Athletics at the 1995 Summer Universiade

At the 1995 Summer Universiade, the athletics events were held at the Hakatanomori Athletic Stadium in Fukuoka, Japan from 29 August to 3 September.[1] A total of 43 events were contested, of which 23 by male and 20 by female athletes.

Athletics at the 1995 Summer Universiade
Dates29 August – 3 September
Host cityFukuoka, Japan
VenueHakatanomori Athletic Stadium
Events43
Participation938 athletes from
136 nations


The medal table ended closely, with the United States, Russia and host nation Japan each winning five gold medals. The United States had the highest number of silver medals (six) while Russia had the largest medal haul with sixteen medals in total. Romania managed four gold medals, all of them in the women's competition, while Italy had the third greatest number of medals with ten. Thirty-six nations reached the medal table in the athletics competition. The gold medals won by sprinter Eswort Coombs from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and hurdler Nicole Ramalalanirina of Madagascar were their countries' only medals at the 1995 Universiade.

Two Universiade records were broken at the competition: the United States men's 4×400 metres relay team ran a time of 3:00.40 minutes and Italy's Annarita Sidoti set a new 10 km walk record. Furthermore, Šárka Kašpárková equalled the women's triple jump standard. Romania's Gabriela Szabo took two gold medals – winning the 1500 metres and 5000 metres – beginning an international career which would see her win three world titles and an Olympic gold. Future Olympic sprint medallists Obadele Thompson and Ekaterini Thanou were runners-up in the 100 metres races.

Abdelkader Chékhémani, Iulia Negură and Heike Meissner all defended their respective 1993 titles, while Hungary's István Bagyula took his third consecutive pole vault gold medal. Men's hammer throw winner Balázs Kiss went on to win the Olympic title in 1996 and the women's discus throw champion Natalya Sadova was the Olympic silver medallist that same year. The 1990 European champion Dragutin Topić was the winner of the men's high jump.

In the event programme, the women's 3000 metres was replaced by the 5000 metres for the first time, matching the IAAF's changes at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics earlier that August. The 1995 competition featured the last Universiade marathon races, as the distance was replaced by the shorter half marathon event at future editions.[2][3]

