The FIBT World Championships 1979 took place in Königssee, West Germany. It was the first championships that took place on an artificially refrigerated track. The track also hosted the luge world championships that same year, the first time that had ever happened in both bobsleigh and luge in a non-Winter Olympic year (Igls hosted both events for the 1976 games in neighboring Innsbruck.).

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Pos	Team	Time
Gold	Switzerland (Erich Schärer, Josef Benz)
Silver	West Germany (Stefan Gaisreiter, Manfred Schumann, Fritz Ohlwärter)
Bronze	West Germany (Toni Mangold, Stefan Späte)

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Ohlwärter replaced the injured Schumann after the third heat of this event.

• 2-Man bobsleigh World Champions
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