The 1979 Military Friendship Athletics Championships was an international men's outdoor track and field competition between military athletes from states of the Eastern Bloc, including the Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Cuba. The competition was held in Potsdam, East Germany from 30 August to 1 September.
Poland's Marian Woronin claimed a sprint double in the 100 metres and 200 metres while East Germany's Jürgen Straub did the middle-distance equivalent in the 800 metres and 1500 metres. The most prominent athlete at the competition was the reigning 1976 Olympic hammer throw champion Yuriy Sedykh, who comfortably won his event by several metres. East German Ronald Weigel's win in the 20 kilometres race walk was also a standout performance, as the future world champion finished over two minutes ahead of his rivals.
Results 100 metres 10.38 10.46 10.35200 metres 20.87 20.97 21.09400 metres 46.37 46.65 46.79800 metres 1:46.9 1:47.8 1:48.01500 metres 3:33.7 3:37.4 3:37.65000 metres 13:45.1 13:46.4 13:50.710,000 metres 28:37.1 28:41.4 29:38.0110 m hurdles 13.96 14.04 14.05400 m hurdles 50.56 50.99 51.073000 m s'chase 8:31.1 8:31.9 8:33.74 × 100 m relayRyszard SadkowskiZenon LicznerskiMirosław KobielskiMarian Woronin 40.10VardasZdenek MazurLadislav LatochaRoman Lacko 40.50Ingo VogeChristian NeubertUwe BaruchaKlaus-Dieter Kurrat 40.524 × 400 m relayJerzy WłodarczykRyszard PodlasAndrzej StępieńJerzy Konarski 3:08.51Klaus ThieleFrank LehmannKlaus HauckFrank Schaffer 3:09.55Vladimir KonovalovOleg BulatkinValeriy MashkovskiyDmitry Stukalov 3:09.9120 km walk 1:28:29.4 1:30:31.9 1:32:31.2High jump 2.19 2.19 2.13Pole vault 5.45 5.30 5.30Long jump 7.78 7.69 7.66Triple jump 16.84 16.25 16.17Shot put 19.71 19.61 19.02Discus throw 63.92 60.68 59.90Hammer throw 75.24 70.92 69.24Javelin throw 80.44 78.64 78.62Decathlon 7898 pts 7739 pts 7223 pts
References
Michał Wróblewski, Ludwik Biegański, Marek Łuczyński, Maciej Petruczenko, Maciej Wawrzykowski: 60 lat PZLA – Rocznik PZLA 1979 (60 years of the Polish Athletic Association – 1979). Polish Athletic Association. Warsaw, 1981.