| Rnk | Perf | Mark | Wind | Name | Nat | Born | Pos | Meet | Venue | Date | Ht/Wt | Record | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 8.52 | 0.0 | Larry Myricks | USA | 10Mar1956 | 1 | WCp | Montréal | 26Aug1979 | 186/75 | LJ | |
| 2 | 2 | 8.36 | 1.0 | João Carlos de Oliveira | BRA | 28May1954 | 1 | Rieti | 21Jul1979 | 186/76 | PB | LJ | |
| 3 | 8.34 | 0.0 | Larry Myricks | 1 | ASV | Köln | 19Aug1979 | LJ | |||||
| 4 | 8.32 | 0.0 | Larry Myricks | 1 | Ingelheim | 11Sep1979 | LJ | ||||||
| 3 | 5 | 8.31 | 1.4 | Lutz Dombrowski | GDR | 25Jun1959 | 1 | ECp | Torino | 4Aug1979 | 187/87 | LJ | |
| 6 | 8.29 | 1.6 | Lutz Dombrowski | 1 | OD | Dresden | 13Jun1979 | LJ | |||||
| 7 | 8.27 | -0.2 | Lutz Dombrowski | 1 | Potsdam | 29Jul1979 | LJ | ||||||
| 8 | 8.27 | 0.0 | Lutz Dombrowski | 2 | WCp | Montréal | 26Aug1979 | LJ | |||||
| 4 | 9 | 8.27 | 1.6 | Nenad Stekic | YUG | 7Mar1951 | 1 | Rovereto | 16Sep1979 | 181/73 | LJ | ||
| 5 | 10 | 8.25 | 1.3 | Frank Paschek | GDR | 25Jun1956 | 1e1 | Spart | Moskva | 25Jul1979 | 183/72 | LJ | |
| 11 | 8.25 | 1.0 | Nenad Stekic | -1 | Balkan C | Athína | 11Aug1979 | LJ | |||||
| 6 | 12 | 8.22 | LaMonte King | USA | 18Dec1959 | 1 | San José CA | 12May1979 | 175/68 | PB | LJ | ||
| 13 | 8.22A | Larry Myricks | -1 | USOC SF | Colorado Springs CO | 28Jul1979 | LJ | ||||||
| 7 | 14 | 8.22 | 0.6 | David Giralt | CUB | 28Jun1959 | 3 | WCp | Montréal | 26Aug1979 | 178/68 | PB | LJ |
| 15 | 8.21 | 0.8 | Larry Myricks | -1 | AAU | Walnut CA | 16Jun1979 | LJ | |||||
| 16 | 8.21A | Nenad Stekic | 1q2 | WUG | Ciudad de México | 8Sep1979 | LJ | ||||||
| 17 | 8.21 | 2.0 | Nenad Stekic | 1 | Med. Games | Split | 27Sep1979 | LJ | |||||
| 18 | 8.20 | 0.9 | Lutz Dombrowski | 1 | Karl-Marx-Stadt | 26May1979 | LJ | ||||||
| 19 | 8.20 | 0.7 | Larry Myricks | 1 | Gateshead | 8Sep1979 | LJ | ||||||
| 20 | 8.18 | João Carlos de Oliveira | 1 | PAG | San Juan | 7Jul1979 | LJ | ||||||
| 8 | 21 | 8.16A | Valeriy Podluzhny | URS | 22Aug1952 | 1 | WUG | Ciudad de México | 9Sep1979 | 175/62 | LJ | ||
| 22 | 8.15 | David Giralt | 2 | PAG | San Juan | 7Jul1979 | LJ | ||||||
| 9 | 23 | 8.13 | Carl Lewis | USA | 1Jul1961 | 3 | PAG | San Juan | 7Jul1979 | 188/80 | LJ | ||
| 10 | 24 | 8.13 | Lutz Franke | GDR | 3Jul1957 | 1 | Dresden | 19Jul1979 | 183/78 | PB | LJ | ||
| 25 | 8.12 | Frank Paschek | 2 | Dresden | 19Jul1979 | LJ | |||||||
| 26 | 8.12 | David Giralt | 2e1 | Spart | Moskva | 25Jul1979 | LJ | ||||||
| 27 | 8.11 | Larry Myricks | 1 | NCAA | Champaign IL | 1Jun1979 | LJ | ||||||
