1981 IAAF World Cup – Results


These are the full results of the 1981 IAAF World Cup which was held between 4 and 6 September 1981 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy.

Results

100 m

Men

4 September
Wind: +0.2 m/s
RankAthleteTeamTimePointsNotes
1Allan Wells Europe10.209
2Ernest Obeng Africa10.218
3Frank EmmelmannEast Germany10.317
4Nikolay SidorovSoviet Union10.416
5Colin Bradford Americas10.445
6Pierfrancesco PavoniItaly10.514
7Gerrard Keating Oceania10.703
8Suchart Chairsuvaparb Asia10.732
9Carl LewisUnited States10.961

Women

5 September
Wind: +0.1 m/s
RankAthleteTeamTimePointsNotes
1Evelyn AshfordUnited States11.029
2Kathy Smallwood Europe11.108
3Marlies GöhrEast Germany11.137
4Angela Taylor Americas11.186
5Natalya BochinaSoviet Union11.385
6Marisa MasulloItaly11.534
7Helen Edwards Oceania11.583
8Nawal El Moutawakel Africa11.922
9Yukiko Osako Asia12.141

200 m

Men

6 September
Wind: +0.1 m/s
RankAthleteTeamTimePointsNotes
1Mel LattanyUnited States20.219
2Allan Wells Europe20.538
3Frank EmmelmannEast Germany20.577
4Don Quarrie Americas20.666
5Giovanni BongiorniItaly21.115
6Yuriy NaumenkoSoviet Union21.134
7Degnan Kablan Africa21.203
8Toshio Toyota Asia21.392
9Peter Van Miltenburg Oceania21.881

Women

4 September
Wind: +0.7 m/s
RankAthleteTeamTimePointsNotes
1Evelyn AshfordUnited States22.189
2Jarmila Kratochvílová Europe22.318
3Bärbel WöckelEast Germany22.417
4Angela Taylor Americas22.676
5Natalya BochinaSoviet Union23.055
6Marisa MasulloItaly23.224
7Helen Edwards Oceania23.683
8Hannah Afriyie Africa24.632
9Emiko Konishi Asia24.821

400 m

Men

5 September
RankAthleteTeamTimePointsNotes
1Cliff WileyUnited States44.889
2Mauro ZulianiItaly45.268
3Bert Cameron Americas45.277
4Hartmut Weber Europe45.526
5Viktor MarkinSoviet Union45.785
6Andreas KnebelEast Germany45.864
7Hassan El Kashief Africa45.963
8Gary Minihan Oceania46.852
9Takevuki Isobe Asia47.711

Women

6 September
RankAthleteTeamTimePointsNotes
1Jarmila Kratochvílová Europe48.619
2Marita KochEast Germany49.278
3Jackie Pusey Americas51.487
4Denean HowardUnited States51.766
5Erica RossiItaly52.505
6Irina NazarovaSoviet Union53.214
7Leanne Evans Oceania53.443
8Ruth Atuti Africa55.582
9Junko Yoshida Asia56.001

800 m

Men

4 September
RankAthleteTeamTimePointsNotes
1Sebastian Coe Europe1:46.169
2James RobinsonUnited States1:47.318
3Detlef WagenknechtEast Germany1:47.497
4Mike Hillardt Oceania1:47.596
5Omer Khalifa Africa1:47.635
6Joaquim Cruz Americas1:47.774
7Carlo GrippoItaly1:47.793
8Nikolay KirovSoviet Union1:48.152
9Abraham Rajan Asia1:53.211

Women

5 September
RankAthleteTeamTimePointsNotes
1Lyudmila VeselkovaSoviet Union1:57.489
2Martina SteukEast Germany1:58.318
3Jolanta Januchta Europe1:58.327
4Gabriella DorioItaly1:59.436
5Terri-Anne Cater Oceania2:00.565
6Madeline ManningUnited States2:01.794
7Brit McRoberts Americas2:02.193
8Mary Chemweno Africa2:05.732
9Geeta Zutshi Asia2:09.561

