title: Coppa del mondo di atletica leggera 1979
text: # Coppa del mondo di atletica leggera 1979
  
  La seconda edizione della Coppa del mondo di atletica leggera si disputò dal 24 al 26 agosto 1979 allo Stadio Olimpico di Montréal, in Canada, dove si erano disputate le Olimpiadi tre anni prima.
  
  Parteciparono le squadre nazionali degli Stati Uniti d'America e delle prime due squadre classificate alla Coppa Europa dello stesso anno, vale a dire Germania Est e Unione Sovietica, oltre alle selezioni continentali di Europa, Africa, Asia, Americhe e Oceania. La nazionale degli Stati Uniti d'America giunse al primo posto nella classifica maschile, mentre la competizione femminile vide il successo della Germania Est.
  
  ## Risultati
  
  ### 100 m
  
  | Uomini Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 USA James Sanford 10.17 2 AME Silvio Leonard 10.26 3 EUR Marian Woronin 10.28 4 DDR Olaf Prenzler 10.33 5 AFR Ernest Obeng 10.36 6 OCE Richard James 10.49 7 ASI Suchart Chairsuvaparb 10.51 8 URS Nikolaj Kolesnikov 11.47 | Donne Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 USA Evelyn Ashford 11.06 2 DDR Marlies Göhr 11.17 3 EUR Annegret Richter 11.36 4 URS Ljudmila Kondrat'eva 11.47 5 AME Angela Taylor 11.50 6 OCE Helen Edwards 11.67 7 AFR Oguzoeme Nsenu 11.78 8 ASI Emiko Konishi 12.31 |
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  ### 200 m
  
  | Uomini Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 AME Silvio Leonard 20.34 2 EUR Leszek Dunecki 20.50 3 AFR Peter Okodogbe 20.69 4 DDR Bernhard Hoff 20.73 5 USA Mel Lattany 20.75 6 URS Viktor Burakov 20.96 7 ASI Yasuhiro Harada 21.14 8 OCE Barry Besanko 21.19 | Donne Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 USA Evelyn Ashford 21.83 2 DDR Marita Koch 22.02 3 URS Ljudmila Kondrat'eva 22.66 4 EUR Annegret Richter 22.78 5 AME Angela Taylor 22.83 6 AFR Hannah Afriyie 23.61 7 OCE Kim Robertson 23.78 8 ASI Sumiko Kaihara 24.60 |
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  ### 400 m
  
  | Uomini Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 AFR Hassan El Kashief 45.39 2 URS Nikolaj Černeckij 46.06 3 USA Tony Darden 46.12 4 EUR Franz-Peter Hofmeister 46.36 5 DDR Frank Schaffer 46.75 6 AME Colin Bradford 46.88 7 OCE Jim O'Sullivan 48.20 8 ASI Shoichi Handa 48.58 | Donne Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 DDR Marita Koch 48.97 2 URS Marija Kul'čunova 50.60 3 EUR Irena Szewińska 51.15 4 AME Marita Payne 53.01 5 OCE Terri-Anne Wangman 53.44 6 AFR Ruth Waithera 53.60 7 USA Patricia Jackson 54.37 8 ASI Rita Sen 57.76 |
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  ### 800 m
  
  | Uomini Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 AFR James Maina 1:47.69 2 USA James Robinson 1:47.85 3 EUR Willi Wülbeck 1:47.88 4 DDR Olaf Beyer 1:47.90 5 AME Agberto Guimarães 1:48.8 6 URS Anatolij Rešetnjak 1:49.4 7 OCE John Higham 1:50.2 8 ASI Faleh Naji Jarallah 1:55.4 | Donne Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 EUR Nikolina Shtereva 2:00.52 2 URS Nadija Olizarenko 2:01.09 3 DDR Anita Weiss 2:01.33 4 AME Anne Mackie-Morelli 2:02.01 5 OCE Charlene Rendina 2:02.62 6 AFR Mary Chemweno 2:04.49 7 USA Wendy Knudson 2:06.06 8 ASI Geeta Zutshi 2:10.4 |
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  ### 1500 m
  
