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
	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 m	Livio Berruti (ITA)	10.5	Jean-Claude Penez (FRA)	10.8	Romain Poté (BEL)	10.8
200 m	Livio Berruti (ITA)	20.9	Nikolaos Georgopoulos (GRE)	21.6	Fritz Helfrich (FRG)	21.7
400 m	Viktor Šnajder (YUG)	47.5	Walter Oberste (FRG)	47.9	Otto Klappert (FRG)	47.9
800 m	Dieter Heydecke (FRG)	1:50.5	John Holt (GBR)	1:50.5	Kuniaki Watanabe (JPN)	1:50.9
1500 m	Béla Szekeres (HUN)	3:50.9	John Winch (GBR)	3:52.0	Kuniaki Watanabe (JPN)	3:52.1
5000 m	Kevin Gilligan (GBR)	14:09.8	Saburo Yokomizo (JPN)	14:14.8	Jaroslav Bohatý-Pavelka (TCH)	14:18.0
110 m hurdles	Stanko Lorger (YUG)	14.2	Nereo Svara (ITA)	14.4	Giorgio Mazza (ITA)	14.4
400 m hurdles	Salvatore Morale (ITA)	52.1	Germano Gimelli (ITA)	52.8	Wiesław Król (POL)	53.2
4 × 100 m relay	Italy (ITA)	41.0	West Germany (FRG)	41.0	France (FRA) Ali Brakchi Joël Caprice Jean-Claude Penez Guy Lagorce	41.4
4 × 400 m relay	West Germany (FRG)	3:09.5	Italy (ITA)	3:11.4	Great Britain (GBR)	3:12.2
High jump	Cornel Porumb (ROM)	2.01	Vladimir Marjanovic (YUG)	1.96	Raycho Aleksandrov (URS) Kazimierz Fabrykowski (POL)	1.96
Pole vault	Noriaki Yasuda (JPN)	4.35	Mirko Kuzmanovic (YUG)	4.30	Bernard Balastre (FRA)	4.20
Long jump	Attilio Bravi (ITA)	7.46	Maurizio Terenziani (ITA)	7.43	Ali Brakchi (FRA)	7.42
Triple jump	Oleg Ryakhovskiy (URS)	15.74	Koji Sakurai (JPN)	15.55	Hiroshi Shibata (JPN)	15.44
Shot put	Hermann Lingnau (GDR)	17.32	Zsigmond Nagy (HUN)	17.10	Georgios Tsakanikas (GRE)	16.70
Discus throw	Antonios Kounadis (GRE)	53.07	Vladimir Lyakhov (URS)	52.79	Eugeniusz Wachowski (POL)	52.22
Hammer throw	Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN)	63.65	Anatoliy Samotsvetov (URS)	63.61	Krešimir Račić (YUG)	62.32
Javelin throw	Hermann Salomon (FRG)	75.95	Gergely Kulcsár (HUN)	75.80	Alexandru Bizim (ROM)	72.81
Pentathlon	Vasili Kuznetsov (URS)	4006	Hermann Salomon (FRG)	3530	Miloš Vojtek (TCH)	3048

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Giuseppina Leone (ITA)	11.7	Lyudmila Nechayeva (URS)	12.0	Catherine Capdevielle (FRA)	12.1
200 m	Giuseppina Leone (ITA)	23.8	Barbara Janiszewska (POL)	24.2	Lyudmila Nechayeva (URS)	24.7
800 m	Nicole Goullieux (FRA)	2:11.1	Edith Schiller (FRG)	2:11.3	Klavdiya Babintseva (URS)	2:12.3
80 m hurdles	Nelli Yelisayeva (URS)	11.1	Snezhana Kerkova (BUL)	11.4	Elżbieta Krzesińska (POL)	11.5
4 × 100 m relay	Soviet Union (URS)	46.9	Italy (ITA)	47.5	West Germany (FRG)	48.1
High jump	Iolanda Balaș (ROM)	1.80	Valentina Ballod (URS)	1.73	Jarosława Jóźwiakowska (POL)	1.61
Long jump	Elżbieta Krzesińska (POL)	5.94	Tamara Makarova (URS)	5.76	Larisa Kuleshova (URS)	5.71
Shot put	Lidia Sharamovich (BUL)	13.97	Milena Usenik (YUG)	13.90	Antonia Vehoff (FRG)	13.11
Discus throw	Györgyi Hegedus (HUN)	46.76	Elivia Ricci (ITA)	45.56	Ida Bucsányi (HUN)	43.38
Javelin throw	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)	3	4	4	11
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	East Germany (GDR)	1	0	0	1
14	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	2	2
15	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 nations)		29	29	30	88

References

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

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