1970 Leningrad 1973 Minsk All 19 editions

Regional Regional championships · since 1958

1971 USA vs USSR Series

Berkeley, United States of America 2–3 Jul 1971

events: 35
medals awarded: 101
nations on the podium: 2
world record: 1

Podiums

Sprints

100m

Valeriy Borzov 10.5

James Green 10.5

Del Meriwether 10.7

Sprints

200m

Willie Deckard 21.0

Larry Black 21.1

Aleksandr Zhidkikh 21.1

Winner: Don Quarrie (JAM) 20.7

Sprints

400m

Fred Newhouse 46.3

Darwyn Bond 46.5

Semyon Kocher 47.5

Middle & long

800m

Yevgeniy Arzhanov 1:47.3

Juris Luzins 1:48.0

Art Sandison 1:48.2

Middle & long

1500m

Vladimir Panteley 3:43.2

Mikhail Zhelobovskiy 3:43.4

John Baker 3:45.6

Middle & long

5000m

Steve Prefontaine NRMR 13:30.4

Steve Stageberg 13:35.6

Vladimir Afonin 13:49.0

Middle & long

10,000m

Rashid Sharafetdinov 28:38.6

Frank Shorter 28:41.5

Nikolay Sviridov 28:50.2

Middle & long

3000m steeplechase

Romualdas Bite 8:41.0

Sidney Sink 8:41.4

Mike Manley 8:41.4

Hurdles

110m hurdles

Rod Milburn 14.0

Ron Draper 14.1

Anatoliy Moshiashvili 14.6

Hurdles

400m hurdles

Jim Seymour 50.5

Vyacheslav Skomorokhov 50.9

Wesley Williams 51.0

Winner: John Akii-Bua (UGA) 50.1

Jumps

High jump

Pat Matzdorf WR 2.29

Reynaldo Brown 2.21

Kestutis Sapka 2.18

Jumps

Pole vault

David Roberts 5.31

Yuriy Isakov 5.00

Gennadiy Gusyev 5.00

Jumps

Long jump

Arnie Robinson 7.89

Igor Ter-Ovanesyan 7.84

James 'Bouncy' Moore 7.76

Jumps

Triple jump

Viktor Saneyev MR 17.01

Gennadiy Bessonov 16.86

Dave Smith 16.83

Throws

Shot put

Randy Matson 20.16

Karl Salb 19.81

Valeriy Voykin 19.54

Throws

Discus throw

Tim Vollmer MR 62.60

Vladimir Lyakhov 61.49

Dick Drescher 59.86

Throws

Hammer throw

Anatoliy Bondarchuk 70.79

Vasiliy Khmelevskiy 67.76

Al Hall 66.34

Throws

Javelin throw

Janis Donins MR 89.28

Janis Lusis 82.46

Bill Skinner 81.28

Race walks

20 km race walk

Mykola Smaga 1:30:08

Vladimir Shaloshik 1:33:27

Tom Dooley 1:34:00 59,6

Combined

Decathlon

Russ Hodge 7698

Boris Ivanov 7627

Rick Wanamaker 7599

Relays

4x100m

United States of America

Ivory Crockett Bobby Turner Warren Edmondson James Green

39.5

Soviet Union

Aleksandr Kornelyuk Sergey Korovin Vladimir Lovetskiy Valeriy Borzov

39.8

Winner: Jamaica 39.1

Relays

4x400m

United States of America

Edesel Garrison Fred Newhouse Tommy Turner Darwyn Bond

MR 3:02.9

Soviet Union

Boris Savchuk Yuri Zorin Dmitriy Stukalov Semyon Kocher

3:11.8

Medal table

2 nations · 101 medals

#	Nation				Total	Share
1	United States of America USA	18	15	18	51
2	Soviet Union URS	17	20	13	50

Records set

1 WR · 9 MR

WR Pat Matzdorf High jump · Men 2.29
MR Steve Prefontaine 5000m · Men 13:30.4
MR Viktor Saneyev Triple jump · Men 17.01
MR Tim Vollmer Discus throw · Men 62.60
MR Janis Donins Javelin throw · Men 89.28
MR United States of America 4x400m · Men 3:02.9
MR Tamara Pangelova 1500m · Women 4:13.8
MR Antonina Okorokova-Lazareva High jump · Women 1.83
MR Faina Melnik Discus throw · Women 62.38
MR Nina Marakina Javelin throw · Women 56.61