Ice Hockey World Championship 1979

This article covers the men's ice hockey world championship. See also 1979 Junior Ice Hockey World Championship .

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	Winner: Soviet Union

The games of group A of the 46th Ice Hockey World Championship (also the 57th European Ice Hockey Championship ) took place from April 14 to 27, 1979 in Moscow in the Soviet Union . Group B played in Galați in Romania from March 16 to 24, and the C World Cup was held in Barcelona , Spain from March 16 to 25 . A total of 26 teams took part, a new record, including a team from South Korea as a newcomer to the World Cup.

The hosting of the A-WM was changed again after only 3 years at a meeting of the IIHF in Paris (August 27, 1978). First a preliminary round was played out in 2 groups. The respective group winners and runners-up moved into the championship round with their direct comparisons, the third and fourth-placed winners also played in a relegation round with their direct comparisons. Championship and relegation round were played as double rounds. The aim of this reform was to reduce the number of games (previously 10, now 8) and thus reduce the burden on the players and shorten the duration of the World Cup.

There was also a new mode of competition in group B, which for the first time comprised 10 teams due to political quarrels between China and South Korea, which were already described at the 1978 World Cup . Here, too, there was initially a preliminary round in two groups with 5 teams each. The first two in each group then played off the promoted team to the A group in a final round, and the last two were relegated to the C group. The third and fourth placed of the two preliminary round groups then determined two further relegated teams in a placement round.

The C-World Cup was supposed to take place in the People's Republic of China, but due to the political disputes already described, the World Cup was withdrawn from China and given to Spain at short notice, which was then allowed to host the C-Group twice in a row.

Overview

competition	place	date	sub- contractor	viewers total	Games	O
A world championship	Moscow	Apr. 14, 1979 - Apr. 27, 1979	8th	354,500	32	11,078
B world championship	Galați	16. Mar. 1979 - March 24th 1979	10		28
C world championship	Barcelona	16. Mar. 1979 - Mar 25 1979	8th		28

A world championship

The A World Cup in Moscow saw an overwhelming host. The big opponents from Czechoslovakia, Sweden and Canada looked downright second-rate. For the USSR it was the 16th World Cup and 19th European title. There was a sensation in the B group, where the B group newcomer Netherlands prevailed and thus made the march from the C to the A group. The method used by the Dutch to locate Canadian ice hockey players of Dutch descent, then naturalize them and then use them in the national team, should set a precedent and enable many a rapid rise in hockey nations that were previously under-rated.

Preliminary round, group A

April 14, 1979	Moscow	Sweden	-	BR Germany	7: 3 (2: 1.3: 0.2: 2)
April 14, 1979	Moscow	USSR	-	Poland	7: 0 (2: 0.1: 0.4: 0)
April 15, 1979	Moscow	Sweden	-	Poland	6: 5 (2: 1.3: 2.1: 2)
April 15, 1979	Moscow	USSR	-	BR Germany	3: 2 (2: 0.1: 2.0: 0)
April 17th 1979	Moscow	BR Germany	-	Poland	3: 3 (1: 0.2: 1.0: 2)
April 17th 1979	Moscow	USSR	-	Sweden	9: 3 (3: 0.3: 1.3: 2)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
1	USSR	3	3	0	0	19: 5	+14	6-0
2	Sweden	3	2	0	1	16:17	−1	4: 2
3	BR Germany	3	0	1	2	8:13	−5	1: 5
4th	Poland	3	0	1	2	8:16	−8	1: 5

Preliminary round, group B

April 14, 1979	Moscow	Czechoslovakia	-	Finland	5: 0 (2: 0.1: 0.2: 0)
April 14, 1979	Moscow	Canada	-	United States	6: 3 (2: 1.2: 2.2: 0)
April 15, 1979	Moscow	Czechoslovakia	-	United States	2: 2 (1: 1.1: 1.0: 0)
April 15, 1979	Moscow	Canada	-	Finland	5: 4 (1: 1.3: 1.1: 2)
April 17th 1979	Moscow	Finland	-	United States	1: 1 (1: 0.0: 0.0: 1)
April 17th 1979	Moscow	Czechoslovakia	-	Canada	4: 1 (2: 0.1: 0.1: 1)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
1	Czechoslovakia	3	2	1	0	11: 3	+8	5: 1
2	Canada	3	2	0	1	12:11	+1	4: 2
3	United States	3	0	2	1	6: 9	−3	2: 4
4th	Finland	3	0	1	2	5:11	−6	1: 5

