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1979 World Ice Hockey Championships
Moscow79
Tournament details
Host nation Flag of the Soviet Union.svg USSR
Dates 14–27 April
Teams 8
Venue(s) (in 1 host city)
Champions Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union (16 titles)
Tournament statistics
Games played 32
Goals scored 263  (8.22 per game)
Attendance 354,500  (11,078 per game)
Scoring leader(s) Flag of Soviet Union Vladimir Petrov 15 points

The 1979 Ice Hockey World Championships took place at the Palace of Sports of the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow, Soviet Union from 14 to 27 April. Eight teams took part, with the first round split into two groups of four, and the best two from each group advancing to the final group. The four best teams then played each other twice in the final round. This was the 46th World Championship and at the same time, the 57th European Championship. In the May 1978 congress many rules were aligned with NHL practices and archaic rules (like changing ends half way the third period) were finally officially abandoned.[1] The games were very well attended, setting a record by averaging over eleven thousand spectators per game.

The Soviets wished the tournament to be finished before the May Day celebrations began, so the schedule was moved up one week allowing for less NHL players being eligible.[1] The hosts won all seven games they played capturing their 16th title, the only game that was even close was their early match with West Germany, which they won three to two. The competition for the bronze (at least) was tight with Sweden edging out the Canadians. After the tournament NHL star Marcel Dionne praised the level of play and offered the following criticism of North American play, "only the media can change things here. Tell them how the European teams play with so much talent. Tell them that they play without a fight. Let them realize that if a kid does not know how to skate and shoot, but just to fight, he should not be allowed to be a hockey player. There are so many idiots who run hockey, so stupid, so stupid. Tell them."[2]

Promotion and relegation was effective for 1981 as the IIHF ceased running a championship in Olympic years. Nations that did not participate in the Lake Placid Olympics were invited to compete in the inaugural Thayer Tutt Trophy.

World Championship Group A (Soviet Union)[]

First round[]

Results between countries that moved on to the same group in the second round were carried forward.

Group 1[]

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Points difference Points
1 Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union 3 3 0 0 19 - 05 6
2 Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden 3 2 0 1 16 - 17 4
3 Flag of Germany.svg West Germany 3 0 1 2 08 - 13 1
4 Flag of Poland.svg Poland 3 0 1 2 08 - 16 1
14 April Soviet Union Flag of the Soviet Union.svg 7-0
Flag of Poland.svg Poland
14 April Sweden Flag of Sweden.svg 7-3
Flag of Germany.svg West Germany
15 April Sweden Flag of Sweden.svg 6-5
Flag of Poland.svg Poland
15 April Soviet Union Flag of the Soviet Union.svg 3-2
Flag of Germany.svg West Germany
17 April West Germany Flag of Germany.svg 3-3
Flag of Poland.svg Poland
17 April Soviet Union Flag of the Soviet Union.svg 9-3
Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden

Group 2[]

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Points difference Points
1 Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg Czechoslovakia 3 2 1 0 11 - 03 5
2 Flag of Canada.svg Canada 3 2 0 1 12 - 11 4
3 Flag of the United States.svg United States 3 0 2 1 06 - 09 2
4 Flag of Finland.svg Finland 3 0 1 2 05 - 11 1
14 April Canada Flag of Canada.svg 6-3
Flag of the United States.svg United States
14 April Czechoslovakia Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg 5-0
Flag of Finland.svg Finland
15 April Czechoslovakia Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg 4-1
Flag of Canada.svg Canada
15 April United States Flag of the United States.svg 1-1
Flag of Finland.svg Finland
17 April Canada Flag of Canada.svg 5-4
Flag of Finland.svg Finland
17 April Czechoslovakia Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg 2-2
Flag of the United States.svg United States

Final round[]

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Points difference Points
1 Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union 6 6 0 0 51 - 12 12
2 Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg Czechoslovakia 6 3 1 2 25 - 30 7
3 Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden 6 1 1 4 20 - 38 3
4 Flag of Canada.svg Canada 6 1 0 5 20 - 36 2
19 April Soviet Union Flag of the Soviet Union.svg 5-2
Flag of Canada.svg Canada
19 April Czechoslovakia Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg 3-3
Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
21 April Sweden Flag of Sweden.svg 5-2
Flag of Canada.svg Canada
21 April Soviet Union Flag of the Soviet Union.svg 11-1
Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg Czechoslovakia
23 April Czechoslovakia Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg 10-6
Flag of Canada.svg Canada
23 April Soviet Union Flag of the Soviet Union.svg 11-3
Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
25 April Soviet Union Flag of the Soviet Union.svg 9-2
Flag of Canada.svg Canada
25 April Czechoslovakia Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg 6-3
Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
27 April Canada Flag of Canada.svg 6-3
Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
27 April Soviet Union Flag of the Soviet Union.svg 6-1
Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg Czechoslovakia

