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Athletics at the 1983 Summer Universiade

01/07/1983 - 12/07/1983

Edmonton

Canada

Commonwealth Stadium

The Athletics Tournament at the 1983 Summer Universiade took place in the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) in July 1983, shortly before the inaugural World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. New events were the men's and women's marathon.

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m	Chidi Imoh (NGR)	Desai Williams (CAN)	Sam Graddy (USA)
200 m	Innocent Egbunike (NGR)	Elliott Quow (USA)	Bernie Jackson (USA)
400 m	Sunday Uti (NGR)	Viktor Markin (URS)	Sunder Nix (USA)
800 m	Ryszard Ostrowski (POL)	Graham Williamson (GBR)	Mohamed Alouini (TUN)
1500 m	Claudio Patrignani (ITA)	Andreas Baranski (FRG)	Geoff Turnbull (GBR)
5000 m	Steve Harris (GBR)	Féthi Baccouche (TUN)	Shuichi Yoneshige (JPN)
10,000 m	Shuichi Yoneshige (JPN)	Agapius Amo (TAN)	Féthi Baccouche (TUN)
Marathon	Alessio Faustini (ITA)	Giovanni d'Aleo (ITA)	Michael Spöttel (FRG)
110 m hurdles	Andrey Prokofyev (URS)	Willie Gault (USA)	Mark McKoy (CAN)
400 m hurdles	Aleksandr Kharlov (URS)	Amadou Dia Bâ (SEN)	Mark Patrick (USA)
3000 m s'chase	Peter Daenens (BEL)	Farley Gerber (USA)	Shigeyuki Aikyo (JPN)
4×100 m relay	United States (USA) Terry Scott Sam Graddy Ken Robinson Willie Gault	Canada (CAN) Desai Williams Sterling Hinds Tony Sharpe Ben Johnson	Soviet Union (URS) Andrey Prokofyev Nikolay Sidorov Vladimir Muravyov Aleksandr Zolotaryev
4×400 m relay	United States (USA) Sunder Nix Eliot Tabron Alonzo Babers Cliff Wiley	Soviet Union (URS) Yevgeniy Lomtyev Aleksandr Troshchilo Sergey Kutsebo Viktor Markin	France (FRA)
20 km walk	Guillaume Leblanc (CAN)	Maurizio Damilano (ITA)	Nikolay Matveyev (URS)
High jump	Igor Paklin (URS)	Eddy Annys (BEL)	Clarence Saunders (BER)
Pole vault	Konstantin Volkov (URS)	Thierry Vigneron (FRA)	Jeff Ward (USA)
Long jump	Yusuf Alli (NGR)	Ralph Spry (USA)	Sergey Rodin (URS)
Triple jump	Ajayi Agbebaku (NGR)	Mike Conley (USA)	John Herbert (GBR)
Shot put	Mike Carter (USA)	Zlatan Saračević (YUG)	Sergey Smirnov (URS)
Discus throw	Luis Delís (CUB)	Dariusz Juzyszyn (POL)	Marco Bucci (ITA)
Hammer throw	Jüri Tamm (URS)	Robert Weir (GBR)	Yuriy Pastukhov (URS)
Javelin throw (Old javelin model)	Dainis Kūla (URS)	Helmut Schreiber (FRG)	Stanislaw Górak (POL)
Decathlon	Dave Steen (CAN)	Herbert Peter (FRG)	Georg Werthner (AUT)

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m	Beverly Kinch (GBR)	Randy Givens (USA)	Angella Taylor (CAN)
200 m	Randy Givens (USA)	Marita Payne (CAN)	Grace Jackson (JAM)
400 m	Mariya Pinigina (URS)	Molly Killingbeck (CAN)	Yelena Korban (URS)
800 m	Irina Podyalovskaya (URS)	Robin Campbell (USA)	Doina Melinte (ROU)
1500 m	Gabriella Dorio (ITA)	Doina Melinte (ROU)	Maria Radu (ROU)
3000 m	Maria Radu (ROU)	Yelena Malychina (URS)	Lynn Williams (CAN)
Marathon	Sarah Rowell (GBR)	Kathy Roberts (CAN)	Marjorie Kaput (USA)
100 m hurdles	Natalya Petrova (URS)	Yelena Biserova (URS)	Benita Fitzgerald (USA)
400 m hurdles	Yekaterina Fesenko (URS)	Yelena Filipishina (URS)	Gwen Wall (CAN)
4×100 m relay	United States (USA) LaShon Nedd Jackie Washington Brenda Cliette Randy Givens	Canada (CAN)	Soviet Union (URS)
4×400 m relay	Soviet Union (URS) Larisa Krylova Lyudmila Borisova Yelena Didilenko Mariya Pinigina	Canada (CAN) Charmaine Crooks Jillian Richardson Molly Killingbeck Marita Payne	United States (USA)
High jump	Tamara Bykova (URS)	Silvia Costa (CUB)	Maryse Ewanjé-Epée (FRA)
Long jump	Anişoara Cuşmir (ROU)	Svetlana Zorina (URS)	Valy Ionescu (ROU)
Shot put	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	Claudia Losch (FRG)	Natalya Akhrimenko (URS)
Discus throw	Florența Crăciunescu (ROU)	Natalya Akhrimenko (URS)	Lyubov Urakova (URS)
Javelin throw (Old javelin model)	Beate Peters (FRG)	Fausta Quintavalla (ITA)	Mayra Vila (CUB)
Heptathlon	Yekaterina Smirnova (URS)	Sabine Everts (FRG)	Judy Livermore (GBR)