The 1979 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held in Eschborn, Federal Republic of Germany, on September 29–30, 1979. The event was also known as IAAF Race Walking World Cup. The women's 5 km race was now officially introduced into the competition with the women's teams competing for the Eschborn Cup.

Complete results were published.

Medallists Men20 km walk 1:18:49 1:19:46 1:20:0550 km walk 3:43:36 3:43:59 3:45:51 Lugano Cup (Men)Team (Men) 240 pts 235 pts 201 pts Women5 km walk 22:51 22:59 23:08 Eschborn Cup (Women)Team (Women) 85 pts 74 pts 69 pts

Results

Men's 20 km Place Athlete Nation Time Daniel Bautista 1:18:49 Boris Yakovlev 1:19:46 Nikolay Vinnichenko 1:20:05 4 Anatoliy Solomin 1:20:13 5 Pyotr Pochinchuk 1:20:28 6 Ernesto Canto 1:21:12 7 Hartwig Gauder 1:21:50 8 Félix Gómez 1:22:09 9 Roland Wieser 1:22:32 10 Jozef Pribilinec 1:22:44 11 Ronald Weigel 1:22:50 12 Fred Sparmann 1:22:52 13 Bohdan Bułakowski 1:23:01 14 Alessandro Pezzatini 1:23:42 15 Juraj Bencík 1:24:34 16 János Szálas 1:24:42 17 Antonio Carrera 1:25:09 18 Pavol Blaûek 1:25:14 19 Jan Ornoch 1:25:17 20 Giancarlo Gandossi 1:25:25 21 Dave Smith 1:25:36 22 Štefan Petrík 1:26:02 23 Imre Stankovics 1:26:25 24 Jaroslaw Kazmierski 1:26:46 25 Jorge Llopart 1:26:55 26 Roger Mills 1:27:25 27 Olly Flynn 1:27:49 28 Bo Gustafsson 1:27:59 29 Chris Harvey 1:28:26 30 Alf Brandt 1:28:47 31 Jim Heiring 1:28:51 32 Amos Seddon 1:28:56 33 Zbigniew Gosławski 1:29:24 34 Per Möller 1:29:47 35 Chris Hansen 1:29:56 36 Miklós Domján 1:29:57 37 Owe Hemmingsson 1:30:02 38 Alfons Schwarz 1:30:24 39 Karl Degener 1:31:02 40 Wolfgang Wiedemann 1:32:23 41 Graham Seatter 1:33:03 42 Rod Huxley 1:33:45 43 Peter Fullager 1:34:13 44 John Smith 1:36:15 45 Steve Pecinovsky 1:37:22 46 Andrés Marin 1:39:26 47 Luis Bueno 1:39:39 48 Gumersindo Carné 1:50:46 — Hans Michalski DQ — Maurizio Damilano DQ — Neal Pike DQ — Roberto Buccione DNF — Neil Blaney DNF — Allan Callow DNF

Men's 50 km Place Athlete Nation Time Martín Bermúdez 3:43:36 Enrique Vera 3:43:59 Viktor Dorovskikh 3:45:51 4 Raúl González 3:46:36 5 Vyacheslav Fursov 3:46:55 6 Pyotr Melnik 3:49:31 7 José Marín 3:49:46 8 Dietmar Meisch 3:50:02 9 Paolo Grecucci 3:50:51 10 Willi Sawall 3:51:08 11 Sandro Bellucci 3:51:08 12 Matthias Kroel 3:52:10 13 Horst Matern 3:52:10 14 Domenico Carpentieri 3:52:44 15 Otto Barch 3:53:32 16 Hans Binder 3:57:31 17 Jaromír Vanous 3:58:01 18 Feliks Sliwinski 3:59:19 19 László Sátor 3:59:37 20 Heinrich Schubert 3:59:58 21 Gerhard Weidner 4:01:01 22 Bengt Simonsen 4:01:43 23 Vittorio Visini 4:02:28 24 Agustin Jorbo 4:02:52 25 Tim Erickson 4:03:17 26 Stanisław Rola 4:03:29 27 Jan Dzurnák 4:04:03 28 János Dalmati 4:08:52 29 Michael Parker 4:08:56 30 Stig-Olof Elovsson 4:09:44 31 Adrian James 4:09:52 32 Max Sjöholm 4:10:52 33 Per Rasmussen 4:11:56 34 Vince OʼSullivan 4:12:15 35 Marco Evoniuk 4:12:37 36 John Sheard 4:13:55 37 Ian Richards 4:14:47 38 Dan OʼConnor 4:17:34 39 George Nibre 4:18:19 40 Rafael Espejo 4:24:02 41 Vladislav Dostál 4:24:56 42 Zoltán Rutkai 4:25:56 43 Chris Maddocks 4:27:03 44 Carl Schueler 4:27:24 45 Attila Márton 4:28:52 — Greg Sockhill DQ — Jürgen Meyer DQ — Steffen Müller DQ — Pedro Aroche DQ — Manuel Alcalde DNF — Allan Callow DNF — Ross Pilkington DNF — Graham Seatter DNF — Bogusław Duda DNF — Stanisław Korneluk DNF

