1979 World Figure Skating Championships

Host City Wien
Country AUT
Held 13 – 18 March 1979
Competitors 18
Countries 6

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
Singles Men Medal 3 3
Singles Women Medal 3 3
Pairs Mixed Medal 6 3
Ice Dancing Mixed Medal 6 2

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 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

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
Singles, Men Vladimir Kovalyov URS Robin Cousins GBR Jan Hoffmann GDR
Pairs, Mixed Tai Babilonia / Randy Gardner USA Marina Cherkasova / Sergey Shakhray URS Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach GDR
Ice Dancing, Mixed Nataliya Linichuk / Gennady Karponosov URS Krisztina Regőczy / András Sallay HUN Irina Moiseyeva / Andrey Minenkov URS
Singles, Women Linda Fratianne USA Anett Pötzsch GDR Emi Watanabe JPN