The FIBT World Championships 1990 took place in St. Moritz, Switzerland ( Bobsleigh) and Königssee, West Germany ( Skeleton). St. Moritz hosted a championship event for the record seventeenth 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, and 1989 (Skeleton). Meanwhile, Königssee hosted a championship event for the third time, doing so previously in 1979 and 1986.

Two man bobsleigh

Pos	Team	Time
Gold	Switzerland ( Gustav Weder, Bruno Gerber)
Silver	East Germany ( Harald Czudaj, Axel Jang)
Bronze	East Germany ( Wolfgang Hoppe, Bogdan Musioł)

Four-man bobsleigh

Pos	Team	Time
Gold	Switzerland ( Gustav Weder, Bruno Gerber, Lorenz Schindelholz, Curdin Morell)
Silver	East Germany ( Harald Czudaj, Tino Bonk, Alexander Szelig, Axel Jang)
Bronze	Austria ( Ingo Appelt, Gerhard Redl, Jürgen Mandl, Harald Winkler)

A controversy was created when Weder was caught overnight by officials scraping off ice at a difficult corner of the track. Bobsleigh officials allowed him to compete, and he won his first world championship in the four-man event.

Men's skeleton

Pos	Athlete	Time
Gold	Michael Grünberger ( AUT)
Silver	Andi Schmid ( AUT)
Bronze	Gregor Stähli ( SUI)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Switzerland (SUI)	2	0	1	3
2	Austria (AUT)	1	1	1	3
3	East Germany (GDR)	0	2	1	3
Totals (3 entries)		3	3	3	9

References

• 2-Man bobsleigh World Champions
• 4-Man bobsleigh World Champions^{[ permanent dead link]}
• Men's skeleton World Champions
• Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2009). "Bobsleigh: Two-Man". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 159.