1500 m

Men

5 September
RankAthleteTeamTimePointsNotes
1Steve Ovett Europe3:34.959
2John Walker Oceania3:35.498
3Olaf BeyerEast Germany3:35.587
4Mike Boit Africa2:05.736
5Sydney MareeUnited States3:36.565
6Nikolay KirovSoviet Union3:38.054
7Claudio PatrignaniItaly3:39.413
8John Craig Americas3:39.862
9Takahashi Ishii Asia3:40.931

Women

4 September
RankAthleteTeamTimePointsNotes
1Tamara SorokinaSoviet Union4:03.339
2Gabriella DorioItaly4:03.758
3Ulrike BrunsEast Germany4:04.677
4Anna Bukis Europe4:06.726
5Jan MerrillUnited States4:08.985
6Brit McRoberts Americas4:09.664
7Mary Chemweno Africa4:10.493
8Dianne Rodger Oceania4:19.982
9Zhang Xiuyun Asia4:26.971

5000/3000 m

Men

6 September
RankAthleteTeamTimePointsNotes
1Eamonn Coghlan Europe14:08.399
2Hansjörg KunzeEast Germany14:08.548
3Vittorio FontanellaItaly14:09.067
4Valeriy AbramovSoviet Union14:09.856
5Tolossa Kotu Africa14:11.145
6Matt CentrowitzUnited States14:11.144
7Gopal Singh Saini Asia14:14.883
8Paul Williams Americas14:24.212
9Peter Renner Oceania14:31.671

Women

6 September
RankAthleteTeamTimePointsNotes
1Angelika ZauberEast Germany8:54.899
2Maricica Puică Europe8:55.808
3Silvana CruciataItaly8:57.107
4Tatyana PozdnyakovaSoviet Union9:02.956
5Brenda WebbUnited States9:13.105
6Justina Chepchirchir Africa9:18.804
7Barbara Moore Oceania9:18.833
8Akemi Masuda Asia9:58.072
9Angelita Lind Americas10:20.921

10,000 m

Men

4 September
RankAthleteTeamTimePointsNotes
1Werner SchildhauerEast Germany27:38.439NR
2Mohamed Kedir Africa27:39.448
3Alberto SalazarUnited States27:40.697
4Venanzio OrtisItaly27:42.706
5Martti Vainio Europe27:48.625
6Toomas TurbSoviet Union27:54.184
7Kunimitsu Itō Asia28:35.953
8Steve Austin Oceania28:51.702
9Peter Butler Americas29:47.051

110/100 m hurdles

Men

6 September
Wind: -0.2 m/s
RankAthleteTeamTimePointsNotes
1Greg FosterUnited States13.329
2Alejandro Casañas Americas13.368
3Július Ivan Europe13.667
4Andreas SchlißkeEast Germany13.726
5Yuriy ChervanyovSoviet Union13.765
6Daniele FontecchioItaly13.904
7Tim Soper Oceania14.313
8Yoshifumi Fujimori Asia14.312
9Charles Kokoyo Africa14.631

Women

5 September
Wind: +0.1 m/s
RankAthleteTeamTimePointsNotes
1Tatyana AnisimovaSoviet Union12.859
2Kerstin KnabeEast Germany12.918
3Lucyna Langer Europe12.977
4Stephanie HightowerUnited States13.096
5Penny Gillies Oceania13.595
6Patrizia LombardoItaly13.684
7Grisel Machado Americas13.763
8Emi Akimoto Asia13.972
9Cécile Ngambi Africa14.161

400 m hurdles

Men

4 September
RankAthleteTeamTimePointsNotes
1Edwin MosesUnited States47.379
2Volker BeckEast Germany49.168
3Harry Schulting Europe49.697
4Vasiliy ArkhipenkoSoviet Union49.856
5António Ferreira Americas50.455
6Garry Brown Oceania50.594
7Saverio GelliniItaly50.693
8Takashi Nagao Asia51.952
9Jackson Melly Africa52.901

