1979 Spartakiad USSR

1 Silvio Leonard CR 10.30

2 Houston McTear 10.39

3 Osvaldo Lara 10.41

1 Wardell Gilbreath 20.84

2 Don Coleman 21.05

3 Nikolay Sidorov Moscow Team 21.20

1 Stan Vinson CR 45.70

2 Nikolay Chernyetskiy 46.05

3 Dele Udo 46.15

1 Anatoliy Reshetnyak 1:47.2

2 Vladimir Podolyako 1:47.4

3 Detlef Wagenknecht 1:47.5

1 Vladimir Ponomaryov CR 3:38.6

2 Craig Masback 3:38.9

3 Andreas Busse 3:39.1

1 Miruts Yifter CR 13:20.8

2 Yohannes Mohamed 13:21.1

3 Valeriy Abramov 13:21.7

1 Miruts Yifter CR 27:44.2

2 Aleksandras Antipovas 27:47.4

3 Gerard Barrett 27:50.7

1 Leonid Moseyev 2:13:20

2 Shigeru Soh 2:13:20

3 Viktor Zubov 2:13:20

1 Henry Marsh 8:28.1

2 Paul Copu 8:28.6

3 Vladimir Lisovskiy Leningrad Team 8:29.7

1 Aleksandr Puchkov Leningrad Team CR 13.68

2 Andrey Prokofyev 13.76

3 Andrey Korostelyev Moscow Team 13.94

1 Vasiliy Arkhipenko CR 49.11

2 Dmitriy Stukalov Moscow Team 50.23

3 Valeriy Mashkovskiy 50.82

1 Aleksandr Grigoryev CR 2.24

2 Benn Fields 2.24

3 Gerd Nagel 2.21

1 Konstantin Volkov CR 5.55

2 Vladimir Trofimenko Leningrad Team 5.50

3 Antti Kalliomaki 5.45

1 Frank Paschek CR 8.25

2 David Giralt (1959) 8.12

3 Carl Lewis 8.04

1 Gennadiy Valyukevich 17.21

2 Jaak Uudmae 16.84

3 Anatoliy Piskulin Leningrad Team 16.76

1 Valeriy Voykin Leningrad Team CR 20.58

2 Vladimir Kiselyov 20.39

3 Anatoliy Yarosh 20.38

1 John Powell CR 63.06

2 Veljko Velev 62.68

3 Pyotr Mikhailov Leningrad Team 62.14

1 Sergey Litvinov CR 77.08

2 Aleksey Malyukov Moscow Team 75.42

3 Aleksandr Bunyeyev 75.10

1 Detlef Michel 87.46

2 Karl Heller 86.80

3 Arto Harkönen 85.68

1 Nikolay Vinnichenko CR 1:22:29

2 Anatoliy Solomin 1:22:40

3 Boris Yakovlev 1:23:07

1 Viktor Dorovskikh Leningrad Team AR 3:46:25

2 Vladimir Rezayev Leningrad Team 3:46:57

3 Vyacheslav Fursov Leningrad Team 3:47:56

1 Aleksandr Grebenyuk Upd 1984 table: 8187 pts CR 8166 pts

2 Konstantin Akhapkin Moscow Team / Upd 1984 table: 8104 pts 8111 pts

3 Yuriy Kutsenko Upd 1984 table: 8053 pts 8086 pts

1 United States of America CR 39.33

• Cliff Wiley
• Rich Edwards
• Wardell Gilbreath
• Don Coleman

2 Russia 39.48

• Semyon Vakhanyelov
• Andrey Shlyapnikov
• Aleksandr Cherkashin
• Nikolay Sidorov

Moscow Team

3 Russia 39.57

• Yevgeny Kovalyev
• Yuriy Naumenko
• Aleksandr Aksinin
• Nikolay Kolesnikov

Leningrad Team

1 United States of America 1:22.0

• Carl Lewis
• Don Coleman
• Wardell Gilbreath
• Rich Edwards

2 Russia 1:22.5

• Mikhail Kravtsov
• Aleksandr Stasevich
• Ivan Babenko
• Sergey Vladimirtsev

3 Russia 1:23.2

• Andrey Shlyapnikov
• Nikolay Sidorov
• Aleksandr Cherkashin
• Aleksandr Yagudin

Moscow Team

1 United States of America CR 3:03.7

• Cliff Wiley
• Ronnie Harris
• Fred Taylor
• Stan Vinson

2 Russia 3:03.9

• Leonid Korolev
• Mikhail Linge
• Dmitriy Stukalov
• Nikolay Chernyetskiy

Moscow Team

3 Ukraine 3:05.2

• Vladimir Belokon
• Pavel Roshchin
• Valeriy Mashkovskiy
• Viktor Burakov