Athletics at the 2017 Summer Universiade
Dates	23–28 August 2017
Host city	Taipei, Taiwan
Venue	Taipei Municipal Stadium
Level	Senior
Events	46
Participation	1258 athletes from 115 nations
Records set	2 URs
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Athletics was contested at the 2017 Summer Universiade from August 23 to 28 at the Taipei Municipal Stadium in Taipei, Taiwan.^[1]

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Yang Chun-han  Chinese Taipei	10.22	Thando Roto  South Africa	10.24	Cameron Burrell  United States	10.27
200 metres details	Jeffrey John  France	20.93	James Linde  Canada	20.96	Ján Volko  Slovakia	20.99
400 metres details	Luguelín Santos  Dominican Republic	45.24 SB	Yoandys Lescay  Cuba	45.31 SB	Rafał Omelko  Poland	45.56
800 metres details	Jesús Tonatiu López  Mexico	1:46.06 PB	Mohamed Belbachir  Algeria	1:46.73	Aymeric Lusine  France	1:47.18
1500 metres details	Timo Benitz  Germany	3:43.45	Alexis Miellet  France	3:43.91	Jonathan Davies  Great Britain	3:43.99
5000 metres details	François Barrer  France	14:00.86	Jonathan Davies  Great Britain	14:02.46	Andreas Vojta  Austria	14:02.65
10,000 metres details	Sadic Bahati  Uganda	29:08.68 PB	Nicolae Soare  Romania	29:12.76 PB	Kazuya Shiojiri  Japan	29:20.96
110 metres hurdles details	Balázs Baji  Hungary	13.35	Chen Kuei-ru  Chinese Taipei	13.55 NR	Damian Czykier  Poland	13.56
400 metres hurdles details	Juander Santos  Dominican Republic	48.65	Chen Chieh  Chinese Taipei	49.05 PB	Abdelmalik Lahoulou  Algeria	49.30
3000 metres steeplechase details	Krystian Zalewski  Poland	8:35.88	Rantso Mokopane  South Africa	8:36.25	Ali Messaoudi  Algeria	8:37.14
4x100 metres relay details	Japan (JPN) Yusuke Tanaka Shuhei Tada Sho Kitagawa Jun Yamashita	38.65 SB	United States (USA) John Lewis III LeShon Collins Jacarias Martin Cameron Burrell	38.69	Chinese Taipei (TPE) Wei Yi-ching [fr] Yang Chun-han Cheng Po-yu [de] Chen Chia-hsun	39.06 SB
4x400 metres relay details	Dominican Republic (DOM) Juander Santos Luis Charles Andito Charles Luguelín Santos Kendris Díaz*	3:04.34	United States (USA) Amere Lattin Curtis Brown Jordan Clarke Kahmari Montgomery	3:06.68	Czech Republic (CZE) Jan Tesař Lukáš Hodboď Filip Šnejdr Vít Müller Martin Juránek*	3:08.14
Half marathon details	Kei Katanishi  Japan	1:06:09	Naoki Kudo  Japan	1:06:23	Kengo Suzuki  Japan	1:06:56
Half marathon team details	Japan (JPN)	3:19:28	South Africa (RSA)	3:31:38	Turkey (TUR)	3:34:42
20 kilometres walk details	Toshikazu Yamanishi  Japan	1:27:30	Julio César Salazar  Mexico	1:28:20	Fumitaka Oikawa  Japan	1:30:11
20 km walk team details	Japan (JPN)	4:28:41	Mexico (MEX)	4:29:14	Ukraine (UKR)	4:41:34
High jump details	Falk Wendrich  Germany	2.29 m PB	Marco Fassinotti  Italy	2.29 m SB	Hsiang Chun-hsien  Chinese Taipei	2.26 m SB
Pole vault details	Diogo Ferreira  Portugal	5.55 m	Sergey Grigoryev  Kazakhstan	5.50 m	Claudio Stecchi  Italy	5.40 m
Long jump details	Radek Juška  Czech Republic	8.02 m	Yasser Triki  Algeria	7.96 m	Raihau Maiau  France	7.91 m
Triple jump details	Nazim Babayev  Azerbaijan	17.01 m	Hugues Fabrice Zango  Burkina Faso	16.97 m PB	Ryoma Yamamoto  Japan	16.80 m
Shot put details	Francisco Belo  Portugal	20.86 m PB	Konrad Bukowiecki  Poland	20.16 m	Andrei Gag  Romania	20.12 m
Discus throw details	Reginald Jagers III  United States	61.24 m	Alin Firfirică  Romania	61.13 m	Róbert Szikszai  Hungary	60.91 m
Hammer throw details	Paweł Fajdek  Poland	79.16 m	Pavel Bareisha  Belarus	77.98 m	Serghei Marghiev  Moldova	74.98 m
Javelin throw details	Cheng Chao-tsun  Chinese Taipei	91.36 m UR, AS	Andreas Hofmann  Germany	91.07 m PB	Huang Shih-feng  Chinese Taipei	86.64 m PB
Decathlon details	Kyle Cranston  Australia	7687 SB	Juuso Hassi [de]  Finland	7566	Aaron Booth  New Zealand	7523 PB