| 28 | 8.11 | Lutz Dombrowski | 1 | NC | Karl-Marx-Stadt | 12Aug1979 | LJ | ||||||
| 29 | 8.11 | Larry Myricks | 1 | Pescara | 13Aug1979 | LJ | |||||||
| 30 | 8.10 | Frank Paschek | 2 | Karl-Marx-Stadt | 26May1979 | LJ | |||||||
| 31 | 8.10 | Valeriy Podluzhny | 1 | Prav | Sochi | 8Jun1979 | LJ | ||||||
| 11 | 32 | 8.10 | 1.6 | Junichi Usui | JPN | 6Oct1957 | 1 | Paris (Charléty) | 6Jul1979 | 178/68 | PB | LJ | |
| 12 | 33 | 8.09 | 1.8 | Antonio Corgos | ESP | 10Mar1960 | 1 | vsFIN,BEL | Bruxelles | 17Jun1979 | 183/76 | LJ | |
| 34 | 8.09 | Lutz Dombrowski | 1 | vsURS | Leipzig | 23Jun1979 | LJ | ||||||
| 35 | 8.08 | Carl Lewis | 1 | Naperville IL | 9Jun1979 | LJ | |||||||
| 13 | 36 | 8.08 | Ronald Desruelles | BEL | 14Feb1955 | 1 | NC | Bruxelles | 12Aug1979 | 186/80 | PB | LJ | |
| 37 | 8.08 | Larry Myricks | 1 | ISTAF | West Berlin | 17Aug1979 | LJ | ||||||
| 38 | 8.08 | Larry Myricks | 1 | VD | Bruxelles | 4Sep1979 | LJ | ||||||
| 39 | 8.07 | David Giralt | 2 | Spart | Moskva | 25Jul1979 | LJ | ||||||
| 14 | 40 | 8.07 | Arnie Robinson | USA | 7Apr1948 | 2 | ISTAF | West Berlin | 17Aug1979 | 188/74 | LJ | ||
| 15 | 41 | 8.06 | Krzysztof Baran | POL | 24Feb1954 | 1 | Rzeszów | 6May1979 | 182/84 | PB | LJ | ||
| 42 | 8.06 | Lutz Franke | 2 | vsURS | Leipzig | 23Jun1979 | LJ | ||||||
| 16 | 43 | 8.05 | Carl Williams | USA | 9Jan1957 | 1 | Abilene TX | 12Apr1979 | 183/83 | PB | LJ | ||
| 44 | 8.05 | David Giralt | 1 | Barrientos | La Habana | 20May1979 | LJ | ||||||
| 45 | 8.05 | David Giralt | 1 | La Habana | 23May1979 | LJ | |||||||
| 46 | 8.05 | LaMonte King | 2 | NCAA | Champaign IL | 1Jun1979 | LJ | ||||||
| 47 | 8.05A | Junichi Usui | 2 | WUG | Ciudad de México | 9Sep1979 | LJ | ||||||
| 17 | 48 | 8.04 | Charlton Ehizuelen | NGR | 30Nov1953 | -1 | San José CA | 28Apr1979 | 180/68 | LJ | |||
| 18 | 49 | 8.04 | 1.9 | Jochen Verschl | FRG | 18Jun1956 | 1 | Fürth | 10Jun1979 | 174/64 | PB | LJ | |
| 50 | 8.04 | Carl Lewis | 3 | Spart | Moskva | 25Jul1979 | LJ | ||||||
| 51 | 8.04 | Larry Myricks | 1 | R-W | Koblenz | 6Sep1979 | LJ | ||||||
| 19 | 52 | 8.04 | Philippe Deroche | FRA | 11Sep1954 | 2 | Med. Games | Split | 27Sep1979 | 173/69 | LJ | ||
| 20 | 8.03 | Vladimir Tsepelyov | URS | 10Oct1956 | 3 | vsGDR | Leipzig | 23Jun1979 | 194/84 | LJ | |||
| 21 | 8.03 | Grzegorz Cybulski | POL | 23Nov1951 | 2 | ECp | Torino | 4Aug1979 | 178/69 | LJ | |||
| 22 | 8.02 | Randy Williams | USA | 23Aug1953 | 1 | San Diego CA | 26May1979 | 178/69 | LJ | ||||
| 23 | 8.02 | Vladimir Rallo | URS | 25Mar1957 | 1 | Dnyepropetrovsk | 3Jul1979 | 190/85 | PB | LJ | |||