Relegation round for places 5–8

(direct comparisons taken from the preliminary round)

April 18, 1979	Moscow	Finland	-	BR Germany	5: 2 (2: 1.0: 0.3: 1)
April 18, 1979	Moscow	United States	-	Poland	5: 5 (2: 4.3: 1.0: 0)
April 20, 1979	Moscow	Finland	-	Poland	4: 3 (2: 3.2: 0.0: 0)
April 20, 1979	Moscow	United States	-	BR Germany	3: 6 (2: 2.0: 3.1: 1)
April 22, 1979	Moscow	Finland	-	United States	2: 6 (0: 1.2: 3.0: 2)
April 22, 1979	Moscow	BR Germany	-	Poland	8: 1 (1: 0.3: 1.4: 0)
April 24, 1979	Moscow	United States	-	Poland	5: 1 (2: 1.2: 0.1: 0)
April 24, 1979	Moscow	Finland	-	BR Germany	7: 3 (1: 2.3: 1.3: 0)
April 26, 1979	Moscow	Finland	-	Poland	4: 2 (3: 1.0: 1.1: 0)
April 26, 1979	Moscow	United States	-	BR Germany	2: 5 (1: 0.1: 2.0: 3)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
5	Finland	6th	4th	1	1	23:17	+6	9: 3
6th	BR Germany	6th	3	1	2	27:21	+6	7: 5
7th	United States	6th	2	2	2	22:20	+2	6: 6
8th	Poland	6th	0	2	4th	15:29	−14	2:10

Championship round for places 1–4

(direct comparisons taken from the preliminary round)

April 19, 1979	Moscow	USSR	-	Canada	5: 2 (2: 0.1: 1.2: 1)
April 19, 1979	Moscow	Czechoslovakia	-	Sweden	3: 3 (0: 1.1: 2.2: 0)
April 21, 1979	Moscow	Sweden	-	Canada	5: 3 (0: 1.4: 2.1: 0)
April 21, 1979	Moscow	USSR	-	Czechoslovakia	11: 1 (4: 0.5: 1.2: 0)
April 23, 1979	Moscow	USSR	-	Sweden	11: 3 (3: 0.5: 2.3: 1)
April 23, 1979	Moscow	Czechoslovakia	-	Canada	10: 6 (4: 3.3: 1.3: 2)
April 25, 1979	Moscow	USSR	-	Canada	9: 2 (4: 0.3: 2.2: 0)
April 25, 1979	Moscow	Czechoslovakia	-	Sweden	7: 3 (2: 3.2: 0.2: 0)
April 27, 1979	Moscow	Sweden	-	Canada	3: 6 (1: 2.1: 0.1: 4)
April 27, 1979	Moscow	USSR	-	Czechoslovakia	6: 1 (2: 1.2: 0.2: 0)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1	Soviet Union	6th	6th	0	0	51:12	12: 0
2	Czechoslovakia	6th	3	1	2	25:30	07: 5
3	Sweden	6th	1	1	4th	20:38	03: 9
4th	Canada	6th	1	0	5	20:36	02:10

Final placement of the A-WM

Pl	team
1	USSR
2	Czechoslovakia
3	Sweden
4th	Canada
5	Finland
6th	BR Germany
7th	United States
8th	Poland

