The 1979

World Figure Skating Championships The World Figure Skating Championships (''"Worlds"'') is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded in the categories of single skating, men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ...

were held in

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Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

from March 13 to 18. At the event, sanctioned by the

International Skating Union The International Skating Union (ISU) is the international governing body for competitive ice skating disciplines, including figure skating, synchronized skating, speed skating, and short track speed skating. It was founded in Scheveningen, Net ...

, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles,

pair skating Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...

, and

ice dance Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. Ac ...

. The ISU Representative was John R. Shoemaker and the ISU Technical Delegate was

Josef Dědič Josef Dědič (b. 1924; d. June 19, 1993 in Prague) was a Czechoslovak figure skater and sport official. He placed 9th at the 1948 European Figure Skating Championships and retired from competitive skating in that year. In 1949, he became a ska ...

Medal tables

Medalists

Medals by country

Results

Men

Referee: * Sonia Bianchetti Assistant Referee: *

Benjamin T. Wright Benjamin ( he, ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's thir ...

Judges: *

Eva von Gamm Eva von Gamm, née Neeb, ( 1933 – 3 April 2017) was a German pair skater and figure skating judge. With her skating partner, Karl Probst, she became a three-time West German national medalist and competed at five ISU Championships in the 19 ...

Margaret Berezowski Margaret Crosland is a Canadian former figure skater from Calgary, Alberta. She is the 1958 and 1959 Canadian national champion. She started skating at age 7, and was coached by the Swiss Olympian Hans Gerschwiler. She represented the Glencoe ...

* Toshio Suzuki * Monique Georgelin * Yvonne Tutt *

Walburga Grimm Walpurga or Walburga ( ang, Wealdburg, la, Valpurga, Walpurga, Walpurgis, sv, Valborg; c. AD 71025 February 777 or 779), also spelled Valderburg or Guibor, was an Anglo-Saxon missionary to the Frankish Empire. She was canonized on 1 May c. 870 ...

Tatiana Danilenko Tatiana (or Tatianna, also romanized as Tatyana, Tatjana, Tatijana, etc.) is a female name of Sabine-Roman origin that became widespread in Eastern Europe. Variations * be, Тацця́на, Tatsiana * bg, Татяна, Tatyana * germ ...

* Pamela Davis * Tjasa Andrée * Václav Skála

Ladies

*: better placed due to the majority of the better placings Referee: *

Hermann Schiechtl Hermann or Herrmann may refer to: * Hermann (name), list of people with this name * Arminius, chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe in the 1st century, known as Hermann in the German language * Éditions Hermann, French publisher * Hermann, Mis ...

Assistant Referee: *

Martin Felsenreich Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (disambiguation) * Martin County (disambiguation) * Martin Township (disambiguation) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Austr ...

Judges: *

Eugen Romminger Eugen is a masculine given name which may refer to: * Archduke Eugen of Austria (1863–1954), last Habsburg Grandmaster of the Teutonic Order from 1894 to 1923 * Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke (1865–1947), Swedish painter, art collector, and pat ...

* Berit Aarens *

Evgenia Bogdanova Evgenia, Evgeniya, Yevgenia or Yevgeniya is a feminine given name which may refer to: Evgenia or Evgeniya * Evgeniya Augustinas (born 1988), Russian racing cyclist * Evgeniya Belyakova (born 1986), Russian basketball player in the Women's National ...

* Lena Vainio * Jürg Wilhelm *

Giordano Abbondati Giordano Giulio Abbondati (29 May 1948 – 21 April 2005) was an Italian figure skater and seven-time national champion in 1961–66 and 1968. He competed in several European and World Championships in the 1960s, in addition to the 1964 and 1968 ...

Ingrid Linke Ingrid may refer to: * Ingrid (given name) * Ingrid (record label), and artist collective * Ingrid Burley, rapper known mononymously as Ingrid * Tropical Storm Ingrid, various cyclones * 1026 Ingrid, an asteroid * InGrid, the grid computing project ...

* Jacqueline Kendall-Baker * Charles Foster * Suzanne Francis

Pairs

Referee: *

Elemér Terták Elemér Terták (born 2 November 1918 in Budapest, Hungary; died 8 July 1999 in Budapest) was a Hungarian figure skater who competed in men's singles. He won the bronze medal at the 1934 European Figure Skating Championships, the 1937 European C ...

Assistant Referee: * Emil Skákala Judges: * Thérèse Maisel *

Liudmila Kubashevskaya Ludmila, Ludmilla, or Lyudmila ( Cyrillic: Людмила, ''Lyudmila'') may refer to: People * Ludmila (given name) a Slavic female given name (including a list of people with the name) * Ludmila da Silva (born 1994), Brazilian footballer, co ...

* Jacqueline Kendall-Baker * Günter Teichmann *

Mary Louise Wright Mary Louise Lyle Wright, née Premer (born 1923 in Saint Paul, Minnesota; died December 15, 2004) was an American figure skater and official. Wright was the 1941 North American champion in four skating Four skating is a figure skating and artisti ...

* Willi Wernz * Oskar Urban *

Junko Hiramatsu is a Japanese former competitive figure skater who is now a coach and International Skating Union (ISU) official. She is a five-time Japanese national champion and represented Japan twice at the Winter Olympics, in 1960 and 1964. She was the ...

* Suzanne Fancis * Pamela Davis *

Ice dance

* better placed due to the majority of the better placings Referee: *

Hans Kutschera Hans may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Hans (name), a masculine given name * Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician ** Navraj Hans, Indian singer, actor, entrepreneur, cricket player and performer, son of Hans Raj Hans ** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi ...

Assistant Referee: *

Lawrence Demmy Lawrence Demmy (1931 – 9 December 2016) was a British ice dancer. With partner Jean Westwood, he was the World Champion for four consecutive years, 1952 to 1955Igor Kabanov * Brenda Long * Pál Vásárhelyi *

Gerhard Frey Gerhard Frey (; born 1 June 1944) is a German mathematician, known for his work in number theory. Following an original idea of Hellegouarch, he developed the notion of Frey–Hellegouarch curves, a construction of an elliptic curve from a pur ...

* Lysiane Lauret * Virginia Le Fevre *

Dennis McFarlane Dennis or Denis is a first or last name from the Greco-Roman name Dionysius, via one of the Saint Dionysius (disambiguation), Christian saints named Dionysius. The name came from Dionysus, the Classical mythology, Greek god of ecstatic states, ...

* Rudolf Zorn *

Gerhardt Bubnik Gerhardt is a masculine name of Germanic languages, Germanic origin. It can refer to the following: As a first name * Ants Eskola (1908–1989), Soviet-Estonian actor and singer born Gerhardt Esperk * Gerhardt Laves (1906–1993), American linguis ...

* Tsukasa Kimura

Sources

* Result list provided by the ISU {{ISU Championships Figure skating World Figure Skating Championships

International figure skating competitions hosted by Austria Sports competitions in Vienna

1970s in Vienna