Athletics_at_the_Friendship_Games
Athletics at the Friendship Games
International athletics championship event
Athletics at the Friendship Games was contested in 41 events, 24 events by men and 17 by women. Men competed at the Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium (now Luzhniki Stadium) in Moscow, Soviet Union between 17 and 18 August, while women's events took place at the Evžen Rošický Stadium in Prague, Czechoslovakia between 16 and 18 August 1984.
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| Athletics at the Friendship Games | |
|---|---|
| Dates | August 16, 1984 (1984-08-16) – August 18, 1984 (1984-08-18) |
| Host city | Moscow, Soviet Union (men) Prague, Czechoslovakia (women) |
| Venue | Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium (men) Evžen Rošický Stadium (women) |
| Level | Senior |
| Events | 41 |
| Participation | 529 athletes from 39 nations |
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One new world record was set, by East German Irina Meszynski in women's discus throw, with 73.36 m. As of 2024, it still ranks Meszynski sixth on the world all-time list.[1]
In an unusual feat, Alberto Juantorena (Cuba) and Ryszard Ostrowski (Poland) both crossed the finish line at exactly the same moment in the men's 800 metres. After the officials were unable to split them using a photo-finish, both were declared gold medalists.[2]
The Soviet Union dominated the final medal tally, winning 24 gold and 63 total medals. East Germany finished second, with 8 and 19 respectively.
Men
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| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 metres (wind: -0.4 m/s) details |
 Osvaldo Lara (CUB) | 10.17 |  Attila Kovács (HUN) | 10.18 | Leandro Peñalver (CUB) | 10.21 |
| 200 metres (wind: -1.2 m/s) details |
 Vladimir Muravyov (URS) | 20.34 | Aleksandr Yevgenyev (URS) | 20.41 |  Olaf Prenzler (GDR) | 20.58 |
| 400 metres details |
Viktor Markin (URS) | 44.78 | Aleksandr Troshchilo (URS) | 45.51 | Aleksandr Kurochkin (URS) | 45.57 |
| 800 metres details |
Alberto Juantorena (CUB)  Ryszard Ostrowski (POL) | 1:45.68 | none awarded | – | Viktor Kalinkin (URS) | 1:45.82 |
| 1500 metres details |
Andreas Busse (GDR) | 3:36.65 | Anatoliy Kalutskiy (URS) | 3:37.35 | Igor Lotaryov (URS) | 3:38.42 |
| 5000 metres details |
 Evgeni Ignatov (BUL) | 13:26.35 | Dmitriy Dmitriyev (URS) | 13:26.85 |  Wodajo Bulti (ETH) | 13:29.08 |
| 10,000 metres details |
Valeriy Abramov (URS) | 27:55.16 | Wodajo Bulti (ETH) | 27:58.97 | Bekele Debele (ETH) | 28:03.06 |
| Marathon details |
Dereje Nedi (ETH) | 2:10:32 | Abebe Mekonnen (ETH) | 2:11:30 |  Lee Jong-hyong (PRK) | 2:11:44 |
| 110 metres hurdles (wind: -0.5 m/s) details |
György Bakos (HUN) | 13.52 | Vyacheslav Ustinov (URS) | 13.57 | Thomas Munkelt (GDR) | 13.64 |
| 400 metres hurdles details |
Aleksandr Vasilyev (URS) | 48.63 | Vladimir Budko (URS) | 48.74 | Toma Tomov (BUL) | 49.29 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase details |
Bogusław Mamiński (POL) | 8:27.15 | Hagen Melzer (GDR) | 8:27.43 |  Jan Hagelbrandt (SWE) | 8:32.36 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details |
Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandr Yevgenyev Sergey Sokolov Vladimir Muravyov Nikolay Sidorov | 38.32 | Cuba (CUB) Tomás González Leandro Peñalver Silvio Leonard Osvaldo Lara | 38.79 | Poland (POL) Krzysztof Zwoliński Marian Woronin Czesław Prądzyński Arkadiusz Janiak | 38.81 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay details |
Soviet Union (URS) Sergey Lovachev Yevgeniy Lomtev Aleksandr Kurochkin Viktor Markin | 3:00.16 | East Germany (GDR) Carlo Niestädt Mathias Schersing Thomas Schönlebe Jens Carlowitz | 3:00.47 | Cuba (CUB) Lázaro Martínez Carlos Reyte Roberto Ramos Alberto Juantorena | 3:04.76 |
