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years have not been held. A two-man event was included in 1931 with a combined championship occurring in

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. Men's

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was introduced as a championship of its own in

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while women's

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and skeleton events were introduced in 2000. Both the women's bobsleigh and skeleton events were merged with the men's bobsleigh events at the

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championships. A mixed team event, consisting of one run each of men's skeleton, women's skeleton, 2-man bobsleigh, and 2-women bobsleigh debuted in

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Host cities

Bobsleigh

Four-man

Debuted: 1930. Medal table

Two-man

Debuted: 1931. Medal table

Two-woman

Debuted: 2000. Medal table

Women's Monobob

Debuted: 2021 Medal table

Skeleton

Men

Debuted: 1982 Medal table

Women

Debuted: 2000 Medal table

Mixed team

Debuted: 2020. Medal table

Mixed team (bobsleigh and skeleton)

Debuted: 2007 Medal table

IBSF World Championships cumulative medal count

*Updated after the

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Bobsleigh

Skeleton

Mixed team (bobsleigh and skeleton)

Overall

Multiple medalists

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; B/P – bobsledder won own medals firstly as a brakeman / brakewoman and then as a pilot).

Men's bobsleigh

Women's bobsleigh

Men's skeleton

Women's skeleton

References

2-Man bobsleigh World Champions
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