1979 European Figure Skating Championships
# 1979 European Figure Skating Championships

The 1979 European Figure Skating Championships was a senior-level international competition held in Zagreb, Yugoslavia from January 30 to February 4. Elite senior-level figure skaters from European ISU member nations competed for the title of European Champion in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

## Results

### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | CF | SP | FS |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Jan Hoffmann | East Germany | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | Vladimir Kovalev | Soviet Union | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 3 | Robin Cousins | United Kingdom | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | Jean-Christophe Simond | France | 4 | 6 | 3 |
| 5 | Igor Bobrin | Soviet Union | | | |
| 6 | Konstantin Kokora | Soviet Union | 12 | | |
| 7 | Hermann Schulz | East Germany | | | |
| 8 | Mario Liebers | East Germany | | | |
| 9 | Miroslav Šoška | Czechoslovakia | | | |
| 10 | László Vajda | Hungary | | | |
| 11 | Norbert Schramm | West Germany | | | |
| 12 | Thomas Nieder | West Germany | | | |
| 13 | Helmut Kristofics-Binder | Austria | | | |
| 14 | Grzegorz Głowania | Poland | | | |
| 15 | Christopher Howarth | United Kingdom | | | |
| 16 | Michel Lotz | France | | | |
| 17 | Jozef Sabovčík | Czechoslovakia | | | |
| 18 | Thomas Öberg | Sweden | | | |
| 19 | Matjaž Krušec | Yugoslavia | | | |
| 20 | Antti Kontiola | Finland | | | |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | CP | SP | FS |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Anett Pötzsch | East Germany | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | Dagmar Lurz | West Germany | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 3 | Denise Biellmann | Switzerland | 8 | 2 | 1 |
| 4 | Kristiina Wegelius | Finland | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 5 | Carola Weißenberg | East Germany | | | 3 |
| 6 | Karin Riediger | West Germany | | | |
| 7 | Sanda Dubravčić | Yugoslavia | 15 | 5 | 4 |
| 8 | Susanna Driano | Italy | 4 | | |
| 9 | Deborah Cottrill | United Kingdom | 7 | | |
| 10 | Kira Ivanova | Soviet Union | | | |
| 11 | Renata Baierová | Czechoslovakia | | | |
| 12 | Karena Richardson | United Kingdom | 6 | | |
| 13 | Susan Broman | Finland | 5 | | |
| 14 | Katarina Witt | East Germany | 18 | | 7 |
| 15 | Petra Ernert | West Germany | | | |
| 16 | Jeanne Chapman | Norway | | | |
| 17 | Natalia Strelkova | Soviet Union | | | |
| 18 | Sonja Stanek | Austria | | | |
| 19 | Anita Siegfried | Switzerland | | | |
| 20 | Astrid Jansen in de Wal | Netherlands | | | |
| 21 | Corine Wyrsch | Switzerland | | | |
| 22 | Anne-Sophie de Kristoffy | France | | | |
| 23 | Franca Bianconi | Italy | | | |
| 24 | Christina Svensson | Sweden | | | |
| 25 | Genevieve Schoumacker | Belgium | | | |
| 26 | Helena Chwila | Poland | | | |
| 27 | Heidi Bartelsen | Denmark | | | |
| 28 | Margarita Dimitrova | Bulgaria | | | |
| 29 | Gloria Mas | Spain | | | |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | Marina Cherkasova / Sergei Shakhrai | Soviet Union |
| 2 | Irina Vorobieva / Igor Lisovski | Soviet Union |
| 3 | Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach | East Germany |
| 4 | Marina Pestova / Stanislav Leonovich | Soviet Union |
| 5 | Kerstin Stolfig / Veit Kempe | East Germany |
| 6 | Ingrid Spieglová / Alan Spiegl | Czechoslovakia |
| 7 | Kornelia Haufe / Kersten Bellmann | East Germany |
| 8 | Christina Riegel / Andreas Nischwitz | West Germany |
| 9 | Maria Jeżak / Lech Matuszewski | Poland |
| 10 | Christine Eicher / Paul Huber | Switzerland |

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Nation |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | Natalia Linichuk / Gennadi Karponosov | Soviet Union |
| 2 | Irina Moiseeva / Andrei Minenkov | Soviet Union |
| 3 | Krisztina Regőczy / András Sallay | Hungary |
| 4 | Liliana Řeháková / Stanislav Drastich | Czechoslovakia |
| 5 | Natalia Karamysheva / Rostislav Sinitsyn | Soviet Union |
| 6 | Jayne Torvill / Christopher Dean | United Kingdom |
| 7 | Susi Handschmann / Peter Handschmann | Austria |
| 8 | Isabella Rizzi / Luigi Freroni | Italy |
| 9 | Henriette Fröschl / Christian Steiner | West Germany |
| 10 | Anna Pisánská / Jiří Musil | Czechoslovakia |
| 11 | Karen Barber / Nicholas Slater | United Kingdom |
| 12 | Halina Gordon / Jacek Tascher | Poland |
| 13 | Martine Olivier / Yves Tarayre | France |
| 14 | Jindra Holá / Karol Foltán | Czechoslovakia |
| 15 | Regula Lattmann / Hanspeter Müller | Switzerland |
| 16 | Gabriella Remport / Sándor Nagy | Hungary |
| 17 | Claudia Koch / Peter Schubl | Austria |