| 24 | 8.01 | 1.2 | Waldemar Golanko | POL | 15Jul1961 | 1 | vsFRG-j | Bielefeld | 16Jun1979 | 178/68 | PB | LJ | |
| 25 | 8.00 | Viktor Byelskiy | URS | 22Feb1955 | 2 | Donyetsk | 4Aug1979 | 184/72 | LJ | ||||
| 26 | 7.98A | Ned Armour | USA | 6Mar1957 | 2q2 | WUG | Ciudad de México | 8Sep1979 | 185/80 | PB | LJ | ||
| 27 | 7.97 | Susresh Babu | IND | 10Feb1953 | 1 | Bangalore | 18Jan1979 | 187/72 | PB | LJ | |||
| 28 | 7.97 | Gary Honey | AUS | 26Jul1959 | 1 | Melbourne | 13Nov1979 | 183/74 | LJ | ||||
| 29 | 7.96 | Eugene McCain | USA | 10Aug1960 | 1 | SEC | Tuscaloosa AL | 12May1979 | 196/82 | PB | LJ | ||
| 30 | 7.96 | Essodina Atchade | TOG | 11Feb1958 | 2 | San José CA | 12May1979 | 180/80 | LJ | ||||
| 31 | 7.96 | Tommy Haynes | USA | 14Jul1952 | 1 | Hayward CA | 2Jun1979 | 177/75 | LJ | ||||
| 32 | 7.96 | Rolf Bernhard | SUI | 13Dec1949 | 1 | vsNOR,ESP | Øvre Årdal | 19Aug1979 | 180/72 | LJ | |||
| 33 | 7.94 | Sydney Mitchell | USA | 1958 | q | NCAA | Champaign IL | 31May1979 | 188/77 | PB | LJ | ||
| 34 | 7.94 | Alberto Solanas | ESP | 6Nov1955 | 1 | vsITA | Barcelona | 29Jul1979 | 188/75 | LJ | |||
| 35 | 7.94 | Ajayi Agbebaku | NGR | 6Dec1955 | 1 | AfCh | Dakar | 3Aug1979 | 185/80 | PB | LJ | ||
| 36 | 7.94 | Jens Knipphals | FRG | 19May1958 | 1 | NC | Stuttgart | 12Aug1979 | 189/74 | LJ | |||
| 37 | 7.93A | Johan van der Merwe | RSA | 12Aug1958 | 1 | Potchefstroom | 9Mar1979 | 190/74 | LJ | ||||
| 38 | 7.92 | i | Stanley Holmes | USA | 3Aug1957 | 1 | Johnson City TN | 12Jan1979 | 191/77 | LJ | |||
| 39 | 7.92 | i | Uwe Lange | GDR | 13Dec1954 | 1 | Berlin | 4Feb1979 | 183/76 | LJ | |||
| 40 | 7.92 | Dannie Jackson | USA | 11May1958 | 2 | Cal R | Modesto CA | 12May1979 | 188/82 | LJ | |||
| 41 | 7.91 | Winfried Klepsch | FRG | 22May1956 | 2 | Fürth | 10Jun1979 | 190/74 | LJ | ||||
| 42 | 7.91 | Anatoliy Ilyin | URS | 16Mar1951 | 1 | Voroshilovgrad | 30Aug1979 | PB | LJ | ||||
| 43 | 7.90 | i | Alfred Ogunfeyimi | NGR | 1958 | 2 | AAU | New York | 23Feb1979 | LJ | |||
| 44 | 7.90 | Sergey Makarov | URS | 3Sep1957 | 1 | Frunze | 8Jul1979 | PB | LJ | ||||
| 45 | 7.90 | Andrzej Klimaszewski | POL | 14May1960 | 1 | Zabrze | 23Aug1979 | 185/80 | LJ | ||||
| 46 | 7.89 | Toshihisa Yoshimoto | JPN | 18Jul1953 | 1 | Hiroshima | 29Apr1979 | 178/72 | LJ | ||||
| 47 | 7.89 | Oganes Stepanyan | URS | 1Jan1956 | 2 | OD | Dresden | 13Jun1979 | 184/74 | LJ | |||
| 48 | 7.89 | Yuriy Morkovkin | URS | 20May1957 | 1 | Chelyabinsk | 25Jun1979 | 185/80 | LJ | ||||
| 49 | 7.89 | Kayode Elegbede | NGR | 19Sep1955 | 2 | AfCh | Dakar | 3Aug1979 | 178/71 | LJ | |||
