| Athletics at the I Summer Universiade | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Dates | 3–6 September |
| Host city | Turin, Italy  |
| Venue | Stadio Comunale di Torino |
| Events | 29 |
Athletics events were contested at the 1959 Summer Universiade in Turin, Italy.
| Athletics at the I Summer Universiade | |
|---|---|
| |
| Dates | 3–6 September |
| Host city | Turin, Italy |
| Venue | Stadio Comunale di Torino |
| Events | 29 |
Athletics events were contested at the 1959 Summer Universiade in Turin, Italy.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 metres |
Livio Berruti (ITA) |
10.5 |  Jean-Claude Penez (FRA) |
10.8 |  Romain Poté (BEL) |
10.8 |
| 200 metres |
Livio Berruti (ITA) |
20.9 |  Nikolaos Georgopoulos (GRE) |
21.6 |  Fritz Helfrich (FRG) |
21.7 |
| 400 metres |
 Viktor Šnajder (YUG) |
47.5 | Walter Oberste (FRG) |
47.9 | Otto Klappert (FRG) |
47.9 |
| 800 metres |
Dieter Heydecke (FRG) |
1:50.5 |  John Holt (GBR) |
1:50.5 |  Kuniaki Watanabe (JPN) |
1:50.9 |
| 1500 metres |
 Béla Szekeres (HUN) |
3:50.9 | John Winch (GBR) |
3:52.0 | Kuniaki Watanabe (JPN) |
3:52.1 |
| 5000 metres |
Kevin Gilligan (GBR) |
14:09.8 | Saburo Yokomizo (JPN) |
14:14.8 |  Jaroslav Bohatý-Pavelka (TCH) |
14:18.0 |
| 110 metres hurdles |
Stanko Lorger (YUG) |
14.2 | Nereo Svara (ITA) |
14.4 | Giorgio Mazza (ITA) |
14.4 |
| 400 metres hurdles |
Salvatore Morale (ITA) |
52.1 | Germano Gimelli (ITA) |
52.8 |  Wiesław Król (POL) |
53.2 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay |
Italy (ITA) Guido De Murtas Salvatore Giannone Giorgio Mazza Livio Berruti |
41.0 | West Germany (FRG) Rudolf Sundermann Martin Reichert Burkhart Quantz Fritz Helfrich |
41.0 | France (FRA) Ali Brakchi Joël Caprice Jean-Claude Penez Guy Lagorce |
41.4 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay |
West Germany (FRG) Albert Grawitz Burkhart Quantz Walter Oberste Otto Klappert |
3:09.5 | Italy (ITA) Elio Catola Nereo Fossati Mario Fraschini Germano Gimelli |
3:11.4 | Great Britain (GBR) Robert Hay Mike Robinson John Holt Norman Futter |
3:12.2 |
| High jump |
 Cornel Porumb (ROM) |
2.01 | Vladimir Marjanović (YUG) |
1.96 |  Raycho Aleksandrov (URS) Kazimierz Fabrykowski (POL) |
1.96 |
| Pole vault |
Noriaki Yasuda (JPN) |
4.35 | Mirko Kuzmanovic (YUG) |
4.30 | Bernard Balastre (FRA) |
4.20 |
| Long jump |
Attilio Bravi (ITA) |
7.46 | Maurizio Terenziani (ITA) |
7.43 | Ali Brakchi (FRA) |
7.42 |
| Triple jump |
Oleg Ryakhovskiy (URS) |
15.74 | Koji Sakurai (JPN) |
15.55 | Hiroshi Shibata (JPN) |
15.44 |
| Shot put |
Hermann Lingnau (FRG) |
17.32 | Zsigmond Nagy (HUN) |
17.10 | Georgios Tsakanikas (GRE) |
16.70 |
| Discus throw |
Antonios Kounadis (GRE) |
53.07 | Vladimir Lyakhov (URS) |
52.79 | Eugeniusz Wachowski (POL) |
52.22 |
| Hammer throw |
Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN) |
63.65 | Anatoliy Samotsvetov (URS) |
63.61 | Krešimir Račić (YUG) |
62.32 |
| Javelin throw |
Hermann Salomon (FRG) |
75.95 | Gergely Kulcsár (HUN) |
75.80 | Alexandru Bizim (ROM) |
72.81 |
| Pentathlon |
Vasili Kuznetsov (URS) |
4006 | Hermann Salomon (FRG) |
3530 | Miloš Vojtek (TCH) |
3048 |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 metres |
Giuseppina Leone (ITA) |
11.7 | Lyudmila Nechayeva (URS) |
12.0 | Catherine Capdevielle (FRA) |
12.1 |
| 200 metres |
Giuseppina Leone (ITA) |
23.8 | Barbara Janiszewska (POL) |
24.2 | Lyudmila Nechayeva (URS) |
24.7 |
| 800 metres |
Nicole Goullieux (FRA) |
2:11.1 | Edith Schiller (FRG) |
2:11.3 | Klavdiya Babintseva (URS) |
2:12.3 |
| 80 metres hurdles |
Nelli Yelisayeva (URS) |
11.1 |  Snezhana Kerkova (BUL) |
11.4 | Elżbieta Krzesińska (POL) |
11.5 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay |
Soviet Union (URS) Nelli Yeliseyeva Larisa Kuleshova Tamara Makarova Lyudmila Nechayeva |
46.9 | Italy (ITA) Anna Doro Fausta Galluzzi Giuseppina Leone Nadia Mecocci |
47.5 | West Germany (FRG) Ilsabe Heider Antje Gleichfeld Kristianne Foss Inge Fuhrmann |
48.1 |
| High jump |
Iolanda Balaș (ROM) |
1.80 | Valentina Ballod (URS) |
1.73 | Jarosława Jóźwiakowska (POL) |
1.61 |
| Long jump |
Elżbieta Krzesińska (POL) |
5.94 | Tamara Makarova (URS) |
5.76 | Larisa Kuleshova (URS) |
5.71 |
| Shot put |
Lidia Sharamovich (BUL) |
13.97 | Milena Usenik (YUG) |
13.90 | Antonia Vehoff (FRG) |
13.11 |
| Discus throw |
Györgyi Hegedus (HUN) |
46.76 | Elivia Ricci (ITA) |
45.56 | Ida Bucsányi (HUN) |
43.38 |
| Javelin throw |
Elvīra Ozoliņa (URS) |
49.95 | Urszula Figwer (POL) |
47.02 | Maria Diţi (ROM) |
46.86 |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italy (ITA) | 7 | 6 | 1 | 14 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 5 | 5 | 4 | 14 |
| 3 | West Germany (FRG) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
| 4 | Hungary (HUN) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 5 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | Romania (ROM) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Poland (POL) | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 |
| 8 | Japan (JPN) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 9 | Great Britain (GBR) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 10 | France (FRA) | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 11 | Greece (GRE) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 14 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (14 entries) | 29 | 29 | 30 | 88 | |
