FIBT World Championships 2004
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The FIBT World Championships 2004 took place in Königssee
Schönau am Königsee
Schönau am Königsee is a municipality in the district of Berchtesgadener Land in the German state of Bavaria. It is located at the northern end of the Königssee lake....

, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 for the fourth time, doing so previously in 1979
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...

, 1986
FIBT World Championships 1986
The FIBT World Championships 1986 took place in Königssee, West Germany for the second time, having hosted the event previously in 1979.-Two man bobsleigh:-Four man bobsleigh:-Medal table:-References:**...

, and 1990
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...

 (Skeleton). This marked the first time all the events were in a single location at the championships
FIBT World Championships
The FIBT World Championships, part of the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing , have taken place on an annual basis in non-Winter Olympic years since 1930. A two-man event was included in 1931 with a combined championship occurring in 1947...

 since the 1996 event
FIBT World Championships 1996
The FIBT World Championships 1996 took place in Calgary, Alberta, Canada for a second time, hosting the event previously in 1992 . It marked the first time the bobsleigh and skeleton competition took place in the same location at the championships since 1982.-Two man bobsleigh:-Four man...

 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Canada
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.

Two man

Pos Team Time
Gold (Pierre Lueders
Pierre Lueders
Pierre Fritz Lueders is a Canadian bobsledder who competed from 1990 to 2010. He piloted both two-man and four-man bobsleigh, retiring after the 2010 Winter Olympics...

, Giulio Zardo
Giulio Zardo
Giulio Zardo is a Canadian bobsledder who competed from 2001 to 2004. He won two medals in the two-man event at the FIBT World Championships with a gold in 2004 and a silver in 2003...

)
Silver (Christoph Langen
Christoph Langen
Christoph Langen is a German bobsledder who competed for the West German and German national team from 1985 to 2005...

, Markus Zimmermann
Markus Zimmermann
Markus Zimmermann is a German former bobsledder who competed from 1984 to 2004. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he won four medals with two golds , one silver , and one bronze...

)
Bronze (André Lange
André Lange
André Lange is a retired German bobsledder and the most successful bob pilot of all time who competed at senior level from 1998 to 2010. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he has won four gold medals. He was born in Ilmenau, Thuringia....

, Kevin Kuske
Kevin Kuske
Kevin Kuske is a German bobsledder who has competed since 1999. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he has four gold medals and one silver medal....

)

Four man

Pos Team Time
Gold (André Lange
André Lange
André Lange is a retired German bobsledder and the most successful bob pilot of all time who competed at senior level from 1998 to 2010. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he has won four gold medals. He was born in Ilmenau, Thuringia....

, Udo Lehmann
Udo Lehmann
Udo Lehmann is a German bobsledder who competed from 1994 to 2004. He won two medals in the four-man event at the FIBT World Championships with a gold in 2004 and a bronze in 1995.-References:**...

. Kevin Kuske
Kevin Kuske
Kevin Kuske is a German bobsledder who has competed since 1999. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he has four gold medals and one silver medal....

, René Hoppe
René Hoppe
René Hoppe is a German bobsledder who has competed since 1998. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, he won a gold medal in the four-man event with teammates Kevin Kuske, André Lange, and Martin Putze....

)
Silver (Christoph Langen
Christoph Langen
Christoph Langen is a German bobsledder who competed for the West German and German national team from 1985 to 2005...

, Christoph Heyder
Christoph Heyder
Christoph Heyder is a German bobsledder who has competed since 1997. He won a silver medal in the four-man event at the 2004 FIBT World Championships in Königssee....

, Enrico Kühn
Enrico Kühn
Enrico Kühn is a German bobsledder who has competed since 1995. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, he won a gold medal in the four-man event with teammates Kevin Kuske, André Lange and Carsten Embach....

, Jens Nohka
Jens Nohka
Jens Nohka is a German bobsledder who's competing from 1999. He won a silver medal in the four-man event at the 2004 FIBT World Championships in Königssee.-References:***...

)
Bronze (Todd Hays
Todd Hays
Todd Hays and raised in Del Rio, Texas is an American bobsledder who competed from 1994 to 2006. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he won the silver medal in the four-man event at Salt Lake City in 2002....

, Pavel Jovanovic, Bill Schuffenhauer
Bill Schuffenhauer
Bill Schuffenhauer is an American bobsledder who has competed since 2000. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he won the silver medal in the four-man event at Salt Lake City in 2002.-Early years:...

, Steve Mesler
Steve Mesler (bobsleigh)
Steven Michael Mesler is an American bobsledder who has competed internationally since 2001.Mesler was born in Buffalo, New York, and is Jewish...

)

Two woman

Pos Team Time
Gold (Susi Erdmann
Susi Erdmann
Susi Erdmann is an East German-German luger and bobsledder who competed from 1977 to 1998 in luge, then since 1999 in bobsleigh...

, Kristina Bader
Kristina Bader
Kristina Bader is a Soviet-born German bobsledder who competed from 2001 to 2004. She won a gold medal in the two-woman event at the 2004 FIBT World Championships in Königssee....

)
Silver (Sandra Prokoff, Anja Schneiderheinze
Anja Schneiderheinze
Anja Schneiderheinze-Stöckel is a German bobsledder who has competed since 2001. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, she won gold in the two-woman event with teammate Sandra Kiriasis....

)
Bronze (Jean Racine
Jean Prahm
Jean Prahm is an American bobsledder who competed from 1996 to 2006. She won three medals in the two-woman event at the FIBT World Championships with two silvers and a bronze...

, Vonetta Flowers
Vonetta Flowers
Vonetta Flowers is an American bobsledder and athlete. Flowers was a star sprinter and long jumper at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and originally aspired to make the U.S. Summer Olympic Team...

)


Erdmann earned her third straight championship medal with her third different brakewoman. Fourth-place finisher Yvonne Cernota
Yvonne Cernota
Yvonne Cernota was a German bobsledder who competed from 2000 to 2004. She won a bronze medal in the two-woman event at the 2003 FIBT World Championships in Winterberg....

 was brakewoman with Cathleen Martini
Cathleen Martini
Cathleen Martini is a German bobsledder who has competed since 2000. She won four medals in the two-woman event at the FIBT World Championships with two silvers and two bronzes ....

. Cernota would die less than two weeks after the World championships on the same track in a bobsleigh accident.

Men

Pos Athlete Time
Gold
Silver
Bronze

Women

Pos Athlete Time
Gold
Silver
Bronze

Medal table

1 3 4 3 10
2 2 1 0 3
3 0 0 2 2
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