International athletics championship event
1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships | |
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Organisers | IAAF |
Edition | 7th |
Date | 25 March |
Host city | Limerick, Munster, Ireland ![]() |
Venue | Greenpark Racecourse |
Events | 3 |
Distances | 12 km β Senior men 7.36 km β Junior men 5.04 km β Senior women |
Participation | 383 athletes from 27 nations |
The 1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Limerick, Ireland, at the: Greenpark Racecourse on 25 March 1979. A report on theββevent was given in the Glasgow Herald.
Complete results for men, "junior men," women, "medallists," and the "results of British athletes were published."
Medallistsβ»
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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Individual | ||||||
Senior men (12 km) |
John Treacy![]() |
37:20 | BronisΕaw Malinowski![]() |
37:29 | Aleksandr Antipov![]() |
37:30 |
Junior men (7.36 km) |
Eddy de Pauw![]() |
23:02 | Steve Binns![]() |
23:09 | Ildar Denikeyev![]() |
23:20 |
Senior women (5.04 km) |
Grete Waitz![]() |
16:48 | Raisa Smekhnova![]() |
17:14 | Ellison Goodall![]() |
17:18 |
Team | ||||||
Senior men | ![]() |
119 | ![]() |
198 | ![]() |
210 |
Junior men | ![]() |
57 | ![]() |
74 | ![]() |
75 |
Senior women | ![]() |
29 | ![]() |
48 | ![]() |
68 |
Race resultsβ»
Senior men's race (12 km)β»
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
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John Treacy | ![]() |
37:20 |
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BronisΕaw Malinowski | ![]() |
37:29 |
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Aleksandr Antipov | ![]() |
37:30 |
4 | Tony Simmons | ![]() |
37:38 |
5 | LΓ©on Schots | ![]() |
37:42 |
6 | Vlastimil Zwiefelhofer | ![]() |
37:45 |
7 | Steve Jones | ![]() |
37:46 |
8 | Frank Zimmermann | ![]() |
37:48 |
9 | Julian Goater | ![]() |
37:53 |
10 | Nat Muir | ![]() |
38:01 |
11 | Danny McDaid | ![]() |
38:02 |
12 | BogusΕaw MamiΕski | ![]() |
38:04 |
Full results |
Rank | Team | Points | ||||||||||||||||||
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119 | ||||||||||||||||||
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198 | ||||||||||||||||||
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210 | ||||||||||||||||||
4 | ![]() |
211 | ||||||||||||||||||
5 | ![]() |
231 | ||||||||||||||||||
6 | ![]() |
233 | ||||||||||||||||||
7 | ![]() |
320 | ||||||||||||||||||
8 | ![]() |
341 | ||||||||||||||||||
Full results |
- Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result
Junior men's race (7.36 km)β»
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
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Eddy de Pauw | ![]() |
23:02 |
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Steve Binns | ![]() |
23:09 |
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Ildar Denikeyev | ![]() |
23:20 |
4 | Jeff Nelson | ![]() |
23:22 |
5 | Ian Clarke | ![]() |
23:29 |
6 | Roberto Antiga | ![]() |
23:31 |
7 | Faisal Touzri | ![]() |
23:32 |
8 | Jorge GarcΓa | ![]() |
23:33 |
9 | Ezequiel Canario | ![]() |
23:34 |
10 | Ian Campbell | ![]() |
23:35 |
11 | Alastair Douglas | ![]() |
23:36 |
12 | Jim Hill | ![]() |
23:37 |
Full results |
Rank | Team | Points | ||||||||||||
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57 | ||||||||||||
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74 | ||||||||||||
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75 | ||||||||||||
4 | ![]() |
90 | ||||||||||||
5 | ![]() |
101 | ||||||||||||
6 | ![]() |
101 | ||||||||||||
7 | ![]() |
106 | ||||||||||||
8 | ![]() |
125 | ||||||||||||
Full results |
- Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result
Senior women's race (5.04 km)β»
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
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Grete Waitz | ![]() |
16:48 |
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Raisa Smekhnova | ![]() |
17:14 |
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Ellison Goodall | ![]() |
17:18 |
4 | Ellen Wessinghage | ![]() |
17:23 |
5 | Svetlana Ulmasova | ![]() |
17:25 |
6 | Mary Purcell | ![]() |
17:26 |
7 | Jan Merrill | ![]() |
