Athletics at the 1997 Summer Universiade

The athletics at the 1997 Summer Universiade took place in the Stadio Cibali in Catania, Sicily (Italy) at the end of August 1997, shortly after the World Championships in Athens, Greece. New events were the women's hammer throw, pole vault and half marathon competition. The marathon was dropped from the programme in favour of the half distance. A total of 23 men's and 22 women's events were contested (the difference being that steeplechase was held for men only).

Athletics at the 1997 Summer Universiade
Host stadium in 2010.
Dates26–31 August 1997
Host cityCatania, Italy
VenueStadio Cibali
LevelSenior
Events45


The United States topped the athletics medal table (as it had in 1995) with a total of 21 medals, eight of them gold. Russia was the next most successful nation, with six golds among its haul of 16 medals. Ukraine won five gold medals, while Cuba won four events and had the third highest medal total at twelve. The host nation, Italy, won eight medals. A total of 34 nations reached the medal table.

Among the 1995 men's champions, Ukrainian shot putter Yuriy Bilonoh and hammer thrower Balázs Kiss of Hungary successfully defended their titles. On the women's side, double distance champion Gabriela Szabo won the 1500 metres again and Russia's Natalya Sadova repeated as discus throw winner. Student-athletes Szabo, Iván Pedroso (long jump) Yoelbi Quesada (triple jump) and Marius Corbett (javelin) won both Universiade and World Championships gold medals that year, though there was an upset in the Universiade racewalking events, as world champion and world leader Annarita Sidoti only managed third place.

Medal summary

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres

(Wind: -0.5)
 Vincent Henderson (USA)10.22  Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy (RUS)10.39  Jonathan Carter (USA)10.42
200 metres

(Wind: -0.3)
 Gentry Bradley (USA)20.48  Tony Wheeler (USA)20.64  Anninos Marcoullides (CYP)20.72
400 metres
 Clement Chukwu (NGR)44.81  Jerome Davis (USA)45.30  Linval Laird (JAM)45.54
800 metres
 Norberto Téllez (CUB)1:47.63  Hezekiél Sepeng (RSA)1:47.77  Bryan Woodward (USA)1:48.43
1500 metres
 Anthony Whiteman (GBR)3:43.57  Carlos García (ESP)3:43.97  António Travassos (POR)3:44.14
5000 metres
 Simone Zanon (ITA)13:57.54  Thorsten Naumann (GER)13:58.35  Dan Browne (USA)14:00.94
10,000 metres
 Kamiel Maase (NED)28:22.11  Dan Browne (USA)28:27.64  Rachid Berradi (ITA)28:30.05
110 metres hurdles

(Wind: -0.7)
 Andrey Kislykh (RUS)13.44  Jonathan Nsenga (BEL)13.51  Dudley Dorival (USA)13.53
400 metres hurdles
 Llewellyn Herbert (RSA)48.99  Ruslan Mashchenko (RUS)49.36  Mubarak Al-Nubi (QAT)49.48
3000 metres steeplechase
 Mark Ostendarp (GER)8:25.83  Marcel Laros (NED)8:27.91  Michael Buchleitner (AUT)8:28.92
4 × 100 metres relay
 United States (USA)
Vincent Henderson
Bryan Howard
Jonathan Carter
Tony McCall
38.48  Cuba (CUB)
Anier García
Misael Ortiz
Iván García
Luis Alberto Pérez Rionda
38.52  Great Britain (GBR)
Dan Money
Jamie Henthorn
Ross Baillie
Douglas Walker
39.23
4 × 400 metres relay
 United States (USA)
Octavius Terry
Tony Wheeler
Jerome Davis
Bryan Woodward
3:02.53  Jamaica (JAM)
Ian Weakley
Linval Laird
Garth Robinson
Dennis Blake
3:02.68  Great Britain (GBR)
Richard Knowles
Sean Baldock
Mark Sesay
Jared Deacon
3:02.74
Half marathon
 Marílson dos Santos (BRA)1:03:32  Stephen Mayaka (KEN)1:03:51  Solomon Wachira (KEN)1:04:05
20 kilometres walk
 Ilya Markov (RUS)1:25:36  Alejandro López (MEX)1:26:00  Arturo Di Mezza (ITA)1:26:12
High jump
 Lee Jin-Taek (KOR)2.32  Charles Lefrançois (CAN)2.32  Didier Detchénique (FRA)2.28
Pole vault
 Khalid Lachheb (FRA)5.70  Chad Harting (USA)5.60  Werner Holl (GER)5.55
Long jump
 Iván Pedroso (CUB)8.40  James Beckford (JAM)8.35  Gregor Cankar (SLO)8.11
Triple jump
 Yoelbi Quesada (CUB)17.35  Aliecer Urrutia (CUB)17.11  Robert Howard (USA)17.08
Shot put
 Yuriy Bilonoh (UKR)20.34  Paolo Dal Soglio (ITA)20.01  Brian Miller (USA)19.72
Discus throw
 Vladimir Dubrovshchik (BLR)66.40  Andy Bloom (USA)63.12  Doug Reynolds (USA)62.76
Hammer throw
 Balázs Kiss (HUN)79.42  Vadim Kolesnik (UKR)77.16  Ilya Konovalov (RUS)76.16
Javelin throw
 Marius Corbett (RSA)86.50  Emeterio González (CUB)83.48  Gregor Högler (AUT)81.12
Decathlon
 Roman Šebrle (CZE)8380  Kamil Damašek (CZE)8072  Marcel Dost (NED)7899