  | Uomini Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 EUR Thomas Wessinghage 3:46.00 2 URS Vladimir Ponomar'ëv 3:46.13 3 DDR Jürgen Straub 3:46.30 4 USA Steve Scott 3:46.78 5 AFR Mike Boit 3:46.85 6 OCE Steve Foley 3:47.8 7 AME Paul Craig 3:48.1 8 ASI Rattan Singh 3:52.4 | Donne Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 DDR Christiane Wartenberg 4:06.86 2 URS Giana Romanova 4:08.73 3 USA Francie Larrieu 4:09.16 4 AFR Sakina Boutamine 4:12.13 5 OCE Alison Wright 4:13.48 6 AME Brit McRoberts 4:15.33 7 ASI Kumiko Kobayashi 4:47.33 EUR Tonka Petrova DQ |
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  ### 5000 m / 3000 m
  
  | Uomini (5000 m) Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 AFR Miruts Yifter 13:35.9 2 URS Valerij Abramov 13:37.6 3 EUR Markus Ryffel 13:38.6 4 DDR Hansjörg Kunze 13:39.8 5 AME Rodolfo Gómez 13:40.6 6 USA Matt Centrowitz 13:42.0 7 OCE David Fitzsimmons 13:45.1 8 ASI Gopal Singh Saini 14:26.8 | Donne (3000 m) Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 URS Svetlana Ulmasova 8:36.34 2 EUR Grete Waitz 8:38.59 3 USA Francie Larrieu 8:53.02 4 DDR Ursula Sauer 9:13.27 5 OCE Barbara Moore 9:19.65 6 AME Shauna Miller 9:20.28 7 AFR Sakina Boutamine 9:30.73 8 ASI Tashiko Kumagai 9:52.95 |
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  ### 10000 m
  
  Uomini
  
  Pos.
  
  Sq.
  
  Atleta
  
  Ris.
  
  1
  
  AFR
  
  Miruts Yifter
  
  27:53.07
  
  2
  
  USA
  
  Craig Virgin
  
  27:59.55
  
  3
  
  URS
  
  Aleksandr Antipov
  
  28:25.17
  
  4
  
  OCE
  
  Gerard Barrett
  
  28:29.76
  
  5
  
  AME
  
  Peter Butler
  
  28:40.83
  
  6
  
  DDR
  
  Werner Schildhauer
  
  28:25.17
  
  7
  
  EUR
  
  John Treacy
  
  29:25.30
  
  8
  
  ASI
  
  Edward Vincent
  
  29:26.50 :
  
  ### 3000 m siepi
  
  Uomini
  
  Pos.
  
  Sq.
  
  Atleta
  
  Ris.
  
  1
  
  AFR
  
  Kiprotich Rono
  
  8:25.97
  
  2
  
  DDR
  
  Ralf Pönitzsch
  
  8:29.28
  
  3
  
  EUR
  
  Mariano Scartezzini
  
  8:29.44
  
  4
  
  USA
  
  Henry Marsh
  
  8:30.09
  
  5
  
  ASI
  
  Masanari Shintaku
  
  8:40.00
  
  6
  
  URS
  
  Anatolij Dimov
  
  8:46.23
  
  7
  
  AME
  
  Philippe Lahuerte
  
  8:54.68
  
  8
  
  OCE
  
  Howard Healey
  
  9:15.06 :
  
