Athletics at the 1985 Summer Universiade

Athletics at the 1985 Summer Universiade
Dates	August 29 – September 4, 1985
Host city	Kobe, Japan
Venue	Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium
Events	42
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Athletics events were contested at the 1985 Summer Universiade in Kobe, Japan between 29 August and 4 September. New events were women's 10,000 metres and 5000 metres walk.

Medals summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s) details	Chidi Imoh (NGR)	10.22	Andrés Simón (CUB)	10.28	Lee McNeill (USA)	10.33
200 metres (wind: +0.1 m/s) details	Leandro Peñalver (CUB)	20.57	Atlee Mahorn (CAN)	20.65	Chang Jae-Keun (KOR)	20.78
400 metres details	Innocent Egbunike (NGR)	45.10	Roberto Hernández (CUB)	45.41	Sunday Uti (NGR)	45.58
800 metres details	Ryszard Ostrowski (POL)	1:44.38	Viktor Kalinkin (URS)	1:45.21	John Marshall (USA)	1:45.32
1500 metres details	Chris McGeorge (GBR)	3:46.22	(USA)	3:46.29	Dragan Zdravković (YUG)	3:46.78
5000 metres details	Stefano Mei (ITA)	13:56.48	Carey Nelson (CAN)	13:57.77	(CAN)	13:58.02
10,000 metres details	Keith Brantly (USA)	29:11.24	Jesús Herrera (MEX)	29:11.71	Shuichi Yoneshige (JPN)	29:11.73
Marathon details	Orlando Pizzolato (ITA)	2:20:06	Salvatore Nicosia (ITA)	2:21:09	(USA)	2:21:40
110 metres hurdles (wind: -0.7 m/s) details	Cletus Clark (USA)	13.57	György Bakos (HUN)	13.72	(USA)	13.76
400 metres hurdles details	(URS)	49.38	Henry Amike (NGR)	49.70	René Djédjémel Mélédjé (CIV)	49.73
3000 metres steeplechase details	Franco Boffi (ITA)	8:28.75	Eddie Wedderburn (GBR)	8:28.90	Hans Koeleman (NED)	8:32.19
4 × 100 metres relay details	Cuba (CUB) Ricardo Chacón Leandro Peñalver Andrés Simón	38.76	Canada (CAN) Mike Dwyer Cyprian Enweani Atlee Mahorn	39.07	United States (USA) Lee McNeill Thomas Jefferson Lorenzo Daniel	39.15
4 × 400 metres relay details	Cuba (CUB) Lázaro Martínez Leandro Peñalver Roberto Ramos Roberto Hernández	3:02.20	Soviet Union (URS) Yevgeniy Lomtyev Vladimir Prosin	3:02.66	United States (USA)	3:02.68
20 kilometres walk details	Viktor Mostovik (URS)	1:25:52	Andrey Perlov (URS)	1:25:52	Guillaume LeBlanc (CAN)	1:26:22
High jump details	Igor Paklin (URS)	2.41	Francisco Centelles (CUB)	2.31	Gerd Nagel (FRG)	2.26
Pole vault details	Radion Gataullin (URS)	5.75	Philippe Collet (FRA)	5.70	David Volz (USA)	5.60
Long jump details	Jaime Jefferson (CUB)	8.07	Robert Emmiyan (URS)	8.03	Stanisław Jaskułka (POL)	7.99
Triple jump details	Charles Simpkins (USA)	17.86	(URS)	17.43	John Herbert (GBR)	17.41
Shot put details	Remigius Machura (TCH)	21.13	Alessandro Andrei (ITA)	20.85	(BUL)	19.90
Discus throw details	Luis Delís (CUB)	66.84	Vaclavas Kidykas (URS)	63.12	Juan Martínez Brito (CUB)	63.02
Hammer throw details	Heinz Weis (FRG)	76.00	Lucio Serrani (ITA)	74.08	Igor Nikulin (URS)	74.04
Javelin throw details	Dumitru Negoiţă (ROM)	84.62	Wolfram Gambke (FRG)	84.46	Jean-Paul Lakafia (FRA)	82.96
Decathlon details	Mike Ramos (USA)	8071	Valter Külvet (URS)	7971	(FRG)	7895

