1979 IAAF World Race Walking Cup

1979 IAAF World Race Walking Cup
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	9th
Date	September 29–30
Host city	Eschborn, Hessen, Federal Republic of Germany
Nations participating	18
Athletes participating	147
Races	3
← 1977 Milton Keynes 1981 Valencia →

The 1979 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held in Eschborn, Federal Republic of Germany, on September 29–30, 1979. The event was also known as IAAF Race Walking World Cup. The women's 5 km race was now officially introduced into the competition with the women's teams competing for the Eschborn Cup.

Complete results were published.^[1]

Medallists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men
20 km walk	Daniel Bautista (MEX)	1:18:49	Boris Yakovlev (URS)	1:19:46	Mykola Vinnichenko (URS)	1:20:05
50 km walk	Martín Bermúdez (MEX)	3:43:36	Enrique Vera Ibanez (MEX)	3:43:59	Viktor Dorovskikh (URS)	3:45:51
Lugano Cup (Men)
Team (Men)	Mexico	240 pts	Soviet Union	235 pts	East Germany	201 pts
Women
5 km walk	Marion Fawkes (GBR)	22:51	Carol Tyson (GBR)	22:59	Thorill Gylder (NOR)	23:08
Eschborn Cup (Women)
Team (Women)	United Kingdom	85 pts	Sweden	74 pts	Norway	69 pts

Results

Men's 20 km

Place	Athlete	Time
01 !	Daniel Bautista  MEX	1:18:49
02 !	Boris Yakovlev  URS	1:19:46
03 !	Nikolay Vinnichenko  URS	1:20:05
4	Anatoliy Solomin  URS	1:20:13
5	Pyotr Pochinchuk  URS	1:20:28
6	Ernesto Canto  MEX	1:21:12
7	Hartwig Gauder  GDR	1:21:50
8	Felix Gómez  MEX	1:22:09
9	Roland Wieser  GDR	1:22:32
10	Jozef Pribilinec  TCH	1:22:44
11	Ronald Weigel  GDR	1:22:50
12	Fred Sparmann  GDR	1:22:52
13	Bohdan Bułakowski  POL	1:23:01
14	Alessandro Pezzatini  ITA	1:23:42
15	Juraj Bencík  TCH	1:24:34
16	János Szálas  HUN	1:24:42
17	Antonio Carrera  MEX	1:25:09
18	Pavol Blaûek  TCH	1:25:14
19	Jan Ornoch  POL	1:25:17
20	Giancarlo Gandossi  ITA	1:25:25
21	Dave Smith  AUS	1:25:36
22	Štefan Petrík  TCH	1:26:02
23	Imre Stankovics  HUN	1:26:25
24	Jaroslaw Kazmierski  POL	1:26:46
25	Jorge Llopart  ESP	1:26:55
26	Roger Mills  GBR	1:27:25
27	Olly Flynn  GBR	1:27:49
28	Bo Gustafsson  SWE	1:27:59
29	Chris Harvey  GBR	1:28:26
30	Alf Brandt  SWE	1:28:47
31	Jim Heiring  USA	1:28:51
32	Amos Seddon  GBR	1:28:56
33	Zbigniew Gosławski  POL	1:29:24
34	Per Möller  SWE	1:29:47
35	Chris Hansen  USA	1:29:56
36	Miklós Domján  HUN	1:29:57
37	Owe Hemmingsson  SWE	1:30:02
38	Alfons Schwarz  FRG	1:30:24
39	Karl Degener  FRG	1:31:02
40	Wolfgang Wiedemann  FRG	1:32:23
41	Graham Seatter  NZL	1:33:03
42	Rod Huxley  AUS	1:33:45
43	Peter Fullager  AUS	1:34:13
44	John Smith  AUS	1:36:15
45	Steve Pecinovsky  USA	1:37:22
46	Andrés Marin  ESP	1:39:26
47	Luis Bueno  ESP	1:39:39
48	Gumersindo Carné  ESP	1:50:46
—	Hans Michalski  FRG	DQ
—	Maurizio Damilano  ITA	DQ
—	Neal Pike  USA	DQ
—	Roberto Buccione  ITA	DNF
—	Neil Blaney  NZL	DNF
—	Allan Callow  NZL	DNF

