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page 1Medalists at the 1979 Summer Universiade
Pietro Mennea
Italian sprinter and politician (1952–2013)
Marita Koch
East German sprint track and field athlete (born 1957)
Yuriy Sedykh
Soviet athletics competitor, hammer thrower
Kevin McHale
American basketball player
Sara Simeoni
Italian high jumper
Ulrike Meyfarth
German former high jumper
Władysław Kozakiewicz
Polish pole vaulter
Ilona Slupianek
East German shot putter
Marlies Göhr
German athlete
Virginia Ruzici
Romanian tennis player
Udo Beyer
East German athlete
Evelin Jahl
East German discus thrower
Jaak Uudmäe
Estonian athletics competitor, coach and sportsperson (born 1954)
Christina Lathan
East German sprinter (born 1958)
Mariya Pinigina
athletics competitor
Thomas Munkelt
East German hurdler and sprinter
Alexandr Romankov
Soviet fencer
Arto Härkönen
Finnish javelin thrower
Aleksandar Petrović
Croatian basketball coach and player
Vera Komisova
Russian hurdler
Lynette Woodard
American basketball player
Wolfgang Schmidt
East German discus thrower (1954-)
Jürgen Hingsen
athletics competitor
Harald Schmid
German track-and-field athlete
Imre Gedővári
Hungarian fencer (1951-2014)
Kathy Smallwood-Cook
Athletics (sport) competitor
Mihovil Nakić
Croatian basketball player
Pascale Trinquet
French fencer
Willie Banks
Triple Jumper, Coach, USATF Board of Directors
Valeriy Pidluzhny
Ukrainian athlete (1952–2021)
Mikhail Burtsev
fencer (1956–2015)
Cornelia Hanisch
fencer
Ernő Kolczonay
fencer (1953–2009)
Roberto Tozzi
Italian sprinter
Stefano Malinverni
Italian sprinter (1959–2024)
Florența Crăciunescu
athletics competitor (1955-2008)
Andrey Prokofyev
athletics competitor (1959–1989)
Aleksandr Puchkov
athletics competitor (1957–2024)
Mihaela Loghin
athletics competitor
Beverley Goddard
British athlete
Irina Kalinina
Soviet diver
Cindy Noble
American basketball player
Garry Cook
British athlete
Franz-Peter Hofmeister
German sprinter
Vasyl Arkhypenko
Ukrainian hurdler
Mark Kerry
Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist
Pascal Barré
French athlete
Leszek Dunecki
athletics competitor
Annelies Maas
Dutch swimmer
Helma Knorscheidt
German shot putter
Reijo Ståhlberg
Finnish shot putter
Rosalyn Bryant
American sprinter
Hanns Jana
German fencer
Klaus Ploghaus
German hammer thrower (1956–2022)
Vladimir Aleynik
Olympic diver
Markku Tuokko
Finnish throws athlete (1951-2015)
Hans-Peter Ferner
German middle distance runner
Rolf Beilschmidt
East German high jumper
Graeme Brewer
Australian swimmer, Olympic bronze medallist
Li Kongzheng
diver