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World Cross Country Championships - Results Women 1979
Ireland - Limerick - 25 March 1979
Women's Cross - 25 March 1979
| 1 |  Grete Waitz (NOR) | 16:48 |
| 2 |  Raisa Smekhnova (URS) | 17:14 |
| 3 |  Ellison Goodall (USA) | 17:18 |
Women's Cross team event - 25 March 1979
| 1 | United States (Ellison Goodall, Janice Merrill, Julie Shea, Margaret Groos) | 29 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (Raisa Smekhnova, Svetlana Ulmasova, Giana Romanova, Raisa Belousova) | 48 |
| 3 |  England (Ann Ford, Penny Yule, Paula Fudge, Regina Joyce) | 68 |
| 4 |  West Germany | 101 |
| 5 |  New Zealand | 107 |
| 6 | Norway | 134 |
| 7 | Ireland | 136 |
| 8 |  France | 141 |