Medal summary

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
 David Oaks (USA)10.28  Obadele Thompson (BAR)10.34  Terrence Bowen (USA)10.36
200 metres
 Anthuan Maybank (USA)20.46  Dave Dopek (USA)20.47  Thomas Sbokos (GRE)20.75
400 metres
 Eswort Coombs (VIN)45.38  Udeme Ekpeyong (NGR)45.57  Dmitriy Kosov (RUS)45.70
800 metres
 Hezekiél Sepeng (RSA)1:47.87  Andrés Manuel Díaz (ESP)1:48.06  Pavel Soukup (CZE)1:48.15
1500 metres
 Abdelkader Chékhémani (FRA)3:46.53  Andrea Giocondi (ITA)3:47.11  Abdelhamid Slimani (ALG)3:47.43
5000 metres
 Katsuhiro Kawauchi (JPN)13:53.86  Brahim Boulami (MAR)13:54.05  Maurizio Leone (ITA)13:54.13
10,000 metres
 Yasuyuki Watanabe (JPN)28:47.78  Stephen Mayaka (KEN)28:55.02  Gabino Apolonio (MEX)29:07.95
110 metres hurdles
 Jonathan Nsenga (BEL)13.51  Brian Amos (USA)13.59  Krzysztof Mehlich (POL)13.66
400 metres hurdles
 Kazuhiko Yamazaki (JPN)48.58  Octavius Terry (USA)48.95  Yoshihiko Saito (JPN)49.18
3000 metres steeplechase
 Daniel Njenga (KEN)8:27.03  Joël Bourgeois (CAN)8:28.44  Brahim Boulami (MAR)8:35.53
4 × 100 metres relay
 United States (USA)
Terrance Bowen
David Oaks
Peter Hargraves
David Dopek
38.96  Great Britain (GBR)
Paul White
Toby Box
Douglas Walker
Michael Afilaka
39.39  Italy (ITA)
Angelo Cipolloni
Alessandro Orlandi
Carlo Occhiena
Andrea Colombo
39.64
4 × 400 metres relay
 United States (USA)
Ryan Hayden
Leonard Byrd
Andre Morris
Anthuan Maybank
3:00.40 GR  Russia (RUS)
Innokentiy Zharov
Dmitriy Bey
Sergey Voronin
Dmitriy Kosov
3:01.95  Great Britain (GBR)
Anthony Williams
Jared Deacon
Gary Jennings
David Grindley
3:02.42
Marathon
 Takaki Morikawa (JPN)2:21:32  Patrick Muturi (KEN)2:24:29  Kim Ki-Young (KOR)2:24:43
20 kilometres walk
 Daniel García (MEX)1:24:11  Giovanni Perricelli (ITA)1:24:19  Arturo Di Mezza (ITA)1:24:33
High jump
 Dragutin Topić (YUG)2.29 m  Wolfgang Kreissig (GER)2.29 m  Brendan Reilly (GBR)2.27 m
Pole vault
 István Bagyula (HUN)5.70 m  Lawrence Johnson (USA)5.60 m  Nuno Fernandes (POR)5.55 m
Long jump
 Kirill Sosunov (RUS)8.21 m  Georg Ackermann (GER)8.21 m  Gregor Cankar (SLO)8.18 m (w)
Triple jump
 Andrey Kurennoy (RUS)17.30 m  Armen Martirosyan (ARM)16.82 m  LaMark Carter (USA)16.62 m
Shot put
 Yuriy Bilonog (UKR)19.70 m  Viktor Bulat (BLR)19.69 m  Thorsten Herbrand (GER)18.88 m
Discus throw
 Vitaliy Sidorov (UKR)62.16 m  Frits Potgieter (RSA)61.38 m  Diego Fortuna (ITA)61.16 m
Hammer throw
 Balázs Kiss (HUN)79.74 m  Oleksandr Krykun (UKR)77.06 m  Sergey Gavrilov (RUS)75.50 m
Javelin throw
 Zhang Lianbiao (CHN)79.30 m  Gregor Högler (AUT)77.52 m  Andrey Uglov (UKR)76.16 m
Decathlon
 Dezsõ Szabó (HUN)8051 pts  Sebastian Chmara (POL)8014 pts  Dmitriy Sukhomazov (BLR)7971 pts

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
 Melanie Paschke (GER)11.16  Ekaterini Thanou (GRE)11.30  Mary Tombiri (NGR)11.43
200 metres

