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1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships

Field	Value
Name	1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	7th
Date	25 March
Host city	Limerick, Munster, Ireland Ireland
Location	Greenpark Racecourse
Nations participating	27
Athletes participating	383
Races	3
Distances	12 km – Senior men
7.36 km – Junior men
5.04 km – Senior women
Previous	1978 Glasgow
Next	1980 Paris

7.36 km – Junior men 5.04 km – Senior women The 1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Limerick, Ireland, at the Greenpark Racecourse on 25 March 1979. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald. | access-date = 25 December 2021

Complete results for men, |access-date=18 October 2013 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016110437/http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_SM1979S.html |archive-date=16 October 2007 junior men, |access-date=18 October 2013 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016110002/http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_JM1979S.html |archive-date=16 October 2007 women, |access-date=18 October 2013 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016110819/http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_SW1979S.html |archive-date=16 October 2007 medallists, | access-date = 9 October 2013 and the results of British athletes |access-date=9 October 2013 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927091955/http://www.iaaf.net/mm/Document/Competitions/Competition/2008WXC_Facts_Figures_1816.pdf |archive-date=27 September 2013 were published.

Medallists

Senior women	USA	29	URS	48	ENG	68

Race results

Senior men's race (12 km)

Main article: 1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

Rank		width=20%	Athlete		width=15%	Country		width=10%	Time	Full results
	John Treacy
	Bronisław Malinowski
	Aleksandr Antipov
4	Tony Simmons
5	Léon Schots
6	Vlastimil Zwiefelhofer
7	Steve Jones
8	Frank Zimmermann
9	Julian Goater
10	Nat Muir
11	Danny McDaid
12	Bogusław Mamiński

(Barry Smith)	(89)

|| 119 |-

(Eddie Leddy)	(127)

|| 198 |-

(Valeriy Abramov)	(75)

|| 210

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Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Junior men's race (7.36 km)

Main article: 1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race

Rank		width=20%	Athlete		width=15%	Country		width=10%	Time	Full results
	Eddy de Pauw
	Steve Binns
	Ildar Denikeyev
4	Jeff Nelson
5	Ian Clarke
6	Roberto Antiga
7	Faisal Touzri
8	Jordi García
9	Ezequiel Canario
10	Ian Campbell
11	Alastair Douglas
12	Jim Hill

(Jordi Castelló)	(72)

|| 57 |-

(Sean Connolly)	(64)

|| 74 |-

Abdurachman Ibragimov	31

|| 75

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Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Senior women's race (5.04 km)

Main article: 1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race

Rank		width=20%	Athlete		width=15%	Country		width=10%	Time	Full results
	Grete Waitz
	Raisa Smekhnova
	Ellison Goodall
4	Ellen Wessinghage
5	Svetlana Ulmasova
6	Mary Purcell
7	Jan Merrill
8	Julie Shea
9	Ann Ford
10	Cristina Tomasini
11	Margaret Groos
12	Giana Romanova

(Julie Brown)	(36)

|| 29 |-

(Raisa Sadreydinova)	(53)

|| 48 |-

(Ruth Smeeth)	(42)

|| 68

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Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Medal table (unofficial)

Note: Totals include both individual and team medals, with medals in the team competition counting as one medal.

Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 383 athletes from 27 countries. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.

(11)
(7)
(21)
(20)
(1)
(21)
(21)
(21)
(21)
(4)
(21)
(1)
(11)
(15)
(21)
(11)
(6)
(13)
(21)
(16)
(21)
(5)
(7)
(6)
(20)
(21)
(19)

References

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