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

100 m10.3010.3910.41 200 m20.8421.0521.20 400 m45.7046.0546.15 800 m1:47.21:47.41:47.5 1500 m3:38.63:38.93:39.1 5000 m13:20.813:21.113:21.7 10,000 m27:44.227:47.427:50.7 Marathon2:13:19.62:13:19.82:13:20 20 km walk1:22:29.01:22:39.21:23:06.3 50 km walk3:46:253:46:573:47:55 110 m hurdles13.6813.7613.94 400 m hurdles49.1150.2350.85 3000 m SC8:28.18:28.68:29.7 4 × 100 m relayCliff WileyRich EdwardsWardell GilbreathDon Coleman39.33Semyon VakhanelovAndrey ShlyapnikovAleksandr CherkashinNikolay Sidorov39.48Yevgeniy KovalyovYuriy NaumenkoAleksandr AksininNikolay Kolesnikov39.57 4 × 200 m relay Carl LewisDon ColemanWardell GilbreathRich Edwards 1:22.0 Mikhail KravtsovAleksandr StasevichIvan BabenkoSergey Vladimirtsev 1:22.5 Andrey ShlyapnikovNikolay SidorovAleksandr CherkashinAleksandr Yagudin 1:23.2 4 × 400 m relayCliff WileyRonnie HarrisFred TaylorStan Vinson3:03.7Leonid KorolevMikhail LingeDmitry StukalovNikolay Chernetsky3:03.9Vladimir BelokonPawel RoschtschinValeriy MoshkovskiyViktor Burakov3:05.2 4 × 800 m relay Mikhail StarovoitovPavel TroshchiloVladimir PodolyakoNikolay Kirov 7:11.1 Vladimir PonomaryovViktor AnokhinVladimir MalozemlinNikolay Shirokov 7:12.7 Valeriy LiskovSergey ShapovalovVitaliy TyshchenkoAnatoliy Reshetnyak 7:13.1 High jump2.242.242.21 Pole vault5.555.505.45 Long jump8.258.128.04 Triple jump17.2116.8416.76 Shot put20.5820.3920.38 Discus throw63.0662.6862.14 Hammer throw77.0875.4275.10 Javelin throw87.4686.8085.68 Decathlon816681118086

Women's events 100 m11.1911.3211.39 200 m22.6623.0623.45 400 m49.7750.4250.49 800 m1:57.21:57.51:57.8 1500 m3:58.84:00.54:01.1 3000 m8:46.08:46.58:49.1 100 m hurdles12.9012.9413.10 400 m hurdles54.78 55.0855.64 4 × 100 m relayVera AnisimovaLyudmila StorozhkovaOlga KorotkovaIrina Litovchenko43.74Vera KomisovaTatyana AnisimovaGalina DyachenkoTatyana Savchenko44.07Larisa SivokonElena PotrebenkoRaisa MakhovaVictoria Dashchenko44.47 4 × 200 m relay Raisa MakhovaNina ZyuskovaTatyana ProrochenkoMariya Pinigina 1:30.8 Irina GalchenkovaIrina NazarovaOlga KorotkovaVera Anisimova 1:31.6 Vera AkchurinaLyudmila ChernovaNadezhda AldoshinaTatyana Goyshchik 1:32.3 4 × 400 m relay Irina OlkhovnikovaNina ZyuskovaTatyana ProrochenkoMariya Pinigina 3:26.1 Tatyana GoyshchikOlga MineyevaMarina StepanovaNadezhda Olizarenko 3:26.2 Natalya IvanovaSvetlana StyrkinaVera GrachevaIrina Nazarova 3:32.9 4 × 800 m relay Olga MineyevaMaria EnkinaNadezhda OlizarenkoYekaterina Podkopayeva 7:59.6 Tamara KobaSvetlana PopovaLyubov SmolkaOlga Vakhrusheva 8:03.2 Natalya KuznetsovaTatyana KazankinaOlga DvirnaLyudmila Veselkova 8:04.9 High jump1.911.891.89 Long jump6.666.396.37 Shot put21.5221.4521.23 Discus throw64.9063.7462.16 Javelin throw63.0862.3060.08 Pentathlon477046294554

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