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1979
Track
Field
100 m
1
Marlies Göhr
GDR
10.97
1
Evelyn Ashford
USA
10.97
3
Brenda Morehead
USA
11.11
4
Marita Koch
GDR
11.12
5
Lyudmila Kondratyeva
URS
11.15
6
Christina Brehmer
GDR
11.18
7
Angela Taylor
CAN
11.20
8
Annegret Richter
FRG
11.22
8
Beverly Goddard
GBR
11.22
A
10
Lilyana Panayotova-Ivanova
BUL
11.23
200 m
1
Marita Koch
GDR
21.71
2
Evelyn Ashford
USA
21.83
3
Lyudmila Kondratyeva
URS
22.33
4
Marlies Göhr
GDR
22.36
5
Christina Brehmer
GDR
22.61
6
Romy Schneider
GDR
22.63
7
Kathryn Smallwood
GBR
22.70
A
8
Lilyana Panayotova-Ivanova
BUL
22.73
9
Annegret Richter
FRG
22.75
10
Beverly Goddard
GBR
22.76
A
400 m
1
Marita Koch
GDR
48.60
2
Maria Kulchunova
URS
49.63
3
Christina Brehmer
GDR
49.72
4
Nina Zyuskova
URS
50.42
5
Tatyana Goyschik
URS
50.49
6
Irina Bargyantseva
URS
50.52
7
Gabriele Kötte
GDR
50.70
8
Brigitte Rohde-Köhn
GDR
50.74
9
Irena Szewinska
POL
50.85
10
Tatyana Prorochenko
URS
51.00
800 m
1
Tonka Petrova
BUL
1.56.2
2
Nikolina Shtereva
BUL
1.56.29
3
Olga Vakhrusheva
URS
1.57.1
4
Yekaterina Poryvkina
URS
1.57.2
5
Rafira Fita-Lovin
ROU
1.57.4
6
Nadezhda Mushta
URS
1.57.5
7
Christina Wartenberg
GDR
1.57.6
8
Maricica Puica
ROU
1.57.8
8
Olga Mineyeva
URS
1.57.8
10
Anita Weiss
GDR
1.57.92
1500 m
1
Tonka Petrova
BUL
3.57.4
2
Natalia Marasescu
ROU
3.58.2
3
Ileana Silai
ROU
3.58.5
4
Maricica Puica
ROU
3.59.8
5
Svetlana Ulmasova
URS
3.59.97
6
Giana Romanova
URS
4.00.5
7
Grete Waitz
NOR
4.00.58
8
Olga Dvirna
URS
4.00.8
9
Valentina Ilyinych
URS
4.01.1
10
Christine Benning
GBR
4.01.53
3000 m
1
Grete Waitz
NOR
8.31.75
2
Svetlana Ulmasova
URS
8.36.32
3
Lyubov Smolka
URS
8.41.3
4
Faina Krasnova
URS
8.41.6
5
Yelena Sipatova
URS
8.44.1
6
Raisa Belousova
URS
8.44.7
7
Raisa Smekhnova
URS
8.46.2
8
Valentina Ilyinych
URS
8.46.5
8
Tatyana Sychova
URS
8.46.5
10
Svetlana Guskova
URS
8.46.8
100 m Hurdles
1
Grazyna Rabsztyn
POL
12.48
2
Lucyna Langer
POL
12.62
A
3
Zofia Bielczyk
POL
12.63
4
Danuta Wolosz-Perka
POL
12.65
A
5
Tatyana Anisimova
URS
12.75
6
Debbie LaPlante
USA
12.86
7
Vera Komisova
URS
12.87
7
Kerstin Claus
GDR
12.87
9
Gudrun Berend-Warkan
GDR
12.91
9
Nina Morgulina
URS
12.91
A
400 m Hurdles
1
Marina Makeyeva
URS
54.78
2
Karin Rossley
GDR
55.01
3
Tatyana Storozheva
URS
55.08
4
Tatyana Zelentsova
URS
55.64
5
Bärbel Klepp
GDR
55.72
6
Ingrid Barkane-Verbele
URS
55.84
7
Silvia Hollmann
FRG
55.88
8
Brigitte Rohde-Köhn
GDR
55.92
9
Christine Warden
GBR
56.06
10
Petra Pfaff
GDR
56.46