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	Evgeni Ignatov (BUL)	13:26.35	Dmitriy Dmitriyev (URS)	13:26.85	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

Notes

↑ "Olympic Games 2008. Women's Discus Throw" (PDF). IAAF official website. 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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