1979 European Cup "A" Final

These are the full results of the 1979 European Cup "A" Final in athletics which was held at the Stadion Maksimir on 4 and 5 August 1979 in Turin, Italy.

Team standings

Men

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	East Germany	125
2	Soviet Union	114
3	West Germany	110
4	Poland	90
5	Great Britain	82
6	Italy	79
7	France	70.5
8	Yugoslavia	49.5

Women

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	East Germany	102
2	Soviet Union	100
3	Bulgaria	76
4	Great Britain	62
5	Romania	58
	West Germany	58
7	Poland	55
8	Italy	29

Men's results

100 metres

4 August
Wind: +1.3 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes	Points
1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	10.15	NR	8
2	Marian Woronin	Poland	10.16	NR	7
3	Allan Wells	Great Britain	10.19		6
4	Eugen Ray	East Germany	10.39		5
5	Philippe Le Joncour	France	10.44		4
6	Fritz-Werner Heer	West Germany	10.45		3
7	Andrey Shlyapnikov	Soviet Union	10.46		2
8	Dragan Zarić	Yugoslavia	10.70		1

200 metres

5 August
Wind: +2.2 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes	Points
1	Allan Wells	Great Britain	20.29		8
2	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.31		7
3	Marian Woronin	Poland	20.43		6
4	Olaf Prenzler	East Germany	20.53		5
5	Pascal Barré	France	20.64		4
6	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	West Germany	20.68		3
7	Viktor Burakov	Soviet Union	20.98		2
8	Dragan Zarić	Yugoslavia	21.29		1

400 metres

4 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes	Points
1	Harald Schmid	West Germany	45.31		8
2	Nikolay Chernetskiy	Soviet Union	45.70	NR	7
3	Ryszard Podlas	Poland	46.11		6
4	Udo Bauer	East Germany	46.15		5
5	Francis Demarthon	France	46.33		4
6	Josip Alebić	Yugoslavia	46.54		3
7	Steve Wymark	Great Britain	46.66		2
8	Flavio Borghi	Italy	47.42		1

800 metres

5 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes	Points
1	Sebastian Coe	Great Britain	1:47.28		8
2	Dragan Životić	Yugoslavia	1:48.03		7
3	Willi Wülbeck	West Germany	1:48.11		6
4	Anatoliy Reshetnyak	Soviet Union	1:48.18		5
5	Olaf Beyer	East Germany	1:48.35		4
6	Roger Milhau	France	1:48.70		3
7	Carlo Grippo	Italy	1:49.47		2
8	Andrzej Baron	Poland	1:50.20		1

1500 metres

4 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes	Points
1	Jürgen Straub	East Germany	3:36.27		8
2	Thomas Wessinghage	West Germany	3:36.40		7
3	Graham Williamson	Great Britain	3:38.34		6
4	Valeriy Abramov	Soviet Union	3:38.48		5
5	Vittorio Fontanella	Italy	3:39.66		4
6	Bogusław Mamiński	Poland	3:40.62		3
7	Philippe Dien	France	3:44.12		2
8	Dragan Zdravković	Yugoslavia	3:46.45		1

5000 metres

5 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes	Points
1	Hansjörg Kunze	East Germany	14:12.88		8
2	Aleksandr Fedotkin	Soviet Union	14:13.97		7
3	Mike McLeod	Great Britain	14:15.91		6
4	Jerzy Kowol	Poland	14:16.27		5
5	Francis Gonzalez	France	14:16.89		4
6	Karl Fleschen	West Germany	14:18.80		3
7	Antonio Selvaggio	Italy	14:19.89		2
8	Stanko Lisec	Yugoslavia	14:32.35		1

10,000 metres

4 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes	Points
1	Brendan Foster	Great Britain	28:22.86		8
2	Aleksandras Antipovas	Soviet Union	28:40.32		7
3	Frank Zimmermann	West Germany	28:42.09		6
4	Werner Schildhauer	East Germany	28:57.68		5
5	Ryszard Kopijasz	Poland	29:23.78		4
6	Luigi Zarcone	Italy	29:41.53		3
7	Radhouane Bouster	France	30:20.99		2
8	Dušan Janićijević	Yugoslavia	30:51.45		1

110 metres hurdles

5 August
Wind: +1.3 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes	Points
1	Thomas Munkelt	East Germany	13.47		8
2	Aleksandr Puchkov	Soviet Union	13.56		7
3	Jan Pusty	Poland	13.74		6
4	Mark Holtom	Great Britain	13.91		5
5	Giuseppe Buttari	Italy	13.94		4
6	Dieter Gebhard	West Germany	13.94		3
7	Borislav Pisić	Yugoslavia	13.98		2
8	Emile Raybois	France	14.15		1