  ### 110/100 m ostacoli
  
  | Uomini (110 m) Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 USA Renaldo Nehemiah 13.39 2 DDR Thomas Munkelt 13.42 3 AME Alejandro Casañas 13.44 4 URS Aleksandr Pučkov 13.74 5 EUR Jan Pusty 13.88 6 AFR Godwin Obasogie 14.18 7 OCE Michael Wilson 14.59 ASI Yoshifumi Fujimori DNF | Donne (100 m) Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 EUR Grażyna Rabsztyn 12.67 2 URS Tat'jana Anisimova 12.75 3 DDR Kerstin Claus 13.03 4 USA Debbie LaPlante 13.23 5 AME Sharon Lane 13.63 6 OCE Penny Gillies 13.88 7 AFR Judi Bell-Gam 13.93 8 ASI Emi Akimoto 14.28 |
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  ### 400 m ostacoli
  
  | Uomini Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 USA Edwin Moses 47.53 2 EUR Harald Schmid 48.71 3 URS Vasilij Archipenko 48.97 4 DDR Volker Beck 49.66 5 OCE Peter Grant 50.20 6 AME Antônio E. Ferreira 50.54 7 AFR Daniel Kimaiyo 50.55 ASI Hassan Kadhum DNS | Donne Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 DDR Bärbel Klepp 55.83 2 URS Marina Makeeva 56.02 3 USA Debbie Esser 56.75 4 EUR Christine Warden 57.20 5 OCE Lynette Young 58.80 6 AME Francine Gendron 61.02 7 ASI Yumiko Aoki 61.02 8 AFR Fatima El Faquir 67.42 |
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  ### Salto in alto
  
  | Uomini Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 USA Franklin Jacobs 2.27 2 EUR Jacek Wszoła 2.27 3 URS Aleksandr Grigor'ev 2.24 4 DDR Rolf Beilschmidt 2.24 5 AME Milt Ottey 2.10 6 AFR Othmane Belfaa 2.10 7 ASI Kazunori Koshikawa 2.05 8 OCE Michael Dick 2.00 | Donne Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 AME Debbie Brill 1.96 NR 2 EUR Sara Simeoni 1.94 3 URS Nina Serbina 1.90 4 DDR Rosemarie Ackermann 1.87 5 USA Louise Ritter 1.87 6 OCE Catherine Soanes 1.78 7 ASI Zheng Dazhen 1.75 8 AFR Kawther Akremi 1.65 |
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  ### Salto con l'asta
  
  Uomini
  
  Pos.
  
  Sq.
  
  Atleta
  
  Ris.
  
  1
  
  USA
  
  Mike Tully
  
  5.45
  
  2
  
  EUR
  
  Patrick Abada
  
  5.45
  
  3
  
  URS
  
  Konstantin Volkov
  
  5.30
  
  4
  
  AME
  
  Bruce Simpson
  
  5.20
  
  5
  
  ASI
  
  Itsuo Takanezawa
  
  5.00
  
  6
  
  DDR
  
  Axel Weber
  
  5.00
  
  7
  
  OCE
  
  Bob Huddle
  
  4.60
  
  8
  
  AFR
  
  Kaddour Rahal
  
  NH :
  
  ### Salto in lungo
  
  | Uomini Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 USA Larry Myricks 8.52 2 DDR Lutz Dombrowski 8.27 3 AME David Giralt 8.22 4 URS Valerij Podlužnij 7.88 5 OCE Gary Honey 7.72 6 EUR Grzegorz Cybulski 7.66 7 ASI Suresh Babu 7.41 8 AFR Kayode Elegbede 7.36 | Donne Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 URS Anita Stukane 6.64 2 DDR Brigitte Wujak 6.55 3 USA Kathy McMillan 6.31 4 AME Eloisa Echevarría 6.25 5 EUR Doina Anton 6.09 6 ASI Sumie Awara 5.96 7 OCE Lynette Jacenko 5.91 8 AFR Bella Bell-Gam 5.73 |
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  ### Salto triplo
  
  * Uomini
  * Pos.
  * Sq.
  * Atleta
  * Ris.
  * 1
  * AME
  * João Carlos de Oliveira
  * 17.02
  * 2
  * URS
  * Henadz' Valjukevič
  * 16.94
  * 3
  * OCE
  * Ian Campbell
  * 16.76
  * 4
  * ASI
  * Zou Zhenxian
  * 16.68
  * 5
  * USA
  * Willie Banks
  * 16.66
  * 6
  * DDR
  * Lothar Gora
  * 16.31
  * 7
  * AFR
  * Ajayi Agbebaku
  * 16.31
  * 8
  * EUR
  * Bernard Lamitié
  * 15.86
  
