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.

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	(USA)	21.05	Nikolay Sidorov (URS)	21.20
400 m	(USA)	45.70	Nikolay Chernetskiy (URS)	46.05	Dele Udo (NGR)	46.15
800 m	Anatoliy Reshetnyak (URS)	1:47.2	(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	(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	(URS)	3:46:57	Vyacheslav Fursov (URS)	3:47:55
110 m hurdles	Aleksandr Puchkov (URS)	13.68	Andrey Prokofyev (URS)	13.76	(URS)	13.94
400 m hurdles	Vasyl Arkhypenko (URS)	49.11	Dmitriy Stukalov (URS)	50.23	(URS)	50.85
3000 m SC	Henry Marsh (USA)	8:28.1	Paul Copu (ROM)	8:28.6	(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	(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	(URS)	62.14
Hammer throw	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	77.08	Aleksey Malyukov (URS)	75.42	(URS)	75.10
Javelin throw	Detlef Michel (GDR)	87.46	(GDR)	86.80	Arto Härkönen (FIN)	85.68
Decathlon	Aleksandr Grebenyuk (URS)	8166	(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	(URS)	4:01.1
3000 m	Svetlana Ulmasova (URS)	8:46.0	(URS)	8:46.5	(URS)	8:49.1
100 m hurdles	Tatyana Anisimova (URS)	12.90	Vera Komisova (URS)	12.94	(URS)	13.10
400 m hurdles	Marina Makeyeva (URS)	54.78 WR	(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	(URS)	1.91	(URS)	1.89	(URS)	1.89
Long jump	Anita Stukane (URS)	6.66	(URS)	6.39	(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	(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	(URS)	4554

References[]

• Soviet Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-07-16.