The 17th Biathlon World Championships were held in 1979 in Ruhpolding, West Germany.
[1] Manfred BeerKlaus SiebertFrank UllrichEberhard Rösch Simo HalonenHeikki IkolaErkki AntilaRaimo Seppänen Vladimir AlikinVladimir BarnashovNikolay KruglovAlexander Tikhonov