TheIBSF World Championships (known as theFIBT World Championships until 2015), part of theInternational Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, have taken place on an annual basis since1930. Starting with 2002, no World Championships being held in non-Winter Olympic years. A two-man event was included in1931 with a combined championship occurring in1947. Men'sskeleton was introduced as a championship of its own in1982 while women'sbobsleigh and skeleton events were introduced in2000. Both the women's bobsleigh and skeleton events were merged with the men's bobsleigh events at the2004 championships. A mixed team event, consisting of one run each of men's skeleton, women's skeleton, 2-man bobsleigh, and 2-women bobsleigh, was held from2007 to2019. In2020 it was replaced with skeleton mixed team event, consisting of one run each of men's and women's skeleton. Women's monobob event was included in2021.
| Year | Host city/cities | Men's bobsleigh | Women's bobsleigh | Skeleton | Mixed team | Notes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two man | Four man | Monobob | Two woman | Men's | Women's | Mixed team | ||||
| 1930 | X | First Bobsleigh World Championships (Four-man event only) | ||||||||
| 1931 | X | First with Two-man event | ||||||||
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| 1933 | X | |||||||||
| 1934 | X | |||||||||
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| 1935 | X | |||||||||
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| 1937 | X | |||||||||
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| 1938 | X | |||||||||
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| 1939 | X | |||||||||
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| 1940–1946: No competition due toSecond World War | ||||||||||
| 1947 | X | X | First with all men's bobsleigh events | |||||||
| 1949 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1950 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1951 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1953 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1954 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1955 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1957 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1958 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1959 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1960 | X | X | Extraordinary event since bobsleigh was not included in the1960 Winter Olympics | |||||||
| 1961 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1962 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1963 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1965 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1966 | X | Four-man abandoned whenToni Pensperger was killed during competition | ||||||||
| 1967 | X | Four-man abandoned to high temperatures on track caused ice to melt | ||||||||
| 1969 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1970 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1971 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1973 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1974 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1975 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1977 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1978 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1979 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1981 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1982 | X | X | X | First with skeleton event (men's only) | ||||||
| 1983 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1985 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1986 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1987 | X | X | ||||||||
| 1989 | X | X | ||||||||
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| 1990 | X | X | ||||||||
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| 1991 | X | X | ||||||||
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| 1992 | X | |||||||||
| 1993 | X | X | Bobsleigh event was originally awarded to Cervinia, Italy | |||||||
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| 1994 | X | |||||||||
| 1995 | X | X | ||||||||
| X | ||||||||||
| 1996 | X | X | X | First with all men's bobsleigh and skeleton events | ||||||
| 1997 | X | X | ||||||||
| X | ||||||||||
| 1998 | X | |||||||||
| 1999 | X | X | ||||||||
| X | ||||||||||
| 2000 | X | X | ||||||||
| X | First with Two-woman bobsleigh event | |||||||||
| X | X | First with women's skeleton event | ||||||||
| 2001 | X | X | ||||||||
| X | X | X | ||||||||
| 2003 | X | X | ||||||||
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| X | X | |||||||||
| 2004 | X | X | X | X | X | First with all men's and women's bobsleigh and skeleton events | ||||
| 2005 | X | X | X | X | X | |||||
| 2007 | X | X | X | X | X | X | First with Mixed team event (bobsleigh and skeleton) | |||
| 2008 | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| 2009 | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| 2011 | X | X | X | X | X | X | Originally awarded to Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy | |||
| 2012 | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| 2013 | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| 2015 | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| 2016 | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| 2017 | X | X | X | X | X | X | Originally awarded toSochi, Russia | |||
| 2019 | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| 2020 | X | X | X | X | X | X | First with skeleton's mixed team event | |||
| 2021 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | First with women's monobob. Originally awarded to Lake Placid, United States | ||
| 2023 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | First combined with World Para Bob Championships | ||
| 2024 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| 2025 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| 2027 | ||||||||||
| 2028 | ||||||||||
| 2029 | ||||||||||
Numbers in brackets denotes number of victories in corresponding disciplines. Boldface denotes record number of victories.
Debuted: 1930.
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 | 14 | 13 | 51 | |
| 2 | 16 | 13 | 15 | 44 | |
| 3 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 20 | |
| 4 | United States | 6 | 4 | 9 | 19 |
| 5 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 13 | |
| 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 12 | |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| 8 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | |
| 9 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |
| 10 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
| 11 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 10 | |
| 12 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 15 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| Totals (15 entries) | 66 | 65 | 65 | 196 | |
Debuted: 1931.
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 21 | 18 | 13 | 52 | |
| 2 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 43 | |
| 3 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 29 | |
| 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 15 | |
| 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 13 | |
| 6 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 9 | |
| 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
| 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||
| 9 | United States | 1 | 4 | 7 | 12 |
| 10 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |
| 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 15 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (17 entries) | 67 | 70 | 64 | 201 | |
Debuted: 2000.
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 33 | |
| 2 | United States | 4 | 5 | 7 | 16 |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| Totals (5 entries) | 20 | 20 | 20 | 60 | |
Debuted: 2021.
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
| 2 | United States | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Totals (2 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | |
Numbers in brackets denotes number of victories in corresponding disciplines. Boldface denotes record number of victories.
Debuted: 1982.
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 8 | |
| 2 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 18 | |
| 3 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 17 | |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 14 | |
| 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 | |
| 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | |
| 7 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | |
| 8 | United States | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 |
| 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 10 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 11 | Bobsleigh Federation of Russia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (13 entries) | 32 | 33 | 32 | 97 | |
Debuted: 2000.