Women

Games Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres

(Wind: +1.5)
 Ekaterini Thanou (GRE)11.20  Anzhela Kravchenko (UKR)11.34  Katia Benth (FRA)11.35
200 metres

(Wind: -0.6)
 Yekaterina Leshchova (RUS)23.18  Katia Benth (FRA)23.31  Monika Gachevska (BUL)23.60
400 metres
 Allison Curbishley (GBR)50.84  Olga Kotlyarova (RUS)51.35  Idalmis Bonne (CUB)51.72
800 metres
 Irina Nedelenko (UKR)2:00.21  Yelena Buzhenko (UKR)2:00.84  Mariya Sinyusova (RUS)2:01.38
1500 metres
 Gabriela Szabo (ROM)4:10.31  Carla Sacramento (POR)4:10.40  Lidia Chojecka (POL)4:12.38
5000 metres
 Nnenna Lynch (USA)15:47.61  Lori Durward (CAN)15:48.68  Sarah Howell (CAN)15:49.96
10,000 metres
 Deena Drossin (USA)33:45.31  Lucilla Andreucci (ITA)33:54.22  Miwako Yamanaka (JPN)34:10.28
100 metres hurdles

(Wind: -1.1)
 Angela Atede (NGR)13.16  Feng Yun (CHN)13.19  Svetlana Laukhova (RUS)13.22
400 metres hurdles
 Tetyana Tereshchuk (UKR)54.91  Yekaterina Bakhvalova (RUS)55.91  Daimí Pernía (CUB)56.13
4 × 100 metres relay
 United States (USA)
Juan Ball
Melinda Sergent
Shani Anderson
Passion Richardson
44.04  Russia (RUS)
Yekaterina Leshcheva
Irina Korotya
Olga Povtoryova
Natalya Ignatova
44.37  Canada (CAN)
Sonia Paquette
Tara Perry
LaDonna Antoine
Karen Clarke
44.59
4 × 400 metres relay
 Russia (RUS)
Natalya Sharova
Svetlana Goncharenko
Yekaterina Bakhvalova
Olga Kotlyarova
3:27.93  Cuba (CUB)
Nancy McLeón
Julia Duporty
Daimí Pernía
Idalmis Bonne
3:29.00  Great Britain (GBR)
Vicki Jamison
Michelle Pierre
Michelle Thomas
Allison Curbishley
3:30.57
Half marathon
 Mari Sotani (JPN)1:11:49  Agata Balsamo (ITA)1:13:06  Miyuki Tokura (JPN)1:13:20
10 kilometres walk
 Larisa Ramazanova (BLR)44:01  Rossella Giordano (ITA)44:31  Annarita Sidoti (ITA)44:38
High jump
 Amy Acuff (USA)1.98  Monica Iagar (ROM)1.96  Marie Collonvillé (FRA)1.94
Pole vault
 Emma George (AUS)4.40  Cai Weiyan (CHN)4.30  Doris Auer (AUT)4.10
Long jump
 Olena Shekhovtsova (UKR)6.78  Viktoriya Vershynina (UKR)6.44  Cristina Nicolau (ROM)6.40
Triple jump
 Olena Hovorova (UKR)14.23  Olga Cepero (CUB)14.12  Zhanna Gureyeva (BLR)13.93
Shot put
 Irina Korzhanenko (RUS)19.39  Corrie de Bruin (NED)18.65  Tressa Thompson (USA)18.26
Discus throw
 Natalya Sadova (RUS)67.02  Hu Honglian (CHN)61.00  Nicoleta Grasu (ROM)60.08
Hammer throw
 Mihaela Melinte (ROM)69.84  Olga Kuzenkova (RUS)65.96  Deborah Sosimenko (AUS)65.02
Javelin throw
 Isel López (CUB)64.30  Sonia Bisset (CUB)63.46  Karen Forkel (GER)60.70
Heptathlon
 Mona Steigauf (GER)6546  Irina Vostrikova (RUS)6175  Marie Collonvillé (FRA)6143

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Italy)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)85821
2 Russia (RUS)67316
3 Ukraine (UKR)5409
4 Cuba (CUB)46212
5 Germany (GER)2125
 Romania (ROM)2125
7 South Africa (RSA)2103
8 Great Britain (GBR)2035
9 Belarus (BLR)2013
10 Nigeria (NGR)2002
11 Italy (ITA)*1438
12 Netherlands (NED)1214
13 France (FRA)1146
14 Czech Republic (CZE)1102
15 Japan (JPN)1023
16 Australia (AUS)1012
17 Brazil (BRA)1001
 Greece (GRE)1001
 Hungary (HUN)1001
 South Korea (KOR)1001
21 China (CHN)0303
22 Canada (CAN)0224
23 Jamaica (JAM)0213
24 Kenya (KEN)0112
 Portugal (POR)0112
26 Belgium (BEL)0101
 Mexico (MEX)0101
 Spain (ESP)0101
29 Austria (AUT)0033
30 Bulgaria (BUL)0011
 Cyprus (CYP)0011
 Poland (POL)0011
 Qatar (QAT)0011
 Slovenia (SLO)0011
Totals (34 nations)454545135

References

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