Athletics at the 1979 Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR

The athletics events of the final stage of the 7th Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR were held in the Central Lenin (Luzhniki) Stadium in Moscow between 21 July and 29 July 1979.

1979 Soviet Spartakiad
Dates21 – 29 July 1979
Host cityMoscow, Russian SFSR
VenueCentral Lenin Stadium
LevelSenior
TypeOutdoor

One world record was broken, by Marina Makeyeva in the women's 400 m hurdles.

Men's events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m   Silvio Leonard (CUB) 10.30   Houston McTear (USA) 10.39   Osvaldo Lara (CUB) 10.41
200 m   Wardell Gilbreath (USA) 20.84   Don Coleman (USA) 21.05   Nikolay Sidorov (URS) 21.20
400 m   Stan Vinson (USA) 45.70   Nikolay Chernetskiy (URS) 46.05   Dele Udo (NGR) 46.15
800 m   Anatoliy Reshetnyak (URS) 1:47.2   Vladimir Podolyako (URS) 1:47.4   Detlef Wagenknecht (GDR) 1:47.5
1500 m   Vladimir Ponomaryov (URS) 3:38.6   Craig Masback (USA) 3:38.9   Andreas Busse (GDR) 3:39.1
5000 m   Miruts Yifter (ETH) 13:20.8   Yohannes Mohamed (ETH) 13:21.1   Valeriy Abramov (URS) 13:21.7
10,000 m   Miruts Yifter (ETH) 27:44.2   Aleksandras Antipovas (URS) 27:47.4   Gerard Barrett (AUS) 27:50.7
Marathon   Leonid Moseyev (URS) 2:13:19.6[1]   Shigeru So (JPN) 2:13:19.8   Viktor Zubov (URS) 2:13:20
20 km walk   Nikolay Vinnichenko (URS) 1:22:29.0   Anatoliy Solomin (URS) 1:22:39.2   Boris Yakovlev (URS) 1:23:06.3
50 km walk   Viktor Dorovskikh (URS) 3:46:25   Vladimir Rezayev (URS) 3:46:57   Vyacheslav Fursov (URS) 3:47:55
110 m hurdles   Aleksandr Puchkov (URS) 13.68   Andrey Prokofyev (URS) 13.76   Andrey Korostelev (URS) 13.94
400 m hurdles   Vasyl Arkhypenko (URS) 49.11   Dmitriy Stukalov (URS) 50.23   Valeriy Mashkovskiy (URS) 50.85
3000 m SC   Henry Marsh (USA) 8:28.1   Paul Copu (ROM) 8:28.6   Vladimir Lisovskiy (URS) 8:29.7
4 × 100 m relay   United States (USA)
Cliff Wiley
Rich Edwards
Wardell Gilbreath
Don Coleman
39.33   Moscow (URS)
Semyon Vakhanelov
Andrey Shlyapnikov
Aleksandr Cherkashin
Nikolay Sidorov
39.48   Leningrad (URS)
Yevgeniy Kovalyov
Yuriy Naumenko
Aleksandr Aksinin
Nikolay Kolesnikov
39.57
4 × 200 m relay   United States (USA)
Carl Lewis
Don Coleman
Wardell Gilbreath
Rich Edwards
1:22.0   Leningrad (URS)
Mikhail Kravtsov
Aleksandr Stasevich
Ivan Babenko
Sergey Vladimirtsev
1:22.5   Moscow (URS)
Andrey Shlyapnikov
Nikolay Sidorov
Aleksandr Cherkashin
Aleksandr Yagudin
1:23.2
4 × 400 m relay   United States (USA)[2]
Cliff Wiley
Ronnie Harris
Fred Taylor
Stan Vinson
3:03.7   Moscow (URS)
Leonid Korolev
Mikhail Linge
Dmitry Stukalov
Nikolay Chernetsky
3:03.9   Ukraine (URS)
Vladimir Belokon
Pawel Roschtschin
Valeriy Moshkovskiy
Viktor Burakov
3:05.2
4 × 800 m relay   Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BLR)
Mikhail Starovoitov
Pavel Troshchilo
Vladimir Podolyako
Nikolay Kirov
7:11.1   Leningrad (URS)
Vladimir Ponomaryov
Viktor Anokhin
Vladimir Malozemlin
Nikolay Shirokov
7:12.7   Ukraine (URS)
Valeriy Liskov
Sergey Shapovalov
Vitaliy Tyshchenko
Anatoliy Reshetnyak
7:13.1
High jump   Aleksandr Grigoryev (URS) 2.24   Benn Fields (USA) 2.24   Gerd Nagel (FRG) 2.21
Pole vault   Konstantin Volkov (URS) 5.55   Vladimir Trofimenko (URS) 5.50   Antti Kalliomäki (FIN) 5.45
Long jump   Frank Paschek (GDR) 8.25   David Giralt (CUB) 8.12   Carl Lewis (USA) 8.04
Triple jump   Gennadiy Valyukevich (URS) 17.21   Jaak Uudmäe (URS) 16.84   Anatoliy Piskulin (URS) 16.76
Shot put   Valeriy Voykin (URS) 20.58   Vladimir Kiselyov (URS) 20.39   Anatoliy Yarosh (URS) 20.38
Discus throw   John Powell (USA) 63.06   Velko Velev (BUL) 62.68   Pyotr Mikhailov (URS) 62.14
Hammer throw   Sergey Litvinov (URS) 77.08   Aleksey Malyukov (URS) 75.42   Aleksandr Buneyev (URS) 75.10
Javelin throw   Detlef Michel (GDR) 87.46   Karl Heller (GDR) 86.80   Arto Härkönen (FIN) 85.68
Decathlon   Aleksandr Grebenyuk (URS) 8166   Konstantin Akhapkin (URS) 8111   Yuriy Kutsenko (URS) 8086

