Athletics at the Friendship Games
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.
One new world record was set, by East German Irina Meszynski in women's discus throw, with 73.36 m. As of 2008, it was still the sixth best result in the history of this discipline.[1]
It was the only Friendship Games competition which saw participation of recent Olympic gold medalists, with American sprinter Alice Brown taking part in women's 100 metre run, and West German Claudia Losch competing in shot put. However, neither won medals.[2][3][4]
In an unusual feat, Alberto Juantorena (Cuba) and Ryszard Ostrowski (Poland) both crossed the finish line at exactly the same moment in men's 800 metres run. After the officials were unable to decide who came first – not even using a photograph – both were declared winners.[5]
Medal summary
Men
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 metres |  Osvaldo Lara (CUB) | 10.17 |  Attila Kovács (HUN) | 10.18 | Leandro Peñalver (CUB) | 10.21 |
| 200 metres |  Vladimir Muravyov (URS) | 20.34 | Aleksandr Yevgenyev (URS) | 20.41 |  Olaf Prenzler (GDR) | 20.58 |
| 400 metres | Viktor Markin (URS) | 44.78 | Aleksandr Troshchilo (URS) | 45.51 | Aleksandr Kurochkin (URS) | 45.57 |
| 800 metres | Alberto Juantorena (CUB)  Ryszard Ostrowski (POL) | 1:45.68 | none awarded | – | Viktor Kalinkin (URS) | 1:45.82 |
| 1500 metres | Andreas Busse (GDR) | 3:36.65 | Anatoliy Kalutskiy (URS) | 3:37.35 | Igor Lotaryov (URS) | 3:38.42 |
| 5000 metres | .svg.png){kind=small} Evgeni Ignatov (BUL) | 13:26.35 | Dmitriy Dmitriyev (URS) | 13:26.85 | .svg.png){kind=small} Wodajo Bulti (ETH) | 13:29.08 |
| 10000 metres | Valeriy Abramov (URS) | 27:55.16 | Wodajo Bulti (ETH) | 27:58.97 | Bekele Debele (ETH) | 28:03.06 |
| 110 metre hurdles | György Bakos (HUN) | 13.52 | Vyacheslav Ustinov (URS) | 13.57 | Thomas Munkelt (GDR) | 13.64 |
| 400 metre hurdles | Aleksandr Vasilyev (URS) | 48.63 | Vladimir Budko (URS) | 48.74 | Toma Tomov (BUL) | 49.29 |
| 3000 metre steeplechase | Bogusław Mamiński (POL) | 8:27.15 | Hagen Melzer (GDR) | 8:27.43 |  Jan Hagelbrandt (SWE) | 8:32.36 |
| 4×100 metre relay | 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 metre relay | 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 |
| Marathon | Dereje Nedi (ETH) | 2:10:32 | Abebe Mekonnen (ETH) | 2:11:30 |  Lee Jong-hyong (PRK) | 2:11:44 |
| 20 km walk | Sergey Protsishin (URS) | 1:21:57 | Anatoliy Solomin (URS) | 1:22:21 | Nikolay Polozov (URS) | 1:22:40 |
| 50 km walk | Andrey Perlov (URS) | 3:43:06 |  Pavol Szikora (TCH) | 3:45:53 | Viktor Dorovskikh (URS) | 3:58:47 |
| High jump | Valeriy Sereda (URS) Javier Sotomayor (CUB) | 2.25 m | none awarded | – | Dariusz Zielke (POL) | 2.20 m |
| Pole vault | Konstantin Volkov (URS) | 5.80 m | Sergey Bubka (URS) | 5.70 m | Aleksandr Krupskiy (URS) | 5.70 m |
| Long jump | Konstantin Semykin (URS) | 8.38 m | Jaime Jefferson (CUB) | 8.37 m | Sergey Layevskiy (URS) | 8.22 m |
| Triple jump | Oleg Protsenko (URS) | 17.46 m | Aleksandr Yakovlev (URS) | 17.41 m | Khristo Markov (BUL) | 17.29 m |
| Shot put | Sergey Kasnauskas (URS) | 21.64 m | Udo Beyer (GDR) | 21.60 m | Vladimir Kiselyov (URS) | 21.58 m |
| Discus throw | Yuriy Dumchev (URS) | 66.70 m | Juan Martínez (CUB) | 66.04 m | Jürgen Schult (GDR) | 66.02 m |
| Hammer throw | Yuriy Sedykh (URS) | 85.60 m | Igor Nikulin (URS) | 82.56 m | Sergey Litvinov (URS) | 81.30 m |
| Javelin throw | Uwe Hohn (GDR) | 94.44 m | Detlef Michel (GDR) | 88.32 m | Zdeněk Adamec (TCH) | 87.10 m |
| Decathlon | Grigoriy Degtyaryev (URS) | 8523 | Torsten Voss (GDR) | 8450 | Igor Sobolevskiy (URS) | 8433 |
Women
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 metres | Marlies Göhr (GDR) | 10.95 | Lyudmila Kondratyeva (URS) | 11.02 |  Anelia Nuneva (BUL) | 11.10 |
| 200 metres | Bärbel Wöckel (GDR) | 22.15 | Svetlana Zhizdrikova (URS) | 22.75 | Nadezhda Georgieva (BUL) | 22.79 |
