1979 World Figure Skating Championships
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1979 World Figure Skating Championships | |
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Type: | ISU Championship |
Date: | March 13 – 18 |
Season: | 1978–79 |
Location: | Vienna, Austria |
Venue: | Wiener Stadthalle |
Champions | |
Men's singles: Vladimir Kovalev | |
Ladies' singles: Linda Fratianne | |
Pair skating: Tai Babilonia / Randy Gardner | |
Ice dance: Natalia Linichuk / Gennadi Karponosov | |
Previous: 1978 World Championships | |
Next: 1980 World Championships |
The 1979 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Vienna, Austria from March 13 to 18. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.
The ISU Representative was John R. Shoemaker and the ISU Technical Delegate was Josef Dědič.
Medal tables[]
Medalists[]
Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's singles | Vladimir Kovalev | Robin Cousins | Jan Hoffmann |
Ladies' singles | Linda Fratianne | Anett Pötzsch | Emi Watanabe |
Pair skating | Tai Babilonia / Randy Gardner | Marina Cherkasova / Sergei Shakhrai | Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach |
Ice dance | Natalia Linichuk / Gennadi Karponosov | Krisztina Regőczy / András Sallay | Irina Moiseyeva / Andrei Minenkov |
Medals by country[]
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
2 | United States (USA) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
3 | East Germany (GDR) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
4 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
6 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (6 nations) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
Results[]
Men[]
Rank | Name | Nation | CP | SP | FS | SP+FS | Points | Places |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Vladimir Kovalev | Soviet Union | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 185.80 | 17 |
2 | Robin Cousins | United Kingdom | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 185.18 | 22 |
3 | Jan Hoffmann | East Germany | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 185.10 | 23 |
4 | Charles Tickner | United States | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 184.28 | 28 |
5 | Scott Cramer | United States | 8 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 178.04 | 52 |
6 | Fumio Igarashi | Japan | 10 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 177.06 | 57 |
7 | Jean-Christophe Simond | France | 6 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 175.58 | 67 |
8 | David Santee | United States | 3 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 174.58 | 71 |
9 | Mitsuru Matsumura | Japan | 11 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 172.74 | 83 |
10 | Igor Bobrin | Soviet Union | 7 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 172.04 | 87 |
11 | Konstantin Kokora | Soviet Union | 12 | 6 | 13 | 11 | 169.60 | 104 |
12 | Hermann Schulz | East Germany | 13 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 169.38 | 106 |
13 | Brian Pockar | Canada | 14 | 7 | 14 | 14 | 168.50 | 109 |
14 | Mario Liebers | East Germany | 9 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 166.54 | 120 |
15 | Vern Taylor | Canada | 20 | 15 | 9 | 9 | 163.62 | 133 |
16 | Norbert Schramm | West Germany | 15 | 16 | 19 | 17 | 156.44 | 147 |
17 | Thomas Öberg | Sweden | 18 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 153.10 | 157 |
18 | Helmut Kristofics-Binder | Austria | 16 | 20 | 18 | 19 | 151.78 | 162 |
19 | Jozef Sabovčík | Czechoslovakia | 17 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 148.16 | 175 |
20 | Christopher Howarth | United Kingdom | 21 | 19 | 17 | 18 | 148.62 | 175 |
21 | William Schober | Australia | 19 | 22 | 21 | 21 | 146.40 | 182 |
22 | Matjaž Krušec | Yugoslavia | 22 | 21 | 22 | 22 | 138.86 | 198 |
Referee:
- Italy
Assistant Referee:
- United States
Judges:
- Eva von Gamm West Germany
- Margaret Berezowski Canada
- Japan
- France
- United States
- East Germany
- Soviet Union
- United Kingdom
- Yugoslavia
- Czechoslovakia
Ladies[]
*: better placed due to the majority of the better placings
Rank | Name | Nation | CP | SP | FS | SP+FS | Points | Places |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Linda Fratianne | United States | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 186.92 | 11 |
2 | Anett Pötzsch | East Germany | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 184.36 | 18 |
3 | Emi Watanabe | Japan | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 180.52 | 31 |
4 | Dagmar Lurz | West Germany | 2 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 179.96 | 33 |
5 | Denise Biellmann | Switzerland | 11 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 177.28 | 49 |
6 | Lisa-Marie Allen | United States | 8 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 176.68 | 54 |
7 | Claudia Kristofics-Binder | Austria | 5 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 175.44 | 63 |
8 | Susanna Driano | Italy | 6 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 173.46 | 70 |
9 | Carola Weißenberg | East Germany | 9 | 21 | 7 | 11 | 170.54 | 88 |
10 | Kristiina Wegelius | Finland | 7 | 8 | 18 | 15 | 169.26 | 98 |