400 metres hurdles

4 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes	Points
1	Harald Schmid	West Germany	47.85	CR	8
2	Vasiliy Arkhipenko	Soviet Union	48.34		7
3	Volker Beck	East Germany	48.58		6
4	Rok Kopitar	Yugoslavia	50.20		5
5	Gary Oakes	Great Britain	50.83		4
6	Fulvio Zorn	Italy	51.20		3
7	Leszek Rzepakowski	Poland	51.36		2
8	Jean-Claude Curtil	France	53.16		1

3000 metres steeplechase

5 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes	Points
1	Mariano Scartezzini	Italy	8:22.74		8
2	Michael Karst	West Germany	8:23.75		7
3	Anatoliy Dimov	Soviet Union	8:25.87		6
4	Krzysztof Wesołowski	Poland	8:30.66		5
5	Hagen Melzer	East Germany	8:34.15		4
6	Jean-Luc Lemire	France	8:35.64		3
7	Petar Svet	Yugoslavia	8:46.95		2
8	Julian Marsay	Great Britain	8:55.89		1

4 × 100 metres relay

4 August

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time	Note	Points
1	Poland	Krzysztof Zwoliński, Leszek Dunecki, Zenon Licznerski, Marian Woronin	38.47	NR	8
2	East Germany	Klaus-Dieter Kurrat, Alexander Thieme, Olaf Prenzler, Eugen Ray	38.70		7
3	France	Patrick Barré, Lucien Sainte-Rose, Pascal Barré, Herman Panzo	38.71		6
4	Italy	Gianfranco Lazzer, Mauro Zuliani, Luciano Caravani, Pietro Mennea	38.73	NR	5
5	Great Britain	Allan Wells, Steve Green, Trevor Hoyte, Drew McMaster	38.95	NR	4
6	West Germany	Fritz-Werner Heer, Dieter Gebhard, Ulrich Haupt, Franz-Peter Hofmeister	38.98		3
7	Soviet Union	Andrey Prokofyev, Aleksandr Aksinin, Nikolay Kolesnikov, Andrey Shlyapnikov	38.99		2
8	Yugoslavia	Janez Sagadin, Aleksandar Popović, Dragan Zarić, Nenad Milinkov	40.33		1

4 × 400 metres relay

5 August

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time	Note	Points
1	West Germany	Lothar Krieg, Franz-Peter Hofrmeister, Hartmut Weber, Harald Schmid	3:01.91		8
2	East Germany	Udo Bauer, Frank Schaffer, Frank Richter, Volker Beck	3:02.16	NR	7
3	Soviet Union	Viktor Burakov, Remigius Valyulis, Vyacheslav Dotsenko, Nikolay Chernetskiy	3:02.35	NR	6
4	Poland	Andrzej Stępień, Jerzy Pietrzyk, Zbigniew Jaremski, Ryszard Podlas	3:03.04		5
5	France	Didier Dubois, Robert Froissard, Gérard Boutier, Francis Demarthon	3:04.89		4
6	Great Britain	Steve Wymark, Steve Scutt, Alan Bell, Sebastian Coe	3:05.63		3
7	Yugoslavia	Željko Knapić, Milovan Savić, Dragan Životić, Josip Alebić	3:05.72		2
8	Italy	Roberto Tozzi, Stefano Malinverni, Flavio Borghi, Angelo Bianchi	3:06.01		1

High jump

4 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes	Points
1	Dietmar Mögenburg	West Germany	2.32	NR	8
2	Rolf Beilschmidt	East Germany	2.30		7
3	Aleksandr Grigoryev	Soviet Union	2.24		6
4	Massimo Di Giorgio	Italy	2.24		5
5	Janusz Trzepizur	Poland	2.20		4
6	Franck Bonnet	France	2.14		3
7	Danial Temim	Yugoslavia	2.14		2
8	Tim Foulger	Great Britain	2.08		1

Pole vault

5 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes	Points
1	Konstantin Volkov	Soviet Union	5.60		8
2	Patrick Abada	France	5.60		7
3	Władysław Kozakiewicz	Poland	5.55		6
4	Günther Lohre	West Germany	5.50		5
5	Brian Hooper	Great Britain	5.30		4
6	Axel Weber	East Germany	5.30		3
7	Domenico D'Alisera	Italy	5.20		2
8	Miran Bizjak	Yugoslavia	4.80		1