1979 European Cup (athletics)

The 1979 European Cup was the 7th edition of the European Cup of athletics.^[1]

The Super League Finals were held in Turin, Italy.

Overall

Men
Pos.	Nation	Points
1	East Germany	125
2	Soviet Union	114
3	West Germany	110
4	Poland	90
5	Great Britain	82
6	Italy	79
7	France	70,5
8	Yugoslavia	49,5

Women
Pos.	Nation	Points
1	East Germany	102
2	Soviet Union	100
3	Bulgaria	76
4	Great Britain	62
5	Romania	58
	West Germany	58
7	Poland	55
8	Italy	29

Results

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: 1.3 m/s)	Pietro Mennea Italy	10.15	Marian Woronin Poland	10.16	Allan Wells Great Britain	10.19
200 m (Wind: 2.2 m/s)	Allan Wells Great Britain	20.29w	Pietro Mennea Italy	20.31w	Marian Woronin Poland	20.43w
400 m	Harald Schmid West Germany	45.31	Mauro Zuliani Italy	45.35	Andreas Knebel East Germany	45.76
800 m	Sebastian Coe Great Britain	1:47.28	Dragan Životic Yugoslavia	1:48.03	Willi Wülbeck West Germany	1:48.11
1500 m	Jürgen Straub East Germany	3:36.27 CR	Thomas Wessinghage West Germany	3:36.40	Graham Williamson Great Britain	3:38.34
5000 m	Hansjörg Kunze East Germany	14:12.88	Aleksandr Fedotkin Soviet Union	14:13.97	Mike McLeod Great Britain	14:15.91
10,000 m	Brendan Foster Great Britain	28:22.86	Aleksandras Antipovas Soviet Union	28:40.32	Frank Zimmermann West Germany	28:42.09
3000 m steeplechase	Mariano Scartezzini Italy	8:22.74	Michael Karst West Germany	8:23.75	Anatoliy Dimov Soviet Union	8:25.87
110 m hurdles	Thomas Munkelt East Germany	13.37 CR	Jan Pusty Poland	13.60	Eduard Pereverzev Soviet Union	13.63
400 m hurdles	Harald Schmid West Germany	47.85 CR, AR, NR	Vasiliy Arkhipenko Soviet Union	48.35	Volker Beck East Germany	48.58
4 × 100 m	Poland	38.47 CR	East Germany	38.70	France	38.71
4 × 400 m	West Germany	3:01.91	East Germany	3:02.15	Soviet Union	3:02.35
High jump	Dietmar Mögenburg West Germany	2.32 CR	Rolf Beilschmidt East Germany	2.30	Aleksandr Grigoryev Soviet Union	2.24
Pole vault	Konstantin Volkov Soviet Union	5.60	Patrick Abada France	5.60	Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz Poland	5.55
Long jump	Lutz Dombrowski East Germany	8.31 CR	Grzegorz Cybulski Poland	8.03	Valeriy Podluzhniy Soviet Union	7.95
Triple jump	Bernard Lamitié France	16.94	Roberto Mazzucato Italy	16.92	Anatoliy Piskulin Soviet Union	16.91
Shot put	Udo Beyer East Germany	21.13	Ralf Reichenbach West Germany	20.27	Aleksandr Baryshnikov Soviet Union	20.25
Discus throw	Wolfgang Schmidt East Germany	66.76	Alwin Wagner West Germany	62.96	Igor Duginyets Soviet Union	62.72
Hammer throw	Karl-Hans Riehm West Germany	78.66	Sergey Litvinov Soviet Union	76.90	Roland Steuk East Germany	75.76
Javelin throw	Wolfgang Hanisch East Germany	88.68	Michael Wessing West Germany	87.38	Aleksandr Makarov Soviet Union	82.26
WR world record \| AR area record \| CR championship record \| GR games record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB personal best \| SB season best \| WL world leading (in a given season)

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: 0.3 m/s)	Marlies Göhr East Germany	11.03 CR	Lyudmila Kondratyeva Soviet Union	11.15	Annegret Richter West Germany	11.22
200 m (Wind: 0.2 m/s)	Lyudmila Kondratyeva Soviet Union	22.40 CR	Marlies Göhr East Germany	22.50	Annegret Richter West Germany	22.75
400 m	Marita Koch East Germany	48.60 CR	Mariya Kulchunova Soviet Union	49.63	Irena Szewinska Poland	51.27
800 m	Nikolina Shtereva Bulgaria	1:56.29 CR	Yekaterina Poryvkina Soviet Union	1:57.57	Anita Weiss East Germany	1:57.92
1500 m	Totka Petrova Bulgaria	4:03.13 CR	Giana Romanova Soviet Union	4:03.38	Natalia Marasescu Romania	4:03.74
3000 m	Svetlana Guskova Soviet Union	8:52.00	Maricica Puica Romania	8:52.66	Vesela Yatsinska Bulgaria	8:52.89
100 m hurdles	Tatyana Anisimova Soviet Union	12.77 CR	Grazyna Rabsztyn Poland	12.85	Daniela Teneva Bulgaria	13.17
400 m hurdles	Marina Makeyeva Soviet Union	54.82 CR	Karin Rossley East Germany	55.10	Silvia Hollmann West Germany	56.74
4 × 100 m	East Germany	42.09 CR	Soviet Union	42.29	Great Britain	43.18
4 × 400 m	East Germany	3:19.62 CR	Soviet Union	3:20.39	Great Britain	3:27.89
High jump	Rosemarie Ackermann East Germany	1.99 CR	Sara Simeoni Italy	1.94	Urszula Kielan Poland	1.92
Long jump	Brigitte Wujak East Germany	6.89	Doina Anton Romania	6.60	Lidia Gusheva Bulgaria	6.47
Shot put	Ilona Slupianek East Germany	20.93	Nunu Abashidze Soviet Union	19.75	Ivanka Petrova Bulgaria	19.63
Discus throw	Evelin Jahl East Germany	68.92	Svetlana Melnikova Soviet Union	66.06	Svetla Bozhkova Bulgaria	62.82
Javelin throw	Eva Raduly-Zörgö Romania	66.28	Ruth Fuchs East Germany	65.46	Tessa Sanderson Great Britain	62.38
WR world record \| AR area record \| CR championship record \| GR games record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB personal best \| SB season best \| WL world leading (in a given season)

References

↑ "The SPAR European Cup: Memories of Europe's premier team athletics event". european-athletics.org. Retrieved 3 November 2012.

External links

European Cup results (Men) from GBR Athletics
European Cup results (Women) from GBR Athletics

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