| Tournament details | |||
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| Dates | 20 January – 22 January 1979 | ||
| Edition | 1st | ||
| Location | Tokyo, Japan | ||
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The1979 Badminton World Cup was the 1st edition of an international tournamentBadminton World Cup. The event was held in Tokyo, Japan from 20 January to 22 January 1979. Competitions for mixed doubles were not conducted. Indonesia won men's singles and men's doubles events while Japan won women's doubles and Denmark won women's singles event.
| Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||
 Liem Swie King | 15 | 15 | |||||||||||
 Kevin Jolly | 7 | 5 | |||||||||||
| Liem Swie King | 15 | 15 | |||||||||||
| Iie Sumirat | 8 | 8 | |||||||||||
| Iie Sumirat | 15 | 15 | |||||||||||
 Flemming Delfs | 7 | 7 | |||||||||||
| Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||
| Lene Køppen | 12 | 3 | 11 | ||||||||||
| Verawaty Wiharjo | 11 | 11 | 7 | ||||||||||
| Lene Køppen | 11 | 11 | |||||||||||
 Hiroe Yuki | 7 | 6 | |||||||||||
| Ivana Lie | 2 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Hiroe Yuki | 11 | 11 | |||||||||||
| Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||
| Imelda WigunaVerawaty Wiharjo | 15 | 18 | |||||||||||
| Atsuko TokudaMikiko Takada | 6 | 15 | |||||||||||
| Imelda WigunaVerawaty Wiharjo | 3 | 7 | |||||||||||
| Emiko UenoYoshiko Yonekura | 15 | 15 | |||||||||||
| Kazuko SekineSonoe Ōtsuka | 2 | 7 | |||||||||||
| Emiko UenoYoshiko Yonekura | 15 | 15 | |||||||||||