1979 World Taekwondo Championships
Venue	Glaspalast Sindelfingen
Location	Stuttgart, West Germany
Dates	26–28 October 1979
Champions
Men	South Korea
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The 1979 World Taekwondo Championships are the 4th edition of the World Taekwondo Championships, and were held in Sindelfingen, Stuttgart, West Germany from October 26 to October 28, 1979. A total of 453 athletes and officials from 38 nations took part in the championships.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Finweight (−48 kg)	Lee Seung-kyung  South Korea	Jaime de Pablos  Mexico	Dae Sung Lee  United States
			Emilio Azofra  Spain
Flyweight (−52 kg)	Yang Ki-mo  South Korea	Jesús Benito  Spain	Ramiro Guzmán  Mexico
			Bachir Ouazzani  Morocco
Bantamweight (−56 kg)	Kim Yong-ki  South Korea	Pablo Arizmendi  Mexico	Chung Sik Choi  United States
			Dragan Veljović  West Germany
Featherweight (−60 kg)	Yim Dai-taik  South Korea	Reynaldo Salazar  Mexico	Bernd Bartsch  West Germany
			Martin Hall  Australia
Lightweight (−64 kg)	Park Oh-sung  South Korea	Greg Fears  United States	Henk Horsten  Netherlands
			Hubert Leuchter  West Germany
Welterweight (−68 kg)	Óscar Mendiola  Mexico	Lindsay Lawrence  Great Britain	Helmut Gärtner  West Germany
			Kim Moo-chun  South Korea
Light middleweight (−73 kg)	Rainer Müller  West Germany	Guillermo Aragonés  Mexico	Park Chung-ho  South Korea
			Hans Brugmans  Netherlands
Middleweight (−78 kg)	Kim Sang-chun  South Korea	Richard Schulz  West Germany	Byl Be Yao  Ivory Coast
			John Holloway  United States
Light heavyweight (−84 kg)	Jung Chan  South Korea	Eugen Nefedow  West Germany	Scott Rohr  United States
			Abdoulaye Cissé  Ivory Coast
Heavyweight (+84 kg)	Sjef Vos  Netherlands	Thomas Seabourne  United States	Keith Whittemore  Australia
			Carlos Obregón  Mexico

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	7	0	2	9
2	Mexico	1	4	2	7
3	West Germany	1	2	4	7
4	Netherlands	1	0	2	3
5	United States	0	2	4	6
6	Spain	0	1	1	2
7	Great Britain	0	1	0	1
8	Australia	0	0	2	2
	Ivory Coast	0	0	2	2
10	Morocco	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		10	10	20	40

• WTF Medal Winners Archived 2012-06-05 at the Wayback Machine

• WT Official Website