| 400 metres | Marita Koch (GDR) | 48.16 | Tatána Kocembová (TCH) | 48.73 | Olga Vladykina (URS) | 49.52 |
| 800 metres | Irina Podyalovskaya (URS) | 1:57.31 | Zuzana Moravcíková (TCH) | 1:58.06 | Nadezhda Olizarenko (URS) | 1:58.10 |
| 1500 metres | Nadezhda Ralldugina (URS) | 3:56.63 | Ravilya Agletdinova (URS) | 3:58.70 | Yekaterina Podkopayeva (URS) | 4:01.61 |
| 3000 metres | Tatyana Kazankina (URS) | 8:33.01 | Natalya Artyomova (URS) | 8:40.53 | Olga Bondarenko (URS) | 8:43.74 |
| 100 metre hurdles | Yordanka Donkova (BUL) | 12.55 | Sabine Paetz (GDR) | 12.60 | Lucyna Kałek (POL) | 12.61 |
| 400 metre hurdles | Marina Stepanova (URS) | 53.67 | Yekaterina Grun (URS) | 54.42 | Margarita Ponomaryova (URS) | 54.65 |
| 4×100 metre relay | Bulgaria (BUL) Pepa Pavlova Anelia Nuneva Nadezhda Georgieva Liliyana Ivanova | 42.62 | Soviet Union (URS) Lyudmila Kondratyeva Maia Azarashvili Svetlana Zhizdrikova Olga Antonova | 42.71 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) Eva Murková Taťána Kocembová Renata Černochová Jarmila Kratochvílová | 43.21 |
| 4×400 metre relay | Soviet Union (URS) Irina Baskakova Irina Nazarova Mariya Pinigina Olga Bryzgina | 3:19.12 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) Alena Bulířová Zuzana Moravčíková Jarmila Kratochvílová Taťána Kocembová | 3:21.89 | Bulgaria (BUL) Galina Penkova Katia Ilieva Radostina Shtereva Rositsa Stamenova | 3:28.34 |
| Marathon | Zoya Ivanova (URS) | 2:33:44 | Lucia Belyayeva (URS) | 2:33:54 | Raisa Smekhnova (URS) | 2:33:59 |
| High jump | Lyudmila Andonova (BUL) | 1.96 m | Galina Butusova (URS) | 1.96 m | Tamara Bykova (URS) | 1.96 m |
| Long jump | Heike Drechsler (GDR) | 7.15 m | Helga Radtke (GDR) | 7.11 m | Galina Chistyakova (URS) | 7.11 m |
| Shot put | Natalya Lisovskaya (URS) | 21.96 m | Helena Fibingerová (TCH) | 21.33 m | Nunu Abashidze (URS) | 21.18 m |
| Discus throw | Irina Meszynski (GDR) | 73.36 m (WR) |
Galina Murašova (URS) | 72.14 m | Zdenka Šilhavá (TCH) | 70.14 m |
| Javelin throw | Petra Felke (GDR) | 73.30 m | Antoaneta Todorova (BUL) | 65.40 m | María Caridad Colón (CUB) | 64.34 m |
| Heptathlon | Natalya Gracheva (URS) | 6477 | Nadezhda Vinogradova (URS) | 6357 | Heike Tischler (GDR) | 6290 |
World records broken
1 new world record was set.
| Event | Name | Nationality | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's discus throw | Irina Meszynski | East Germany | 73.36 m |
Medal table
Host nations (Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union | 24 | 20 | 19 | 63 |
| 2 | East Germany | 8 | 7 | 4 | 19 |
| 3 | Bulgaria | 4 | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 4 | Cuba | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 5 | Poland | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | Ethiopia | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 7 | Hungary | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 9 | North Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Sweden | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 43 | 39 | 41 | 123 | |
See also
Notes
- ↑ "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
- ↑ "Westerners expected at Communist Games". The Palm Beach Post. 1984-08-16.
- ↑ Chmielewski (1987), p. 158
- ↑ Harvey, Randy (1984-08-25). "Tired Kratochvilova Beats U.S. Olympic Stars in 400". The Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ Eaton, William (1984-08-19). "Peace dominating message at Friendship Games opening". The Daily Courier.
References
- Chmielewski, Zbigniew; et al. (1987). Na olimpijskim szlaku 1984. Sarajewo, Los Angeles (in Polish). Warsaw: Sport i Turystyka. pp. 154–160; 213–215. ISBN 83-217-2610-0.
- Trzciński, Tomasz; et al. (1985). Gwiazdy sportu '84 (in Polish). Warsaw: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza. pp. 87–89. ISBN 83-03-01177-4.
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