Consolation round[]

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Points difference Points
5 Flag of Finland.svg Finland 6 4 1 1 23 - 17 9
6 Flag of Germany.svg West Germany 6 3 1 2 27 - 21 7
7 Flag of the United States.svg United States 6 2 2 2 22 - 20 6
8 Flag of Poland.svg Poland 6 0 2 4 15 - 29 2
18 April Poland Flag of Poland.svg 5-5
Flag of the United States.svg United States
18 April Finland Flag of Finland.svg 5-2
Flag of Germany.svg West Germany
20 April Poland Flag of Poland.svg 3-4
Flag of Finland.svg Finland
20 April West Germany Flag of Germany.svg 6-3
Flag of the United States.svg United States
22 April United States Flag of the United States.svg 6-2
Flag of Finland.svg Finland
22 April West Germany Flag of Germany.svg 8-1
Flag of Poland.svg Poland
24 April United States Flag of the United States.svg 5-1
Flag of Poland.svg Poland
24 April Finland Flag of Finland.svg 7-3
Flag of Germany.svg West Germany
26 April Finland Flag of Finland.svg 4-2
Flag of Poland.svg Poland
26 April West Germany Flag of Germany.svg 5-2
Flag of the United States.svg United States

World Championship Group B (Romania)[]

Played in Galati March 16–24. This year's tournament was expanded to ten teams to try to avoid hostilities between China and South Korea. China and Denmark were both elevated with the consequence that four teams would be relegated.

First round[]

The ten teams were split into groups of five, the top two of each battled for promotion to Group A, the next two played in a group to decide fifth through eighth, and both bottom place teams were simply relegated without playing further. Additionally, the top two in each group joined all Group A teams at the Lake Placid Olympics.

Group 1[]

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Points difference Points
1 Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany 4 4 0 0 30 - 06 8
2 Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg Romania 4 2 1 1 22 - 16 5
3 Flag of Austria.svg Austria 4 2 1 1 15 - 20 5
4 Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark 4 1 0 3 08 - 18 2
5 Flag of Hungary (1957-1989) Hungary 4 0 0 4 10 - 25 0

Hungary was relegated to Group C.

16 March Hungary Flag of Hungary (1957-1989) 2-10
Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany
16 March Romania Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg 7-7
Flag of Austria.svg Austria
17 March Austria Flag of Austria.svg 4-3
Flag of Hungary (1957-1989) Hungary
17 March Denmark Flag of Denmark.svg 1-9
Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany
18 March Romania Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg 4-1
Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark
19 March Romania Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg 8-4
Flag of Hungary (1957-1989) Hungary
19 March Austria Flag of Austria.svg 0-7
Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany
20 March Hungary Flag of Hungary (1957-1989) 1-3
Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark
21 March Austria Flag of Austria.svg 4-3
Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark
21 March Romania Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg 3-4
Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany

Group 2[]

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Points difference Points
1 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands 4 4 0 0 29 - 08 8
2 Flag of Norway.svg Norway 4 3 0 1 16 - 13 6
3 Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland 4 2 0 2 13 - 17 4
4 Flag of Japan.svg Japan 4 1 0 3 20 - 17 2
5 Flag of China.svg China 4 0 0 4 08 - 31 0

China was relegated to Group C.

16 March Norway Flag of Norway.svg 5-1
Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland
16 March Japan Flag of Japan.svg 5-6
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands
17 March Netherlands Flag of the Netherlands.svg 8-1
Flag of Norway.svg Norway
17 March China Flag of China.svg 4-6
Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland
18 March Japan Flag of Japan.svg 9-3
Flag of China.svg China
19 March Japan Flag of Japan.svg 3-4
Flag of Norway.svg Norway
19 March Netherlands Flag of the Netherlands.svg 5-2
Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland
20 March Norway Flag of Norway.svg 6-1
Flag of China.svg China
21 March Netherlands Flag of the Netherlands.svg 10-0
Flag of China.svg China
21 March Japan Flag of Japan.svg 3-4
Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland

Final round[]

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Points difference Points
9 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands 3 3 0 0 15 - 06 6
10 Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany 3 2 0 1 16 - 09 4
11 Flag of Romania.svg Romania 3 1 0 2 08 - 09 2
12 Flag of Norway.svg Norway 3 0 0 3 05 - 20 0

The Netherlands were promoted to Group A.

23 March East Germany Flag of East Germany.svg 9-2
Flag of Norway.svg Norway
23 March Romania Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg 2-3
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands
24 March East Germany Flag of East Germany.svg 3-4
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands
24 March Romania Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg 3-2
Flag of Norway.svg Norway

Consolation round[]

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Points difference Points
13 Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland 3 3 0 0 14 - 06 6
14 Flag of Japan.svg Japan 3 2 0 1 17 - 10 4
15 Flag of Austria.svg Austria 3 1 0 2 08 - 13 2
16 Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark 3 0 0 3 08 - 18 0

Both Austria and Denmark were relegated to Group C.

