1979 Biathlon World Championships

1979 Biathlon World Championships
winner
sprint	Frank Ullrich
singles	Klaus Siebert
Season	GDR
← Hochfilzen 1978	Lahti 1981 →

The 17th Biathlon World Championships took place in 1979 in the Ruhpolding Stadium on Zirmberg in Germany . Since the 1980 Winter Olympics were held in Lake Placid , there were no biathlon world championships in the following year.

Men

Sprint 10 km

space	athlete	Time [min]	Sch.
1	Frank Ullrich	40: 35.37	0 + 0
2	Odd Lirhus	41: 28.51	1 + 2
3	Luigi Weiss	41: 46.30	0 + 2
4th	Vladimir Alikin	42: 06.18	2 + 3
5	Franz Weber	42: 09.54	0 + 3
6th	Alexander Tikhonov	42: 12.19	0 + 3
7th	Jaromír Šimůnek	42: 15.00	1 + 0
8th	Alfred Eder	42: 16.30	0 + 1
...	...	...	...
13	Rudolf Horn	42: 58.70	1 + 1
15th	Heinz Boettcher	43: 19.70	1 + 1
17th	Klaus Siebert	43: 44.79	1 + 1
25th	Gerhard Winkler	44: 19.40	2 + 1
26th	Hans Estner	44: 33.40	2 + 1
28	Eberhard Rösch	44: 37.66	2 + 3
31	Andreas Schweiger	45: 00.50	1 + 3
35	Alois Kanamüller	45: 25.60	0 + 2
39	Roland Burn	45: 53.80	4 + 3
39	Werner Marti	46: 02.60	0 + 2
47	Josef Koll	46: 41.80	0 + 2
49	Adrian dust	46: 44.50	1 + 2
57	Urs Brechbühl	48: 00.50	4 + 3

Date: February 17th

Single 20 km

space	athlete	Time [h]	Sch.
1	Klaus Siebert	1: 07: 40.13	0 + 0 + 1 + 0
2	Alexander Tikhonov	1: 09: 22.10	0 + 0 + 2 + 0
3	Sigleif Johansen	1: 09: 37.41	0 + 0 + 0 + 1
4th	Frank Ullrich	1: 09: 48.78	0 + 1 + 3 + 0
5	Raimo Seppänen	1: 09: 57.39	0 + 0 + 0 + 0
6th	Jaromír Šimůnek	1: 10: 03.80	0 + 0 + 0 + 0
7th	Heikki Ikola	1: 10: 43.70	0 + 1 + 0 + 1
8th	Vladimir Alikin	1: 11: 28.00	2 + 0 + 2 + 1
9	Eberhard Rösch	1: 11: 49.32	1 + 2 + 2 + 0
10	Alfred Eder	1: 11: 53.90	0 + 0 + 0 + 2
...	...	...	...
12	Alois Kanamüller	1: 12: 06.70	0 + 0 + 0 + 0
14th	Manfred Beer	1: 12: 32.40	1 + 0 + 0 + 2
20th	Rudolf Horn	1: 13: 37.90	0 + 3 + 0 + 0
27	Hans Estner	1: 14: 38.30	0 + 1 + 2 + 0
31	Gerhard Winkler	1: 15: 18.60	1 + 0 + 1 + 2
37	Andreas Schweiger	1: 16: 17.20	0 + 1 + 0 + 3
38	Josef Koll	1: 17: 12.30	0 + 3 + 2 + 0
42	Siegfried Dockner	1: 18: 05.60	0 + 1 + 2 + 5
43	Adrian dust	1: 18: 19.70	1 + 2 + 0 + 1
56	Roland Burn	1: 21: 00.10	2 + 4 + 2 + 2
59	Urs Brechbühl	1: 22: 54.80	1 + 4 + 2 + 3
63	Donat Mächler	1: 24: 23.50	1 + 4 + 1 + 3

Date: February 15th

Relay 4 × 7.5 km

space	country	athlete	Time [h]	Sch.
1	GDR	Manfred Beer Klaus Siebert Frank Ullrich Eberhard Rösch	1: 54: 48.56	0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 1
2	Finland	Simo Halonen Erkki Antila Raimo Seppänen Heikki Ikola	1: 56: 26.76	0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 0
3	Soviet Union	Vladimir Alikin Vladimir Barnashov Nikolai Kruglow Alexander Tikhonov	1: 58: 14.60	0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 2 0 + 1
4th	Norway	Odd Lirhus Kjell Søbak Roar Nilsen Sigleif Johansen	1: 58: 48.65	0 + 2 0 + 1 0 + 0 1 + 0
5	Italy	Celestino Midali Arduino Tiraboschi Ernesto Zingerle Luigi Weiss	2: 01: 59.08	0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 0 1 + 0
6th	Austria	Rudolf Horn Franz Weber Josef Koll Alfred Eder	2:02:12:55	0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 0
7th	Czechoslovakia	Jiří Suchánek Jaromír Šimůnek Petr Zelinka Zdeněk Pavlíček	2: 02: 47.9	...
8th	BR Germany	Hans Estner Andreas Schweiger Alois Kanamüller Gerhard Winkler	2: 02: 58.00	0 + 2 0 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 0
12	Switzerland	Adrian Staub Roland Burn Werner Marti Urs Brechbühl	2: 06: 19.60	0 + 1 0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 1

Date: February 18

Medal table

Nations

space	country
1	German Democratic Republic	3	-	-	3
2	Norway	-	1	1	2
	Soviet Union	-	1	1	2
4th	Finland	-	1	-	1
5	Italy	-	-	1	1

Medalist

space	athlete
1	Frank Ullrich	2	0	0	2
	Klaus Siebert	2	0	0	2
3	Manfred Beer	1	0	0	1
	Eberhard Rösch	1	0	0	1
5	Alexander Tikhonov	0	1	1	2
6th	Odd Lirhus	0	1	0	1
7th	Luigi Weiss	0	0	1	1
	Sigleif Johansen	0	0	1	1
	Vladimir Alikin	0	0	1	1
	Vladimir Barnashov	0	0	1	1
	Nikolai Kruglow	0	0	1	1

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1980 . Sportverlag Berlin, 1979, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 168 .

Web links

• Men 10 km sprint. International Biathlon Union - Datacenter, accessed on January 24, 2012 . 
• Men 20 km Individual. International Biathlon Union - Datacenter, accessed on January 24, 2012 . 
• Men 4 x 7.5 km relay. International Biathlon Union - Datacenter, accessed on January 24, 2012 .