Athletics at the 1959 Summer Universiade

Athletics events were contested at the 1959 Summer Universiade in Turin, Italy.

Athletics at the I Summer Universiade
Dates3–6 September
Host cityTurin, Italy
VenueStadio Comunale di Torino
Events29


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)
Guido De Murtas
Salvatore Giannone
Giorgio Mazza
Livio Berruti
41.0  West Germany (FRG)
Rudolf Sundermann
Martin Reichert
Burkhart Quantz
Fritz Helfrich
41.0  France (FRA)
Ali Brakchi
Joël Caprice
Jean-Claude Penez
Guy Lagorce
41.4
4 × 400 m relay  West Germany (FRG)
Albert Grawitz
Burkhart Quantz
Walter Oberste
Otto Klappert
3:09.5  Italy (ITA)
Elio Catola
Nereo Fossati
Mario Fraschini
Germano Gimelli
3:11.4  Great Britain (GBR)
Robert Hay
Mike Robinson
John Holt
Norman Futter
3:12.2
High jump  Cornel Porumb (ROM)2.01  Vladimir Marjanović (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)
Nelli Yeliseyeva
Larisa Kuleshova
Tamara Makarova
Lyudmila Nechayeva
46.9  Italy (ITA)
Anna Doro
Fausta Galluzzi
Giuseppina Leone
Nadia Mecocci
47.5  West Germany (FRG)
Ilsabe Heider
Antje Gleichfeld
Kristianne Foss
Inge Fuhrmann
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

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Italy (ITA)76114
2 Soviet Union (URS)55414
3 West Germany (FRG)34411
4 Hungary (HUN)3216
5 Yugoslavia (YUG)2316
6 Romania (ROM)2024
7 Poland (POL)1258
8 Japan (JPN)1236
9 Great Britain (GBR)1214
10 France (FRA)1146
11 Greece (GRE)1113
12 Bulgaria (BUL)1102
13 East Germany (GDR)1001
14 Czechoslovakia (TCH)0022
15 Belgium (BEL)0011
Totals (15 nations)29293088

References

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