Athletics at the 1959 Summer Universiade – Men's 100 metres

The men's 100 metres event at the 1959 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadio Comunale di Torino in Turin on 3 and 4 September 1959. ^{[1] [2]}

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Livio Berruti   Italy	Jean-Claude Penez   France	Romain Poté   Belgium

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Romain Poté	Belgium	10.8	Q
2	1	Jean-Claude Penez	France	10.8	Q [3]
3	1	Bogusław Gierajewski	Poland	11.1	Q
4	1	Albert Hofstede	Netherlands	11.4
1	2	Norihiko Kubo	Japan	11.0	Q
2	2	Osman Tahir	Pakistan	11.4	Q
3	2	Hayder	Tunisia	11.5	Q
4	2	Mounir Zeitoun	Lebanon	11.5
	2	Kim	South Korea	DQ
1	3	Livio Berruti	Italy	10.7	Q
2	3	Andrzej Pilaczyński	Poland	11.1	Q
3	3	T. Ludwig	Luxembourg	11.2	Q
3	3	Iftikhar Shah	Pakistan	11.2
1	4	Jim Railton	Great Britain	11.0	Q
2	4	Nikolaos Georgopoulos	Greece	11.1	Q
3	4	Guido De Murtas	Italy	11.1	Q
4	4	Molarinho Carmo	Portugal	11.6
1	5	Rudolf Sundermann	West Germany	10.8	Q
2	5	Carlos Frasca	Brazil	11.1	Q
3	5	Georgios Katsimbardis	Greece	11.3	Q
4	5	Ian Taylor	Great Britain	11.4	[4]
1	6	Joël Caprice	France	10.9	Q
2	6	Martin Reichert	West Germany	11.1	Q
3	6	Yoshiaki Osada	Japan	11.1	Q
4	6	Heinz Bösiger	Switzerland	11.4
5	6	Jean-Pierre Barra	Belgium	11.4

Semifinals

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Livio Berruti	Italy	10.5	Q
2	1	Jim Railton	Great Britain	10.5	Q
3	1	Carlos Frasca	Brazil	10.9
4	1	Yoshiaki Osada	Japan	10.9
5	1	Georgios Katsimbardis	Greece	11.0
6	1	Bogusław Gierajewski	Poland	11.1
1	2	Jean-Claude Penez	France	10.7	Q [3]
2	2	Guido De Murtas	Italy	10.9	Q
3	2	Martin Reichert	West Germany	11.0
4	2	Nikolaos Georgopoulos	Greece	11.0
5	2	Norihiko Kubo	Japan	11.1
6	2	Hayder	Tunisia	11.6
1	3	Romain Poté	Belgium	10.7	Q [5]
2	3	Joël Caprice	France	10.8	Q
3	3	Andrzej Pilaczyński	Poland	10.9
4	3	Rudolf Sundermann	West Germany	10.9
5	3	T. Ludwig	Luxembourg	11.2
6	3	Osman Tahir	Pakistan	11.3

Final

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Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Livio Berruti	Italy	10.5
	Jean-Claude Penez	France	10.8
	Romain Poté	Belgium	10.8
4	Joël Caprice	France	10.8
5	Jim Railton	Great Britain	10.9
6	Guido De Murtas	Italy	11.0

References

1. "Resultados Universiada - 1959" (PDF). Atletismo (in Spanish). November 1959: 7–8. Retrieved 4 March 2021.^{[ dead link ]}
2. "Results". Tilastopaja.
3. "French results" (PDF). athle.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 December 2017.
4. "Lucking narrowly misses bronze medal for weight". The Manchester Guardian. 4 September 1959. p. 10. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
5. "Soviet results". docme.su. p. 28. Archived from the original on 31 October 2021.
6. García, Gerardo (5 September 1959). "Una gran finale de finales en atletismo" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. p. 2. Retrieved 26 February 2021.