  ### Getto del peso
  
  | Uomini Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 DDR Udo Beyer 20.45 2 EUR Reijo Ståhlberg 20.05 3 URS Aleksandr Baryšnikov 20.00 4 USA Dave Laut 19.42 5 AME Bishop Dolegiewicz 19.40 6 AFR Youssef Nagui Assaad 19.00 7 ASI Mohamed Al-Zinkawi 17.25 8 OCE Ray Rigby 16.43 | Donne Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 DDR Ilona Slupianek 20.98 2 EUR Helena Fibingerová 19.74 3 URS Svetlana Kračevskaja 19.70 4 USA Maren Seidler 18.86 5 AME Elena Sarriá 18.59 6 ASI Shen Lijuan 16.46 7 OCE Bev Francis 15.16 8 AFR Odette Mistoul 13.71 |
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  ### Lancio del disco
  
  | Uomini Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 DDR Wolfgang Schmidt 66.02 2 USA Mac Wilkins 64.92 3 AME Luis Delís 63.50 4 EUR Knut Hjeltnes 63.50 5 URS Igor' Duginec 59.34 6 OCE Robin Tait 54.60 7 AFR Abderrazak Ben Hassine 52.82 8 ASI Kiyotaka Kawasaki 52.54 | Donne Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 DDR Evelin Jahl 65.18 2 URS Svetlana Mel'nikova 65.14 3 AME María Betancourt 62.84 4 EUR Svetla Božkova 60.84 5 OCE Gael Mulhall-Martin 56.50 6 ASI Li Xiaohui 55.64 7 USA Lynne Winbigler 50.06 8 AFR Zoubida Laayouni 46.08 |
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  ### Lancio del martello
  
  Uomini
  
  Pos.
  
  Sq.
  
  Atleta
  
  Ris.
  
  1
  
  URS
  
  Sergej Litvinov
  
  78.70
  
  2
  
  EUR
  
  Karl-Hans Riehm
  
  75.88
  
  3
  
  DDR
  
  Roland Steuk
  
  74.82
  
  4
  
  OCE
  
  Peter Farmer
  
  71.68
  
  5
  
  AME
  
  Armando Orozco
  
  69.62
  
  6
  
  ASI
  
  Shigenobu Murofushi
  
  67.32
  
  7
  
  USA
  
  Boris Djerassiaomao
  
  65.20
  
  8
  
  AFR
  
  Abdellah Boubekeur
  
  51.66 :
  
  ### Lancio del giavellotto
  
  | Uomini Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 DDR Wolfgang Hanisch 86.48 2 OCE Michael O'Rourke 85.80 3 AME Antonio González 83.44 4 EUR Michael Wessing 81.06 5 URS Aleksandr Makarov 80.76 6 AFR Jacques Abéhi Ayé 74.94 7 ASI Shen Maomao 72.70 8 USA Duncan Atwood 71.06 | Donne Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 DDR Ruth Fuchs 66.10 2 EUR Eva Zorgo-Raduly 65.82 3 AME María Caridad Colón 63.50 4 USA Kate Schmidt 59.98 5 URS Saida Gunba 57.00 6 ASI Li Xiaohui 52.50 7 OCE Pam Matthews 52.48 8 AFR Agnès Tchuinté 49.64 |
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  ### Staffetta 4 x 100
  
