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1979 World Figure Skating Championships

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Type:
  
ISU Championship

Season:
  
1978–79

Date:
  
March 13 – 18

Location:
  
Vienna, Austria

The 1979 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Vienna, Austria from March 13 to 18. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

Contents

The ISU Representative was John R. Shoemaker and the ISU Technical Delegate Josef Dedic.

Men

Referee:

  • Sonia Bianchetti  Italy

    • Assistant Referee:

  • Benjamin T. Wright  United States

    • Judges:

  • Eva von Gamm  West Germany
  • Margaret Berezowski  Canada
  • Toshio Suzuki  Japan
  • Monique Georgelin  France
  • Yvonne Tutt  United States
  • Walburga Grimm  East Germany
  • Tatiana Danilenko  Soviet Union
  • Pamela Davis  United Kingdom
  • Tjasa Andrée  Yugoslavia
  • Václav Skála  Czechoslovakia

    • Ladies

    * better placed due to the majority of the better placings

    Referee:

  • Hermann Schiechtl  West Germany

    • Assistant Referee:

  • Martin Felsenreich  Austria

    • Judges:

  • Eugen Romminger  West Germany
  • Berit Aarens  Norway
  • Evgenia Bogdanova  Soviet Union
  • Lena Vainio  Finland
  • Jürg Wilhelm   Switzerland
  • Giordano Abbondati  Italy
  • Ingrid Linke  East Germany
  • Jacqueline Kendall-Baker  Australia
  • Charles Foster  United States
  • Suzanne Francis  Canada

    • Pairs

    Referee:

  • Elemér Terták  Hungary

    • Assistant Referee:

  • Emil Skákala  Czechoslovakia

    • Judges:

  • Thérèse Maisel  France
  • Liudmila Kubashevskaya  Soviet Union
  • Jacqueline Kendall-Baker  Australia
  • Günter Teichmann  East Germany
  • Mary Louise Wright  United States
  • Willi Wernz  West Germany
  • Oskar Urban  Czechoslovakia
  • Junko Hiramatsu  Japan
  • Suzanne Fancis  Canada
  • Pamela Davis  United Kingdom
  • Giordano Abbondati  Italy

    • Ice dancing

    * better placed due to the majority of the better placings

    Referee:

  • Hans Kutschera  Austria

    • Assistant Referee:

  • Lawrence Demmy  United Kingdom

    • Judges:

  • Igor Kabanov  Soviet Union
  • Brenda Long  United Kingdom
  • Pál Vásárhelyi  Hungary
  • Gerhard Frey  West Germany
  • Lysiane Lauret  France
  • Virginia Le Fevre  United States
  • Dennis McFarlane  Canada
  • Rudolf Zorn  Austria
  • Gerhardt Bubnik  Czechoslovakia
  • Tsukasa Kimura  Japan

    • References

    1979 World Figure Skating Championships Wikipedia
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