1979 European Cup "A" Final

These are the full results of the 1979 European Cup "A" Final in athletics which was held at the Stadion Maksimir on 4 and 5 August 1979 in Turin, Italy.

Team standings

Men

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	East Germany	125
2	Soviet Union	114
3	West Germany	110
4	Poland	90
5	Great Britain	82
6	Italy	79
7	France	70.5
8	Yugoslavia	49.5

Women

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	East Germany	102
2	Soviet Union	100
3	Bulgaria	76
4	Great Britain	62
5	Romania	58
	West Germany	58
7	Poland	55
8	Italy	29

Men's results

100 metres

4 August
Wind: +1.3 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes	Points
1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	10.15	NR	8
2	Marian Woronin	Poland	10.16	NR	7
3	Allan Wells	Great Britain	10.19		6
4	Eugen Ray	East Germany	10.39		5
5	Philippe Le Joncour	France	10.44		4
6	Fritz-Werner Heer	West Germany	10.45		3
7	Andrey Shlyapnikov	Soviet Union	10.46		2
8	Dragan Zarić	Yugoslavia	10.70		1

200 metres

5 August
Wind: +2.2 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes	Points
1	Allan Wells	Great Britain	20.29		8
2	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.31		7
3	Marian Woronin	Poland	20.43		6
4	Olaf Prenzler	East Germany	20.53		5
5	Pascal Barré	France	20.64		4
6	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	West Germany	20.68		3
7	Viktor Burakov	Soviet Union	20.98		2
8	Dragan Zarić	Yugoslavia	21.29		1

400 metres

4 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes	Points
1	Harald Schmid	West Germany	45.31		8
2	Nikolay Chernetskiy	Soviet Union	45.70	NR	7
3	Ryszard Podlas	Poland	46.11		6
4	Udo Bauer	East Germany	46.15		5
5	Francis Demarthon	France	46.33		4
6	Josip Alebić	Yugoslavia	46.54		3
7	Steve Wymark	Great Britain	46.66		2
8	Flavio Borghi	Italy	47.42		1

110 metres hurdles

5 August
Wind: +1.3 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes	Points
1	Thomas Munkelt	East Germany	13.47		8
2	Aleksandr Puchkov	Soviet Union	13.56		7
3	Jan Pusty	Poland	13.74		6
4	Mark Holtom	Great Britain	13.91		5
5	Giuseppe Buttari	Italy	13.94		4
6	Dieter Gebhard	West Germany	13.94		3
7	Borislav Pisić	Yugoslavia	13.98		2
8	Emile Raybois	France	14.15		1

400 metres hurdles

4 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes	Points
1	Harald Schmid	West Germany	47.85		8
2	Vasiliy Arkhipenko	Soviet Union	48.34		7
3	Volker Beck	East Germany	48.58		6
4	Rok Kopitar	Yugoslavia	50.20		5
5	Gary Oakes	Great Britain	50.83		4
6	Fulvio Zorn	Italy	51.20		3
7	Leszek Rzepakowski	Poland	51.36		2
8	Jean-Claude Curtil	France	53.16		1

4 × 100 metres relay

4 August

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time	Note	Points
1	Poland	Krzysztof Zwoliński, Leszek Dunecki, Zenon Licznerski, Marian Woronin	38.47	NR	8
2	East Germany	Klaus-Dieter Kurrat, Alexander Thieme, Olaf Prenzler, Eugen Ray	38.70		7
3	France	Patrick Barré, Lucien Sainte-Rose, Pascal Barré, Herman Panzo	38.71		6
4	Italy	Gianfranco Lazzer, Mauro Zuliani, Luciano Caravani, Pietro Mennea	38.73	NR	5
5	Great Britain	Allan Wells, Steve Green, Trevor Hoyte, Drew McMaster	38.95	NR	4
6	West Germany	Fritz-Werner Heer, Dieter Gebhard, Ulrich Haupt, Franz-Peter Hofmeister	38.98		3
7	Soviet Union	Andrey Prokofyev, Aleksandr Aksinin, Nikolay Kolesnikov, Andrey Shlyapnikov	38.99		2
8	Yugoslavia	Janez Sagadin, Aleksandar Popović, Dragan Zarić, Nenad Milinkov	40.33		1