Athletics at the 1961 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	Brian Smouha (GBR)	21.40	Brian Anson (GBR)	21.51
400 m	Josef Trousil (TCH)	47.51	Jacques Pennewaert (BEL)	48.06	Otto Grasshoff (FRG)	48.53
800 m	Ron Delany (IRL)	1:51.1	Rudolf Klaban (AUT)	1:51.4	Wolfgang Schöll (FRG)	1:51.6
1500 m	Tomáš Salinger (TCH)	3:45.75	Zoltan Vamoș (ROM)	3:45.85	Rudolf Klaban (AUT)	3:46.16
5000 m	János Pintér (HUN)	14:23.4	Andrei Barabás (ROM)	14:23.8	Peter Kubicki (FRG)	14.23.8
110 m hurdles	Valentin Chistyakov (URS)	14.33	Klaus Willimczik (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)	41.22	Japan (JPN)	41.30	West Germany (FRG)	41.35
4 × 400 m relay	West Germany (FRG)	3:10.56	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	3:12.93	Great Britain (GBR)	3:14.63
High jump	Valeriy Brumel (URS)	2.25	Igor Kashkarov (URS)	2.08	Milan Valenta (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	Ivan Ivanov (BUL)	7.58
Triple jump	Sorin Ioan (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	Kaupo Metsur (URS)	54.20	Virgil Manolescu (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	Milan Kuzmanov (BUL)	6226	Klaus-Dieter Röper (FRG)	6209

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Tatyana Shchelkanova (URS)	11.78	Galina Popova (URS)	11.90	Joan Atkinson (GBR)	11.93
200 m	Barbara Janiszewska (POL)	24.44	Joan Atkinson (GBR)	24.49	Vera Kabranyuk (URS)	24.70
800 m	Antje Gleichfeld (FRG)	2:07.76	Florica Grecescu (ROM)	2:08.67	Tsvetana Isaeva (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)	46.2	Poland (POL)	47.6	Bulgaria (BUL)	47.9
High jump	Iolanda Balaș (ROM)	1.85	Klara Pushkaryeva (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

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