IBSF European Championships 2023

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2023 European Championships
Venue Altenberg bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track
Location Germany Altenberg
Dates 20–22 January
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The 2023 IBSF European Championships were held from 20 to 22 January 2023 in Altenberg, Germany.[1]

With four gold medals, Germany was the top nation at the European championships as in the years before, and with eleven from eighteen medals, dominated the championships. However, Great Britain denied the Germans two gold medals in the male events, won on the first and the last event of the championships. This continued a pattern for the season of close competition on the male side between Germany and Great Britain, which would continue in the IBSF World Championships 2023, held later that month. Skeleton racer Matt Weston won his first international title in a competition where Great Britain took three of the first five positions. It was the first British medal in this competition since 2015. Two days later Brad Hall and his crew celebrated a first-ever European bobsleigh championship for the British team.[2] After both runs Hall was nine hundredths of a second quicker than reigning world and Olympic champion in both bobsleighs Francesco Friedrich. Friedrich, who was still handicapped by a hamstring injury also failed to defend his title in the two-man sled and won the bronce medal.[3]

Schedule

Six events were held.[4]

All times are local (UTC+1).

Medal summary

Medal table

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Skeleton

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men[5] Matt Weston
 Great Britain (GBR)
1:54.16 Christopher Grotheer
 Germany (GER)
1:54.51 Axel Jungk
 Germany (GER)
1:54.54
Women[6] Tina Hermann
 Germany (GER)
1:56.52 Janine Flock
 Austria (AUT)
1:57.14 Susanne Kreher
 Germany (GER)
1:57.15

Bobsleigh

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Women's Monobob[7] Laura Nolte
 Germany (GER)
2:01.13 Andreea Grecu
 Romania (RO)
2:02.45 Kim Kalicki
 Germany (GER)
2:02.53
Two-woman[8]  Germany
Laura Nolte
Neele Schuten
1:54.81   Switzerland
Melanie Hasler
Nadja Pasternack
1:55.36  Germany
Kim Kalicki
Anabel Galander
1:55.42
Two-man[9]  Germany
Johannes Lochner
Erec Bruckert
1:51.50   Switzerland
Michael Vogt
Sandro Michel
1:51.55  Germany
Francesco Friedrich
Alexander Schüller
1:51.88
Four-man[10]  Great Britain
Brad Hall
Arran Gulliver
Taylor Lawrence
Greg Cackett
1:49.32  Germany
Francesco Friedrich
Thorsten Margis
Candy Bauer
Felix Straub
1:49.41   Switzerland
Michael Vogt
Cyril Bieri
Alain Knuser
Sandro Michel
1:49.54

See also

References

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