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 21 | |
| 2 | United States | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 |
| 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 10 | Bobsleigh Federation of Russia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Totals (11 entries) | 20 | 20 | 20 | 60 | |
Debuted: 2020.
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
| 2 | United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 5 | Bobsleigh Federation of Russia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Totals (7 entries) | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 | |
Debuted: 2007. Discontinued: 2019.
Numbers in brackets denotes number of victories in corresponding disciplines. Boldface denotes record number of victories.
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 14 | |
| 2 | United States | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | |
| 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 6 | International | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (6 entries) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 87 | 62 | 52 | 201 | |
| 2 | 39 | 35 | 35 | 109 | |
| 3 | United States | 19 | 23 | 36 | 78 |
| 4 | 18 | 19 | 7 | 44 | |
| 5 | 12 | 17 | 18 | 47 | |
| 6 | 10 | 13 | 12 | 35 | |
| 7 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 29 | |
| 8 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 25 | |
| 9 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 15 | |
| 10 | 6 | 15 | 15 | 36 | |
| 11 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 16 | |
| 12 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| 13 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |
| 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 15 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | |
| 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 17 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 18 | Bobsleigh Federation of Russia | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 23 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| International | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Totals (25 entries) | 224 | 227 | 220 | 671 | |
Boldface denotes active athletes and highest medal count among all athletes (including these who not included in these tables) per type. "Position" denotes position of bobsledder in a crew (P – bobsledder won all own medals as a pilot; B – bobsledder won all own medals as a brakeman / brakewoman and / or as a pusher; B/P – bobsledder won own medals firstly as a brakeman / brakewoman and / or as a pusher and then as a pilot).
| Rank | Bobsledder | Country | From | To | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Francesco Friedrich | 2011 | 2025 | 18 | 3 | – | 21 | P | |
| 2 | Thorsten Margis | 2015 | 2024 | 10 | 1 | – | 11 | B | |
| 3 | Eugenio Monti | 1957 | 1966 | 9 | 1 | – | 10 | P | |
| 4 | André Lange | 2000 | 2009 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 14 | P | |
| 5 | Christoph Langen | 1991 | 2004 | 8 | 4 | – | 12 | B/P | |
| 6 | Alexander Schüller | 2020 | 2025 | 8 | 1 | – | 9 | B | |
| 7 | Kevin Kuske | 2003 | 2012 | 7 | 4 | 4 * | 15 * | B | |
| 8 | Erich Schärer | 1971 | 1986 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 14 | B/P | |
| 9 | Fritz Feierabend | 1935 | 1955 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 12 | B/P | |
| 10 | Wolfgang Hoppe | 1983 | 1997 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 14 | P |
* not including one medal in the Two-man event at the2013 World Championships as he was replaced due to injury after the first of four heats
| Rank | Bobsledder | Country | From | To | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sandra Kiriasis (Prokoff) | 2003 | 2013 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 13 | P | |
| 2 | Kaillie Humphries | United States | 2008 | 2023 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 15 | P |
| 3 | Elana Meyers Taylor | United States | 2009 | 2025 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 | B/P |
| 4 | Anja Schneiderheinze-Stöckel | 2004 | 2016 | 3 | 3 | – | 6 | B/P | |
| 5 | Laura Nolte | 2021 | 2025 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | P | |
| 6 | Romy Logsch | 2007 | 2011 | 3 | – | – | 3 | B | |
| 7 | Cathleen Martini | 2003 | 2015 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | P | |
| 8 | Franziska Bertels | 2013 | 2017 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | B | |
| 9 | Annika Drazek | 2015 | 2019 | 2 | 1 | – | 3 | B | |
| Berit Wiacker | 2007 | 2012 | 2 | 1 | – | 3 | B |
| Rank | Racer | Country | From | To | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christopher Grotheer | 2015 | 2024 | 7 | 2 | – | 9 | |
| 2 | Martins Dukurs | 2011 | 2019 | 6 | 1 | – | 7 | |
| 3 | Gregor Stähli | 1990 | 2009 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | |
| 4 | Axel Jungk | 2015 | 2025 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |
| 5 | Matt Weston | 2023 | 2025 | 2 | 4 | – | 6 | |
| 6 | Jeff Pain | 2001 | 2005 | 2 | 1 | – | 3 | |
| 7 | Ryan Davenport | 1995 | 1997 | 2 | – | 1 | 3 | |
| 8 | Frank Rommel | 2008 | 2013 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | |
| Aleksandr Tretyakov | Bobsleigh Federation of Russia | 2009 | 2021 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | |
| 10 | Andi Schmid | 1990 | 1994 | 1 | 3 | – | 4 |
| Rank | Racer | Country | From | To | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tina Hermann | 2015 | 2021 | 7 | 2 | – | 9 | |
| 2 | Marion Thees (Trott) | 2009 | 2013 | 4 | 2 | – | 6 | |
| 3 | Jacqueline Pfeifer (Lölling) | 2015 | 2024 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 | |
| 4 | Noelle Pikus-Pace | United States | 2005 | 2013 | 2 | 3 | – | 5 |
| Anja Selbach (Huber) | 2008 | 2015 | 2 | 3 | – | 5 | ||
| 6 | Maya Pedersen | 2001 | 2009 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
| 7 | Katie Uhlaender | United States | 2007 | 2012 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 8 | Susanne Kreher | 2023 | 2023 | 2 | – | – | 2 | |
| 9 | Michelle Kelly | 2003 | 2008 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| 10 | Kimberley Bos | 2023 | 2025 | 1 | 1 | – | 2 | |
| Mystique Ro | United States | 2025 | 2025 | 1 | 1 | – | 2 |