The 2nd World Athletics Cup was held on August 24-26, 1979 at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal , Canada . The tournament was attended by 8 teams among men and women: 5 national teams of the continents and 3 strongest countries. For three days, the participants fought for a team victory following the results of 20 men's and 15 women's athletics disciplines.
| Athletics World Cup 1979 | |
|---|---|
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| Host city |  Montreal Canada |
| Member countries | 50 |
| Of the participants | 317 |
| Medals | 2 |
| Opening | August 24, 1979 |
| Closing | August 26, 1979 |
| date | |
| Stadium | Olympic |
Eight male and female teams were allowed to participate in the 1979 World Cup:
USA- 2 best teams in the 1979 European Cup (
East Germany and the 
USSR in men and women) - 5 prefabricated continents: Asia, America, Africa, Europe, Oceania
In the program of the World Cup for the first time, a women's 400 meters hurdling was held.
Content
Format
In each of the disciplines, one person from the team spoke. The winning team was determined by the highest score. Points were awarded as followsΛ for victory in the discipline - 8 points, 2nd place - 7 points, 3rd place - 6 points, 4th - 5 points, 5th - 4 points, 6th - 3 points, 7 8th - 2 points, 8th - 1 point. Disqualified, retired, and also not having scored attempts, participants did not receive a single point.
Competition
Ethiopian styer Miruts Ifter made a double in the second consecutive World Cup, winning distances of 5,000 and 10,000 meters.
American Edwin Moses , like Ifter, repeated his success two years ago. He again became the first in the 400 meters hurdles (47.53), losing only eight hundredths of a second to his own world record (47.45).
Another athlete who came close to his own record results was Marita Koch . She won the 400-meter race with a fourth time in history (48.97), and in the 4x400-meter relay race as part of the GDR team she showed the third result in the world top list (3.20.37).
Bright speeches in the sprint were marked by American Evelyn Ashford . It was she who did not allow Koch to win three victories in the tournament, ahead of the East German runner at a distance of 200 meters. To do this, Ashford had to set a new national record of 21.83, which lost 0.12 seconds to the world.
Team Championship
The women's team of the GDR won 7 out of 15 disciplines and confidently ahead of the Soviet team by 8 points. In the male part of the competition, athletes from the USA were stronger in the fight against the European team.
| A place | Team | Glasses |
|---|---|---|
| USA | 119 | |
| Europe | 112 | |
| GDR | 108 | |
| four | the USSR | 102 |
| five | America | 98 |
| 6 | Africa | 84 |
| 7 | Oceania | 58 |
| eight | Asia | 36 |
| A place | Team | Glasses |
|---|---|---|
| GDR | 106 | |
| the USSR | 98 | |
| Europe | 88 | |
| four | USA | 76 |
| five | America | 68 |
| 6 | Oceania | 47 |
| 7 | Africa | thirty |
| eight | Asia | 26 |
Results
Strongest in Individual Forms - Men
Abbreviations: WR - world record | AR - record of the continent | NR - national record | CR - World Cup Record
