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1979 in the sport of athletics

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Title	1979 in athletics
Previous	1978
Next	1980

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This article contains an overview of the year 1979 in athletics.

Major events

World

Regional

African Championships
Asian Championships
CARIFTA Games
Central American and Caribbean Championships
European Indoor Championships
Pan American Games
South American Championships
South American Youth Championships
Summer Universiade

World records

Men

Event	Athlete	Nation	Performance	Place	Date
200 m	Pietro Mennea	Italy	19.72	MEX Mexico City, Mexico	12 September
800 m	Sebastian Coe	United Kingdom	1:42.33	NOR Oslo, Norway	5 July
1500 m	Sebastian Coe	United Kingdom	3:32.03	SWI Zürich, Switzerland	15 August
Mile	Sebastian Coe	United Kingdom	3:48.95	NOR Oslo, Norway	17 July
110 m hurdles	Renaldo Nehemiah	United States	13.16	USA San Jose, United States	14 April
110 m hurdles	Renaldo Nehemiah	United States	13.00	USA Westwood, Los Angeles, California, United States	6 May

Women

Event	Athlete	Nation	Performance	Meeting	Place	Date
200 m	Marita Koch		22.02		GDR Leipzig, East Germany	3 June
200 m	Marita Koch		21.71		GDR Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany	10 June
400 m	Marita Koch		48.89		GDR Potsdam, East Germany	29 July
400 m	Marita Koch		48.60		ITA Turin, Italy	4 August
Mile	Natalia Mărășescu		4:22.1		NZ Auckland, New Zealand	27 January
100 m hurdles	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	12.48		POL Warsaw, Poland	18 June
400 m hurdles	Marina Styepanova	Russia	54.78		RUS Moscow, Russia	27 July
Javelin throw	Ruth Fuchs		69.52 m		GDR Dresden, East Germany	13 June
4 × 100 metres relay	Marita Koch
Romy Müller
Ingrid Auerswald
Marlies Göhr		42.10		GDR Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany	10 June
4 × 100 metres relay	Christina Lathan
Romy Müller
Ingrid Auerswald
Marlies Göhr		42.09		ITA Turin, Italy	4 August
4 × 200 metres relay	Raisa Makhova
Nina Zyuskova
Tatyana Prorochenko
Maria Kulchunova		1:30.74		URS Moscow, Soviet Union	29 July

Season's bests

4 × 400 metres relay	United States
Herman Frazier
Bill Green
Willie Smith
Tony Darden	3:00.70	East Germany
Gabriele Kotte
Christina Lathan
Brigitte Rohde
Marita Koch	3:19.62

Notes

References

This time did not set a new world record. Rather, it equaled Rabsztyn's existing world record.
This team represented Ukraine, at the time a part of the Soviet Union.

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