country_of_citizenship sabina hafner
The IBSF World Championships ( originally named the FIBT World Championships until 2015 ), part of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation , have taken place on an annual basis in non - Winter Olympic years since 1930 . A two - man event was included in 1931 with a combined championship occurring in 1947 . Men ' s skeleton was introduced as a championship of its own in 1982 while women ' s bobsleigh 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 2004 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 2007 . Sabina Hafner ( sometimes misspelled Sabrina Hafner , born May 10 , 1984 ) is a Swiss bobsledder who competed from 2003 to 2012 . She won two medals in the mixed bobsleigh - skeleton team event at the FIBT World Championships with a silver in 2009 and a bronze in 2007 . She won the World Junior Championship three times ( 2007 , 2009 , 2010 ) and the Swiss Championships five times ( 2005 , 2006 , 2009 , 2010 , 2011 ) . Her biggest success is the second place at the European Championship in Igls ( AUT ) in 2010 . Hafner also competed in two Winter Olympics , earning her best finish of tenth in the two - woman event at Turin in 2006 . The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation ( IBSF ), originally known by the French name " Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing " ( FIBT ), is the international sports federation for bobsleigh and skeleton . It acts as an umbrella organization for 14 national bobsleigh and skeleton associations . It was founded on November 23 , 1923 by the delegates of ___MASK62___ , ___MASK36___ , ___MASK99___ , Canada and the United States at the meeting of their first International Congress in Paris , ___MASK36___ . In June 2015 , it announced a name change from FIBT to IBSF . The federation ' s headquarters are in Lausanne , ___MASK99___ .