SIDELINES : Top Track Stars of ‘80s Named

Ireland’s Eamonn Coghlan, the world mile record-holder, and Mary Slaney, owner of six world or American marks, today were named the men’s and women’s Indoor Track and Field Athletes of the 1980s.

The two middle-distance stars placed first in a poll in which athletes were nominated by 11 meet directors of the Mobil Indoor Grand Prix circuit and then voted on by media representatives in the meet directors’ cities.

Coghlan led the men’s voting with 77 points, far ahead of sprinter-long jumper Carl Lewis, the runner-up with 48 points. Pole vaulter Sergei Bubka of the Soviet Union finished third with 45 points.

In the women’s voting, Slaney received 67 points to 55 for the second-place finisher, long jumper-hurdler Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Quarter miler Diane Dixon was third with 52 points.