470 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MEDEMBLIK - NETHERLANDS - 8-16 AUGUST 1979 FINAL RESULTS (Scores take into account one discard) 74 boats - 30 nations - 6 continents Final Rank Nation Sail no Crew Scores 1 Japan J 1045 Miyuki Kai / Ryo Komiya 34 2 France F 11974 Laurent Delage / Hervé Wattine 47 3 France F 11817 Stéphane Richer / Philippe Claude 63,4 4 F.R. Germany G 3986 John Pudenz / Ulrich Kittmann 67 5 Canada KC 474 Tom Matthews / Jay Cross 80,4 6 USA US 1477 Skip Whyte / Franny Charles 80,7 7 USA US 1480 David Ullman / Tom Linskey 85 8 German D.R. GO 21 Jörn Borowski / Egbert Swensson 86,7 9 Soviet Union SR 37 Vladimir Ignatenko / Edgar Terekhin 102 10 New Zealand KZ 65 Murray Jones / Andrew Knowles 104 11 France F 12055 Alain Chourgnoz / Xavier David 105 12 F.R. Germany G 3980 Lutz Patrunky / Martin Bruhns 111 13 Israel IS 27 Shimshon Brockman / Eitan Friedlander 114,7 14 Netherlands H 637 Henk van Gent / Jan Willem van den Hondel 118 15 Netherlands H 680 Willy van Bladel / Gees van Bladel 121 16 France F 11532 Jean-Yves le Deroff / Alain Champy 122 17 Italy I 2913 Ernesto Treves / Silvio Necchi 125 18 Japan J 1600 Kazunori Komatsu / Yasuyuki Hakomori 126 19 Canada KC 442 Jerry Roufs / Charles Robitaille 130 20 German D.R. GO 71 Ulrich Vater / Michael Schrötter 133 21 F.R. Germany G 3887 Wolfgang Hunger / Niels Körte 135 22 Italy I 2963 Gianluca Lamaro / Enrico Piccone 135,7 23 Netherlands H 712 Joop van Werkhoven / Robert van Werkhoven 136 24 Brazil BL 76 Ricardo Lebreiro / Carlos Chaves 145 25 F.R. Germany G 3932 Joachim Oetken / Stefan Oetken 147 26 Soviet Union SR 17 Yuriy Koryachkin / Vasili Koryachkin 152,7 27 Australia KA 145 Rod Beurteaux/ John Stubbs 153 28 Switzerland Z 1138 Rainer Frölich / Amedeo Vaccani 153,7 29 F.R. Germany G 3884 Jochen Hunger / Daniel Diesing 158 30 USA US 1482 David Kellogg / David Pritchard 159 31 New Zealand KZ 10 Mark Paterson / David Mackay 161 32 Poland PZ 317 Zbigniew Kania / Krzysztof Szymczak 165 33 Japan J 1598 Kokichi Takahashi / Kojuro Nakajima 167 34 Switzerland Z 1169 François Kistler / Jean-Luc Dreyer 169 35 Sweden S 195 Hans Liljebland / Anders Liljebland 176 36 Great Britain K 496 Edward Warden Owen / Jerry Richards 176 37 Japan J 1077 Saburo Sato / Masatoshi Sakaura 187 - 1 - 17th March 2014 470 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MEDEMBLIK - NETHERLANDS - 8-16 AUGUST 1979 FINAL RESULTS (Scores take into account one discard) 74 boats - 30 nations - 6 continents Final Rank Nation Sail no Crew Scores 38 France F 12049 Daniel Péponnet / Thierry Péponnet 187 39 USA US 424 Steve Cucchiaro / Charlotte Lewis 191,7 40 Belgium B 1105 Michel Lefebvre / Jacques Verroken 193 41 Ireland IR 39 Finian Lyden / Jan Gerard van der Puil 200 42 Sweden S 204 Olle Johansson / Lars Johansson 211 43 Great Britain K 491 Tony Wetherell / Nick Harrison 213 44 Italy I 2959 Roberto Bertocchi / Antonio Gerin 218 45 Switzerland Z 1158 Yves Diday / Alain Testuz 218 46 Italy I 2930 Antonio Santella / Paolo Carnevali 222 47 Belgium B 1140 Philippe Surkyn / Cathy Courtin 223,7 48 Netherlands H 738 John Stavenuiter/ Henneke Stavenuiter 229 49 Netherlands H 717 Jan van Ieperen / Marco van Ieperen 235 50 Spain E 1103 Angel Gutierrez / Gonzalo Javier 237 51 Australia KA 222 Gary Gietz / Peter Holmes 241 52 Norway N 68 Erik Monrad-Hansen / Jan Monrad-Hansen 242 53 Belgium B 1100 Peter Winters / Carl Winters 243 54 Chinese Taipei TA 1 Kui-Mon Lim / Yal-Mon Lim 245 55 Finland L 48 Patrik Ulfves / Mikael Ulfves 250 56 Israel IS 30 Arik Landau / Shuki Zinder 258 57 Brazil BL 102 Luiz Lebreiro / George L. Rider 264 58 Norway N 70 Jan Terje Molvig/ Geir Espen Molvig 272 59 Sweden S 176 Lars Bengtsson / Stefan Bengtsson 281 60 Finland L 31 Peter von Koskull / Lauri Lehtio 286 61 Bahamas BA 1 John Dunkley / James Lowe 290 62 Poland PZ 131 Ireneusz Pierwola/ Krzysztof Huras 291 63 Portugal P 81 Francisco Lufinha / Francisco Mourau 298 64 Luxembourg LX 62 Claude Michels / Jean-Claude Steffen 299 65 Argentina A 21 Alejandro Irigoyen / Pablo Campos 301 66 Portugal P 83 Pedro Arnoso / Miguel Empis 309 67 Austria OE 327 Dietmar Gfreiner / Helmut Wollner 313 68 Hong Kong KH 1 Alistair Sclare / John Lawton 320 69 Netherlands H 747 René de Wit / Rob de Wit 325 70 Ireland IR 43 Alistair Rumball / Donald O'Keeffe 347 71 Luxembourg LX 69 Joseph Trmata / Carlo Glangé 350 72 Austria OE 274 Wolfgang Bachleitner / Philipp Lang 350 73 Austria OE 272 Michael Praxmarer / Peter Farbowski 368 74 Egypt AR 12 Essam El-Naggar / Sadek Abdel Razek 385 - 2 - 17th March 2014.