Athletics at the Summer Universiade

Athletics is one of the sports at the biennial Universiade competition. It has been one of the event's competed sports since the inaugural edition.

Editions

Games	Year	Host city	Host country
I	1959	Turin	Italy
II	1961	Sofia	Bulgaria
III	1963	Porto Alegre	Brazil
IV	1965	Budapest	Hungary
V	1967	Tokyo	Japan
VI	1970	Turin	Italy
VII	1973	Moscow	Soviet Union
VIII	1975	Rome	Italy
IX	1977	Sofia	Bulgaria
X	1979	Mexico City	Mexico
XI	1981	Bucharest	Romania
XII	1983	Edmonton, Alberta	Canada
XIII	1985	Kobe	Japan
XIV	1987	Zagreb	Yugoslavia
XV	1989	Duisburg	West Germany
XVI	1991	Sheffield	United Kingdom
XVII	1993	Buffalo, New York	United States
XVIII	1995	Fukuoka	Japan
XIX	1997	Sicily	Italy
XX	1999	Palma de Mallorca	Spain
XXI	2001	Beijing	China
XXII	2003	Daegu	South Korea
XXIII	2005	İzmir	Turkey
XXIV	2007	Bangkok	Thailand
XXV	2009	Belgrade	Serbia
XXVI	2011	Shenzhen	China
XXVI	2013	Kazan	Russia
XXVIII	2015	Gwangju	South Korea
XXIX	2017	Taipei	Chinese Taipei
XIX	2019	Naples	Italy

All Time Medal Table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	132	101	90	323
2	United States (USA)	123	86	75	284
3	Germany (GER)	46	57	65	168
4	Russia (RUS)	46	44	39	129
5	Italy (ITA)	45	39	45	129
6	Romania (ROU)	38	42	38	118
7	Poland (POL)	38	42	30	110
8	Cuba (CUB)	36	33	23	92
9	China (CHN)	34	30	16	80
10	Japan (JPN)	32	45	44	121
11	Great Britain (GBR)	30	45	49	124
12	Ukraine (UKR)	30	23	18	71
13	Hungary (HUN)	26	24	22	72
14	East Germany (GDR)	18	14	12	44
15	France (FRA)	13	17	36	66
16	Australia (AUS)	13	9	12	34
17	Nigeria (NGR)	12	11	11	34
18	South Africa (RSA)	12	8	12	32
19	Bulgaria (BUL)	11	9	8	28
20	Finland (FIN)	10	7	8	25
21	Yugoslavia (YUG)	9	13	7	29
22	Brazil (BRA)	8	4	16	28
23	Spain (ESP)	7	10	14	31
24	Belarus (BLR)	7	7	8	22
25	Kenya (KEN)	7	6	6	19
26	Morocco (MAR)	7	5	5	17
27	Czech Republic (CZE)	6	7	7	20
28	South Korea (KOR)	6	6	9	21
29	Turkey (TUR)	6	6	3	15
30	Canada (CAN)	5	30	31	66
31	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	5	5	5	15
32	Latvia (LAT)	5	1	1	7
33	Netherlands (NED)	4	9	7	20
34	Austria (AUT)	4	7	9	20
35	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	4	7	2	13
36	Jamaica (JAM)	4	6	5	15
37	Portugal (POR)	4	6	3	13
38	Ireland (IRL)	4	5	6	15
39	Estonia (EST)	3	3	2	8
40	Sweden (SWE)	3	2	4	9
41	Uganda (UGA)	3	2	1	6
42	Iran (IRI)	3	1	0	4
43	Greece (GRE)	2	8	7	17
44	Belgium (BEL)	2	6	10	18
45	Mexico (MEX)	2	4	6	12
46	Moldova (MDA)	2	2	2	6
	New Zealand (NZL)	2	2	2	6
48	North Korea (PRK)	2	1	6	9
49	Serbia (SRB)	2	1	2	5
50	Lithuania (LTU)	2	1	1	4
51	Thailand (THA)	2	1	0	3
52	Ivory Coast (CIV)	2	0	2	4
53	Senegal (SEN)	1	4	2	7
54	Slovenia (SLO)	1	2	3	6
55	Algeria (ALG)	1	1	3	5
	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	1	1	3	5
57	Israel (ISR)	1	1	0	2
58	Madagascar (MAD)	1	0	2	3
59	Bermuda (BER)	1	0	1	2
	Ghana (GHA)	1	0	1	2
61	Azerbaijan (AZE)	1	0	0	1
	Honduras (HON)	1	0	0	1
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (VIN)	1	0	0	1
64	Switzerland (SUI)	0	6	7	13
65	Egypt (EGY)	0	4	0	4
66	Slovakia (SVK)	0	2	1	3
67	Independent Participants (IPP)	0	2	0	2
68	Croatia (CRO)	0	1	3	4
69	Cyprus (CYP)	0	1	2	3
	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	2	3
	Norway (NOR)	0	1	2	3
	Tunisia (TUN)	0	1	2	3
73	Qatar (QAT)	0	1	1	2
74	Armenia (ARM)	0	1	0	1
	Barbados (BAR)	0	1	0	1
	Ecuador (ECU)	0	1	0	1
	Mozambique (MOZ)	0	1	0	1
	Namibia (NAM)	0	1	0	1
	Sierra Leone (SLE)	0	1	0	1
	Tanzania (TAN)	0	1	0	1
81	Botswana (BOT)	0	0	2	2
	Puerto Rico (PUR)	0	0	2	2
83	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Bahamas (BAH)	0	0	1	1
	Ethiopia (ETH)	0	0	1	1
	Luxembourg (LUX)	0	0	1	1
	Panama (PAN)	0	0	1	1
	Serbia and Montenegro (SCG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (88 nations)		890	896	887	2673

See also

• List of Universiade records in athletics
• World University Cross Country Championships
• International Athletics Championships and Games

External links