* Indicates the athlete only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Sashalee Forbes  Jamaica	11.18	Irene Siragusa  Italy	11.31 PB	Salomé Kora  Switzerland	11.33
200 metres details	Irene Siragusa  Italy	22.96 PB	Gunta Latiševa-Čudare  Latvia	23.15 PB	Anna Bongiorni  Italy	23.47
400 metres details	Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik  Poland	51.76	Justine Palframan  South Africa	51.83 SB	Bianca Răzor  Romania	51.97
800 metres details	Rose Mary Almanza  Cuba	2:02.21	Olha Lyakhova  Ukraine	2:03.11	Dorcus Ajok  Uganda	2:03.22
1500 metres details	Amela Terzić  Serbia	4:19.18	Dorcus Ajok  Uganda	4:19.48	Kristiina Mäki  Czech Republic	4:20.65
5000 metres details	Hanna Klein  Germany	15:45.28	Jessica O'Connell  Canada	15:50.96	Jessica Judd  Great Britain	15:51.19
10,000 metres details	Darya Maslova  Kyrgyzstan	33:19.27	Sanjivani Jadhav  India	33:22.00 PB	Ai Hosoda  Japan	33:27.89
100 metres hurdles details	Nadine Visser  Netherlands	12.98	Elvira Herman  Belarus	13.17	Luca Kozák  Hungary	13.19
400 metres hurdles details	Ayomide Folorunso  Italy	55.63 SB	Joanna Linkiewicz  Poland	55.90	Olena Kolesnichenko  Ukraine	56.14
3000 metres steeplechase details	Tuğba Güvenç  Turkey	9:51.27	Viktória Gyürkés  Hungary	9:52.17	Özlem Kaya  Turkey	9:52.59
4x100 metres relay details	Switzerland (SUI) Ajla Del Ponte Salomé Kora Cornelia Halbheer Selina von Jackowski	43.81	Poland (POL) Kamila Ciba Agata Forkasiewicz Małgorzata Kołdej Karolina Zagajewska	44.19	Japan (JPN) Sayaka Takeuchi Mizuki Nakamura Ichiko Iki Miyu Maeyama	44.56 SB
4x400 metres relay details	Poland (POL) Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik Iga Baumgart Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz Justyna Święty-Ersetic Aleksandra Gaworska* Martyna Dąbrowska*	3:26.75	Mexico (MEX) Dania Aguillón Natali Brito Leticia Cook Paola Morán	3:33.98 SB	Romania (ROU) Anamaria Nesteriuc Sanda Belgyan Camelia Gal Bianca Răzor	3:34.16
Half marathon details	Yuki Munehisa  Japan	1:13:48	Esma Aydemir  Turkey	1:14:28	Saki Fukui  Japan	1:14:37
Half marathon team details	Japan (JPN)	3:43:35	Turkey (TUR)	3:55:13	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	4:05:52
20 kilometres walk details	Inna Kashyna  Ukraine	1:39:44	Zhang Xin  China	1:41:18	Elisa Neuvonen  Finland	1:42:50
20 km walk team details	Ukraine (UKR)	5:12:01	China (CHN)	5:19:12	None awarded
High jump details	Oksana Okunyeva  Ukraine	1.97 m =SB	Iryna Herashchenko  Ukraine	1.91 m	Airinė Palšytė  Lithuania	1.91 m
Pole vault details	Iryna Zhuk  Belarus	4.40 m	Annika Roloff  Germany	4.40 m	Marta Onofre  Portugal	4.40 m SB
Long jump details	Alina Rotaru  Romania	6.65 m	Nektaria Panagi  Cyprus	6.42 m	Anna Bühler  Germany	6.38 m
Triple jump details	Neele Eckhardt  Germany	13.91 m	Fu Luna  China	13.59 m PB	Māra Grīva  Latvia	13.58 m SB
Shot put details	Brittany Crew  Canada	18.34 m	Klaudia Kardasz  Poland	17.90 m PB	Paulina Guba  Poland	17.76 m
Discus throw details	Kristin Pudenz  Germany	59.09 m	Valarie Allman  United States	58.36 m	Taryn Gollshewsky  Australia	58.11 m
Hammer throw details	Malwina Kopron  Poland	76.85 m UR, PB	Hanna Malyshchyk  Belarus	74.93 m	Joanna Fiodorow  Poland	71.33 m
Javelin throw details	Marcelina Witek  Poland	63.31 m PB	Marina Saito  Japan	62.37 m PB	Jenni Kangas  Finland	60.98 m PB
Heptathlon details	Verena Preiner  Austria	6224	Alysha Burnett  Australia	5835 PB	Noor Vidts  Belgium	5728

* Indicates the athlete only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	7	2	7	16
2	Poland (POL)	6	4	4	14
3	Germany (GER)	5	2	1	8
4	Ukraine (UKR)	3	2	2	7
5	Dominican Republic (DOM)	3	0	0	3
6	Chinese Taipei (TPE)*	2	2	4	8
7	Italy (ITA)	2	2	2	6
8	France (FRA)	2	1	2	5
9	Portugal (POR)	2	0	1	3
10	United States (USA)	1	3	1	5
11	Belarus (BLR)	1	3	0	4
	Mexico (MEX)	1	3	0	4
13	Romania (ROU)	1	2	3	6
14	Turkey (TUR)	1	2	2	5
15	Canada (CAN)	1	2	0	3
16	Hungary (HUN)	1	1	2	4
17	Australia (AUS)	1	1	1	3
	Uganda (UGA)	1	1	1	3
19	Cuba (CUB)	1	1	0	2
20	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	2	3
21	Austria (AUT)	1	0	1	2
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	1	2
23	Azerbaijan (AZE)	1	0	0	1
	Jamaica (JAM)	1	0	0	1
	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	0	1
	Serbia (SRB)	1	0	0	1
28	South Africa (RSA)	0	4	0	4
29	China (CHN)	0	3	0	3
30	Algeria (ALG)	0	2	2	4
31	Finland (FIN)	0	1	2	3
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	2	3
33	Latvia (LAT)	0	1	1	2
34	Burkina Faso (BUR)	0	1	0	1
	Cyprus (CYP)	0	1	0	1
	India (IND)	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	1	0	1
38	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	0	1	1
	Moldova (MDA)	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (42 entries)		50	50	49	149

Participating nations