Athletics at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR

Athletics was one of the sports at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR, and featured on the programme at all ten editions of the competition from 1956 to 1991. The competition was incorporated into the annual Soviet Athletics Championships in 1963, 1967, 1971, 1975, 1979, 1983 and 1991.[1] The 1986 edition was not incorporated into the senior national championship as the Spartakiad imposed an upper age limit of 23 years for competitors that year. The results of the 1986 men's 10,000 metres were excluded from the Spartakiad rankings due to the slow finishing times achieved in the 30 degree heat.[2]

The team competitions were generally staged between the Republics of the Soviet Union plus separate teams for Moscow and Leningrad, although foreign athletes competed in 1979 and 1983, and the team competition was abolished for the final edition.

Editions
Edition Year Venue City Nation Start Date End Date Athletes Teams Events Top Placed Team
I1956 ()Central Lenin StadiumMoscowSoviet Union5 August16 August36 Moscow
II1959 ()Central Lenin StadiumMoscowSoviet Union9 August14 August13431738 Leningrad
III1963 ()Central Lenin StadiumMoscowSoviet Union9 August15 August37 Moscow
IV1967 ()Central Lenin StadiumMoscowSoviet Union28 July1 August41 Russian SFSR
V1971 ()Central Lenin StadiumMoscowSoviet Union16 July19 July41 Ukrainian SSR
VI1975 ()Central Lenin StadiumMoscowSoviet Union27 July30 July39 Moscow
VII1979 ()Central Lenin StadiumMoscowSoviet Union21 July29 Julyover 1500 (including 200 foreign)42 Russian SFSR
VIII1983 ()Central Lenin StadiumMoscowSoviet Union18 June22 Juneover 1500 (including foreign)32 (countries)39 Russian SFSR
IX1986 ()Pakhtakor Central StadiumTashkentSoviet Union16 September20 September42 Ukrainian SSR
X1991 ()Republican StadiumKievSoviet Union10 July13 July44None
  • The marathon events were twice staged outside the main track and field meeting – 14 May in 1983 and on 21 April in Bila Tserkva in 1991.

References
  1. Soviet Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
  2. Панорама спортивного года, 1986 / Сост. Андрианов В. М.. — М.: Физкультура и спорт, 1987. — С. 249—255. (in Russian)
Editions
  • Лёгкая атлетика. Справочник / Составитель Р. В. Орлов. — М.: «Физкультура и спорт», 1983. — 392 с. (in Russian)
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