Athletics at the 1959 Summer Universiade

Athletics at the I Summer Universiade
Dates	3–6 September
Host city	Turin, Italy
Venue	Stadio Comunale di Torino
Events	29
← 1957 Paris 1961 Sofia → 1959 Summer Universiade

Athletics events were contested at the 1959 Summer Universiade in Turin, Italy.

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Livio Berruti (ITA)	10.5	(FRA)	10.8	Romain Poté (BEL)	10.8
200 metres details	Livio Berruti (ITA)	20.9	Nikolaos Georgopoulos (GRE)	21.6	(FRG)	21.7
400 metres details	Viktor Šnajder (YUG)	47.5	Walter Oberste (FRG)	47.9	(FRG)	47.9
800 metres details	(FRG)	1:50.5	(GBR)	1:50.5	(JPN)	1:50.9
1500 metres details	Béla Szekeres (HUN)	3:50.9	(GBR)	3:52.0	(JPN)	3:52.1
5000 metres details	(GBR)	14:09.8	Saburo Yokomizo (JPN)	14:14.8	Jaroslav Bohatý-Pavelka (TCH)	14:18.0
110 metres hurdles details	Stanko Lorger (YUG)	14.2	Nereo Svara (ITA)	14.4	Giorgio Mazza (ITA)	14.4
400 metres hurdles details	Salvatore Morale (ITA)	52.1	(ITA)	52.8	Wiesław Król (POL)	53.2
4 × 100 metres relay details	Italy (ITA) Guido De Murtas Salvatore Giannone Giorgio Mazza Livio Berruti	41.0	West Germany (FRG)	41.0	France (FRA) Ali Brakchi Guy Lagorce	41.4
4 × 400 metres relay details	West Germany (FRG) Walter Oberste	3:09.5	Italy (ITA) Elio Catola Nereo Fossati Mario Fraschini	3:11.4	Great Britain (GBR)	3:12.2
High jump details	Cornel Porumb (ROM)	2.01	(YUG)	1.96	(URS)   (POL)	1.96
Pole vault details	Noriaki Yasuda (JPN)	4.35	(YUG)	4.30	(FRA)	4.20
Long jump details	Attilio Bravi (ITA)	7.46	(ITA)	7.43	Ali Brakchi (FRA)	7.42
Triple jump details	Oleg Ryakhovskiy (URS)	15.74	Koji Sakurai (JPN)	15.55	Hiroshi Shibata (JPN)	15.44
Shot put details	Hermann Lingnau (FRG)	17.32	Zsigmond Nagy (HUN)	17.10	Georgios Tsakanikas (GRE)	16.70
Discus throw details	Antonios Kounadis (GRE)	53.07	(URS)	52.79	(POL)	52.22
Hammer throw details	Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN)	63.65	Anatoliy Samotsvetov (URS)	63.61	Krešimir Račić (YUG)	62.32
Javelin throw details	Hermann Salomon (FRG)	75.95	Gergely Kulcsár (HUN)	75.80	Alexandru Bizim (ROM)	72.81
Pentathlon details	Vasili Kuznetsov (URS)	4006	Hermann Salomon (FRG)	3530	(TCH)	3048

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Giuseppina Leone (ITA)	11.7	(URS)	12.0	Catherine Capdevielle (FRA)	12.1
200 metres details	Giuseppina Leone (ITA)	23.8	Barbara Janiszewska (POL)	24.2	(URS)	24.7
800 metres details	Nicole Goullieux (FRA)	2:11.1	(FRG)	2:11.3	(URS)	2:12.3
80 metres hurdles details	(URS)	11.1	Snezhana Kerkova (BUL)	11.4	Elżbieta Krzesińska (POL)	11.5
4 × 100 metres relay details	Soviet Union (URS)	46.9	Italy (ITA) Giuseppina Leone	47.5	West Germany (FRG) Antje Gleichfeld Inge Fuhrmann	48.1
High jump details	Iolanda Balaș (ROM)	1.80	Valentina Ballod (URS)	1.73	Jarosława Jóźwiakowska (POL)	1.61
Long jump details	Elżbieta Krzesińska (POL)	5.94	(URS)	5.76	(URS)	5.71
Shot put details	(BUL)	13.97	Milena Usenik (YUG)	13.90	(FRG)	13.11
Discus throw details	(HUN)	46.76	Elivia Ricci (ITA)	45.56	(HUN)	43.38
Javelin throw details	Elvīra Ozoliņa (URS)	49.95	Urszula Figwer (POL)	47.02	Maria Diţi (ROM)	46.86

Medal table[]

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 nations)		29	29	30	88

References[]

• World Student Games (Universiade - Men) - GBR Athletics
• World Student Games (Universiade - Women) - GBR Athletics