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Irina Slyusar (URS)	11.22	Anelia Nuneva (BUL)	11.29	Grace Jackson (JAM)	11.35
200 metres (wind: -2.3 m/s) details	Grace Jackson (JAM)	22.59	(POL)	22.76	Irina Slyusar (URS)	22.86
400 metres details	Tatyana Alekseyeva (URS)	51.49	Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB)	52.10	(NGR)	52.78
800 metres details	(URS)	1:58.59	Cristieana Cojocaru (ROM)	1:59.09	Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB)	1:59.77
1500 metres details	Svetlana Kitova (URS)	4:07.12	Margareta Keszeg (ROM)	4.07.55	(USA)	4:08.84
3000 metres details	Cathy Branta (USA)	9:02.75	(USA)	9:02.92	Angela Chalmers (CAN)	9:03.19
10,000 metres details	(URS)	32:58.45	Svetlana Guskova (URS)	32:59.24	(USA)	33:05.84
Marathon details	(JPN)	2:44:55	(USA)	2:46:20	Sylvie Bornet (FRA)	2:48:11
100 metres hurdles (wind: +0.4 m/s) details	Ginka Zagorcheva (BUL)	12.71	(URS)	12.87	Anne Piquereau (FRA)	12.96
400 metres hurdles details	(URS)	55.33	Cristieana Cojocaru (ROM)	55.44	Nawal El Moutawakel (MAR)	55.59
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States (USA) Michelle Finn Gwen Torrence	43.29	Soviet Union (URS) Irina Slyusar Yelena Vinogradova	43.43	Bulgaria (BUL) Anelia Nuneva Pepa Pavlova Ginka Zagorcheva	43.57
4 × 400 metres relay details	Soviet Union (URS) Yelena Korban Tatyana Alekseyeva	3:25.96	Canada (CAN) Charmaine Crooks Esmie Lawrence Molly Killingbeck	3:29.06	United States (USA) Sharon Dabney Joetta Clark	3:30.41
5000 metres walk details	Aleksandra Grigoryeva (URS)	22:21.10	Yan Hong (CHN)	22:25.77	Natalya Serbinenko (URS)	22:27.21
High jump details	Silvia Costa (CUB)	2.01	Lyudmila Petrus (URS)	1.93	Danuta Bułkowska (POL)	1.91
Long jump details	Irina Valyukevich (URS)	7.04	(BUL)	6.62	Marieta Ilcu (ROM)	6.61
Shot put details	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	20.47	Yang Yanqin (CHN)	17.79	Ramona Pagel (USA)	17.46
Discus throw details	Maritza Martén (CUB)	66.66	Tsvetanka Khristova (BUL)	65.30	Daniela Costian (ROM)	63.20
Javelin throw details	Ivonne Leal (CUB)	71.82	Beate Peters (FRG)	63.70	María Caridad Colón (CUB)	62.46
Heptathlon details	Małgorzata Guzowska (POL)	6616	Liliana Năstase (ROM)	6313	Judy Simpson (GBR)	6045

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	14	11	3	28
2	Cuba (CUB)	7	4	3	14
3	United States (USA)	6	3	11	20
4	Italy (ITA)	3	3	0	6
5	Bulgaria (BUL)	2	3	2	7
6	Nigeria (NGR)	2	1	2	5
	Poland (POL)	2	1	2	5
8	Romania (ROM)	1	4	2	7
9	West Germany (FRG)	1	2	2	5
10	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	2	4
11	Jamaica (JAM)	1	0	1	2
	Japan (JPN)*	1	0	1	2
13	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	0	1
14	Canada (CAN)	0	4	3	7
15	China (CHN)	0	2	0	2
16	France (FRA)	0	1	3	4
17	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1
19	Ivory Coast (CIV)	0	0	1	1
	Morocco (MAR)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 nations)		42	42	42	126

See also[]

• 1985 in athletics (track and field)

References[]

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