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.
| Athletics at the Friendship Games | |
|---|---|
| Dates | August 16, 1984 – August 18, 1984 |
| 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 |
One new world record was set, by East German Irina Meszynski in women's discus throw, with 73.36 m. As of 2017, 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 men's 800 metres run. After the officials were unable to decide who came first – not even using a photograph – both were declared winners.[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.
Medal summary
Men
Host stadium of men's events (shown in 1980)
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 metres (wind: -0.4 m/s) |
 Osvaldo Lara (CUB) | 10.17 |  Attila Kovács (HUN) | 10.18 | Leandro Peñalver (CUB) | 10.21 |
| 200 metres (wind: -1.2 m/s) |
 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.webp){kind=small} Evgeni Ignatov (BUL) | 13:26.35 | Dmitriy Dmitriyev (URS) | 13:26.85 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Wodajo Bulti (ETH) | 13:29.08 |
| 10,000 metres |
Valeriy Abramov (URS) | 27:55.16 | Wodajo Bulti (ETH) | 27:58.97 | Bekele Debele (ETH) | 28:03.06 |
| Marathon |
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) |
György Bakos (HUN) | 13.52 | Vyacheslav Ustinov (URS) | 13.57 | Thomas Munkelt (GDR) | 13.64 |
| 400 metres hurdles |
Aleksandr Vasilyev (URS) | 48.63 | Vladimir Budko (URS) | 48.74 | Toma Tomov (BUL) | 49.29 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase |
Bogusław Mamiński (POL) | 8:27.15 | Hagen Melzer (GDR) | 8:27.43 |  Jan Hagelbrandt (SWE) | 8:32.36 |
| 4 × 100 metres 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 metres 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 |
| 20 kilometres walk |
Sergey Protsishin (URS) | 1:21:57 | Anatoliy Solomin (URS) | 1:22:21 | Nikolay Polozov (URS) | 1:22:40 |
| 50 kilometres walk |
Andrey Perlov (URS) | 3:43:06 |  Pavol Szikora (TCH) | 3:45:53 | Viktor Dorovskikh (URS) | 3:58:47 |
| High jump |
Valeriy Sereda (URS) | 2.25 m | Javier Sotomayor (CUB) | 2.25 m | 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
Host stadium of women's events (shown in 2007)
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 metres (wind: -0.2 m/s) |
Marlies Göhr (GDR) | 10.95 | Lyudmila Kondratyeva (URS) | 11.02 | Anelia Nuneva (BUL) | 11.10 |
| 200 metres (wind: -0.3 m/s) |
Bärbel Wöckel (GDR) | 22.15 | Svetlana Zhizdrikova (URS) | 22.75 | Nadezhda Georgieva (BUL) | 22.79 |
| 400 metres |
Marita Koch (GDR) | 48.16 | Taťána Kocembová (TCH) | 48.73 | Olga Vladykina (URS) | 49.52 |
| 800 metres |
Irina Podyalovskaya (URS) | 1:57.31 | Zuzana Moravčíková (TCH) | 1:58.06 | Nadiya 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 metres hurdles (wind: -0.2 m/s) |
Yordanka Donkova (BUL) | 12.55 | Sabine Paetz (GDR) | 12.60 | Lucyna Kałek (POL) | 12.61 |
| 400 metres hurdles |
Marina Stepanova (URS) | 53.67 | Yekaterina Grun (URS) | 54.42 | Margarita Ponomaryova (URS) | 54.65 |
| Marathon |
Zoya Ivanova (URS) | 2:33:44 | Lucia Belyayeva (URS) | 2:33:54 | Raisa Smekhnova (URS) | 2:33:59 |
| 4 × 100 metres 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 metres 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 |
| High jump |
Lyudmila Andonova (BUL) | 1.96 m | Lyudmila Butuzova (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 (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 nations) | 43 | 39 | 41 | 123 | |
Participating nations
Algeria (4)
Argentina (3)
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Benin (5)- Bulgaria (49)
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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)
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Mongolia (3)
Nicaragua (2)- North Korea (3)
Peru (4)- Poland (43)
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Seychelles (3)
South Yemen (9)- Soviet Union (131)
- Sweden (3)
Switzerland (4)
Syria (2)
Tanzania (2)
United States (1)
Vietnam (2)
West Germany (1)
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
- 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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