| Discipline | 1st place | 2nd place | 3rd place | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 m (wind: β0.4 m / s) | James sanford USA | 10.17 | Silvio Leonard America / Cuba | 10.26 | Marian Voronin Europe / Poland | 10.28 |
| 200 m (wind: 0.0 m / s) | Silvio Leonard America / Cuba | 20.34 | Leszek Dunetskiy Europe / Poland | 20.50 | Peter Okodogbe Africa / Nigeria | 20.69 |
| 400 m | Hassan El Kashif Africa / Sudan | 45.39 | Nikolay Chernetskiy the USSR | 46.06 | Tony darden USA | 46.22 |
| 800 m | James Mine Africa / Kenya | 1.47.69 | James robinson USA | 1.47.85 | Willy Wulbeck Europe / Germany | 1.47.88 |
| 1,500 m | Thomas Wessinghage Europe / Germany | 3.46,00 | Vladimir Ponomarev the USSR | 3.46,13 | JΓΌrgen Straub GDR | 3.46.30 |
| 5000 m | Miruts Ifter Africa / Ethiopia | 13.35.9 | Valery Abramov the USSR | 13.37.6 | Marcus Riffel Europe / Switzerland | 13.38.6 |
| 10 000 m | Miruts Ifter Africa / Ethiopia | 27.53.07 CR | Craig Virgin USA | 27.59.55 | Alexander Antipov the USSR | 28.25.17 |
| 3000 m obstacle course | Kip Rono Africa / Kenya | 8.25.97 | Ralph PΓΆnitsch GDR | 8.29.28 | Mariano Scartezzini Europe / Italy | 8.29.44 |
| 110 m with barriers (wind: 0.0 m / s) | Renaldo Nehemiah USA | 13.39 CR | Thomas Munkelt GDR | 13,42 | Alejandro Casagnas America / Cuba | 13.44 |
| 400 m with barriers | Edwin Moses USA | 47.53 CR | Harald Schmid Europe / Germany | 48.71 | Vasily Arkhipenko the USSR | 48.97 |
| High jump | Franklin Jacobs USA | 2.27 m | Jacek Wsola Europe / Poland | 2.27 m | Alexander Grigoriev the USSR | 2.24 m |
| Pole vault | Mike Tully USA | 5.45 m | Patrick Abad Europe / France | 5.45 m | Konstantin Volkov the USSR | 5.30 m |
| Long jump | Larry Myrix USA | 8.52 m (0,0 m / s) CR | Lutz Dombrowski GDR | 8.27 m (0,0 m / s) | David hiralt America / Cuba | 8.22 m (+0.6 m / s) AR |
| Triple jump | Joan Carlos di Oliveira America / Brazil | 17.02 m (0,0 m / s) CR | Gennady Valyukevich the USSR | 16.94 m (β0.4 m / s) | Ian Campbell Oceania / Australia | 16.76 m (0,0 m / s) |
| Shot put | Udo Bayer GDR | 20.45 m | Reio Stolberg Europe / Finland | 20.05 m | Alexander Baryshnikov the USSR | 20.00 m |
| Discus throw | Wolfgang Schmidt GDR | 66.02 m | Mack Wilkins USA | 64.92 m | Louis Delis America / Cuba | 63.50 m |
| Hammer throwing | Sergey Litvinov the USSR | 78.70 m CR | Karl Hans Rome Europe / Germany | 75.88 m | Roland Stoik GDR | 74.82 m |
| Javelin-throwing | Wolfgang Hanisch GDR | 86.48 m | Mike O'Rourke Oceania / New Zealand | 85.80 m | Antonio Gonzalez America / Cuba | 83.44 m |
| Relay 4 Γ 100 m | America Osvaldo Lara Nelson dos Santos Silvio Leonard Altevir de Araujo | 38.70 | USA Mike roberson Harvey Glans Mel Lattani Steve Riddick | 38.77 | Europe Jerzy Brunner Leszek Dunetskiy Zenon Lichnersky Marian Voronin | 38.85 |
| Relay 4 Γ 400 m | USA Herman Frasier Bill green Willie smith Tony darden | 3.00.70 CR | Europe Ryszard Podlas Franz Peter Hofmeister Harry schulting Harald Schmid | 3.00.80 | Africa Billy Concellah De Udo James Atuti Hassan El Kashif | 3.01.22 |
Strongest in Individual Species - Women
| Discipline | 1st place | 2nd place | 3rd place | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 m (wind: β0.9 m / s) | Evelyn Ashford USA | 11.06 CR | Marlies Gore GDR | 11.17 | Annegret Richter Europe / Germany | 11.36 |
