Main bobsleigh and skeleton championships in Europe
| European Bobsleigh and Skeleton Championships |
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| Status | active |
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| Genre | sports event |
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| Date(s) | January–March |
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| Frequency | annual |
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| Inaugurated | 1929 (1929) |
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| Organised by | IBSF |
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The European Bobsleigh and Skeleton Championships are the main bobsleigh and skeleton championships in Europe. The first bobsleigh European Championships with two-man event was held in 1929 in Davos, Switzerland. However, as Bobsleigh World Championships started to be held on an annual basis since following year, European Championships didn't resumed until 1965. A four-man event was included in 1967 when first combined championship occurred. The men's European Skeleton Championships were held separately in 1981–1988 before resuming in 2003 when women's skeleton event was added as well. In 2004 the first women's European Bobsleigh Championship was held with two-woman event. The following year both the women's bobsleigh and skeleton events were merged with the men's bobsleigh events at the European Championships. Since then, all bobsleigh and skeleton events are usually competes at the same time and venue (with few exceptions). Women's monobob event was included in 2022.
Starting from 1985, IBSF European Championships are being held on annual basis within a preselected World Cup stages in the so-called race-in-race mode (with few exceptions when European Championships were held separately). The results of non-European athletes at these World Cup stages are not counted for European Championships standings.
Most successful athletes (by number of victories)
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).
Men's Bobsleigh
Women's Bobsleigh
Men's Skeleton
Women's Skeleton
Germany
Switzerland
East Germany
Austria
Italy
Soviet Union
Russia
Latvia
Czech Republic
Netherlands
Romania
Great Britain
France
Spain
Belgium