| 50 | 7.88 | i | Theo Hamilton | USA | 23Jan1952 | 1 | vsURS | Fort Worth TX | 3Mar1979 | 190/77 | LJ | ||
| 51 | 7.88 | Don DuVall | USA | 9Oct1956 | q | NCAA | Champaign IL | 31May1979 | 188/77 | LJ | |||
| 52 | 7.88 | Atanas Chochev | BUL | 17Jan1957 | 1 | GS | Ostrava | 5Jun1979 | 180/74 | LJ | |||
| 53 | 7.88 | Béla Bakosi | HUN | 18Jun1957 | 1 | NC | Budapest | 27Jul1979 | 180/67 | PB | LJ | ||
| 54 | 7.88 | Konstantin Achapkin | URS | 19Nov1956 | dec | WPT | Québec City | 11Aug1979 | 184/78 | PB | LJ | ||
| 55 | 7.87 | Robert Williams | USA | 1 | Seattle WA | 24May1979 | 190/73 | PB | LJ | ||||
| 56 | 7.87 | Greg Artis | USA | 24Sep1959 | 5 | NCAA | Champaign IL | 1Jun1979 | 190/69 | LJ | |||
| 57 | 7.87 | Darryl Simmons | USA | 20Jun1960 | 1 | vsURS-j | Bakersfield CA | 30Jun1979 | 190/81 | LJ | |||
| 58 | 7.87 | Roy Mitchell | GBR | 1Jan1955 | 2 | AAA | London (CP) | 13Jul1979 | 190/85 | LJ | |||
| 59 | 7.86 | Larry Sutton | USA | 6Dec1958 | 1 | Coolidge AZ | 15Mar1979 | 183/77 | PB | LJ | |||
| 60 | 7.86 | Harvey Glance | USA | 28Mar1957 | 1 | Auburn AL | 7Apr1979 | 173/67 | LJ | ||||
| 61 | 7.86 | Kenneth Duncan | USA | 3Dec1953 | 4 | Cal R | Modesto CA | 12May1979 | 185/77 | LJ | |||
| 62 | 7.86 | Jacques Rousseau | FRA | 10Mar1951 | 3 | Fürth | 10Jun1979 | 186/76 | LJ | ||||
| 63 | 7.86 | Liu Yuhuang | CHN | 25Jul1959 | 1 | vsJPN | Beijing | 1Jul1979 | 177/72 | LJ | |||
| 64 | 7.85 | Stanislaw Jaskulka | POL | 25Aug1958 | 1 | Warszawa | 23May1979 | 180/70 | LJ | ||||
| 65 | 7.85 | William (Bill) Rea | USA | 3Feb1952 | q | AAU | Walnut CA | 15Jun1979 | 180/77 | LJ | |||
| 66 | 7.85 | Joachim Busse | FRG | 10Mar1954 | 2 | Rhede | 18Jul1979 | 189/91 | LJ | ||||
| 67 | 7.84 | Günther Meuche | GDR | 5Jul1954 | 3 | Karl-Marx-Stadt | 26May1979 | 186/78 | LJ | ||||
| 68 | 7.82 | i | László Szalma | HUN | 21Oct1957 | 1 | Budapest | 1Feb1979 | 190/80 | LJ | |||
| 69 | 7.82 | i | Bob Calhoun | USA | 28Oct1956 | 1 | College Park MD | 24Feb1979 | 178/77 | LJ | |||
| 70 | 7.82 | Augustin Neuland | CUB | 28Aug1960 | 2 | La Habana | 23May1979 | PB | LJ | ||||
| 71 | 7.82 | Zbigniew Matoga | POL | 12Feb1957 | 1 | Zabrze | 3Jun1979 | 185/75 | LJ | ||||
| 72 | 7.82 | Bernd Heiland | GDR | 9Sep1956 | 3 | Dresden | 19Jul1979 | 178/67 | LJ | ||||
| 73 | 7.81 | i | Forrest Killebrew | USA | 3 | Johnson City TN | 12Jan1979 | PB | LJ | ||||
| 74 | 7.81 | Ron Johnson | USA | q | Long Beach CA | 11May1979 | 190/82 | PB | LJ | ||||
| 75 | 7.81 | Georgi Doinov | BUL | 22Aug1956 | 1 | Sofia | 13May1979 | 178/72 | PB | LJ | |||