Moved up and down

Relegated:	Poland
Climbers	Netherlands

Final placement of the EM

Pl	team
1	USSR
2	Czechoslovakia
3	Sweden
4th	Finland
5	BR Germany
6th	Poland

Master teams

World Champion USSR	Vladislav Tretiak , Vladimir Myshkin - Gennady Tsygankov , Vladimir Luttschenko , Valeri Vasilyev , Sergei Babinow , Sinetula Bilyaletdinov , Vasily Pervukhin , Irek Gimajew , Sergei Starikov , Boris Mikhailov , Vladimir Petrov , Valeri Kharlamov , Helmut Balderis , Viktor Schluktow , Sergei Kapustin , Sergei Makarov , Vladimir Nikolajewitsch Golikow , Alexander Golikow , Alexander Skworzow , Juri Lebedew , Alexander Jakuschew Coaching staff : Viktor Tichonow , Vladimir Jursinow
Silver Czechoslovakia	Jiří Králík , Marcel Sakac - Milan Figala , Miroslav Ďuriš , Milan Chalupa , Jozef Bukovinský , Milan Kužela , Frantisek Kaberle , Jiri Bubla - Milan Nový , Vladimír Martinec , Jiří Novák , Ladislav Svozil , Miroslav Fryčer , Marián Šťastný , Anton Šťastný , Ivan Hlinka , Libor Havlíček , Jaroslav Pouzar , Bohuslav Ebermann , Peter Šťastný Coaching staff : Karel Gut , Ján Starší
Bronze Sweden	Sune Ödling , Pelle Lindbergh - Tomas Jonsson , Sture Andersson , Ulf Weinstock , Leif Svensson , Mats Waltin , Thomas Eriksson , Tierd Nensein - Radgher Lindström , Per Lundqvist , Rolph Edberg , Bengt-Åke Gustafsson , Mats Näslund , Lennart Norberg , Bengt Lundholm , Leif Holmgren , Lars-Eric Eriksson , Dan Labraaten , Inge Hammarström , Håkan Eriksson , Tomas Wallin Coaching staff : Tommy Sandlin , Jan Eric Nilsson

Top scorer

space	player	Gates	Assists	Points
1	Vladimir Petrov	7th	8th	15th
2	Valery Kharlamov	7th	7th	14th
3	Sergei Makarov	9	3	12
4th	Alexander Golikov	4th	8th	12
5	Marcus Kuhl	6th	5	11

Awards

Player trophies

Most valuable player	Boris Mikhailov
Best goalkeeper	Vladislav Tretyak
Best defender	Jiří Bubla
Best striker	Sergei Makarov

All-Star Team

Attack:	Sergei Makarov - Vladimir Petrov - Boris Mikhailov
Defense:	Valery Vasilyev - Jiří Bubla
Goal:	Vladislav Tretyak

B world championship

in Galați, Romania

Preliminary round, group A

March 16, 1979	Galați	GDR	-	Hungary	10: 2 (5: 1.3: 1.2: 0)
March 16, 1979	Galați	Romania	-	Austria	7: 7 (3: 1.1: 3.3: 3)
March 17, 1979	Galați	Austria	-	Hungary	4: 3 (0: 2.0: 1.4: 0)
March 17, 1979	Galați	GDR	-	Denmark	9: 1 (2: 0.5: 1.2: 0)
March 18, 1979	Galați	Romania	-	Denmark	4: 1 (1: 0.2: 1.1: 0)
March 19, 1979	Galați	Romania	-	Hungary	8: 4 (6: 1.1: 3.1: 0)
March 19, 1979	Galați	GDR	-	Austria	7: 0 (5: 0.2: 0.0: 0)
March 20, 1979	Galați	Hungary	-	Denmark	1: 3 (0: 1.1: 0.0: 2)
March 21, 1979	Galați	Austria	-	Denmark	4: 3 (2: 1.1: 0.1: 2)
March 21, 1979	Galați	Romania	-	GDR	3: 4 (2: 2.0: 2.1: 0)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
1	GDR	4th	4th	0	0	30: 6	+24	8-0
2	Romania	4th	2	1	1	22:16	+6	5: 3
3	Austria	4th	2	1	1	15:20	−5	5: 3
4th	Denmark	4th	1	0	3	8:18	−10	2: 6
5	Hungary	4th	0	0	4th	10:25	−15	0: 8