Men's 50 km

Place	Athlete	Time
01 !	Martín Bermúdez  MEX	3:43:36
02 !	Enrique Vera  MEX	3:43:59
03 !	Viktor Dorovskikh  URS	3:45:51
4	Raúl González  MEX	3:46:36
5	Vyacheslav Fursov  URS	3:46:55
6	Pyotr Melnik  URS	3:49:31
7	José Marín  ESP	3:49:46
8	Dietmar Meisch  GDR	3:50:02
9	Paolo Grecucci  ITA	3:50:51
10	Willi Sawall  AUS	3:51:08
11	Sandro Bellucci  ITA	3:51:08
12	Matthias Kroel  GDR	3:52:10
13	Horst Matern  GDR	3:52:10
14	Domenico Carpentieri  ITA	3:52:44
15	Otto Barch  URS	3:53:32
16	Hans Binder  FRG	3:57:31
17	Jaromír Vanous  TCH	3:58:01
18	Feliks Sliwinski  POL	3:59:19
19	László Sátor  HUN	3:59:37
20	Heinrich Schubert  FRG	3:59:58
21	Gerhard Weidner  FRG	4:01:01
22	Bengt Simonsen  SWE	4:01:43
23	Vittorio Visini  ITA	4:02:28
24	Agustin Jorbo  ESP	4:02:52
25	Tim Erickson  AUS	4:03:17
26	Stanisław Rola  POL	4:03:29
27	Jan Dzurnák  TCH	4:04:03
28	János Dalmati  HUN	4:08:52
29	Michael Parker  NZL	4:08:56
30	Stig-Olof Elovsson  SWE	4:09:44
31	Adrian James  GBR	4:09:52
32	Max Sjöholm  SWE	4:10:52
33	Per Rasmussen  SWE	4:11:56
34	Vince OʼSullivan  USA	4:12:15
35	Marco Evoniuk  USA	4:12:37
36	John Sheard  AUS	4:13:55
37	Ian Richards  GBR	4:14:47
38	Dan OʼConnor  USA	4:17:34
39	George Nibre  GBR	4:18:19
40	Rafael Espejo  ESP	4:24:02
41	Vladislav Dostál  TCH	4:24:56
42	Zoltán Rutkai  HUN	4:25:56
43	Chris Maddocks  GBR	4:27:03
44	Carl Schueler  USA	4:27:24
45	Attila Márton  HUN	4:28:52
—	Greg Sockhill  AUS	DQ
—	Jürgen Meyer  FRG	DQ
—	Steffen Müller  GDR	DQ
—	Pedro Aroche  MEX	DQ
—	Manuel Alcalde  ESP	DNF
—	Allan Callow  NZL	DNF
—	Ross Pilkington  NZL	DNF
—	Graham Seatter  NZL	DNF
—	Bogusław Duda  POL	DNF
—	Stanisław Korneluk  POL	DNF

Team (Men)

Place	Country	Points
01 !	Mexico	240 pts
02 !	Soviet Union	235 pts
03 !	East Germany	201 pts
4	Italy	152 pts
5	Czechoslovakia	142 pts
6	Poland	127 pts
7	Hungary	112 pts
8	West Germany	108 pts
9	Australia	103 pts
10	Sweden	101 pts
11	Spain	94 pts
12	United Kingdom	89 pts
13	United States	67 pts
14	New Zealand	25 pts

Women's 5 km

Place	Athlete	Time
01 !	Marion Fawkes  GBR	22:51
02 !	Carol Tyson  GBR	22:59
03 !	Thorill Gylder  NOR	23:08
4	Elisabet Olsson  SWE	23:10
5	Susan Orr-Cook  AUS	23:25
6	Irene Bateman  GBR	23:25
7	Britt-Marie Carlsson  SWE	23:30
8	Margareta Simu  SWE	23:48
9	Mia Kjølberg  NOR	23:50
10	Susan Liers-Westerfield  USA	24:02
11	Sally Pierson  AUS	24:08
12	Fröydis Hilsen  NOR	24:14
13	Elaine Cox  GBR	24:18
14	Gerd Gylder  NOR	24:22
15	Lorraine Young-Jachno  AUS	24:35
16	Jeanine Piroux/Vignat  FRA	24:36
17	Ann Jansson  SWE	24:45
18	Giuliana Salce  ITA	24:46
19	Chris Sakelarios  USA	24:50
20	Ingrid Adam  FRG	24:56
21	Regine Broders  FRG	24:57
22	Sue Brodock  USA	25:00
23	Paula Kash  USA	25:08
24	Karen Iselin  AUS	25:21
25	Monika Glöckler  FRG	25:24
26	Kristina Schenk  FRG	25:42
27	Viviane Guilmain  FRA	25:49
28	Suzanne Griesbach  FRA	25:57
29	Margot Vetterli   SUI	26:09
30	Sonia Ripanti  ITA	26:27
31	Claudine Gerald/Richard  FRA	26:31
32	Charlotte Hansen  DEN	26:32
33	Edith Sappl   SUI	26:50
34	Tina Thomsen  DEN	26:52
35	Valeria Carpanese  ITA	27:17
36	Jeanette Hansen  DEN	27:25
37	Paula Gobbi  ITA	27:47
38	Ulla Kristiansen  DEN	28:07
39	Christiane Udriot   SUI	28:58
40	Nicol Caloz   SUI	30:37

Team (Women)

Place	Country	Points
01 !	United Kingdom	85 pts
02 !	Sweden	74 pts
03 !	Norway	69 pts
4	Australia	64 pts
5	United States	48 pts
6	West Germany	38 pts
7	France	36 pts
8	Italy	26 pts
9	Switzerland	14 pts
10	Denmark	12 pts

Participation

The participation of 147 athletes (107 men/40 women) from countries is reported.^[1]

Qualifying Rounds

From 1961 to 1985 there were qualifying rounds for the men's competition with the first two winners proceeding to the final. This year, México, the German Democratic Republic, Italy, the Soviet Union, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand proceeded directly to the final.

Zone 1 Reus, Spain, August 25/26 Rank Nation Points 1  Spain 61 pts 2  Hungary 60 pts 3  France 54 pts 4  Norway 36 pts 5   Switzerland 28 pts

Zone 2 Władysławowo, Poland, August 25/26 Rank Nation Points 1  Poland 60 pts 2  Czechoslovakia 44 pts 3  Romania 30 pts 4  Finland 22 pts —  Bulgaria DNS  Denmark DNS

Zone 3 Hove, Belgium, September 3 Rank Nation Points 1  West Germany 68 pts 2  Sweden 66 pts 3  United Kingdom 65 pts 4  Belgium 29 pts 5  Netherlands 14 pts

See also

• 1979 Race Walking Year Ranking

References