Women

4 September
RankAthleteTeamTimePointsNotes
1Ellen NeumannEast Germany54.829
2Genowefa Błaszak Europe56.208
3Anna KastetskayaSoviet Union56.377
4Lynette Foreman Oceania57.516
5Giuseppina CirulliItaly58.115
6Mercedes Mesa Americas59.534
7Sandy MyersUnited States59.953
8Yumiko Aoi Asia1:01.722
9Célestine N'Drin Africa1:04.681

3000 m steeplechase

Men

5 September
RankAthleteTeamTimePointsNotes
1Bogusław Mamiński Europe8:19.899
2Mariano ScartezziniItaly8:19.938
3Masanari Shintaku Asia8:23.647
4Ralf PönitzschEast Germany8:24.136
5Gregory Duhaime Americas8:25.125
6Sergey YepishinSoviet Union8:28.784
7Eshetu Tura Africa8:35.233
8Peter Larkins Oceania8:39.632
Henry MarshUnited StatesDQ0

4 × 100 m relay

Men

5 September
RankTeamAthletesTimePointsNotes
1EuropeKrzysztof Zwoliński, Zenon Licznerski, Leszek Dunecki, Marian Woronin 38.739
2East GermanyFrank Hollender, Detlef Kübeck, Bernhard Hoff, Frank Emmelmann38.798
3United StatesMel Lattany, Anthony Ketchum, Stanley Floyd, Steve Williams38.857
4Soviet UnionYuriy Naumenko, Nikolay Sidorov, Aleksandr Aksinin, Vladimir Muravyov39.046
5AmericasDesai Williams, Colin Bradford, Don Quarrie, Ben Johnson 39.135
6ItalyPierfrancesco Pavoni, Giovanni Bongiorni, Diego Nodari, Carlo Simionato39.674
7AsiaToshio Toyota, Hideyuki Arikawa, Hideki Ikeda, Hirohito Yamazaki 40.073
8OceaniaGerrard Keating, Shane Downey, James Kelly, Peter Van Miltenberg 40.852
AfricaAmadou Meité, Théophile Nkounkou, Degnan Kablan, Ernest Obeng DQ0

Women

6 September
RankTeamAthletesTimePointsNotes
1East GermanyKirsten Siemon, Bärbel Wöckel, Gesine Walther, Marlies Göhr42.229
2United StatesAlice Brown, Jeanette Bolden, Florence Griffith, Evelyn Ashford42.828
3Soviet UnionOlga Zolotaryova, Olga Nasonova, Lyudmila Kondratyeva, Natalya Bochina43.017
4AmericasLeleith Hodges, Jackie Pusey, Angela Bailey, Angela Taylor 43.066
5OceaniaWendy Brown, Kerrie Waite, Penny Gillies, Helen Edwards 44.995
6ItalyAntonella Capriotti, Carla Mercurio, Patrizia Lombardo, Marisa Masullo45.014
7AfricaNawal El Moutawakel, Cécile Ngambi, Alice Adala, Hannah Afriyie 46.153
8AsiaTomi Osako, Yukiko Osako, Emiko Konishi, Emi Akimoto 46.452
EuropeWendy Hoyte, Kathy Smallwood, Beverley Callender, Shirley Thomas DNF0

4 × 400 m relay

Men

6 September
RankTeamAthletesTimePointsNotes
1United StatesWalter McCoy, Cliff Wiley, Willie Smith, Tony Darden2:59.129WL
2EuropeEric Josjö, Fons Brijdenbach, Koen Gijsbers, Hartmut Weber 3:01.478
3AmericasHéctor Daley, Colin Bradford, Mike Paul, Bert Cameron 3:02.017
4Soviet UnionPavel Roshchin, Viktor Burakov, Vitaliy Fyodotov, Viktor Markin3:02.936
5ItalyStefano Malinverni, Roberto Tozzi, Alfonso Di Guida, Mauro Zuliani3:03.235
6East GermanyFrank Schaffer, Carsten Petters, Volker Beck, Andreas Knebel3:03.634
7AfricaBrahim Ammour, Degnan Kablan, Sammy Koskei, James Atuti 3:05.553
8OceaniaGary Minihan, John Fleming, Peter Van Miltenberg, Michael Willis 3:07.112
9AsiaEiji Natori, Takayuki Isobe, Shigenobu Omori, Takashi Nagao 3:09.931

Women

4 September
RankTeamAthletesTimePointsNotes
1East GermanyDagmar Rübsam, Martina Steuk, Bärbel Wöckel, Marita Koch3:20.629
2EuropeMichelle Scutt, Verona Elder, Joslyn Hoyte-Smith, Jarmila Kratochvílová 3:20.628
3AmericasCharmaine Crooks, Jackie Pusey, Marita Payne, June Griffith 3:26.427
4Soviet UnionNadyezhda Lyalina, Irina Baskakova, Tatyana Litvinova, Irina Nazarova3:26.926
5United StatesDelisa Walton, Lorna Forde, Arlise Emerson, Denean Howard3:30.725
6ItalyPatrizia Lombardo, Morena Pistrino, Giuseppina Cirulli, Erica Rossi3:36.504
7OceaniaLeanne Evans, Lynette Foreman, Gail Millar, Marian O'Shaughnessy 3:37.273
8AsiaLydia de Vega, Junko Yoshida, Gao Yanqing, Saik Oik Cum 3:47.642
9AfricaMarième Boye, Célestine N'Drin, Regine Dramiga, Ruth Atuki 3:49.131

High jump

Men

6 September
RankAthleteTeamResultPointsNotes
1Tyke PeacockUnited States2.289
2Gerd Nagel Europe2.268
3Jörg FreimuthEast Germany2.247
4Valeriy SeredaSoviet Union2.186
5Milton Ottey Americas2.155
6Massimo Di GiorgioItaly2.154
7Amadou Dia Ba Africa2.153
8David Hoyle Oceania2.102
9Zhu Jianhua Asia2.101

Women

4 September
RankAthleteTeamResultPointsNotes
1Ulrike Meyfarth Europe1.969
2Tamara BykovaSoviet Union1.968
3Pam SpencerUnited States1.927
4Christine Stanton Oceania1.866
5Alessandra FossatiItaly1.864.5
5Jutta KirstEast Germany1.864.5
7Hisayo Fukumitsu Asia1.833
8Silvia Costa Americas1.832
9Kawther Akrémi Africa1.601

Pole vault

Men

5 September
RankAthleteTeamResultPointsNotes
1Konstantin VolkovSoviet Union5.709
2Jean-Michel Bellot Europe5.558
3Billy OlsonUnited States5.507
4Tomomi Takahashi Asia5.406
5Axel WeberEast Germany5.305
6Mauro BarellaItaly5.204
7Rubén Camino Americas5.203
8Kieran McKee Oceania4.702
9Mohammed Ben Saad Africa4.501

Long jump

Men

4 September
RankAthleteTeamResultPointsNotes
1Carl LewisUnited States8.159
2Gary Honey Oceania8.118NR
3Shamil AbbyasovSoviet Union7.957
4Liu Yuhuang Asia7.896
5Uwe LangeEast Germany7.715
6Giovanni EvangelistiItaly7.674
7László Szalma Europe7.653
8Charlton Ehizuelen Africa7.472
9Ubaldo Duany Americas5.371

Women

6 September
RankAthleteTeamResultPointsNotes
1Sigrid UlbrichtEast Germany6.809
2Jodi AndersonUnited States6.618
3Anna Włodarczyk Europe6.597
4Tatyana SkachkoSoviet Union6.496
5Shonel Ferguson Americas6.345
6Linda Garden Oceania6.104
7Barbara NorelloItaly6.013
8Wu Feng Asia5.762
9Jeanette Yawson Africa5.701

Triple jump

Men

5 September
RankAthleteTeamResultPointsNotes
1João Carlos de Oliveira Americas17.379
2Zou Zhenxian Asia17.348AR
3Willie BanksUnited States17.047
4Jaak UudmäeSoviet Union16.836
5Béla Bakosi Europe16.705
6Ken Lorraway Oceania16.704
7Lutz DombrowskiEast Germany16.333
8Ajayi Agbebaku Africa16.142
9Paolo PiapanItaly15.381

Shot put

Men

4 September
RankAthleteTeamResultPointsNotes
1Udo BeyerEast Germany21.409
2Yevgeniy MironovSoviet Union20.348
3Dave LautUnited States19.907
4Ralf Reichenbach Europe19.186
5Bishop Dolegiewicz Americas18.885
6Nagui Asaad Africa18.764
7Alessandro AndreiItaly18.373
8Philip Nettle Oceania17.202
Mohamed Al-Zinkawi AsiaNM0

Women

5 September
RankAthleteTeamResultPointsNotes
1Ilona SlupianekEast Germany20.609
2Helena Fibingerová Europe19.928
3María Elena Sarría Americas19.217
4Nina IsayevaSoviet Union18.086
5Cinzia PetrucciItaly17.775
6Shen Lijuan Asia17.094
7Denise WoodUnited States16.003
8Christine Schulz Oceania14.382
9Odette Mistoul Africa13.561

Discus throw

Men

4 September
RankAthleteTeamResultPointsNotes
1Armin LemmeEast Germany66.389
2Luis Delís Americas66.268
3Imrich Bugár Europe64.387
4Dmitry KovtsunSoviet Union62.826
5Armando De VincentiisItaly58.145
6Mohammed Naguib Africa57.944
7Li Weinan Asia54.523
8Robin Tait Oceania53.242

Women

6 September
RankAthleteTeamResultPointsNotes
1Evelin JahlEast Germany66.709
2Mariya Petkova Europe66.308
3Galina SavinkovaSoviet Union63.967
4Carmen Romero Americas61.606
5Li Xiaohui Asia55.705
6Leslie DenizUnited States53.204
7Maristella BanoItaly50.303
8Andrina Rovis-Herman Oceania45.802
9Zoubida Laayouni Africa45.241

Hammer throw

Men

5 September
RankAthleteTeamResultPointsNotes
1Yuriy SedykhSoviet Union77.429
2Karl-Hans Riehm Europe75.608
3Giampaolo UrlandoItaly71.927
4Scott Neilson Americas67.566
5Dave McKenzieUnited States66.725
6Shigenobu Murofushi Asia66.644
7Roland SteukEast Germany65.743
8Hakim Toumi Africa59.802
9Agostino Puopolo Oceania56.181

Javelin throw

Men

4 September
RankAthleteTeamResultPointsNotes
1Dainis KulaSoviet Union89.749
2Detlef MichelEast Germany89.388
3Pentti Sinersaari Europe83.267
4Rod EwalikoUnited States82.246
5Agostino GhesiniItaly80.965
6Mike O'Rourke Oceania79.784
7Shen Maomao Asia79.083
8Justin Arop Africa77.762
9Dionisio Quintana Americas77.281

Women

6 September
RankAthleteTeamResultPointsNotes
1Antoaneta Todorova Europe70.089
2Petra FelkeEast Germany66.608
3Karin SmithUnited States63.047
4Petra Rivers Oceania61.546
5Mayra Villa Americas59.005
6Leolita BlodnieceSoviet Union57.064
7Tang Guoli Asia56.663
8Fausta QuintavallaItaly52.802
9Agnès Tchuinté Africa52.561