Athletics at the 1979 Summer Universiade

Athletics events were contested at the 1979 Summer Universiade in Mexico City, Mexico.

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Mike Roberson (USA)	10.19	Leszek Dunecki (POL)	10.30	Ainsley Bennett (GBR)	10.38
200 m	Pietro Mennea (ITA)	19.72 WR	Leszek Dunecki (POL)	20.24	Ainsley Bennett (GBR)	20.42
400 m	Harald Schmid (FRG)	44.98	Franz-Peter Hofmeister (FRG)	45.12	Walter McCoy (USA)	45.90
800 m	Evans White (USA)	1:48.87	Garry Cook (GBR)	1:49.50	Hans-Peter Ferner (FRG)	1:49.77
1500 m	Graham Williamson (GBR)	3:45.37	Pierre Délèze (SUI)	3:45.8	Richie Harris (USA)	3:46.4
5000 m	Ilie Floroiu (ROM)	14:12.9	José Gómez (MEX)	14:15.4	Enrique Aquino (MEX)	14:18.0
10,000 m	Ilie Floroiu (ROM)	29:56.1	Enrique Aquino (MEX)	30:16.4	Samuel Nyariki (KEN)	30:49.1
110 m hurdles	Andrey Prokofyev (URS)	13.50	Thomas Munkelt (GDR)	13.50	Aleksandr Puchkov (URS)	13.55
400 m hurdles	Harry Schulting (NED)	48.44	Vasyl Arkhypenko (URS)	48.60	James Walker (USA)	48.88
3000 m s'chase	Paul Copu (ROM)	8:57.7	Mariano Scartezzini (ITA)	8:58.1	Michele Cina (ITA)	9:08.7
4×100 m relay	Italy (ITA) Luciano Caravani Giovanni Grazioli Gianfranco Lazzer Pietro Mennea	38.42	Ivory Coast (CIV) Patrice Ouré Amadou Meïté Avognan Nogboum Georges Kablan Degnan	38.73	France (FRA) Jean Gracia Pierrick Thessard Gabriel Brothier Pascal Barré	39.07
4×400 m relay	United States (USA) Fred Taylor Leslie Kerr Ronnie Harris Walter McCoy	3:00.98	Netherlands (NED) Hugo Pont Koen Gijsbers Marcel Klarenbeek Harry Schulting	3:03.18	Italy (ITA) Stefano Malinverni Alfonso Di Guida Flavio Borghi Roberto Tozzi	3:03.80
High jump	Gerd Nagel (FRG)	2.28	Rolf Beilschmidt (GDR)	2.28	Holger Marten (FRG)	2.26
Pole vault	Władysław Kozakiewicz (POL)	5.60	Philippe Houvion (FRA)	5.60	Patrick Abada (FRA)	5.55
Long jump	Valeriy Pidluzhnyy (URS)	8.16	Junichi Usui (JPN)	8.05	LaMonte King (USA)	7.99
Triple jump	Willie Banks (USA)	17.23	Jaak Uudmäe (URS)	17.20	Roberto Mazzucato (ITA)	16.87
Shot put	Udo Beyer (GDR)	20.49	Reijo Ståhlberg (FIN)	19.96	Nikolai Khristov (BUL)	19.60
Discus throw	Wolfgang Schmidt (GDR)	60.78	Markku Tuokko (FIN)	59.82	Antonín Wybraniec (TCH)	58.32
Hammer throw	Klaus Ploghaus (FRG)	75.74	Manfred Hüning (FRG)	75.68	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	75.54
Javelin throw (old javelin model)	Helmut Schreiber (FRG)	88.68	Arto Härkönen (FIN)	87.10	Heino Puuste (URS)	82.62
Decathlon	Sepp Zeilbauer (AUT)	8203	Jürgen Hingsen (FRG)	8033	Heinz Antretter (FRG)	7868

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Marlies Göhr (GDR)	11.00	Kathy Smallwood (GBR)	11.27	Beverley Goddard (GBR)	11.32
200 m (+1.9 m/s)	Marita Koch (GDR)	21.91	Kathy Smallwood (GBR)	22.70	Beverley Goddard (GBR)	22.76
400 m	Mariya Kulchunova (URS)	50.35	Rosalyn Bryant (USA)	51.35	Christina Brehmer (GDR)	51.59
800 m	Nadezhda Mushta (URS)	2:00.50	Olga Dvirna (URS)	2:00.77	Fiţa Lovin (ROM)	2:00.81
1500 m	Natalia Mărăşescu (ROM)	4:13.9	Olga Dvirna (URS)	4:14.5	Valentina Ilyinykh (URS)	4:14.6
100 m hurdles	Lucyna Langer (POL)	12.62	Danuta Perka (POL)	12.66	Vera Komisova (URS)	12.90
4×100 m relay	Soviet Union (URS)	43.14	Great Britain (GBR) Yvette Wray Kathy Smallwood Ruth Kennedy Bev Goddard	43.26	France (FRA)	43.94
High jump	Andrea Mátay (HUN)	1.94	Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG)	1.92	Sara Simeoni (ITA)	1.92
Long jump	Anita Stukāne (URS)	6.80	Jodi Anderson (USA)	6.67	Tatyana Skachko (URS)	6.57
Shot put	Ilona Slupianek (GDR)	19.98	Helma Knorscheidt (GDR)	19.56	Mihaela Loghin (ROM)	19.29
Discus throw	Svetlana Melnikova (URS)	63.54	Evelin Jahl (GDR)	63.00	Florenţa Ţacu (ROM)	59.28
Javelin throw (old javelin model)	Éva Ráduly-Zörgő (ROM)	67.20	Ivanka Vancheva (BUL)	63.04	Mayra Vila (CUB)	60.98
Pentathlon	Yekaterina Smirnova (URS)	4497	Sylvia Barlag (NED)	4306	Ina Losch (FRG)	4272

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	8	4	6	18
2	East Germany (GDR)	5	4	1	10
3	Romania (ROM)	5	0	3	8
4	West Germany (FRG)	4	4	4	12
5	United States (USA)	4	2	4	10
6	Poland (POL)	2	3	0	5
7	Italy (ITA)	2	1	4	7
8	Great Britain (GBR)	1	4	4	9
9	Netherlands (NED)	1	2	0	3
10	Austria (AUT)	1	0	0	1
10	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	0	1
12	Finland (FIN)	0	3	0	3
13	Mexico (MEX)	0	2	1	3
14	France (FRA)	0	1	3	4
15	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	1	2
16	Ivory Coast (CIV)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
19	Cuba (CUB)	0	0	1	1
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	1	1
	Kenya (KEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 nations)		34	34	34	102

References

World Student Games (Universiade - Men) - GBR Athletics
World Student Games (Universiade - Women) - GBR Athletics

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