Venue: Stadio Comunale di Torino. Events 33. Men Events 21, Women Events 12. 581 athletes (159 women) from 53 countries. 2 World and 2 European records.
Men Events Gold Silver Bronze Men 100m Siegfried Schenke GDR 10.5s Jim Green USA 10.5s Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa MAD 10.5s Men 200m Martin Reynolds GBR 21.0s Siegfried Schenke GDR 21.0s Jim Green USA 21.1s Men 400m Tom Ulan USA 45.9s Martin Jellinghaus FRG 46.2s Jacques Carette FRA 46.3s Men 800m Franz-Josef Kemper FRG 1:49.1 Martin Winbolt Lewis GBR 1:49.2 Donaldo Arza PAN 1:49.5 Men 1500m Francesco Arese ITA 3:52.7 John Kirkbride GBR 3:52.9 Gianni Del Buono ITA 3:53.0 Men 5000m Nikolay Puklakov URS 13:56.4 Jens Wollenberg FRG 14:00.8 Giuseppe Cindolo ITA 14:01.4 Men 10000m Rashid Sharafetdinov URS 29:02.2 Jack Lane GBR 29:08.8 Mike Tagg GBR 29:22.2 Men 110m Hurdles David Hemery GBR 13.8s Nickel Günther FRG 13.9s Sergio Liani ITA 13.9s Men 400m Hurdles Larry James USA 50.2s Werner Reibert FRG 50.4s Dmitriy Stukalov URS 50.7s Men 3000m Steeplechase Mikhail Zhelev BUL 8:32.6 Andy Holden GBR 8:36.6 Takaharu Koyama JPN 8:38.0 Men 4x100m Relay Poland POL 39.2s Cuba CUB 39.2s Soviet Union URS 39.4s Stanisław Wagner, Jan Werner, Gerard Gramse, Zenon Nowosz Barbaro Bandomo, Juan Morales, Pablo Montes, José Triana Aleksandr Kornelyuk, Vladislav Sapeya, Ismestev, Maskalov Men 4x400m Relay United States URS 3:03.3 Soviet Union URS 3:04.2 France FRA 3:04.4 Tom Ulan, Roger Colglazier, Tommie Turner, Larry James Yevgeniy Borisenko, Yuriy Zorin, Borys Savchuk, Aleksandr Bratchikov Patrice Viel, Christian Nicolau, Gilles Bertould, Jacques Carette Men High Jump Valentin Gavrilov URS 2.18m Erminio Azzaro ITA 2.15m Ioan Șerban ROU 2.15m Men Pole Vault Wolfgang Nordwig GDR 5.46m WR Christos Papanikolaou GRE 5.42m François Tracanelli FRA 5.30m Men Long Jump Alan Lerwill GBR 7.91m Arnie Robinson USA 7.78m Geoff Hignett GBR 7.76m Men Triple Jump Viktor Saneyev URS 17.22m Nikolay Dudkin URS 17.00m Drehmel Jörg GDR 16.93m Men Shot Put Hartmut Briesenick GDR 19.97m Valeriy Voykin URS 19.30m Uwe Grabe GDR 19.06m Men Discus Throw Murányi János HUN 60.16m Hein-Direck Neu FRG 58.62m Silvano Simeon ITA 58.22m Men Hammer Throw Jochen Sachse GDR 72.34m Vasiliy Khmelevskiy URS 68.54m Vladimir Ambrosyev URS 66.80m Men Javelin Throw Miklós Németh HUN 81.94m Csík József HUN 80.32m Zygmunt Jałoszyński POL 79.84m Men Decathlon Mykola Avilov URS 7803 pts Lennart Hedmark SWE 7783 pts Vladimir Shcherbatykh URS 7551 pts
Medals G S B All 1. Soviet Union 8 4 5 17 2. East Germany 8 3 4 15 3. Great Britain 3 4 2 9 4. United States 3 2 1 6 5. Poland 3 1 4 6. West Germany 2 6 2 10 7. Hungary 2 4 1 7 8. Italy 1 1 4 6 9. Austria 1 1 1 3 10. Bulgaria 1 1 2 11. Yugoslavia 1 1 12. Romania 2 2 4 13. Cuba 2 1 3 14. Netherlands 1 2 3 15. Greece 1 1 15. Sweden 1 1 17. France 3 3 18. Japan 2 2 19. Madagascar 1 1 19. Panama 1 1 Totals 33 33 33 99
Women Events Gold Silver Bronze Women 100m Renate Meißner GDR 11.5s Wilma van den Berg NED 11.6s Györgyi Balogh HUN 11.7s Women 200m Renate Meißner GDR 22.7s Györgyi Balogh HUN 23.2s Wilma van den Berg NED 23.5s Women 400m Maria Sykora AUT 52.8s Carmen Trustée CUB 53.5s Aurelia Pentón CUB 53.8s Women 800m Gunhild Hoffmeister GDR 2:01.8 Maria Sykora AUT 2:01.9 Karin Burneleit GDR 2:02.2 Women 100m Hurdles Teresa Sukniewicz POL 13.0s Podeswa Bärbel GDR 13.4s Valeria Bufanu ROU 13.5s Men 4x100m Relay Soviet Union URS 44.7s Hungary HUN 45.1s West Germany FRG 45.4s Lyudmila Zharkowa, Marina Nikiforova, Lyudmila Golomazova, Tatyana Kondrasheva Éva Pusztai, Judit Szabóné, Györgyi Balogh, Klára Woth Heidi Schuller, Kirsten Roggenkamp, Hannelore Groh, Heide Rosendahl Women High Jump Snežana Hrepevnik YUG 1.86m Cornelia Popescu ROU 1.83m Ilona Gusenbauer AUT 1.83m Women Long Jump Heide Rosendahl FRG 6.84m WR Elena Vintila ROU 6.35m Hiroko Yamashita JPN 6.17m Women Shot Put Nadezhda Chizhova URS 19.51m Hannelore Friedel GDR 17.84m Ingeburg Friedrich GDR 17.03m Women Discus Throw Karin Illgen GDR 62.04m Brigitte Berendonk FRG 56.78m Liesel Westermann FRG 56.46m Women Javelin Throw Daniela Jaworska POL 56.16m Magda Vidos HUN 50.60m Valentina Evert URS 50.00m Women Pentathlon Tatyana Kondrashova URS 4884 pts Nedyalka Angelova BUL 4859 pts Mieke Sterk NED 4828 pts
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