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1979
Track
Field
High Jump
1
Dietmar Mögenburg
FRG
2.32
2
Rolf Beilschmidt
GDR
2.30
2
Carlo Thränhardt
FRG
2.30
2
Gerd Nagel
FRG
2.30
2
Aleksandr Grigoryev
URS
2.30
2
Andre Schneider
FRG
2.30
7
Jacek Wszola
POL
2.29
8
Ruud Wielart
NED
2.28
8
Aleksey Demianyuk
URS
2.28
10
James Frazier
USA
2.27
Pole Vault
1
Patrick Abada
FRA
5.65
1
Philippe Houvion
FRA
5.65
3
Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz
POL
5.61
3
Thierry Vigneron
FRA
5.61
5
Konstantin Volkov
URS
5.60
5
Günter Lohre
FRG
5.60
7
Larry Jessee
USA
5.57
8
Mike Tully
USA
5.56
9
Patrick Desruelles
BEL
5.55
9
Jean-Michel Bellot
FRA
5.55
Long Jump
1
Larry Myricks
USA
8.52
2
Joao Carlos De Oliveira
BRA
8.36
3
Lutz Dombrowski
GDR
8.31
4
Nenad Stekic
YUG
8.27
5
Frank Paschek
GDR
8.25
6
LaMonte King
USA
8.22
6
David Giralt
CUB
8.22
8
Valeriy Podluzhny
URS
8.16
A
9
Carl Lewis
USA
8.13
9
Lutz Franke
GDR
8.13
Triple Jump
1
Joao Carlos De Oliveira
BRA
17.27
2
Willie Banks
USA
17.23
A
3
Gennadiy Valyukievich
URS
17.21
4
Jaak Uudmae
URS
17.20
A
5
Tommy Haynes
USA
17.12
6
Nate Cooper
USA
17.10
7
Ron Livers
USA
17.06
8
Zou Zhen Xhien
CHN
17.02
9
Viktor Saneyev
URS
17.00
10
Aleksandr Yakovlyev
URS
16.95
Shot Put
1
Udo Beyer
GDR
21.74
2
Reijo Ståhlberg
FIN
21.69
3
Dave Laut
USA
21.11
4
Brian Oldfield
USA
21.02
5
Hans-Jürgen Jacobi
GDR
20.90
6
Valeriy Voykin
URS
20.78
7
Bishop Dolegiewicz
CAN
20.73
8
Vladimir Kiselyov
URS
20.71
9
Hreinn Halldorsson
ISL
20.69
10
Mathias Schmidt
GDR
20.68
Discus Throw
1
Mac Wilkins
USA
70.66
2
Knut Hjeltnes
NOR
69.50
3
Art Swarts
USA
69.40
4
Ken Stadel
USA
69.26
5
Wolfgang Schmidt
GDR
69.08
6
Markku Tuokko
FIN
68.12
7
Alfred Oerter
USA
67.46
8
John Powell
USA
67.34
9
Velko Velev
BUL
67.26
10
Luis Mariano Delis
CUB
66.52
Hammer Throw
1
Sergey Litvinov
URS
79.82
2
Manfred Hüning
FRG
79.16
3
Karl-Hans Riehm
FRG
78.66
4
Aleksey Malyukov
URS
77.96
5
Detlef Gerstenberg
GDR
77.82
6
Roland Steuk
GDR
77.64
7
Yuriy Sedykh
URS
77.58
8
Boris Zaychuk
URS
77.42
9
Klaus Ploghaus
FRG
76.76
10
Aleksey Spiridonov
URS
76.38
Javelin Throw
1
Pentti Sinersaari
FIN
93.84
2
Antero Puranen
FIN
92.74
3
Helmut Schreiber
FRG
92.72
4
Ferenc Paragi
HUN
92.14
5
Esa Utrainen
FIN
90.94
6
Wolfgang Hanisch
GDR
90.36
7
Arto Härkönen
FIN
90.18
8
Leif Lundmark
SWE
89.92
9
Klaus Tafelmeier
FRG
89.78
10
Detlef Michel
GDR
89.74
Decathlon
1
Guido Kratschmer
FRG
8484
2
Siegfried Stark
GDR
8287
3
Bobby Coffman
USA
8274
4
Jürgen Hingsen
FRG
8240
5
Sepp Zeilbauer
AUT
8198
A
6
Aleksandr Grebenyuk
URS
8166
7
Thierry Dubois
FRA
8161
8
Valeriy Kachanov
URS
8151
9
John Crist
USA
8149
10
Konstantin Akhapkin
URS
8141