  | Uomini Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 AME Osvaldo Lara, Nelson Rocha dos Santos, Silvio Leonard, Altevir Silva de Araújo 38.70 2 USA Mike Roberson, Harvey Glance, Mel Lattany, Steve Riddick 38.77 3 EUR Jerzy Brunner, Leszek Dunecki, Zenon Licznerski, Marian Woronin 38.85 4 DDR Klaus-Dieter Kurrat, Detlef Kübeck, Olaf Prenzler, Steffen Thrän 38.86 5 AFR Ernest Obeng, Edward Ofili, Théophile Nkounkou, Peter Okodogbe 39.02 6 URS Valerij Podlužnij, Andrej Šljapnikov, Aleksandr Aksinin, Vladimir Ignatenko 39.52 7 OCE James Kelly, Richard James, Barry Besanko, Colin O'Sullivan 39.85 8 ASI Suchart Chairsuvaparb, Mohamed Amer Al-Malky, Akira Harada, Shunzo Shito 40.09 | Donne Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 EUR Linda Haglund, Chantal Réga, Annegret Richter, Heather Oakes 42.19 2 DDR Christina Lathan, Romy Schneider, Ingrid Auerswald, Marlies Göhr 42.32 3 URS Vera Anisimova, Olga Korotkova, Marina Sidorova, Ljudmila Kondrat'eva 42.52 4 USA Evelyn Ashford, Karen Hawkins, Dollie Fleetwood, Valerie Boyer 43.53 5 AME Lilieth Hodges, Rose Allwood, Silvia Chivás, Angella Taylor 43.99 6 OCE Helen Edwards, Debbie Wells, Janeen Faithfull, Kim Robertson 44.62 7 AFR Nazaeli Kyomo, Grace Bakari, Hannah Afriyie, Oguzoeme Nsenu 44.83 8 ASI Yumiko Aoi, Usanee Lopinkarn, Mo Hyung-Hee, Ying Yaping 46.19 |
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  ### Staffetta 4 x 400
  
  | Uomini Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 USA Herman Frazier, Darrell Green, Willie Smith, Tony Darden 3:00.70 2 EUR Ryszard Podlas, Harry Schulting, Franz-P. Hofmeister, Harald Schmid 3:00.80 3 AFR Billy Konchellah, Ndubuisi Dele Udo, James Atuti, Hassan El Kashief 3:01.22 4 URS Viktor Burakov, Vasilij Archipenko, Remigius Valiulis, Nikolaj Černeckij 3:02.24 5 AME Ian Stapleton, Colin Bradford, Brian Saunders, Clyde Edwards 3:02.39 6 DDR Frank Richter, Udo Bauer, Frank Schaffer, Manfred Konow 3:05.27 7 OCE Peter Grant, Jim O'Sullivan, John Higham, Peter Pearless 3:06.20 8 ASI Fahim Al-Sada, Uday Krishna Pradu, Ramashwany Gnanasekaran, Shoichi Handa 3:12.49 | Donne Pos. Sq. Atleta Ris. 1 DDR Gabriele Kotte, Christina Lathan, Brigitte Kohn, Marita Koch 3:20.37 2 URS Irina Bagrjanceva, Tetjana Proročenko, Nina Zjus'kova, Marija Kul'čunova 3:23.04 3 USA Sharon Dabney, Rosalyn Bryant, Patricia Jackson, Sherri Howard 3:27.36 4 EUR Karoline Käfer, Jarmila Kratochvílová, Elke Decker, Irena Szewińska 3:27.39 5 AME Aurelia Pentón, Jacqueline Pusey, Marita Payne, June Griffith 3:28.50 6 OCE Marian O'Shaughnessy, Terri-Anne Wangman, Lynnette Young, Kim Robertson 3:35.60 7 AFR Grace Bakari, Marieme Boye, Mary Chemweno, Ruth Waithera 3:36.24 8 ASI Rita Sen, Yumiko Aoi, Saik Oik Cum, Chen Juying 3:48.75 |
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  ## Classifiche
  
  | Maschile Pos. Squadra Punti 1 Stati Uniti d'America 119 2 Europa 112 3 Germania Est 108 4 Unione Sovietica 102 5 Americhe 98 6 Africa 84 7 Oceania 58 8 Asia 36 | Femminile Pos. Squadra Punti 1 Germania Est 106 2 Unione Sovietica 98 3 Europa 88 4 Stati Uniti d'America 76 5 Americhe 68 6 Oceania 47 7 Africa 30 8 Asia 26 |
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