1979 World Bobsleigh Championship

The 34th Bobsleigh World Championship took place in 1979 on the artificial ice rink at Königssee in Germany .

Men

Two-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	time
1	SUI	Erich Schärer Josef Benz	3: 29.08 min
2	FRG	Stefan Gaisreiter Manfred Schumann Fritz Ohlwärter (in the 4th run)	+1.01 s
3	FRG	Toni Mangold Stefan Späte	+1.16 s
4th	GDR	Meinhard Nehmer Bogdan Musiol	+1.29 s
5	AUT	Walter Delle Karth jun. Kurt Oberhöller	+1.30 s
6th	GDR	Bernhard Germeshausen Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt	+1.70 s

Date: 16./18. February 1979

Four-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	time
1	FRG I	Stefan Gaisreiter Heinz Busche Hans Wagner Dieter Gebhard	3: 23.63 min
2	GDR I	Meinhard Nehmer Detlef Richter Bernhard Germeshausen Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt	+0.01 s
3	SUI I	Erich Schärer Ulrich Bächli Hansjörg Trachsel Josef Benz	+0.19 s
4th	GDR II	Bernhard Lehmann Roland Ebersbach Matthias Trübner Eberhard Weise	+0.37 s
5	FRG II	Georg Großmann Hans Metzler Hartmann Alex Wernsdorfer	+0.64 s
6th	AUT I	Walter Delle Karth jun. Hans Eichinger Gerd fence screen Kurt Oberhöller	+2.11 s

Date: 24./25. February 1979

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	BR Germany	1	1	1	3
2	Switzerland	1	0	1	2
3	German Democratic Republic	0	1	0	1

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1980 . Sportverlag Berlin, 1979, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 169 .