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1979
Track
Field
100 m
1
Pietro Mennea
ITA
10.01
A
2
James Sanford
USA
10.07
2
Mike Roberson
USA
10.07
A
4
Silvio Leonard
CUB
10.11
5
Harvey Glance
USA
10.13
6
Clancy Edwards
USA
10.15
6
Don Coleman
USA
10.15
8
Mel Lattany
USA
10.16
8
Emmit King
USA
10.16
8
Marian Woronin
POL
10.16
200 m
1
Pietro Mennea
ITA
19.72
A
2
James Mallard
USA
20.07
3
James Sanford
USA
20.19
4
Greg Foster
USA
20.20
5
Leszek Dunecki
POL
20.24
A
6
Mel Lattany
USA
20.28
6
Dwayne Evans
USA
20.28
8
Clancy Edwards
USA
20.33
8
James Gilkes
GUY
20.33
10
Silvio Leonard
CUB
20.34
400 m
1
Harald Schmid
FRG
44.92
2
Tony Darden
USA
45.02
A
3
Willie Smith
USA
45.10
4
Herman Frazier
USA
45.11
A
5
Nikolay Chernyetskiy
URS
45.12
A
5
Franz-Peter Hofmeister
FRG
45.12
A
7
Walter McCoy
USA
45.16
A
8
Hassan El Kashief
SUD
45.18
9
James Atuti
KEN
45.21
A
10
Alberto Juantorena
CUB
45.24
800 m
1
Sebastian Coe
GBR
1.42.33
2
Jose Marajo
FRA
1.43.9
3
James Maina Boi
KEN
1.44.24
4
Willi Wülbeck
FRG
1.44.66
5
James Robinson
USA
1.44.70
6
Harald Schmid
FRG
1.44.84
7
Steve Ovett
GBR
1.44.91
8
Dragan Zivotic
YUG
1.45.20
9
Andreas Busse
GDR
1.45.4
10
Don Paige
USA
1.45.54
1500 m
1
Sebastian Coe
GBR
3.32.03
2
Steve Ovett
GBR
3.32.11
3
Jürgen Straub
GDR
3.33.68
4
John Robson
GBR
3.33.83
5
Steve Scott
USA
3.34.6
*
6
Thomas Wessinghage
FRG
3.34.7
*
7
Alex Gonzalez
FRA
3.35.07
8
Jose Marajo
FRA
3.35.09
9
Suleiman Nyambui
TAN
3.35.8
10
Willi Wülbeck
FRG
3.36.05
1 Mile
1
Sebastian Coe
GBR
3.48.95
2
Steve Ovett
GBR
3.49.57
3
Thomas Wessinghage
FRG
3.50.56
4
Steve Scott
USA
3.51.11
5
Craig Masback
USA
3.52.02
6
Eamonn Coghlan
IRL
3.52.45
7
John Robson
GBR
3.52.74
8
John Walker
NZL
3.52.85
9
Graham Williamson
GBR
3.53.17
10
Sydney Maree
USA
3.53.7
5000 m
1
Suleiman Nyambui
TAN
13.12.29
2
Markus Ryffel
SUI
13.13.32
3
Valeriy Abramov
URS
13.15.6
4
Aleksandr Fedotkin
URS
13.17.66
5
Aleksandr Antipov
URS
13.17.9
6
Rodney Dixon
NZL
13.18.64
7
Rudy Chapa
USA
13.19.22
8
David Fitsimmons
AUS
13.19.6
9
Henry Rono
KEN
13.19.65
10
Thomas Wessinghage
FRG
13.19.87
10000 m
1
Karl Fleschen
FRG
27.36.8
2
Craig Virgin
USA
27.39.4
3
Mike McLeod
GBR
27.39.76
4
Brendan Foster
GBR
27.41.23
5
Leon Schots
BEL
27.41.34
6
Aleksandr Fedotkin
URS
27.41.89
7
Frank Zimmermann
FRG
27.42.8
8
Miruts Yifter
ETH
27.44.2
9
David Black
GBR
27.46.51
10
Aleksandr Antipov
URS
27.47.4
Marathon (42.195 km.)
1
Bill Rodgers
USA
2.09.28
2
Marc Smet
BEL
2.10.00
sh
3
Toshihiko Seko
JPN
2.10.13
4
Jeff Wells
USA
2.10.20
4
Tony Sandoval
USA
2.10.20
6
Shigeru Soh
JPN
2.10.37
7
Takeshi Soh
JPN
2.10.40
8
Bernard Ford
GBR
2.10.51
9
John Lodwick
USA
2.10.54
10
Dick Quax
NZL
2.11.13
110 m Hurdles
1
Renaldo Nehemiah
USA
13.00
2
Alejandro Casanas
CUB
13.23
3
Greg Foster
USA
13.28
4
Dedy Cooper
USA
13.42
4
Thomas Munkelt
GDR
13.42
6
Garnett Edwards
USA
13.48
7
Andrey Prokofiev
URS
13.50
A
8
Kerry Bethel
USA
13.54
9
Aleksandr Puchkov
URS
13.55
A
10
Charles Foster
USA
13.56
400 m Hurdles
1
Edwin Moses
USA
47.53
2
Harald Schmid
FRG
47.85
3
Vasiliy Arkhipenko
URS
48.34
4
Quentin Wheeler
USA
48.39
5
Harry Schulting
NED
48.44
A
6
James Walker
USA
48.48
7
Volker Beck
GDR
48.58
8
Nikolay Vasilyev
URS
48.98
A
9
James King
USA
49.00
10
Mike Shine
USA
49.30
3000 m Steeplechase
1
Henry Rono
KEN
8.17.92
2
Bronislaw Malinowski
POL
8.21.97
3
Mariano Scartezzini
ITA
8.22.72
4
Wolfgang Konrad
AUT
8.22.8
5
Michael Karst
FRG
8.22.9
5
George Kiprotich Rono
KEN
8.22.9
7
Boguslaw Maminski
POL
8.23.0
8
Vladimir Lisovskiy
URS
8.23.1
9
Amos Korir
KEN
8.23.13
10
Paul Copu
ROU
8.23.41