had hosted the event 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 (Skeleton), and 1990 (Bobsleigh). Meanwhile, Lake Placid hosted a championship event for the seventh time, doing so previously in 1949, 1961, 1969, 1973, 1978, and 1983.

Two man bobsleigh

Pos	Team	Time
Gold	Script error: No such module "flag". (Reto Götschi, Guido Acklin)
Silver	Script error: No such module "flag". (Günther Huber, Antonio Tartaglia)
Bronze	Script error: No such module "flag". (Brian Shimer, Robert Olesen)

Italy earned its first world championships medal since 1971.

Pos	Team	Time
Gold	Script error: No such module "flag". (Wolfgang Hoppe, Sven Rühr, René Hannemann, Carsten Embach)
Silver	Script error: No such module "flag". (Dirk Wiese, Christoph Bartsch, Thorsten Voss, Michael Liekmeier)
Bronze	Script error: No such module "flag". (Brian Shimer, Chip Minton, Randy Jones, Robert Olesen)

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