Preliminary round, group B

March 16, 1979	Galați	Norway	-	Switzerland	5: 1 (3: 0.1: 1.1: 0)
March 16, 1979	Galați	Japan	-	Netherlands	5: 6 (2: 2.2: 2.1: 2)
March 17, 1979	Galați	Norway	-	Netherlands	1: 8 (0: 2.1: 2.0: 4)
March 17, 1979	Galați	Switzerland	-	China	6: 4 (3: 1.1: 2.2: 1)
March 18, 1979	Galați	Japan	-	China	9: 3 (3: 1.4: 1.2: 1)
March 19, 1979	Galați	Japan	-	Norway	3: 4 (1: 0.2: 3.0: 1)
March 19, 1979	Galați	Switzerland	-	Netherlands	2: 5 (0: 1.1: 1.1: 3)
March 20, 1979	Galați	Norway	-	China	6: 1 (1: 1.0: 0.5: 0)
March 21, 1979	Galați	Netherlands	-	China	10: 0 (0: 0.3: 0.7: 0)
March 21, 1979	Galați	Japan	-	Switzerland	3: 4 (1: 0.1: 4.1: 0)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
1	Netherlands	4th	4th	0	0	29: 8	+21	8-0
2	Norway	4th	3	0	1	16:13	+3	6: 2
3	Switzerland	4th	2	0	2	13:17	−4	4: 4
4th	Japan	4th	1	0	3	20:17	+3	2: 6
5	China	4th	0	0	4th	8:31	−23	0: 8

Placement round for places 5–8

(direct comparisons taken from the preliminary round)

March 23, 1979	Galați	Switzerland	-	Denmark	3: 1 (0: 1.1: 0.2: 0)
March 23, 1979	Galați	Japan	-	Austria	3: 2 (1: 1.1: 1.1: 0)
March 24, 1979	Galați	Japan	-	Denmark	11: 4 (5: 2.6: 0.0: 2)
March 24, 1979	Galați	Switzerland	-	Austria	7: 2 (1: 2.4: 0.2: 0)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
5	Switzerland	3	3	0	0	14: 6	+8	6-0
6th	Japan	3	2	0	1	17:10	+7	4: 2
7th	Austria	3	1	0	2	8:13	−5	2: 4
8th	Denmark	3	0	0	3	8:18	−10	0: 6

Championship round for places 1–4

(direct comparisons taken from the preliminary round)

March 23, 1979	Galați	GDR	-	Norway	9: 2 (2: 1.2: 1.5: 0)
March 23, 1979	Galați	Romania	-	Netherlands	2: 3 (1: 0.1: 3.0: 0)
March 24, 1979	Galați	GDR	-	Netherlands	3: 4 (2: 0.1: 1.0: 3)
March 24, 1979	Galați	Romania	-	Norway	3: 2 (1: 0.1: 1.1: 1)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
1	Netherlands	3	3	0	0	15: 6	+9	6-0
2	GDR	3	2	0	1	16: 9	+7	4: 2
3	Romania	3	1	0	2	8: 9	−1	2: 4
4th	Norway	3	0	0	3	5:20	−15	0: 6

Final placement of the B-WM

Pl	team
1	Netherlands
2	GDR
3	Romania
4th	Norway
5	Switzerland
6th	Japan
7th	Austria
8th	Denmark
9	People's Republic of China
9	Hungary

Ascent and descent

B-World Champion 1979:	Netherlands
Promoted to the A group:	Netherlands
Relegated from the A group:	Poland
Relegated to the C group:	Hungary China Denmark Austria
Newcomers from the C group:	Italy Yugoslavia