11 | Carrie Rugh | United States | 12 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 169.34 | 97 |
12 | Sanda Dubravčić | Yugoslavia | 21 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 166.96 | 115 |
13 | Natalia Strelkova | Soviet Union | 14 | 20 | 15 | 16 | 164.94 | 134 |
14 | Deborah Cottrill | United Kingdom | 10 | 16 | 20 | 20 | 164.80 | 136 |
15 | Karin Riediger | West Germany | 15 | 12 | 16 | 17 | 164.50 | 142 |
16 | Renata Baierová | Czechoslovakia | 18 | 15 | 13 | 13 | 164.00 | 144 |
17 | West Germany | 19 | 19 | 12 | 14 | 163.24 | 149* | |
18 | Kira Ivanova | Soviet Union | 20 | 13 | 10 | 12 | 164.02 | 147 |
19 | Janet Morrissey | Canada | 17 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 162.04 | 162 |
20 | Reiko Kobayashi | Japan | 13 | 18 | 21 | 21 | 161.30 | 170* |
21 | Norway | 16 | 14 | 19 | 19 | 161.80 | 166 | |
22 | Switzerland | 22 | 28 | 24 | 26 | 150.34 | 207 | |
23 | Astrid Jansen in de Wal | Netherlands | 23 | 24 | 26 | 25 | 149.18 | 216 |
24 | Franca Bianconi | Italy | 26 | 23 | 22 | 22 | 149.04 | 218 |
25 | Sweden | 30 | 26 | 23 | 23 | 147.02 | 225 | |
26 | Switzerland | 24 | 22 | 28 | 27 | 146.76 | 233 | |
27 | North Korea | 27 | 25 | 25 | 24 | 145.48 | 237 | |
28 | Belinda Coulthard | Australia | 25 | 27 | 27 | 28 | 145.92 | 238 |
29 | New Zealand | 23 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 134.58 | 261 | |
30 | South Korea | 29 | 30 | 31 | 30 | 120.44 | 270 | |
31 | Gloria Mas | Spain | 31 | 31 | 30 | 31 | 112.28 | 279 |
Referee:
- West Germany
Assistant Referee:
Judges:
- West Germany
- Norway
- Soviet Union
- Finland
- Switzerland
- Giordano Abbondati Italy
- East Germany
- Jacqueline Kendall-Baker Australia
- United States
- Suzanne Francis Canada
Pairs[]
Rank | Name | Nation | SP | FS | Points | Places |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Tai Babilonia / Randy Gardner | United States | 1 | 1 | 144.54 | 12 |
2 | Marina Cherkasova / Sergei Shakhrai | Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | 142.22 | 16 |
3 | Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach | East Germany | 4 | 3 | 137.74 | 32 |
4 | Irina Vorobieva / Igor Lisovski | Soviet Union | 3 | 4 | 138.72 | 33 |
5 | Marina Pestova / Stanislav Leonovich | Soviet Union | 5 | 5 | 133.98 | 46 |
6 | / Robert Wagenhoffer | United States | 6 | 6 | 132.50 | 54 |
7 | / | East Germany | 7 | 10 | 128.98 | 70 |
8 | Christina Riegel / Andreas Nischwitz | West Germany | 9 | 8 | 128.56 | 75 |
9 | Sheryl Franks / Michael Botticelli | United States | 8 | 9 | 127.64 | 77 |
10 | Kerstin Stolfig / Veit Kempe | East Germany | 11 | 7 | 125.92 | 84 |
11 | Barbara Underhill / Paul Martini | Canada | 10 | 11 | 123.92 | 94 |
12 | / | West Germany | 14 | 12 | 117.62 | 114 |
13 | Elizabeth Cain / Peter Cain | Australia | 12 | 13 | 115.32 | 117 |
14 | / | Japan | 13 | 14 | 114.02 | 120 |
Referee:
- Elemér Terták Hungary
Assistant Referee:
- Czechoslovakia
Judges:
- France
- Soviet Union
- Jacqueline Kendall-Baker Australia
- East Germany
- Mary Louise Wright United States
- West Germany
- Czechoslovakia
- Junko Hiramatsu Japan
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- Giordano Abbondati Italy
Ice dance[]
* better placed due to the majority of the better placings
Rank | Name | Nation | CD | FD | Points | Places |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Natalia Linichuk / Gennadi Karponosov | Soviet Union | 1 | 1 | 207.86 | 9 |
2 | Krisztina Regőczy / András Sallay | Hungary | 2 | 2 | 204.10 | 22 |
3 | Irina Moiseeva / Andrei Minenkov | Soviet Union | 3 | 3 | 203.74 | 23 |
4 | Liliana Řeháková / Stanislav Drastich | Czechoslovakia | 4 | 4 | 196.94 | 36 |
5 | Janet Thompson / Warren Maxwell | United Kingdom | 5 | 5 | 194.00 | 51 |
6 | Lorna Wighton / John Dowding | Canada | 6 | 6 | 192.70 | 52 |
7 | Susi Handschmann / Peter Handschmann | Austria | 7 | 7 | 188.72 | 65 |
8 | Jayne Torvill / Christopher Dean | United Kingdom | 8 | 8 | 187.84 | 71 |
9 | Stacey Smith / John Summers | United States | 9 | 10 | 185.70 | 81 |
10 | Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin | Soviet Union | 11 | 9 | 184.06 | 87 |
11 | Carol Fox / Richard Dalley | United States | 10 | 11 | 180.30 | 98 |
12 | Henriette Fröschl / Christian Steiner | West Germany | 12 | 12 | 175.50 | 108 |
13 | Karen Barber / Nicky Slater | United Kingdom | 13 | 13 | 169.74 | 121 |
14 | Anna Pisánská / Jiří Musil | Czechoslovakia | 14 | 14 | 168.70 | 124 |
15 | / | Canada | 15 | 15 | 165.24 | 134 |
16 | Martine Olivier / Yves Tarayre | France | 16 | 16 | 161.44 | 145 |
17 | Jindra Holá / Karol Foltán | Czechoslovakia | 18 | 17 | 157.64 | 157 |
18 | Gabriella Remport / Sándor Nagy | Hungary | 17 | 18 | 158.26 | 157 |
19 | / Tadayuki Takahashi | Japan | 19 | 19 | 153.30 | 175* |
20 | / | Austria | 20 | 20 | 151.94 | 174 |
Referee:
Assistant Referee:
- Lawrence Demmy United Kingdom
Judges:
- Soviet Union
- United Kingdom
- Pál Vásárhelyi Hungary
- West Germany
- France
- United States
- Canada
- Austria
- Czechoslovakia
- Japan
Sources[]
- Result list provided by the ISU
Categories:
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- International figure skating competitions hosted by Austria
- Sports competitions in Vienna
- March 1979 sports events in Europe
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