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1978
Track
Field
High Jump
1
Vladimir Yashchenko
URS
2.34
2
Rolf Beilschmidt
GDR
2.31
3
Dwight Stones
USA
2.30
3
Henry Lauterbach
GDR
2.30
3
Ben Fields
USA
2.30
6
Franklin Jacobs
USA
2.28
6
Aleksandr Grigoryev
URS
2.28
8
Ruud Wielart
NED
2.27
8
Jacek Wszola
POL
2.27
8
Gennadiy Belkov
URS
2.27
Pole Vault
1
Mike Tully
USA
5.71
2
Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz
POL
5.62
3
Larry Jessee
USA
5.61
3
Vladimir Trofimenko
URS
5.61
5
Tadeusz Slusarski
POL
5.60
5
Antti Kalliomäki
FIN
5.60
7
Rauli Pudas
FIN
5.56
8
Jeff Taylor
USA
5.55
9
Günter Lohre
FRG
5.51
10
Ralph Haynie
USA
5.50
Long Jump
1
Nenad Stekic
YUG
8.32
2
James Lofton
USA
8.23
2
Joao Carlos De Oliveira
BRA
8.23
4
Arnie Robinson
USA
8.21
5
LaMonte King
USA
8.18
5
Jacques Rousseau
FRA
8.18
7
Charlton Ehizuelen
NGR
8.11
7
Grzegorz Cybulski
POL
8.11
9
Chris Commons
AUS
8.08
10
Larry Myricks
USA
8.05
Triple Jump
1
Joao Carlos De Oliveira
BRA
17.44
2
James Butts
USA
17.24
3
Ron Livers
USA
17.15
4
Anatoliy Piskulin
URS
17.07
5
Willie Banks
USA
17.05
6
Viktor Saneyev
URS
17.03
7
Gennadiy Valyukievich
URS
17.02
8
Aleksandr Lisichonok
URS
17.00
9
Gennadiy Kovtunov
URS
16.94
9
Milos Srejovic
YUG
16.94
Shot Put
1
Udo Beyer
GDR
22.15
2
Reijo Ståhlberg
FIN
21.17
3
Al Feuerbach
USA
21.07
4
Aleksandr Baryshnikov
URS
20.95
4
Hreinn Halldorsson
ISL
20.95
6
Yevgeniy Mironov
URS
20.93
7
Anatoliy Yarosh
URS
20.89
8
Bishop Dolegiewicz
CAN
20.85
9
Wolfgang Schmidt
GDR
20.76
10
Geoffrey Capes
GBR
20.68
Discus Throw
1
Wolfgang Schmidt
GDR
71.16
2
Mac Wilkins
USA
70.48
3
Ken Stadel
USA
68.40
4
Velko Velev
BUL
67.82
5
Imrich Bugar
TCH
65.96
6
Aleksandr Klimenko
URS
65.78
7
Knut Hjeltnes
NOR
65.44
8
Aleksandr Nazhimov
URS
64.98
9
Jim McGoldrick
USA
64.94
10
Markku Tuokko
FIN
64.92
Hammer Throw
1
Karl-Hans Riehm
FRG
80.32
2
Boris Zaychuk
URS
80.14
3
Yuriy Sedykh
URS
79.76
4
Aleksey Malyukov
URS
78.32
5
Roland Steuk
GDR
78.14
6
Detlef Gerstenberg
GDR
76.94
7
Valentin Dmitrenko
URS
76.64
8
Manfred Hüning
FRG
76.52
9
Sergey Litvinov
URS
76.22
10
Giampaolo Urlando
ITA
75.64
Javelin Throw
1
Michael Wessing
FRG
94.22
2
Wolfgang Hanisch
GDR
91.14
3
Nikolay Grebnyev
URS
89.92
4
Bob Roggy
USA
89.30
5
Pentti Sinersaari
FIN
88.90
6
Antero Puranen
FIN
88.64
7
Herman Potgieter
RSA
88.62
8
Sandor Boros
HUN
88.60
9
Bjørn Grimnes
NOR
88.32
9
Anatoliy Zherebtsov
URS
88.32
Decathlon
1
Guido Kratschmer
FRG
8498
2
Daley Thompson
GBR
8467
3
Aleksandr Grebenyuk
URS
8430
4
Siegfried Stark
GDR
8208
5
Nikolay Avilov
URS
8165
6
Bobby Coffman
USA
8137
mA
7
Sepp Zeilbauer
AUT
8134
8
Valeriy Kachanov
URS
8121
9
Johannes Lahti
FIN
8109
10
Tonu Kaukis
URS
8086