Athletics at the 1961 Summer Universiade

Athletics at the II Summer Universiade
Athletics at the II Summer Universiade
Dates	31 August – 3 September
Host city	Sofia, Bulgaria
Venue	Vasil Levski Stadium
Events	29
	← 1959 Turin 1963 Porto Alegre → ; 1961 Summer Universiade

Athletics events were contested at the 1961 Summer Universiade in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Enrique Figuerola (CUB)	10.38	Berwyn Jones (GBR)	10.59	László Mihályfi (HUN)	10.65
200 m	László Mihályfi (HUN)	21.27	(GBR)	21.40	(GBR)	21.51
400 m	Josef Trousil (TCH)	47.51	Jacques Pennewaert (BEL)	48.06	(FRG)	48.53
800 m	Ron Delany (IRL)	1:51.1	Rudolf Klaban (AUT)	1:51.4	(FRG)	1:51.6
1500 m	(TCH)	3:45.75	Zoltan Vamoș (ROM)	3:45.85	Rudolf Klaban (AUT)	3:46.16
5000 m	János Pintér (HUN)	14:23.4	(ROM)	14:23.8	(FRG)	14.23.8
110 m hurdles	Valentin Chistyakov (URS)	14.33	(FRG)	14.62	Wiesław Król (POL)	14.81
400 m hurdles	Salvatore Morale (ITA)	50.14	Georgiy Chevychalov (URS)	51.80	Elio Catola (ITA)	52.33
4 × 100 m relay	Soviet Union (URS) Leonid Bartenyev Valentin Chistyakov Anatoly Mikhaylov Edvin Ozolin	41.22	Japan (JPN) Kiyoshi Asai Hirotada Hayase Yojiro Muro Takayuki Okazaki	41.30	West Germany (FRG) Hans-Jürgen Felsen	41.35
4 × 400 m relay	West Germany (FRG)	3:10.56	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Josef Trousil Josef Odložil	3:12.93	Great Britain (GBR) Menzies Campbell John Cooper Mike Fleet	3:14.63
High jump	Valeriy Brumel (URS)	2.25	Igor Kashkarov (URS)	2.08	(TCH)	2.03
Pole vault	Dimitar Khlebarov (BUL)	4.52	Gérard Barras (SUI)	4.52	Ihor Petrenko (URS)	4.52
Long jump	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS)	7.90	Takayuki Okazaki (JPN)	7.67	(BUL)	7.58
Triple jump	(ROM)	15.93	Oleg Ryakhovskiy (URS)	15.85	Tomio Ota (JPN)	15.65
Shot put	Viktor Lipsnis (URS)	18.00	Dieter Urbach (FRG)	17.64	Zsigmond Nagy (HUN)	17.57
Discus throw	Edmund Piątkowski (POL)	59.15	(URS)	54.20	(ROM)	52.52
Hammer throw	Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN)	64.62	Gennadiy Kondrashov (URS)	63.38	John Lawlor (IRL)	63.33
Javelin throw	Gergely Kulcsár (HUN)	77.65	Janusz Sidło (POL)	77.48	Rolf Herings (FRG)	75.67
Decathlon	Vasili Kuznetsov (URS)	7918	(BUL)	6226	(FRG)	6209

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Tatyana Shchelkanova (URS)	11.78	Galina Popova (URS)	11.90	(GBR)	11.93
200 m	Barbara Janiszewska (POL)	24.44	(GBR)	24.49	(URS)	24.70
800 m	Antje Gleichfeld (FRG)	2:07.76	Florica Grecescu (ROM)	2:08.67	(BUL)	2:12.59
80 m hurdles	Irina Press (URS)	10.90	Rimma Koshelyova (URS)	11.01	Snezhana Kerkova (BUL)	11.09
4 × 100 m relay	Soviet Union (URS) Irina Press Tatyana Shchelkanova Rimma Koshelyova	46.2	Poland (POL) Mirosława Sałacińska Elżbieta Krzesińska Barbara Janiszewska	47.6	Bulgaria (BUL) Diana Yorgova	47.9
High jump	Iolanda Balaș (ROM)	1.85	(URS)	1.67	Thelma Hopkins (GBR)	1.65
Long jump	Tatyana Shchelkanova (URS)	6.49	Diana Yorgova (BUL)	6.12	Elżbieta Krzesińska (POL)	6.11
Shot put	Tamara Press (URS)	17.12	Irina Press (URS)	15.61	Ana Roth (ROM)	15.59
Discus throw	Tamara Press (URS)	58.06	Antonina Zolotukhina (URS)	53.82	Jolán Kontsek (HUN)	52.51
Javelin throw	Yelena Gorchakova (URS)	51.39	Maria Diaconescu (ROM)	50.64	Almut Brömmel (FRG)	47.65

Medal table[]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	13	10	2	25
2	Hungary (HUN)	4	0	3	7
3	Romania (ROM)	2	4	2	8
4	West Germany (FRG)	2	2	7	11
5	Poland (POL)	2	2	2	6
6	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	2	1	1	4
7	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	2	4	7
8	Ireland (IRL)	1	0	1	2
8	Italy (ITA)	1	0	1	2
10	Cuba (CUB)	1	0	0	1
11	Great Britain (GBR)	0	3	4	7
12	Japan (JPN)	0	2	1	3
13	Austria (AUT)	0	1	1	2
14	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
14	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
Totals (15 nations)		29	29	29	87

References[]

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