23 March Denmark Flag of Denmark.svg 1-3
Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland
23 March Austria Flag of Austria.svg 2-3
Flag of Japan.svg Japan
24 March Denmark Flag of Denmark.svg 4-11
Flag of Japan.svg Japan
24 March Austria Flag of Austria.svg 2-7
Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland

World Championship Group C (Spain)[]

Played in Barcelona March 16–25. This tournament was supposed to be played in China but the Chinese said that they would deny entrance to the South Korean team. To avoid political issues with the two playing each other, both China and Denmark (last year's 3rd and 4th place teams) were elevated to Group B and two extra nations were allowed to participate in Group C.[3]

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Points difference Points
19 Flag of Yugoslavia.svg Yugoslavia 7 7 0 0 83 - 10 14
20 Flag of Italy.svg Italy 7 6 0 1 64 - 17 12
21 Flag of France.svg France 7 5 0 2 59 - 27 10
22 Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990) Bulgaria 7 4 0 3 35 - 28 8
23 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain 7 2 0 5 23 - 68 4
24 Flag of Spain (1977 - 1981) Spain 7 2 0 5 25 - 48 4
25 Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea 7 1 1 5 16 - 67 3
26 Flag of Australia.svg Australia 7 0 1 6 13 - 53 1

Both Yugoslavia and Italy were promoted to Group B.

16 March Spain Flag of Spain (1977 - 1981) 7-1
Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea
16 March Bulgaria Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990) 0-3
Flag of France.svg France
16 March Great Britain Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 0-12
Flag of Italy.svg Italy
16 March Australia Flag of Australia.svg 0-10
Flag of Yugoslavia.svg Yugoslavia
17 March Australia Flag of Australia.svg 4-12
Flag of Italy.svg Italy
17 March France Flag of France.svg 5-7
Flag of Yugoslavia.svg Yugoslavia
18 March South Korea Flag of South Korea.svg 9-6
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
18 March Bulgaria Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990) 5-4
Flag of Spain (1977 - 1981) Spain
19 March France Flag of France.svg 9-3
Flag of Australia.svg Australia
19 March Great Britain Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 2-4
Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990) Bulgaria
19 March Yugoslavia Flag of Yugoslavia.svg 18-0
Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea
19 March Spain Flag of Spain (1977 - 1981) 1-10
Flag of Italy.svg Italy
20 March Australia Flag of Australia.svg 3-5
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
20 March Italy Flag of Italy.svg 11-0
Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea
21 March Bulgaria Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990) 1-7
Flag of Yugoslavia.svg Yugoslavia
21 March France Flag of France.svg 8-2
Flag of Spain (1977 - 1981) Spain
22 March South Korea Flag of South Korea.svg 0-0
Flag of Australia.svg Australia
22 March Italy Flag of Italy.svg 8-4
Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990) Bulgaria
22 March Great Britain Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 3-15
Flag of France.svg France
22 March Yugoslavia Flag of Yugoslavia.svg 16-1
Flag of Spain (1977 - 1981) Spain
24 March Spain Flag of Spain (1977 - 1981) 4-6
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
24 March Yugoslavia Flag of Yugoslavia.svg 4-2
Flag of Italy.svg Italy
24 March South Korea Flag of South Korea.svg 3-15
Flag of France.svg France
24 March Australia Flag of Australia.svg 1-11
Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990) Bulgaria
25 March Great Britain Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 1-21
Flag of Yugoslavia.svg Yugoslavia
25 March France Flag of France.svg 4-9
Flag of Italy.svg Italy
25 March South Korea Flag of South Korea.svg 3-10
Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990) Bulgaria
25 March Spain Flag of Spain (1977 - 1981) 6-2
Flag of Australia.svg Australia

Ranking and statistics[]

 


 1979 IIHF World Championship Winners 
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg
Soviet Union
16th title

Final standings[]

The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:

Gold medal icon Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
Silver medal icon Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
Bronze medal icon Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg Czechoslovakia
4 Flag of Canada.svg Canada
5 Flag of the United States.svg United States
6 Flag of Finland.svg Finland
7 Flag of Germany.svg West Germany
8 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands

European championships final standings[]

The final standings of the European championships according to IIHF:

Gold medal icon Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
Silver medal icon Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
Bronze medal icon Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg Czechoslovakia
4 Flag of Finland.svg Finland
5 Flag of Germany.svg West Germany
6 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands

Team Photos[]

Citations[]

References[]

  • Complete results
  • Duplacey, James (1998). Total Hockey: The official encyclopedia of the National Hockey League. Total Sports, 498–528. ISBN 0-8362-7114-9. 
  • Podnieks, Andrew (2010). IIHF Media Guide & Record Book 2011. Moydart Press, 147–8. 


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