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1969 Los Angeles 1971 Berkeley All 19 editions

Regional Regional championships · since 1958

1970 USA vs USSR Series

Leningrad, Soviet Union 23–24 Jul 1970

events: 35
medals awarded: 101
nations on the podium: 2
world records: 0

Podiums

Sprints

100m

1

Valeriy Borzov 10.4

2

Ben Vaughan 10.5

3

Ivory Crockett 10.5

Sprints

200m

1

Willie Turner 20.8

2

Ben Vaughan 20.9

3

Valentin Maslakov 21.3

Sprints

400m

1

Wayne Collett 45.7

2

John Smith 46.3

3

Aleksandr Bratchikov 46.7

Middle & long

800m

1

Yevgeniy Arzhanov MR 1:45.6

2

Mark Winzenreid 1:46.4

3

Sergey Kryuchok 1:48.4

Middle & long

1500m

1

Mikhail Zhelobovskiy 3:40.5

2

Jere Van Dyke 3:41.4

3

Anatoliy Verlan 3:43.0

Middle & long

5000m

1

Rashid Sharafetdinov MR 13:41.8

2

Steve Prefontaine 13:49.4

3

Vladimir Shashmurin 14:01.4

Middle & long

10,000m

1

Garry Bjorklund 28:23.0

2

Kenny Moore 28:50.2

3

Leonid Mikitenko 28:51.4

Middle & long

3000m steeplechase

1

Vladimir Dudin 8:35.4

2

Romualdas Bite 8:36.0

3

William Reilly 8:37.0

Hurdles

110m hurdles

1

Marcus Walker 13.8

2

Thomas Hill 14.1

3

Viktor Balikhin 14.5

Hurdles

400m hurdles

1

Ralph Mann 49.8

2

Dmitriy Stukalov 50.5

3

Ron Whitney 50.7

Jumps

High jump

1

Reynaldo Brown 2.14

2

Valentin Gavrilov 2.11

3

Viktor Bolshov 2.08

Jumps

Pole vault

1

Gennadiy Bliznetsov 5.15

2

Paul Heglar 5.00

3

Yuriy Isakov 4.80

Jumps

Long jump

1

James 'Bouncy' Moore 7.96

2

Igor Ter-Ovanesyan 7.92

3

Leonid Barkovskiy 7.87

Jumps

Triple jump

1

Viktor Saneyev 16.56

2

Gennadiy Bessonov 16.25

3

Norman Tate 15.83

Winner: Vladimir Kurkevich (URS-2) 16.60m

Throws

Shot put

1

Nikolay Karasyov 19.74

2

Al Feuerbach 19.36

3

Steve Wilhelm 19.01

Throws

Discus throw

1

Vladimir Lyakhov 60.26

2

Dick Drescher 59.28

3

Tim Vollmer 59.14

Throws

Hammer throw

1

Anatoliy Bondarchuk MR 72.48

2

Romuald Klim 70.02

3

George Frenn 64.22

Throws

Javelin throw

1

Bill Skinner 83.12

2

Vilnis Feldmanis 81.82

3

Janis Lusis 79.54

Race walks

20 km race walk

1

Vladimir Golubnichiy MR 1:28:35

2

Mykola Smaga 1:28:35

3

Dave Romansky 1:29:59

Combined

Decathlon

1

Mykola Avilov 7695

2

Vladimir Shcherbatykh 7613

3

John Warkentin 7425

Relays

4x100m

1

United States of America

Ivory Crockett Ben Vaughan Eddie Hart Robert Taylor (1948)

39.1

2

Soviet Union

Aleksandr Kornelyuk Vladislav Sapeya Boris Izmestyev Valeriy Borzov

39.2

Relays

4x400m

1

United States of America

Curtis Mills Fred Newhouse Wayne Collett John Smith

3:04.6

2

Soviet Union

Yevgeny Borisenko Yuri Zorin Boris Savchuk Aleksandr Bratchikov

3:08.7

Medal table

2 nations · 101 medals

#	Nation				Total	Share
1	Soviet Union URS	19	21	17	57
2	United States of America USA	16	14	14	44

Records set

7 MR

MR Yevgeniy Arzhanov 800m · Men 1:45.6
MR Rashid Sharafetdinov 5000m · Men 13:41.8
MR Anatoliy Bondarchuk Hammer throw · Men 72.48
MR Vladimir Golubnichiy 20 km race walk · Men 1:28:35
MR Patricia Johnson 100m hurdles · Women 13.5
MR Antonina Okorokova-Lazareva High jump · Women 1.80
MR Nadezhda Chizhova Shot put · Women 19.17

About this edition

The 1970 series contested among the additional competitors from USSR 2 Team and the individuals from Italy, Finland, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. The scores given to only USA and USSR 1 Team members.