The athletics competition at the 2011 Summer Universiade has been held at the New Shenzhen Stadium in Shenzhen, China from August 16 to August 21, 2011.^[1]

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Jacques Harvey  Jamaica	10.14	Rytis Sakalauskas  Lithuania	10.14 NR	Su Bingtian  China	10.27
200 metres details	Rasheed Dwyer  Jamaica	20.20 PB	Thuso Mpuang  South Africa	20.59	Not awarded
			Jason Young  Jamaica
400 metres details	Marcell Deák-Nagy  Hungary	45.50	Peter Matthews  Jamaica	45.62 PB	Sean Wroe  Australia	45.93 SB
800 metres details	Lachlan Renshaw  Australia	1:46.36	Teng Haining  China	1:46.62 PB	Fred Samoei  Kenya	1:46.72
1500 metres details	Imad Touil  Algeria	3:48.13	Abdelmadjed Touil  Algeria	3:48.24	Valentin Smirnov  Russia	3:48.45
5000 metres details	Andrew Vernon  Great Britain	14:00.06	Evgeny Rybakov  Russia	14:00.60	Stefano La Rosa  Italy	14:02.95
10,000 metres details	Suguru Osako  Japan	28:42.83 SB	Stephen Mokoka  South Africa	28:53.09	Ahmed Tamri  Morocco	29:06.20
Half marathon details	Ahmed Tamri  Morocco	1:06:20	Fatih Bilgic  Turkey	1:06:20	Tsubasa Hayakawa  Japan	1:06:25
Half marathon team details	Japan (JPN) Tsubasa Hayakawa Hiromitsu Kakuage Takehiro Deki Yo Yazawa	3:20:37	China (CHN) Bian Qi Zheng Guojun Yan Jun Gao Laiyuan Yang Le	3:37:25
110 metres hurdles details	Hansle Parchment  Jamaica	13.24 PB	Jiang Fan  China	13.55	Ronald Brookins  United States	13.56
400 metres hurdles details	Jeshua Anderson  United States	49.03	Takayuki Kishimoto  Japan	49.52	Kurt Couto  Mozambique	49.61
3000 metres steeplechase details	Alberto Paulo  Portugal	8:32.26	Halil Akkaş  Turkey	8:34.57 SB	Ildar Minshin  Russia	8:34.86
20 kilometres walk details	Andrey Krivov  Russia	1:24:26	Andrés Chocho  Ecuador	1:24:44	Moacir Zimmermann  Brazil	1:25:06
20 kilometres walk team details	Russia (RUS) Andrey Krivov Mikhail Ryzhov Andrey Ruzavin	4:19:19	China (CHN) Cai Zelin Yu Wei Niu Wenbin Yang Tao	4:24:56
4x100 metres relay details	South Africa (RSA) Hannes Dreyer Simon Magakwe Rapula Sefanyetso Thuso Mpuang	39.25	China (CHN) Yang Yang Huang Minhua Chang Pengben Zheng Dongsheng	39.39	Hong Kong (HKG) Yip Siukeung Lai Chun Ho Leung Kiho Ho Manloklawrence	39.44
4x400 metres relay details	Russia (RUS) Aleksandr Sigalovskiy Dmitry Buryak Artem Vazhov Valentin Kruglyakov	3:04.51	Japan (JPN) Hiroyuki Nakano Shintaro Horie Hideyuki Hirose Takatoshi Abe	3:05.16	South Africa (RSA) Shane Victor André Olivier Pieter Beneke Willem de Beer	3:05.61
High jump details	Bogdan Bondarenko  Ukraine	2.28	Wojciech Theiner  Poland	2.26 SB	Sergey Mudrov  Russia	2.24
Pole vault details	Łukasz Michalski  Poland	5.75 SB	Mateusz Didenkow  Poland Aleksandr Gripich  Russia	5.75 PB
Long jump details	Su Xiongfeng  China	8.17	Marquise Goodwin  United States	8.03	Julian Reid  Great Britain	7.96
Triple jump details	Nelson Évora  Portugal	17.31 SB	Viktor Kuznyetsov  Ukraine	16.89	Yevgeniy Ektov  Kazakhstan	16.83
Shot put details	O'Dayne Richards  Jamaica	19.93 PB	Soslan Tsyrikhov  Russia	19.80	Mason Finley  United States	19.72
Discus throw details	Märt Israel  Estonia	64.07	Przemysław Czajkowski  Poland	63.62	Ronald Julião  Brazil	63.30 NR
Hammer throw details	Paweł Fajdek  Poland	78.14	Marcel Lomnický  Slovakia	73.90	Lorenzo Povegliano  Italy	73.39
Javelin throw details	Fatih Avan  Turkey	83.79	Roman Avramenko  Ukraine	81.42	Igor Janik  Poland	79.65
Decathlon details	Vasiliy Kharlamov  Russia	8166	Gaël Querin  France	7857	Mikhail Logvinenko  Russia	7835