C world championship

Games

March 16, 1979	Barcelona	Spain	-	South Korea	7: 1 (2: 1.1: 0.4: 0)
March 16, 1979	Barcelona	Bulgaria	-	France	0: 3 (0: 1.0: 0.0: 2)
March 16, 1979	Barcelona	Italy	-	Great Britain	12: 0 (3: 0.4: 0.5: 0)
March 16, 1979	Barcelona	Yugoslavia	-	Australia	10: 0 (1: 0.6: 0.3: 0)
March 17, 1979	Barcelona	Italy	-	Australia	12: 4 (3: 1.6: 0.3: 3)
March 17, 1979	Barcelona	Yugoslavia	-	France	7: 5 (2: 1.4: 2.1: 2)
March 18, 1979	Barcelona	Great Britain	-	South Korea	6: 9 (2: 2.3: 4.1: 3)
March 18, 1979	Barcelona	Spain	-	Bulgaria	4: 5 (1: 0.1: 3.2: 2)
March 19, 1979	Barcelona	France	-	Australia	9: 3 (3: 1.2: 1.4: 1)
March 19, 1979	Barcelona	Bulgaria	-	Great Britain	4: 2 (2: 1.1: 0.1: 1)
March 19, 1979	Barcelona	Yugoslavia	-	South Korea	18: 0 (10: 0.5: 0.3: 0)
March 19, 1979	Barcelona	Spain	-	Italy	1:10 (0: 3.1: 4.0: 3)
March 20, 1979	Barcelona	Great Britain	-	Australia	5: 3 (3: 0.1: 3.1: 0)
March 20, 1979	Barcelona	Italy	-	South Korea	11: 0 (2: 0.4: 0.5: 0)
March 21, 1979	Barcelona	Yugoslavia	-	Bulgaria	7: 1 (4: 0.1: 0.2: 1)
March 21, 1979	Barcelona	Spain	-	France	2: 8 (0: 5.1: 2.1: 1)
March 22, 1979	Barcelona	Australia	-	South Korea	0: 0 (0: 0.0: 0.0: 0)
March 22, 1979	Barcelona	Italy	-	Bulgaria	8: 4 (2: 2.2: 1.4: 1)
March 22, 1979	Barcelona	France	-	Great Britain	15: 3 (4: 0.9: 0.3: 2)
March 22, 1979	Barcelona	Spain	-	Yugoslavia	1:16 (0: 10.1: 0.0: 6)
March 24, 1979	Barcelona	Spain	-	Great Britain	4: 6 (3: 0.0: 3.1: 3)
March 24, 1979	Barcelona	Yugoslavia	-	Italy	4: 2 (0: 0.3: 1.1: 1)
March 24, 1979	Barcelona	France	-	South Korea	15: 3 (4: 0.6: 1.5: 2)
March 24, 1979	Barcelona	Bulgaria	-	Australia	11: 1 (2: 1.5: 0.4: 0)
March 25, 1979	Barcelona	Yugoslavia	-	Great Britain	21: 1 (6: 0.9: 0.6: 1)
March 25, 1979	Barcelona	Italy	-	France	9: 4 (3: 0.4: 1.2: 3)
March 25, 1979	Barcelona	Bulgaria	-	South Korea	10: 3 (4: 1.3: 0.3: 2)
March 25, 1979	Barcelona	Spain	-	Australia	6: 2 (2: 1.2: 1.2: 0)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
1	Yugoslavia	7th	7th	0	0	83:10	+73	14: 0
2	Italy	7th	6th	0	1	64:17	+47	12: 2
3	France	7th	5	0	2	59:27	+32	10: 4
4th	Bulgaria	7th	4th	0	3	35:28	+7	8: 6
5	Great Britain	7th	2	0	5	23:68	−45	4:10
6th	Spain	7th	2	0	5	25:48	−23	4:10
7th	South Korea	7th	1	1	5	16:67	−51	3:11
8th	Australia	7th	0	1	6th	13:53	−40	1:13

Ascent and descent

C-World Champion 1978:	Yugoslavia
Moving up to the B group:	Yugoslavia Italy
Relegated from group B:	Hungary Austria Denmark China

See also

• Junior Ice Hockey World Championship 1979

literature

• Foosball sports magazine . No. 36 . Olympia-Verlag , Nuremberg April 1979.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ «Ice Hockey World Championship in two groups» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna August 28, 1978, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).