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.

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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)

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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.

• 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.