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Carrie Russell  Jamaica	11.05 =PB	Hrystyna Stuy  Ukraine	11.34 PB	Lina Grinčikaitė  Lithuania	11.44
200 metres details	Anneisha McLaughlin  Jamaica	22.54 =PB	Tiffany Townsend  United States	22.96	Anna Kaygorodova  Russia	23.16 PB
400 metres details	Olga Topilskaya  Russia	51.63	Yelena Migunova  Russia	51.77 SB	Diamond Dixon  United States	52.76
800 metres details	Olha Zavhorodnya  Ukraine	1:59.56 PB	Elena Kofanova  Russia	1:59.94	Liliya Lobanova  Ukraine	2:00.42
1500 metres details	Anna Mishchenko  Ukraine	4:05.91	Denise Krebs  Germany	4:07.70	Liu Fang  China	4:07.90
5000 metres details	Binnaz Uslu  Turkey	15:41.15 PB	Sara Moreira  Portugal	15:45.83	Natalya Popkova  Russia	15:52.55
10,000 metres details	Fadime Suna  Turkey	33:11.92	Hanae Tanaka  Japan	33:15.57	Mai Ishibashi  Japan	33:41.90
Half marathon details	Ro Un-Ok  North Korea	1:16:38	Jin Lingling  China	1:16:42	Sayo Nomura  Japan	1:16:48
Half marathon team details	Japan (JPN) Sayo Nomura Machiko Iwakawa Aki Otagiri Shiho Takechi	3:50:43	China (CHN) Jin Lingling Jiang Xiaoli Li Zhenzhu Jin Yuan Sun Juan	3:53:09
100 metres hurdles details	Nia Sifaatihii Ali  United States	12.85	Natalya Ivoninskaya  Kazakhstan	13.16	Christina Manning  United States	13.17
400 metres hurdles details	Hanna Yaroshchuk  Ukraine	55.15	Irina Davydova  Russia	55.50	Nagihan Karadere  Turkey	55.81
3000 metres steeplechase details	Binnaz Uslu  Turkey	9:33.50 PB	Lyudmila Kuzmina  Russia	9:44.77	Jin Yuan  China	9:45.21 SB
20 kilometres walk details	Júlia Takács  Spain	1:33:51	Tatiana Shemyakina  Russia	1:34:23	Nina Okhotnikova  Russia	1:35:10
20 kilometres walk team details	China (CHN) Shi Yang Yang Yawei Wang Shanshan	4:58:57
4x100 metres relay details	Ukraine (UKR) Hanna Titimets Nataliya Pohrebnyak Hrystyna Stuy Yelizaveta Bryzhina	43.33	United States (USA) Lakya Brookins Shayla Mahan Christina Manning Tiffany Townsend	43.48	Jamaica (JAM) Shermaine Williams Carrie Russell Anneisha McLaughlin Anastasia Le-Roy	43.57
4x400 metres relay details	Russia (RUS) Marina Karnaushchenko Yelena Migunova Kseniya Ustalova Olga Topilskaya	3:27.16	Turkey (TUR) Nagihan Karadere Merve Aydın Meliz Redif Pınar Saka	3:30.14	Great Britain (GBR) Kelly Lorraine Massey Charlotte Anne Best Meghan Beesley Emily Diamond	3:33.09
High jump details	Brigetta Barrett  United States	1.96 PB	Airinė Palšytė  Lithuania	1.96 =NR	Anna Iljuštšenko  Estonia	1.94
Pole vault details	Aleksandra Kiryashova  Russia	4.65 =PB	Tina Šutej  Slovenia	4.55	Ekaterini Stefanidi  Greece	4.45 =PB
Long jump details	Anna Nazarova  Russia	6.72	Yuliya Pidluzhnaya  Russia	6.56	Melanie Bauschke  Germany	6.51
Triple jump details	Ekaterina Koneva  Russia	14.25 PB	Patrícia Mamona  Portugal	14.23	Cristina Bujin  Romania	14.21
Shot put details	Irina Tarasova  Russia	18.02	Sophie Kleeberg  Germany	17.48	Meng Qianqian  China	17.21
Discus throw details	Żaneta Glanc  Poland	63.99 PB	Zinaida Sendriūtė  Lithuania	62.49 PB	Svetlana Saykina  Russia	60.81
Hammer throw details	Zalina Marghieva  Moldova	72.93 NR	Éva Orbán  Hungary	71.33 NR	Bianca Perie  Romania	71.18
Javelin throw details	Sunette Viljoen  South Africa	66.47 AR	Marina Maximova  Russia	59.87	Justine Robbeson  South Africa	59.78
Heptathlon details	Olga Kurban  Russia	6151	Viktorija Žemaitytė  Lithuania	5958	Kateřina Cachová  Czech Republic	5873

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	11	10	8	29
2	Jamaica (JAM)	6	2	1	9
3	Ukraine (UKR)	5	3	1	9
4	Turkey (TUR)	4	3	1	8
5	United States (USA)	3	3	4	10
6	Japan (JPN)	3	3	3	9
7	Poland (POL)	3	3	1	7
8	China (CHN)	2	7	4	13
9	South Africa (RSA)	2	2	2	6
10	Portugal (POR)	2	2	0	4
11	Algeria (ALG)	1	1	0	2
	Hungary (HUN)	1	1	0	2
13	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	2	3
14	Australia (AUS)	1	0	1	2
	Estonia (EST)	1	0	1	2
	Morocco (MAR)	1	0	1	2
17	Moldova (MDA)	1	0	0	1
	North Korea (PRK)	1	0	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	1	0	0	1
20	Lithuania (LTU)	0	4	1	5
21	Germany (GER)	0	2	1	3
22	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	1	1	2
23	Ecuador (ECU)	0	1	0	1
	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	0	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	1	0	1
27	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	2	2
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	2	2
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	2	2
30	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	0	1	1
	Kenya (KEN)	0	0	1	1
	Mozambique (MOZ)	0	0	1	1
Totals (34 entries)		50	51	44	145

Participating nations