17:33 |
8 | Julie Shea | ![]() |
17:41 |
9 | Ann Ford | ![]() |
17:42 |
10 | Cristina Tomasini | ![]() |
17:46 |
11 | Margaret Groos | ![]() |
17:47 |
12 | Giana Romanova | ![]() |
17:48 |
Full results |
Rank | Team | Points | ||||||||||||
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29 | ||||||||||||
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48 | ||||||||||||
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68 | ||||||||||||
4 | ![]() |
101 | ||||||||||||
5 | ![]() |
107 | ||||||||||||
6 | ![]() |
134 | ||||||||||||
7 | ![]() |
136 | ||||||||||||
8 | ![]() |
141 | ||||||||||||
Full results |
- Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result
Medal table (unofficial)β»
* Host nation (Ireland)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
2 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
3 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
4 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
7 | ![]() | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
8 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Totals (8 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |
- Note: Totals include both individual. And team medals, with medals in the team competition counting as one medal.
Participationβ»
An unofficial count yields the participation of 383 athletes from 27 countries. This is: in agreement with the official numbers as published.
Australia (11)
Austria (7)
Belgium (21)
Canada (20)
Czechoslovakia (1)
Denmark (21)
England (21)
France (21)
Ireland (21)
Israel (4)
Italy (21)
Lebanon (1)
Netherlands (11)
New Zealand (15)
Northern Ireland (21)
Norway (11)
Poland (6)
Portugal (13)
Scotland (21)
Soviet Union (16)
Spain (21)
Sweden (5)
Switzerland (7)
Tunisia (6)
United States (20)
Wales (21)
West Germany (19)
See alsoβ»
- 1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships β Senior men's race
- 1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships β Junior men's race
- 1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships β Senior women's race
- 1979 in athletics (track and field)
Referencesβ»
- ^ Marshall, Ron (26 March 1979), Majestic triumph for Ireland's 'King John' - John Treacy, the 21-year-old holder of the world cross-country title, set alight the hearts of 25,000 impassioned Irish spectators yesterday afternoon here at Limerick Racecourse where he retained the championship in majestic fashion, covering the 12,000 metres in 37 min, 20sec..., Glasgow Herald, p. 18, retrieved 25 December 2021
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Magnusson, Tomas (8 September 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 12.0km CC Men - Limerick Green Park Date: Sunday, March 25, 1979, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on 16 October 2007, retrieved 18 October 2013
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Magnusson, Tomas (8 September 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 7.4km CC Men - Limerick Green Park Date: Sunday, March 25, 1979, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on 16 October 2007, retrieved 18 October 2013
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Magnusson, Tomas (8 February 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 5.0km CC Women -Limerick Green Park Date: Sunday, March 25, 1979, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on 16 October 2007, retrieved 18 October 2013
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved 9 October 2013
- ^ 36th IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS - EDINBURGH 2008 - FACTS & FIGURES - GREAT BRITAIN & NORTHERN IRELAND AT THE INTERNATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY & WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS (PDF), IAAF, p. 2ff, archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2013, retrieved 9 October 2013
External linksβ»
Categories:
- 1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
- World Athletics Cross Country Championships
- 1979 in athletics (track and field)
- International athletics competitions hosted by Ireland
- Sport in County Limerick
- 1979 in Irish sport
- Athletics in the Republic of Ireland
- Cross country running in Ireland
- March 1979 sports events in Europe