(wind: +1.7 m/s)
 Du Xiujie (CHN)22.53  Oksana Dyachenko (RUS)22.89  Zlatka Georgieva (BUL)23.04
400 metres
 Olabisi Afolabi (NGR)50.50  Tatyana Chebykina (RUS)51.01  Yelena Rurak (UKR)51.76
800 metres
 Stella Jongmans (NED)2:02.13  Svetlana Tverdokhleb (UKR)2:02.92  Natalie Tait (GBR)2:03.32
1500 metres
 Gabriela Szabo (ROM)4:11.73  Julie Henner (USA)4:12.70  Ursula Friedmann (GER)4:13.32
5000 metres
 Gabriela Szabo (ROM)15:29.86  Silvia Sommaggio (ITA)15:34.32  Yumi Sato (JPN)15:35.28
10,000 metres
 Iulia Negură (ROM)32:28.25  Alina Tecuţa (ROM)32:43.38  Yasuko Kimura (JPN)33:03.01
100 metres hurdles
 Nicole Ramalalanirina (MAD)13.02  Olena Ovcharova (UKR)13.07  Svetlana Laukhova (RUS)13.08
400 metres hurdles
 Heike Meissner (GER)55.57  Ionela Târlea (ROM)55.99  Tonya Williams (USA)56.04
4 × 100 metres relay
 United States (USA)
Cheryl Taplin
Inger Miller
Juan Ball
Kenya Walton
43.58  Russia (RUS)
Natalya Anisimova
Oksana Dyachenko
Olga Voronova
Janna Levacheva
44.06  Nigeria (NGR)
Ime Akpan
Taiwo Aladefa
Pat Itanyi
Mary Tombiri
44.08
4 × 400 metres relay
 Russia (RUS)
Ioulia Sotnikova
Natalia Khrouchtcheleva
Elena Andreeva
Tatiana Tchebykina
3:28.32  United States (USA)
Nicole Green
Camara Jones
Janeen Jones
Youlanda Warren
3:30.25  Ukraine (UKR)
Viktoriya Fomenko
Svetlana Tverdokhleb
Tatyana Movchan
Olena Rurak
3:30.57
Marathon
 Masako Kusakaya (JPN)2:53:03  Nao Otani (JPN)2:57:09  Kristi Klinnert (USA)2:57:29
10 kilometres walk
 Annarita Sidoti (ITA)43:22 GR  Rossella Giordano (ITA)43:30  Larisa Ramazanova (RUS)43:56
High jump
 Viktoriya Fyodorova (RUS)1.92 m  Svetlana Zalevskaya (KAZ)1.92 m  Natalia Jonckheere (BEL)1.88 m
Long jump
 Viktoriya Vershynina (UKR)6.76 m  Sharon Jaklofsky (NED)6.74 m  Lyudmila Galkina (RUS)6.55 m
Triple jump
 Šárka Kašpárková (CZE)14.20 m GR=  Lyudmila Dubkova (RUS)13.87 m  Barbara Lah (ITA)13.85 m
Shot put
 Wu Xianchun (CHN)18.31 m  Cheng Xiaoyan (CHN)17.95 m  Corrie de Bruin (NED)17.82 m
Discus throw
 Natalya Sadova (RUS)62.92 m  Anja Gündler (GER)60.78 m  Bao Dongying (CHN)59.30 m
Javelin throw

(Old javelin model)
 Felicia Ţilea (ROM)62.16 m  Claudia Isaila (ROM)61.74 m  Lee Young-Sun (KOR)61.62 m
Heptathlon
 Jane Jamieson (AUS)6123 pts  Mona Steigauf (GER)6102 pts  Irina Tyukhay (RUS)5989 pts

Medal table

Romania's Gabriela Szabo won two gold medals.
Triple jump champion Šárka Kašpárková won Olympic bronze in 1996.
High jump winner Dragutin Topić was Yugoslavia's sole medallist.

  *   Host nation (Japan)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States56415
2 Russia55616
3 Japan*5139
4 Romania4307
5 Ukraine3339
6 China3115
7 Hungary3003
8 Germany2428
9 Italy14510
10 Kenya1203
11 Nigeria1124
12 Netherlands1113
13 South Africa1102
14 Belgium1012
 Czech Republic1012
 Mexico1012
17 Australia1001
 FR Yugoslavia1001
 France1001
 Madagascar1001
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines1001
22 Great Britain0134
23 Belarus0112
 Greece0112
 Morocco0112
 Poland0112
27 Armenia0101
 Austria0101
 Barbados0101
 Canada0101
 Kazakhstan0101
 Spain0101
33 South Korea0022
34 Algeria0011
 Bulgaria0011
 Portugal0011
 Slovenia0011
Totals (37 nations)434343129

Participating nations

References

  1. THE 18th UNIVERSIADE 1995 FUKUOKA: Event Schedule. 1995 Universiade. Retrieved on 2012-06-09.
  2. World Student Games (Universiade - Men). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2012-06-16.
  3. World Student Games (Universiade - Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2012-06-16.
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