Women's events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m   Lyudmila Kondratyeva (URS) 11.19   Karen Hawkins (USA) 11.32   Vera Anisimova (URS) 11.39
200 m   Lyudmila Kondratyeva (URS) 22.66   Karen Hawkins (USA) 23.06   Marina Sidorova (URS) 23.45
400 m   Mariya Kulchunova (URS) 49.77   Nina Zyuskova (URS) 50.42   Tatyana Goyshchik (URS) 50.49
800 m   Yekaterina Poryvkina (URS) 1:57.2   Nadezhda Mushta (URS) 1:57.5   Olga Mineyeva (URS) 1:57.8
1500 m   Natalia Mărășescu (ROM) 3:58.8   Giana Romanova (URS) 4:00.5   Valentina Ilyinykh (URS) 4:01.1
3000 m   Svetlana Ulmasova (URS) 8:46.0   Valentina Ilyinykh (URS) 8:46.5   Lyubov Kopeykina (URS) 8:49.1
100 m hurdles   Tatyana Anisimova (URS) 12.90   Vera Komisova (URS) 12.94   Nina Morgulina (URS) 13.10
400 m hurdles   Marina Makeyeva (URS) 54.78 WR   Tatyana Storozheva (URS) 55.08   Tatyana Zelentsova (URS) 55.64
4 × 100 m relay   Moscow (URS)
Vera Anisimova
Lyudmila Storozhkova
Olga Korotkova
Irina Litovchenko
43.74   Leningrad (URS)
Vera Komisova
Tatyana Anisimova
Galina Dyachenko
Tatyana Savchenko
44.07   Ukraine (URS)
Larisa Sivokon
Elena Potrebenko
Raisa Makhova
Victoria Dashchenko
44.47
4 × 200 m relay   Ukraine (URS)
Raisa Makhova
Nina Zyuskova
Tatyana Prorochenko
Mariya Pinigina
1:30.8   Moscow (URS)
Irina Galchenkova
Irina Nazarova
Olga Korotkova
Vera Anisimova
1:31.6   Russian SFSR (URS)
Vera Akchurina
Lyudmila Chernova
Nadezhda Aldoshina
Tatyana Goyshchik
1:32.3
4 × 400 m relay   Ukraine (URS)
Irina Olkhovnikova
Nina Zyuskova
Tatyana Prorochenko
Mariya Pinigina
3:26.1   Russian SFSR (URS)
Tatyana Goyshchik
Olga Mineyeva
Marina Stepanova
Nadezhda Olizarenko
3:26.2   Moscow (URS)
Natalya Ivanova
Svetlana Styrkina
Vera Gracheva
Irina Nazarova
3:32.9
4 × 800 m relay   Russian SFSR (URS)
Olga Mineyeva
Maria Enkina
Nadezhda Olizarenko
Yekaterina Podkopayeva
7:59.6   Ukraine (URS)
Tamara Koba
Svetlana Popova
Lyubov Smolka
Olga Vakhrusheva
8:03.2   Leningrad (URS)
Natalya Kuznetsova
Tatyana Kazankina
Olga Dvirna
Lyudmila Veselkova
8:04.9
High jump   Yelena Goloborodko (URS) 1.91   Nataliya Litvinenko (URS) 1.89   Tatyana Denisova (URS) 1.89
Long jump   Anita Stukane (URS) 6.66   Nadezhda Karyakina (URS) 6.39   Lyudmila Khaustova (URS) 6.37
Shot put   Ilona Slupianek (GDR) 21.52   Margitta Pufe (GDR) 21.45   Helena Fibingerová (TCH) 21.23
Discus throw   Svetlana Melnikova (URS) 64.90   Margitta Pufe (GDR) 63.74   Lyudmila Isayeva (URS) 62.16
Javelin throw   Saida Gunba (URS) 63.08   María Caridad Colón (CUB) 62.30   Ute Hommola (GDR) 60.08
Pentathlon   Yekaterina Smirnova (URS) 4770   Olga Kuragina (URS) 4629   Nadezhda Karyakina (URS) 4554

