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Top 25 Lists - 1978
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Men
Women
1978
Track
Field
High Jump
1
Sara Simeoni
ITA
2.01
2
Rosemarie Ackermann
GDR
1.99
3
Ulrike Meyfarth
FRG
1.95
3
Brigitte Holzapfel
FRG
1.95
5
Katrina Gibbs
AUS
1.93
5
Jutta Kirst
GDR
1.93
5
Kristine Nietzsche
GDR
1.93
8
Cornelia Popescu-Popa
ROU
1.91
8
Deborah Brill
CAN
1.91
10
Louise Ritter
USA
1.905
Long Jump
1
Vilma Bardauskiene
URS
7.09
2
Jodi Anderson
USA
6.90
3
Sigrun Siegl-Thon
GDR
6.79
3
Angela Voigt
GDR
6.79
5
Jarmila Nygrynova
TCH
6.74
6
Brigitte Wujak
GDR
6.73
7
Kathy McMillan
USA
6.72
8
Gina Panait
ROU
6.71
9
Lynn Jacenko-Tillet
AUS
6.70
10
Anita Balode-Stukane
URS
6.69
Shot Put
1
Ilona Slupianek
GDR
22.06
2
Helena Fibingerova
TCH
21.87
3
Margita Droese-Pufe-Ludewig
GDR
21.58
3
Marianne Adam
GDR
21.58
5
Helma Knorscheidt
GDR
20.99
6
Esfir Krachevskaya
URS
20.70
7
Elena Stoyanova
BUL
20.33
7
Ivanka Petrova
BUL
20.33
9
Eva Wilms
FRG
20.10
10
Tamara Bufetova
URS
19.92
Discus Throw
1
Evelin Jahl
GDR
70.72
2
Faina Melnik-Veleva
URS
70.34
3
Margita Droese-Pufe-Ludewig
GDR
68.48
4
Svetlana Petrova
URS
67.54
5
Svetla Bozhkova
BUL
66.94
6
Lyudmila Isayeva
URS
66.28
7
Natalya Gorbacheva-Baranova
URS
66.24
8
Sabine Engel
GDR
66.10
9
Tatyana Berezhnaya
URS
64.40
10
Natalya Akhrimenko
URS
64.34
Javelin Throw
1
Ruth Fuchs-Gamm
GDR
69.16
2
Ute Richter
GDR
64.24
3
Eva Helmschmidt
FRG
64.04
4
Kathy Schmidt
USA
64.02
5
Tessa Sanderson
GBR
64.00
6
Eva Zörgö
ROU
63.66
7
Ute Hommola
GDR
63.60
8
Maria-Caridad Colon
CUB
63.50
9
Sherry Calvert
USA
63.38
10
Karin Smith
USA
63.32
Pentathlon
1
Diane Konihowski-Jones
CAN
4768
2
Nadyezhda Tkachenko
URS
4746
3
Jane Frederick
USA
4704
4
Margit Papp
HUN
4655
5
Burglinde Pollak
GDR
4600
6
Kristine Nietzsche
GDR
4599
7
Yekaterina Smirnova
URS
4596
8
Beatrix Philipp
FRG
4592
9
Yekaterina Gordienko
URS
4590
10
Ramona Neubert-Göhler
GDR
4520