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

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

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Result
	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

^ 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.
^ Results at Tilastopaja
^ Year list
^ "En 200 para Mennea; 400 para Hornillos; 110 para Moracho" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 12 September 1979. p. 34.
^ Soviet results Archived 2021-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (p90)
^ "Final results". The San Bernardino County Sun. 10 September 1979. p. 20. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
^ "Final results". The Tampa Tribune. 11 September 1979. p. 24. Retrieved 22 March 2020.