| 200 m (wind: β0.2 m / s) | Evelyn Ashford USA | 21.83 AR CR | Marita Koch GDR | 22.02 | Lyudmila Kondratieva the USSR | 22.66 |
| 400 m | Marita Koch GDR | 48.97 CR | Maria Kulchunova the USSR | 50.60 | Irena Shevinsky Europe / Poland | 51.15 |
| 800 m | Nikolina Shtereva Europe / Bulgaria | 2.00.52 | Nadezhda Mushta the USSR | 2.01.09 | Anita Weiss GDR | 2.01,33 |
| 1,500 m | Christiane Wartenberg [a] GDR | 4.06.88 [a] CR | Giana Romanova [a] the USSR | 4.08.73 [a] | Frances Larrier [a] USA | 4.09.16 [a] |
| 3000 m | Svetlana Ulmasova the USSR | 8.36.34 CR | Grete Weitz Europe / Norway | 8.38.59 | Frances Larrier USA | 8.53.02 |
| 100 m with barriers (wind: β0.1 m / s) | Grazhina Rabshtyn Europe / Poland | 12.67 CR | Tatyana Anisimova the USSR | 12.75 | Kerstin Klaus GDR | 13.03 |
| 400 m with barriers | Berbel Klepp GDR | 55.83 CR | Marina Makeeva the USSR | 56.37 | Debbie Esser USA | 56.75 |
| High jump | Debbie Brill America / Canada | 1.96 m AR | Sarah Simeoni Europe / Italy | 1.94 m | Nina Serbina the USSR | 1.90 m |
| Long jump | Anita Stukane the USSR | 6.64 m (0,0 m / s) CR | Brigitte Vuyak GDR | 6.55 m (0,0 m / s) | Katie Macmillan USA | 6.31 m (0,0 m / s) |
| Shot put | Ilona Slupianek GDR | 20.98 m CR | Gelena Fibingerova Europe / Czechoslovakia | 19.74 m | Svetlana Krachevskaya the USSR | 19.70 m |
| Discus throw | Evelyn Yal GDR | 65.18 m | Svetlana Melnikova the USSR | 65.14 m | Maria Betancourt America / Cuba | 62.84 m |
| Javelin-throwing | Ruth Fuchs GDR | 66.10 m CR | Eva Radui-ZΓΆrgyo Europe / Romania | 65.82 m | Maria Colon America / Cuba | 63.50 m |
| Relay 4 Γ 100 m | Europe Linda Haglund Chantal Rega Annegret Richter Heather hunt | 42.19 CR | GDR Christina Bremer Romy Schneider Ingrid Auerswald Marlies Gore | 42.32 | the USSR Vera Anisimova Olga Korotkova Marina Sidorova Lyudmila Kondratieva | 42.52 |
| Relay 4 Γ 400 m | GDR Gabriele Cotte Christina Bremer Brigitte Kyung Marita Koch | 3.20.37 CR | the USSR Irina Bagryantseva Tatyana Prorochenko Nina Zyukova Maria Kulchunova | 3.23.04 | USA Sharon Dubney Rosalyn Bryant Patricia jackson Sherry Howard | 3.27.36 |
a In October 1979, the IAAF disqualified seven athletes from Eastern Europe due to positive doping tests. Among them was the Bulgarian middle-distance runner Totka Petrova . Doping testing at the Balkan Games in August 1979 revealed traces of the use of prohibited anabolic steroids by the athlete. In accordance with the rules, all the results of Petrova after a positive test were canceled, including the first place in the 1,500 meters race at the World Cup - 1979 with a score of 4.06.47 [1] .
See also
- 1979 European Athletics Cup
Notes
- β Neil Amdur . 7 Women Athletes Banned for Drugs , The New York Times (October 26, 1979). Archived February 17, 2018. Date of treatment February 17, 2018.
Literature
- Athletics. Reference / Compiled by R. V. Orlov . - M .: "Physical Culture and Sports", 1983. - 392 p.
Links
- Mark Butler. 1st IAAF / VTB Bank Continental Cup - IAAF Statistics Handbook (English) (PDF). IAAF . - IAAF Handbook with the history and statistics of the World Cup in Athletics (1977-2006). Date of treatment February 4, 2018. Archived on February 4, 2018.