1959 Summer Universiade / Athletics

Athletics at the 1959 Summer Universiade
information
venue	Turin Italy
Competition venue	Olympic Stadium Turin
date	September 3 to 6, 1959
decisions	29
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Athletics medal table (after 29 of 29 decisions)
space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
01	Italy	7th	6th	1	14th
02	Soviet Union	5	6th	4th	15th
03	BR Germany	4th	4th	4th	12
04th	Hungary	3	2	1	6th
05	Yugoslavia	2	3	1	6th
06th	Romania	2	-	2	4th
07th	Poland	1	2	5	8th
08th	Japan	1	2	3	6th
09	United Kingdom	1	2	1	4th
10	France	1	1	4th	6th
11	Greece	1	1	1	3
12	Bulgaria	1	1	-	2
13	Czechoslovakia	-	-	2	2
14th	Belgium	-	-	1	1
Total		29	29	30th	88

The athletics competitions of the 1959 Summer Universiade took place for the first time from September 3 to 6, 1959 in the Turin Olympic Stadium.

Results women

100 m

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Giuseppina Leone	ITA	11.7
2	Lyudmila Nechayeva	URS	12.0
3	Catherine Capdevielle	FRA	12.1

200 m

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Giuseppina Leone	ITA	23.8
2	Barbara Janiszewska	POLE	24.2
3	Lyudmila Nechayeva	URS	24.7
4th
5	Micheline Fluchot	FRA	25.1

800 m

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Nicole Goullieux	FRA	2: 11.1
2	Edith Schiller	FRG	2: 11.13
3	Klavdiya Babintseva	URS	2: 12.3

80 m hurdles

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Nelli Yelizaeva	URS	11.1
2	Sneschana Kerkowa	BUL	11.4
3	Elżbieta Krzesińska	POLE	11.5

4 × 100 m relay

space	country	Athletes	Time (s)
1	Soviet Union		46.9
2	Italy	Giuseppina Leone	47.5
3	BR Germany	Inge Fuhrmann Antje Gleichfeld	48.1
4th	France	Micheline Fluchot Nicole Gouilleux Simone Henry Catherine Capdevieille	48.3

high jump

space	Athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Iolanda Balaș	ROME	1.80
2	Valentina Ballod	URS	1.73
3	Jarosława Jóźwiakowska	POLE	1.61

Long jump

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Elżbieta Krzesińska	POLE	5.94
2	Tamara Makarova	URS	5.76
3	Larissa Kuleschowa	URS	5.71

Shot put

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Lidia Sharamovich	BUL	13.97
2	Milena Usenik	YOUTH	13.90
3	Antonia Vehoff	FRG	13.11

Discus throw

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Györgyi Hegedus	HUN	46.76
2	Elivia Ricci	ITA	45.56
3	Ida Bucsányi	HUN	43.38

Javelin throw

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Elvīra Ozoliņa	URS	49.95
2	Urszula Figwer	POLE	47.02
3	Maria Diţi	ROU	46.86
4th	Anikó Balogh	HUN	46.24

Results men

100 m

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Livio Berruti	ITA	10.5
2	Jean-Claude Penez	FRA	10.8
3	Romain Poté	BEL	10.8

200 m

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Livio Berruti	ITA	20.9
2	Nikolaos Georgopoulos	GRE	21.6
3	Fritz Helfrich	FRG	21.7
4th
5	Guy Lagorce	FRA	21.7

400 m

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Viktor Šnajder	YUG	47.5
2	Walter Oberste	FRG	47.9
3	Otto Klappert	FRG	47.9

800 m

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Dieter Heydecke	FRG	1: 50.5
2	John Holt	GBR	1: 50.5
3	Kuniaki Watanabe	JPN	1: 50.9

1500 m

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Béla Szekeres	HUN	3: 50.9
2	John Winch	GBR	3: 52.0
3	Kuniaki Watanabe	JPN	3: 52.1

5000 m

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Kevin Gilligan	GBR	14: 09.8
2	Saburō Yokomizo	JPN	14: 14.8
3	Jaroslav Bohatý-Pavelka	TCH	14: 18.0

110 m hurdles

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Stanko Lorger	YUG	14.2
2	Nereo Svara	ITA	14.4
3	Giorgio Mazza	ITA	14.4
4th
5
6th	Jean-Claude Reynaud	FRA	15.1

400 m hurdles

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Salvatore Morale	ITA	52.1
2	Germano Gimelli	ITA	52.8
3	Wiesław Król	POLE	53.2
4th	Paul Haennig	FRA	53.8
5	Jean-Marie Kling	FRA	54.5

4 × 100 m relay

space	country	Athletes	Time (s)
1	Italy	Guido De Murtas Salvatore Giannone Giorgio Mazza Livio Berruti Giorgio Mazza	41.0
2	BR Germany		41.0
3	France	Ali Brakchi Joël Caprice Jean-Claude Penez Guy Lagorce	41.4

4 × 400 m relay

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	BR Germany	Albert Grawitz Burkhart Quantz Otto Klappert Walter Oberste	3: 09.5
2	Italy	Elio Catola Nerio Fossati Mario Fraschini	3: 11.4
3	United Kingdom		3: 12.2
4th
5	France	Daniel Laurent Paul Haennig Jean-Marie Kling René Sadler	3: 16.1

high jump

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Cornel Porumb	ROU	2.01
2	Vladimir Marjanović	YUG	1.96
3	Raitscho Alexandrow	URS	1.96
	Kazimierz Fabrykowski	POLE	1.96

Pole vault

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Noriaki Yasuda	JPN	4.35
2	Mirko Kuzmanović	YUG	4.30
3	Bernard Balastre	FRA	4.20
4th	István Török	HUN	4.10
5	Christian Ramadier	FRA	4.10

Long jump

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Attilio Bravi	ITA	7.46
2	Maurizio Terenziani	ITA	7.43
3	Ali Brakchi	FRA	7.42

Triple jump

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Oleg Ryakhovsky	URS	15.74
2	Kōji Sakurai	JPN	15.55
3	Hiroshi Shibata	JPN	15.44
4th	Eric Battista	FRA	15.35

Shot put

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Hermann Lingnau	FRG	17.32
2	Zsigmond Nagy	HUN	17.10
3	Georgios Tsakanikas	GRE	16.70
4th
5
6th
7th
8th	Jean-Pierre Lassau	FRA	15.01

Discus throw

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Antonios Kounadis	GRE	53.07
2	Vladimir Lyakhov	URS	62.79
3	Eugeniusz Wachowski	POLE	52.22

Hammer throw

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Gyula Zsivótzky	HUN	63.65
2	Anatoly Samotsvetov	URS	63.61
3	Krešimir Račić	YUG	62.32

Javelin throw

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Hermann Salomon	FRG	75.95
2	Gergely Kulcsár	HUN	75.80
3	Alexandru Bizim	ROU	72.81

Pentathlon

space	athlete	country	Points
1	Vasily Kuznetsov	URS	4006 WR
2	Hermann Salomon	FRG	3530
3	Miloš Vojtek	TCH	3048

Web links

• Medalist (English)
• Medalists (English)
• some medalists according to sport-reference.com
• List of French athletes at the Summer Universiade
• Placement of Hungarian athletes in 1959