# 1979 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's downhill

Men's downhill World Cup 1978/1979

## Final point standings

In men's downhill World Cup 1978/79 the best 5 results count. Seven racers had a point deduction, which are given in "" (brackets).
| Place | Name | Country | Total Points | Deduction | 2 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 29 |
| 1 | Peter Müller | Switzerland | 109 | (6) | - | 20 | 20 | (2) | 20 | - | (4) | 25 | 24 |
| 2 | Peter Wirnsberger | Austria | 89 | (2) | 8 | (2) | 11 | - | - | 20 | 25 | - | 25 |
| 3 | Toni Bürgler | Switzerland | 80 | | - | 11 | - | - | 25 | 2 | - | 22 | 20 |
| 4 | Uli Spieß | Austria | 75 | (2) | - | - | 4 | 15 | - | 15 | 20 | (2) | 21 |
| | Ken Read | Canada | 75 | | 25 | - | 15 | - | 15 | 1 | - | - | 19 |
| 6 | Leonhard Stock | Austria | 67 | | - | - | - | - | 6 | 4 | 11 | 24 | 22 |
| 7 | Herbert Plank | Italy | 65 | (4) | 11 | (4) | - | 20 | - | 8 | 15 | - | 11 |
| 8 | Werner Grissmann | Austria | 63 | (6) | - | - | - | 6 | 11 | 6 | (6) | 23 | 17 |
| | Sepp Ferstl | West Germany | 63 | (1) | (1) | - | - | 3 | - | 25 | 8 | 14 | 13 |
| 10 | Dave Murray | Canada | 52 | | 20 | - | 3 | - | 2 | - | - | 4 | 23 |
| | Steve Podborski | Canada | 52 | (1) | 2 | (1) | - | 25 | 4 | 3 | - | - | 18 |
| 12 | Erik Håker | Norway | 41 | | - | - | 25 | - | - | - | - | - | 16 |
| 13 | Josef Walcher | Austria | 40 | | - | 25 | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | - |
| 14 | Vladimir Makeev | Soviet Union | 35 | | 15 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 |
| 15 | Urs Räber | Switzerland | 27 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19 | 8 |
| 16 | Philippe Roux | Switzerland | 26 | | - | - | - | - | 8 | - | - | 18 | - |
| 17 | Walter Vesti | Switzerland | 25 | | - | 15 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 9 |
| | Erwin Josi | Switzerland | 25 | | - | - | - | 4 | 1 | 11 | - | 5 | 4 |
| 19 | Franz Klammer | Austria | 23 | | - | 8 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | 7 |
| 20 | Reinhard Schmalzl | Italy | 21 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 21 | - |
| | Harti Weirather | Austria | 21 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 15 |
| 22 | Olindo Cozzio | Italy | 20 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 20 | - |
| 23 | Jean-Marc Muffat | France | 18 | | - | - | - | 11 | - | - | - | 7 | - |
| | Michael Veith | West Germany | 18 | | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 11 | 2 |
| 25 | Bruno Fretz | Switzerland | 17 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17 | - |
| 26 | Lorenzo Cancian | Italy | 16 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | - |
| 27 | Karl Anderson | United States | 15 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 12 |
| 28 | Renato Antonioli | Italy | 14 | | - | - | 6 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Erwin Resch | Austria | 14 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | 3 |
| 30 | Hubert Nachbauer | Austria | 13 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | - |
| 31 | Mike Farny | United States | 12 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | - |
| 32 | Giuliano Giardini | Italy | 11 | | 6 | - | 2 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - |
| 33 | Anton Steiner | Austria | 10 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 9 | - |
| | Hans Kirchgasser | Austria | 10 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 |
| | Dave Irwin | Canada | 10 | | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 |
| 36 | Johnny Vicari | Italy | 8 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | - |
| 37 | Andy Mill | United States | 5 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 |
| 38 | Sepp Burcher | Switzerland | 4 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - |
| 39 | Klaus Happacher | Italy | 3 | | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 40 | Doug Powell | United States | 1 | | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Silvano Meli | Switzerland | 1 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| | Valeri Tsyganov | Soviet Union | 1 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |