Athletics at the 1979 Summer Universiade – Men's long jump

The men's long jump event at the 1979 Summer Universiade was held at the Estadio Olimpico Universitario in Mexico City on 8 and 9 September 1979.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Valeriy Pidluzhnyy  Soviet Union	Junichi Usui  Japan	LaMonte King  United States

Results

Qualification

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Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	B	Nenad Stekić	Yugoslavia	8.10	8.21	8.00	8.21
2	B	Ned Armour	United States				7.98
3	B	Valeriy Pidluzhnyy	Soviet Union				7.90
4	A	Lutz Franke	East Germany				7.89
5	A	Stanisław Jaskułka	Poland				7.85
6	A	Carlos Amador	Cuba				7.77
7	A	LaMonte King	United States				7.76
8	B	Włodzimierz Włodarczyk	Poland				7.75
9	B	Junichi Usui	Japan				7.69
10	B	Frank Paschek	East Germany				7.62
11	A	Alberto Solanas	Spain				7.55	[4]
12	A	Liu Yuhuang	China				7.55
13	A	Viktor Belskiy	Soviet Union				7.53	[5]
14	B	László Szalma	Hungary				7.51
15	B	Dimitrios Araouzos	Greece				7.43
16	A	Georgi Doinov	Bulgaria				7.41
17	B	Jaroslav Priščák	Czechoslovakia				7.35
18	?	Jesús Aguilasocho	Mexico				7.17
18	?	Ronald Raborg	Peru				7.17
20	A	Dimitrios Delifotis	Greece				6.93
21	A	Pekka Suvitie	Finland				6.92
22	?	Abdelmajid Ben Cheikh	Morocco				6.83
23	?	Antoine Kiakouama	Congo				6.55
24	?	Ricardo Campbell	Costa Rica				6.39
25	?	Douglas Mandla Mkhonza	Swaziland				5.81
	?	Jorge García	Mexico				NM

Final

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Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Valeriy Pidluzhnyy	Soviet Union	8.16
	Junichi Usui	Japan	8.05
	LaMonte King	United States	7.99
4	Frank Paschek	East Germany	7.98
5	Nenad Stekić	Yugoslavia	7.97
6	Lutz Franke	East Germany	7.90
7	Alberto Solanas	Spain	7.74
8	Stanisław Jaskułka	Poland	7.58
9	Ned Armour	United States	7.48
10	Liu Yuhuang	China	7.38
11	Włodzimierz Włodarczyk	Poland	7.28
12	Carlos Amador	Cuba	7.27

References

1. Holzbach, Gerd (25 September 1979). "Pietro Mennea war der große Held von Mexico" [Pietro Mennea was the big hero of Mexico]. Leichtathletik (in German). 39/1979. Bartels & Wernitz: 1240–1245. ISSN 0343-5369.
2. Results at Tilastopaja
3. Year list
4. "En 200 para Mennea; 400 para Hornillos; 110 para Moracho" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 12 September 1979. p. 34.
5. Soviet results Archived 2021-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (p90)
6. "Final results". The San Bernardino County Sun. 10 September 1979. p. 20. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
7. "Final results". The Tampa Tribune. 11 September 1979. p. 24. Retrieved 22 March 2020.