The final stage of the athletics events (also known as track and field) of the 6th Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR were held in the Central Lenin (Luzhniki) Stadium in Moscow between 27 July and 30 July 1979. Traditionally it also served as the 1975 Soviet Athletics Championships.
Overview During the four days there were awarded 37 sets of medals. The Spartakiad and Championship winners in decathlon and pentathlon competitions (combined events of track and field) were determined earlier from 7 to 9 June. Those events took place in Tallinn.
The competition was won by Moscow, followed by Ukrainian SSR, and Russian SFSR.
Two new Soviet records were made: Vladimir Kischkun won pole vault with a 5.45, breaking previous record by 4 cm, and Natalya Lebedeva won 100 metres hurdles with a new Soviet record of 12,8, cutting previous record by 0,2 seconds. The competition record in triple jump was set by Viktor Saneyev who defended his championship title by jumping 17.33 meters.
Same as during the 1971 Spartakiad, the triple-title champion of the Spartakiad became Valeriy Borzov earning 6 gold medals in total and repeating the record of Galina Popova (won in 1959 and 1963).
One event of the Soviet Athletic Championship, cross country running, which took place earlier in Tbilisi (April 20), was not part of the Spartakiad. Also, in 1975 there was the Soviet Indoor Athletics Championships which took place in Leningrad (February 18-19) and did not count towards the Spartakiad.
Men's events Track 100 m (Kyiv)10.210.310.4 200 m (Kyiv)20.6 (Ashgabat)20.9 (Minsk)20.9 400 m46.8 (Yessentuki)46.9 (Chirchiq)46.9 800 m (Rostov-on-Don)1:47.31:47.8 (Kyiv)1:47.9 1500 m (Krasnodar)3:41.3 (Chișinău)3:41.8 (Grodno)3:41.9 5000 m (Smolensk)13:38.0 (Moscow Oblast)13:38.4 (Frunze)13:44.8 10,000 m (Tartu)28:21.6 (Cheboksary)28:23.2 (Alma-Ata)28:23.8 110 m hurdles (Minsk)13.613.713.8 400 m hurdles (Gomel)49.550.450.6 3000 m SC8:27.6 (Brest)8:30.2 (Uzhhorod)8:32.2 4 × 100 m relayValery RatushniyAleksey GolourniyVladimir AtamasValery Borzov 39.5Aleksandr LebedevBoris IzmestyevMikhail LebedevAleksandr Kornelyuk 39.5Vladimir KashirinNikolay KolesnikovAleksandr AksininVyacheslav Kulebyakin 39.7 4 × 400 m relayYevgeny BorisenkoValery YurchenkoLeonid KorolyovSemyon Kocher 3:07.4Valeriy YudinAleksandr KarasyovPavel LitovchenkoAleksandr Bratchikov 3:07.9Arkadiy MedvedPavel KozbanDmitry StukalovViktor Mikhailov 3:08.3
Road Marathon2:15:27.8 (Alma-Ata)2:15:56.0 (Minsk)2:16:32.0 20 km walk (Frunze)1:27:12.0 (Grodno)1:27:41.2 (Sumy)1:28:02.6 50 km walk (Alma-Ata)3:58:54.83:58:56.24:03:37.4
Field High jump (Minsk)2.21 (Kryvyi Rih)2.18 (Chernivtsi)2.18 Pole vault5.45 NR (Sverdlovsk) (Riga)5.40not awarded Long jump (Donetsk)8.02 (Tallinn)7.757.69 Triple jump (Tbilisi)17.33 (Riga)16.6816.64 Shot put20.0219.82 (Kyiv)19.68 Discus throw61.18 (Stavropol)60.70 (Moscow Oblast)60.08 Hammer throw (Zaporizhia)75.8875.5673.44 Javelin throw (Vitebsk)83.28 (Zaporizhia)83.28 (Minsk)83.28
Women's events Track 100 m11.311.4 200 m22.8 400 m51.851.952.5 800 m1:59.4 1500 m4:07.9 3000 m9:00.6 100 m hurdles12.8 NR 4 × 100 m relayNadezhda BesfamilnayaLyudmila MaslakovaTatyana SinyovaVera Anisimova 43.7 4 × 400 m relayAnna DundereSarmīte ŠtūlaIngrīda BarkāneInta Kļimoviča 3:30.2
Field High jump1.85 Long jump6.67 Shot put21.02 Discus throw67.80 Javelin throw59.54
Combined events Men's events Decathlon8229
Women's events Pentathlon4695 (4679)
References
Лёгкая атлетика. Справочник / Составитель Р. В. Орлов. — М.: «Физкультура и спорт», 1983. — 392 с. Панорама спортивного года. 1975 / Составитель А. Н. Корольков. — М.: Физкультура и спорт, 1976. — С. 31–35.