World Championship Sprint
This page lists all information available on the World Championship Sprint. The subnavigation allows you to quickly retrieve the complete 'History' of the top 3 results. In the corresponding medal summary table you can click on a specific year to go to the full results of that year. The right-hand side of the subnavigation links to different 'Statistics' of the World Championship Sprint. The statistics will be updated automatically after every championship.
Results of the 1979 World Championship Sprint Men
| Place | Inzell (FRG) |
| Track | Ludwig Schwabl Stadion |
| Date | 17 - 18 Feb 1979 |
| # | name | 1st 500m | 1st 1000m | 2nd 500m | 2nd 1000m | points | |||||
| 1 | Eric Heiden | USA | 0:38.17 | (1) | 1:14.99 | (1) | 0:38.23 | (1) | 1:15.07 | (1) | 151.430 |
| 2 | Gaétan Boucher | CAN | 0:38.43 | (2) | 1:16.95 | (2) | 0:38.54 | (3) | 1:17.27 | (3) | 154.080 |
| 3 | Frode Rønning | NOR | 0:38.43 | (3) | 1:17.52 | (3) | 0:38.39 | (2) | 1:17.64 | (4) | 154.400 |
| 4 | Peter Mueller | USA | 0:38.90 | (6) | 1:17.54 | (4) | 0:38.59 | (5) | 1:16.95 | (2) | 154.735 |
| 5 | Sergey Khlebnikov | URS | 0:39.03 | (8) | 1:17.81 | (5) | 0:38.58 | (4) | 1:17.89 | (5) | 155.460 |
| 6 | Lieuwe de Boer | NED | 0:38.64 | (4) | 1:18.61 | (12) | 0:38.78 | (6) | 1:19.25 | (10) | 156.350 |
| 7 | Kai Arne Engelstad | NOR | 0:39.39 | (13) | 1:17.92 | (6) | 0:39.28 | (12) | 1:18.77 | (7) | 157.015 |
| 8 | Dan Immerfall | USA | 0:39.76 | (18) | 1:18.68 | (13) | 0:38.95 | (9) | 1:18.79 | (8) | 157.445 |
| 9 | Jan Jóżwik | POL | 0:38.87 | (5) | 1:18.80 | (16) | 0:39.30 | (13) | 1:19.93 | (17) | 157.535 |
| 10 | Tom Plant | USA | 0:39.29 | (10) | 1:18.40 | (10) | 0:39.60 | (18) | 1:19.67 | (14) | 157.925 |
| 11 | Stefan Panzer | FRG | 0:39.48 | (15) | 1:18.71 | (14) | 0:39.66 | (21) | 1:19.49 | (12) | 158.240 |
| 12 | Oloph Granath | SWE | 0:39.42 | (14) | 1:19.55 | (19) | 0:39.25 | (11) | 1:19.84 | (15) | 158.365 |
| 13 | Bert de Jong | NED | 0:39.94 | (20) | 1:18.02 | (7) | 0:39.95 | (25) | 1:19.17 | (9) | 158.485 |
| 14 | Johan Granath | SWE | 0:39.74 | (17) | 1:19.23 | (17) | 0:39.52 | (17) | 1:19.26 | (11) | 158.505 |
| 15 | Kazuaki Ichimura | JPN | 0:39.24 | (9) | 1:19.40 | (18) | 0:39.60 | (19) | 1:20.27 | (20) | 158.675 |
| 16 | Jarle Pedersen | NOR | 0:39.33 | (12) | 1:20.02 | (23) | 0:39.61 | (20) | 1:19.87 | (16) | 158.885 |
| 17 | Vasile Coroş | ROU | 0:39.86 | (19) | 1:19.88 | (21) | 0:39.44 | (15) | 1:20.01 | (18) | 159.245 |
| 18 | Steffen Doering | GDR | 0:39.68 | (16) | 1:18.49 | (11) | 0:39.48 | (16) | 1:22.06 | (25) | 159.435 |
| 19 | Emmanuel Michon | FRA | 0:40.03 | (21) | 1:18.71 | (15) | 0:39.79 | (24) | 1:20.60 | (22) | 159.475 |
| 20 | Terje Andersen | NOR | 0:40.14 | (23) | 1:19.85 | (20) | 0:39.96 | (26) | 1:19.58 | (13) | 159.815 |
| 21 | Lee Yeong-ha | KOR | 0:40.20 | (24) | 1:20.09 | (24) | 0:39.77 | (23) | 1:20.40 | (21) | 160.215 |
| 22 | Jan-Åke Carlberg | SWE | 0:39.31 | (11) | 1:20.17 | (26) | 0:39.21 | (10) | 1:24.19 | (29) | 160.700 |
| 23 | Hubert Hirschbichler (1955) | FRG | 0:40.12 | (22) | 1:20.43 | (27) | 0:40.41 | (29) | 1:22.15 | (26) | 161.820 |
| 24 | Colin Coates | AUS | 0:41.41 | (29) | 1:20.53 | (28) | 0:41.52 | (31) | 1:22.55 | (28) | 164.470 |
| 25 | Zhao Weichang | CHN | 0:40.67 | (25) | 1:19.90 | (22) | 0:40.23 | (27) | 1:30.64 | (30f) | 166.170 |
| 26 | Miel Govaert | NED | 0:47.62 | (30f) | 1:18.25 | (9) | 0:39.75 | (22) | 1:21.28 | (23) | 167.135 |
| 27 | Anatoly Medennikov | URS | 0:38.92 | (7) | 1:42.05 | (32f) | 0:38.83 | (7) | 1:18.43 | (6) | 167.990 |
| 28 | Jan van de Roemer | NED | 0:51.98 | (31f) | 1:18.12 | (8) | 0:39.32 | (14) | 1:20.10 | (19) | 170.410 |
| 29 | Giovanni Paganin | ITA | 1:03.16 | (32f) | 1:21.64 | (31) | 0:40.88 | (30) | 1:22.00 | (24) | 185.860 |
| DQ4 | Pertti Niittylä | FIN | 0:40.76 | (27) | 1:20.72 | (29) | 0:40.35 | (28) | 1:20.82 | (DQ) | - |
| DNS4 | Yevgeny Kulikov | URS | 1:05.23 | (33f) | 1:20.14 | (25) | 0:38.91 | (8) | - | (DNS) | 144.210 |
| DQ3 | Peter Eriksson | SWE | 0:40.71 | (26) | 1:21.55 | (30) | - | (DQ) | 1:22.22 | (27) | - |
| DNS2 | Simon Grenshaw | GBR | 0:40.99 | (28) | - | (DNS) | - | (DNS) | - | (DNS) | 40.990 |
| Legenda | |
| f | = fall |
| DQ | = disqualification |
| DNS | = did not start |