| 20 kilometres walk details |
Sergey Protsishin (URS) | 1:21:57 | Anatoliy Solomin (URS) | 1:22:21 | Nikolay Polozov (URS) | 1:22:40 |
| 50 kilometres walk details |
Andrey Perlov (URS) | 3:43:06 |  Pavol Szikora (TCH) | 3:45:53 | Viktor Dorovskikh (URS) | 3:58:47 |
| High jump details |
Valeriy Sereda (URS) | 2.25 m | Javier Sotomayor (CUB) | 2.25 m | Dariusz Zielke (POL) | 2.20 m |
| Pole vault details |
Konstantin Volkov (URS) | 5.80 m | Sergey Bubka (URS) | 5.70 m | Aleksandr Krupskiy (URS) | 5.70 m |
| Long jump details |
Konstantin Semykin (URS) | 8.38 m | Jaime Jefferson (CUB) | 8.37 m | Sergey Layevskiy (URS) | 8.22 m |
| Triple jump details |
Oleg Protsenko (URS) | 17.46 m | Aleksandr Yakovlev (URS) | 17.41 m | Khristo Markov (BUL) | 17.29 m |
| Shot put details |
Sergey Kasnauskas (URS) | 21.64 m | Udo Beyer (GDR) | 21.60 m | Vladimir Kiselyov (URS) | 21.58 m |
| Discus throw details |
Yuriy Dumchev (URS) | 66.70 m | Juan Martínez (CUB) | 66.04 m | Jürgen Schult (GDR) | 66.02 m |
| Hammer throw details |
Yuriy Sedykh (URS) | 85.60 m | Igor Nikulin (URS) | 82.56 m | Sergey Litvinov (URS) | 81.30 m |
| Javelin throw details |
Uwe Hohn (GDR) | 94.44 m | Detlef Michel (GDR) | 88.32 m | Zdeněk Adamec (TCH) | 87.10 m |
| Decathlon details |
Grigoriy Degtyaryev (URS) | 8523 | Torsten Voss (GDR) | 8450 | Igor Sobolevskiy (URS) | 8433 |
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Women
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1 new world record was set.
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| Event | Name | Nationality | Result |
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| Women's discus throw | Irina Meszynski | East Germany | 73.36 m |
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* Host nation (Host nations (Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union))
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| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS)* | 24 | 20 | 19 | 63 |
| 2 | East Germany (GDR) | 8 | 7 | 4 | 19 |
| 3 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 4 | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 4 | Cuba (CUB) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 5 | Poland (POL) | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | Ethiopia (ETH) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 7 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Czechoslovakia (TCH)* | 0 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 9 | North Korea (PRK) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (10 entries) | 43 | 39 | 41 | 123 | |
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Algeria (4)
Argentina (3)
Austria (8)
Belgium (2)
Benin (5)
Bulgaria (49)
Cambodia (11)
Cape Verde (2)
Colombia (5)
Cuba (35)
Czechoslovakia (65)
East Germany (48)
Ethiopia (10)
Finland (4)
France (1)
Guinea (7)
Guinea-Bissau (4)
Great Britain (5)
Hungary (28)
Italy (5)
Lebanon (5)
Madagascar (2)
Malaysia (6)
Mongolia (3)
Nicaragua (2)
North Korea (3)
Peru (4)
Poland (43)
Portugal (2)
Seychelles (3)
South Yemen (9)
Soviet Union (131)
Sweden (3)
Switzerland (4)
Syria (2)
Tanzania (2)
United States (1)
Vietnam (2)
West Germany (1)
- "Olympic Games 2008. Women's Discus Throw" (PDF). IAAF official website. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-10-25. Retrieved 2010-05-29. P. 3
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- Trzciński, Tomasz; et al. (1985). Gwiazdy sportu '84 (in Polish). Warsaw: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza. pp. 87–89. ISBN 83-03-01177-4.