| 76 | 7.81 | Joe Neal | USA | 29May1957 | 1 | Orlando FL | 26May1979 | 170/69 | LJ | ||||
| 77 | 7.81 | Dumitru Iordache | ROM | 20Jul1951 | 1 | Bucuresti | 17Jun1979 | 183/75 | LJ | ||||
| 78 | 7.81 | Jaroslav Priscák | CZE | 28Aug1956 | 1 | vsHUN,ROM,AUT | Banská Býstrica | 24Jun1979 | 177/65 | LJ | |||
| 79 | 7.81 | Imants Karlsons | URS | 6May1955 | 1 | Jurmala | 29Jun1979 | 193/78 | LJ | ||||
| 80 | 7.81 | Gilbert Zante | FRA | 13Apr1953 | 1 | vsGBR | Cwmbran | 30Jun1979 | 181/76 | LJ | |||
| 81 | 7.81 | Yuriy Kharitonov | URS | 23Jul1959 | 5 | Spart | Moskva | 25Jul1979 | 173/63 | LJ | |||
| 82 | 7.81 | Wlodzimierz Wlodarczyk | POL | 23Aug1957 | 3 | Mich | Warszawa | 29Jul1979 | 179/74 | LJ | |||
| 83 | 7.80 | Dariusz Ludwig | POL | 25Feb1955 | dec | Spala | 19May1979 | 187/84 | PB | LJ | |||
| 84 | 7.80 | Rolando Adams | USA | 9Mar1959 | 2 | USTFA | Wichita KS | 25May1979 | 175/73 | PB | LJ | ||
| 85 | 7.80 | Sergey Lapko | URS | 14Mar1960 | 1 | Moskva | 26Aug1979 | 185/80 | LJ | ||||
| 86 | 7.80 | Lee Buo-chai | TPE | 5Sep1959 | 1 | Keelyng City | 9Sep1979 | 175/65 | LJ | ||||
| 87 | 7.79 | Wayne Walker | USA | 27Oct1960 | 1 | Tucson AZ | 7Apr1979 | 183/73 | LJ | ||||
| 88 | 7.79 | Kevin Sloan | USA | 8Dec1957 | 2 | Lincoln NE | 18May1979 | 178/73 | LJ | ||||
| 89 | 7.79 | Andrzej Korniak | POL | 19Apr1953 | 1 | Poznan | 27May1979 | 177/74 | LJ | ||||
| 90 | 7.79 | Ulrich Meier | FRG | 13Jan1958 | 1 | Karlsruhe | 24Jun1979 | 188/76 | LJ | ||||
| 91 | 7.78 | Keith Taylor | USA | 11Nov1956 | 1 | San Diego CA | 14Apr1979 | 180/73 | LJ | ||||
| 92 | 7.78 | E. Adende | NGR | Ibadáan | 3Jul1979 | LJ | |||||||
| 93 | 7.78 | Janusz Banas | POL | 24May1954 | 1 | Poznan | 22Jul1979 | 186/80 | LJ | ||||
| 94 | 7.78 | Jubobosaye [Joshua] Kio | NGR | 7Sep1957 | 3 | AfCh | Dakar | 3Aug1979 | 176/72 | LJ | |||
| 96 | 7.78 | Gennadiy Khalibin | URS | 1957 | Donyetsk | 4Aug1979 | LJ | ||||||
| 95 | 7.78 | 2.0 | Carlo Arrighi | ITA | 24Sep1947 | 6 | ECp | Torino | 4Aug1979 | 182/78 | LJ | ||
| 97 | 7.78 | Jan Leitner | CZE | 14Sep1953 | 1 | vsFIN | Mikkeli | 18Aug1979 | 185/82 | LJ | |||
| 98 | 7.78 | Tibor Kövesi | HUN | 2May1954 | dec | Budapest | 11Sep1979 | 186/75 | LJ | ||||
| 99 | 7.77 | Tony Easley | USA | 5Dec1956 | 2 | Auburn AL | 7Apr1979 | 178/75 | LJ | ||||
| 100 | 7.77 | James Brown | USA | 6Mar1957 | 1 | Ithaca NY | 21Apr1979 | LJ | |||||
| 101 | 7.77A | Carlos Amador | CUB | 28Mar1955 | 3q1 | WUG | Ciudad de México | 8Sep1979 | LJ | ||||
| 102 | 7.77 | Altevir Silva Filho de Araújo | BRA | 23Dec1955 | 1979 | 184/72 | LJ |