Team (men) The team rankings, named Lugano Trophy, combined the 20km and 50km events team results. Place Country Points 240 pts 235 pts 201 pts 4 152 pts 5 142 pts 6 127 pts 7 112 pts 8 108 pts 9 103 pts 10 101 pts 11 94 pts 12 89 pts 13 67 pts 14 25 pts

Women's 5 km Place Athlete Nation Time Marion Fawkes 22:51 Carol Tyson 22:59 Thorill Gylder 23:08 4 Elisabet Olsson 23:10 5 Susan Orr-Cook 23:25 6 Irene Bateman 23:25 7 Britt-Marie Carlsson 23:30 8 Margareta Simu 23:48 9 Mia Kjølberg 23:50 10 Susan Liers-Westerfield 24:02 11 Sally Pierson 24:08 12 Fröydis Hilsen 24:14 13 Elaine Cox 24:18 14 Gerd Gylder 24:22 15 Lorraine Young-Jachno 24:35 16 Jeanine Piroux/Vignat 24:36 17 Ann Jansson 24:45 18 Giuliana Salce 24:46 19 Chris Sakelarios 24:50 20 Ingrid Adam 24:56 21 Regine Broders 24:57 22 Sue Brodock 25:00 23 Paula Kash 25:08 24 Karen Iselin 25:21 25 Monika Glöckler 25:24 26 Kristina Schenk 25:42 27 Viviane Guilmain 25:49 28 Suzanne Griesbach 25:57 29 Margot Vetterli 26:09 30 Sonia Ripanti 26:27 31 Claudine Gerald/Richard 26:31 32 Charlotte Hansen 26:32 33 Edith Sappl 26:50 34 Tina Thomsen 26:52 35 Valeria Carpanese 27:17 36 Jeanette Hansen 27:25 37 Paula Gobbi 27:47 38 Ulla Kristiansen 28:07 39 Christiane Udriot 28:58 40 Nicol Caloz 30:37

Team (women) Place Country Points 85 pts 74 pts 69 pts 4 64 pts 5 48 pts 6 38 pts 7 36 pts 8 26 pts 9 14 pts 10 12 pts

Participation The participation of 147 athletes (107 men/40 women) from countries is reported.

(8/4) (7/-) (-/4) (8/-) (-/4) (7/-) (8/4) (8/-) (5/-) (-/4) (8/-) (8/-) (8/-) (8/4) (-/4) (8/4) (8/4) (8/4)

Qualifying rounds From 1961 to 1985 there were qualifying rounds for the men's competition with the first two winners proceeding to the final. This year, México, the German Democratic Republic, Italy, the Soviet Union, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand proceeded directly to the final.

Zone 1 Reus, Spain, August 25/26 Rank Nation Points 1 61 pts 2 60 pts 3 54 pts 4 36 pts 5 28 pts

Zone 2 Władysławowo, Poland, August 25/26 Rank Nation Points 1 60 pts 2 44 pts 3 30 pts 4 22 pts — DNS DNS

Zone 3 Hove, Belgium, September 3 Rank Nation Points 1 68 pts 2 66 pts 3 65 pts 4 29 pts 5 14 pts

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