FIBT World Championships 1967
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The FIBT World Championships 1967 took place in Alpe d'Huez
Alpe d'Huez
L'Alpe d'Huez is a ski resort at . It is a mountain pasture in the Central French Alps, in the commune of Huez, in the Isère département in the Rhône-Alpes region.-Tour de France:L'Alpe d'Huez is one of the main mountains in the Tour de France...

, France
France
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 for the second time, having hosted the event previously in 1951
FIBT World Championships 1951
The FIBT World Championships 1951 took place in Alpe d'Huez, France. Germany returned to the FIBT World Championships for the first time since World War II, albeit as the separate countries of East Germany and West Germany.-Two man bobsleigh:...

. The Four-man bobsleigh
Bobsleigh
Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of two or four make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled that are combined to calculate the final score....

 event was cancelled for the second consecutive year though the cause this time was due to high temperatures that caused the ice on the track to melt rather than a competitor's death as had happened in the previous championship
FIBT World Championships 1966
The FIBT World Championships 1966 took place in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy for the sixth time, having hosted the event previously in 1937 , 1939 , 1950, 1954, and 1960. The Four-man event was cancelled following the death of West Germany's Toni Pensperger during competition...

. This was the test event for the bobsleigh events
Bobsleigh at the 1968 Winter Olympics
-Two-man:There was a tie for first place. Despite initially ruling that both teams would be awarded the gold medals, the judges awarded the sole gold to the Italian team based on their fastest single heat time...

 for the Winter Olympics that would take place the following year
1968 Winter Olympics
The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1968 in Grenoble, France and opened on 6 February. Thirty-seven countries participated...

 in neighboring Grenoble
Grenoble
Grenoble is a city in southeastern France, at the foot of the French Alps where the river Drac joins the Isère. Located in the Rhône-Alpes region, Grenoble is the capital of the department of Isère...

.

Two man bobsleigh

Pos Team Time
Gold (Erwin Thaler
Erwin Thaler
Erwin Thaler is an Austrian bobsledder who competed in the 1960s. He won two silver medals in the four-man event at the 1964 and 1968 Winter Olympics....

, Reinhold Dumthaler)
Silver (Nevio De Zordo
Nevio de Zordo
Nevio de Zordo is an Italian bobsledder who competed from the mid 1960s to the early 1970s...

, Edoardo de Martin
Edoardo de Martin
Edoardo de Martin is an Italian bobsledder who competed in the late 1960s. He won a silver medal in the two-man event at the 1967 FIBT World Championships in Alpe d'Huez.-References:*...

)
Bronze (Howard Clifton
Howard Clifton
Howard Clifton is an American bobsledder who competed in the late 1960s. He won a bronze medal in the two-man event at the 1967 FIBT World Championships in Alpe d'Huez.-References:*...

, James Crall
James Crall
James Crall is an American bobsledder who competed in the late 1960s. He won a bronze medal in the two-man event at the 1967 FIBT World Championships in Alpe d'Huez.-References:**...

)

Four man bobsleigh

The event was cancelled to warm temperatures on the track, causing the ice to melt.

Medal table

1 1 0 0 1
2 0 1 0 1
3 0 0 1 1
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