Athletics at the 1979 Soviet Spartakiad
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.
For the first time in the history of the Soviet Spartakiad, non-Soviet athletes were invited to take part. Miruts Yifter of Ethiopia and Lyudmila Kondratyeva of the Soviet Union were the only athletes to win two individual events; both went on to become Olympic champions in the same stadium the following year.[1]
One world record was broken, by Marina Makeyeva in the women's 400 m hurdles.
Men's events
| 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[2] |  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) | 39.33 | Moscow (URS) | 39.48 | Leningrad (URS) | 39.57 |
| 4×400 m relay | United States (USA) | 3:03.7 | Moscow (URS) | 3:03.9 | Ukraine (URS) | 3:05.2 |
| 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
| 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) | 43.74 | Leningrad (URS) | 44.07 | Ukraine (URS) | 44.47 |
| 4×400 m relay | Ukraine (URS) | 3:26.1 | Russian SFSR (URS) | 3:26.2 | Moscow (URS) | 3:32.9 |
| 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
- ↑ Siukonen, Markku et al. (1980). Urheilutieto 5 (in Finnish). Oy Scandia Kirjat Ab. pp. 310–317. ISBN 951-9466-20-7.
- ↑ "World Marathon Rankings for 1979". Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 10 March 2015.