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 |