1979 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

Host City	Fort Worth
Country	USA
Held	3 – 9 December 1979
Competitors	42
Countries	8

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	URS	5	7	5	17
2	United States	USA	3	3	2	8
3	Romania	ROU	3	1	3	7
4	East Germany	GDR	2	1	4	7
5	China	CHN	1	0	0	1
=	Czechoslovakia	TCH	1	0	0	1
=	Hungary	HUN	1	0	0	1
8	Japan	JPN	0	1	1	2

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
Individual All-Around, Men	Aleksandr Dityatin	URS	Kurt Thomas	USA	Aleksandr Tkachov	URS
Floor Exercise, Men	Kurt Thomas Roland Brückner	USA GDR			Aleksandr Tkachov	URS
Vault, Men	Aleksandr Dityatin	URS	Nikolay Andrianov	URS	Bart Conner Ralph Bärthel	USA GDR
Parallel Bars, Men	Bart Conner	USA	Kurt Thomas Aleksandr Tkachov	USA URS
Horizontal Bar, Men	Kurt Thomas	USA	Aleksandr Tkachov	URS	Aleksandr Dityatin	URS
Rings, Men	Aleksandr Dityatin	URS	Dan Grecu	ROU	Aleksandr Tkachov	URS
Pommelled Horse, Men	Zoltán Magyar	HUN	Kurt Thomas	USA	Koji Gushiken	JPN
Team All-Around, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Japan	JPN	United States	USA
Individual All-Around, Women	Nelli Kim	URS	Maxi Gnauck	GDR	Melita Ruhn	ROU
Floor Exercise, Women	Emilia Eberle	ROU	Nelli Kim	URS	Melita Ruhn	ROU
Vault, Women	Dumitrița Turner	ROU	Stella Zakharova	URS	Steffi Kräker Nelli Kim	GDR URS
Uneven Bars, Women	Ma Yanhong Maxi Gnauck	CHN GDR			Emilia Eberle	ROU
Balance Beam, Women	Věra Černá	TCH	Nelli Kim	URS	Regina Grabolle	GDR
Team All-Around, Women	Romania	ROU	Soviet Union	URS	East Germany	GDR