References

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  1. ^ "World Marathon Rankings for 1979". Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  2. ^ "Wiley's Cross-World Jaunt Pays: Wiley Jumped at Chance to Compete in Spartakiade, Other European Meets". The Washington Post. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
Results
  • Soviet Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-07-16.
  • Track and Field. (Russian: Лёгкая атлетика. Справочник) Handbook / Compiled by R. V. Orlov . - M .: "Physical Education and Sport", 1983. - pg. 392
  • Panorama of the sports year (Russian: Панорама спортивного года) - 1979 / Compiled by A. N. Korolkov. - M .: Physical Education and Sport , 1980. - pg. 91-95.
  • Seventh All-People's (Russian: Седьмая всенародная) // Track and Field: magazine. - 1979. - No. 9. - pg. 1-3.
  • Friendship Festival (Russian: Праздник дружбы) // Track and Field: magazine. - 1979. - No. 10. - pg. 2.
  • Balakhnichev V., Maslakov V., Chevychalov G. From the Spartakiad to the Olympics (Russian: От Спартакиады к Олимпиаде) // Track and Field: magazine. - 1979. - No. 10 . - pg. 3-10.
  • Aptekman B., Leonenko I., Borisov V., Morozov A., Fruktov A., Kulichenko V., Källe U. Courage is the key to records (Russian: Смелость — ключ к рекордам) // Track and Field: magazine. - 1979. - No. 10 . - pg. 11-21.
  • Strizhak A., Yagodin V., Ter-Ovanesyan I., Kreer V. To the main start - in the best shape (Russian: главному старту — в лучшей форме) // Track and Field: magazine. - 1979. - No. 10 . - pg. 22-28.
  • Krasnov I., Bukhantsov K., Bondarchuk A., Lusis Ya. Is the role of the avant-garde possible? (Russian: Под силу ли роль авангарда?) // Track and Field: magazine. - 1979. - No. 10. - pg. 29-32.
  • Elfimov A., Seropegin D. Good experience (Russian: Хороший опыт) // Track and Field: magazine. - 1979. - No. 11. - pg. 4-5.
  • At the stadiums of the country and the world. USSR Cross-Country Championship (Russian: На стадионах страны и мира. Чемпионат СССР по кроссу) // Track and Field: magazine. — 1979. — No. 5. — pg. 24.
  • Final of the XVIII All-Union Cross-Country Race for the Prizes of the Pravda Newspaper (Russian: Финал XVIII Всесоюзного кросса на призы газеты «Правда») // Track and Field: Magazine. — 1979. — No. 6. — pg. 21.