Athletics at the 1963 Summer Universiade

Athletics at the III Summer Universiade
The host stadium
Dates	5 – 8 September
Host city	Porto Alegre, Brazil
Venue	Estádio Olímpico Monumental
Events	29
Participation	21 nations
← 1961 Sofia 1965 Budapest → 1963 Summer Universiade

Athletics events were contested at the 1963 Summer Universiade in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Enrique Figuerola  (CUB)	10.34	Edvin Ozolin  (URS)	10.52	Livio Berruti  (ITA)	10.56
200 metres details	Edvin Ozolin  (URS)	21.44	Dick Steane  (GBR)	21.55	Livio Berruti  (ITA)	21.60
400 metres details	Adrian Metcalfe  (GBR)	46.75	Joachim Reske  (FRG)	46.92	Jacques Pennewaert  (BEL)	47.02
800 metres details	Mamoru Morimoto  (JPN)	1:48.1	John Boulter  (GBR)	1:48.6	Norbert Haupert  (LUX)	1:49.5
1500 metres details	John Whetton  (GBR)	3:49.5	Mamoru Morimoto  (JPN)	3:49.6	Karl Eyerkaufer  (FRG)	3:49.7
5000 metres details	Leonid Ivanov  (URS)	14:21.4	Béla Szekeres  (HUN)	14:32.0	Ron Hill  (GBR)	14:43.2
110 metres hurdles details	Anatoly Mikhailov  (URS)	14.17	Giorgio Mazza  (ITA)	14.25	Mike Hogan  (GBR)	14.40
400 metres hurdles details	Roberto Frinolli  (ITA)	50.48	Mike Hogan  (GBR)	51.52	Salvatore Morale  (ITA)	51.95
4 × 100 metres relay details	Hungary  (HUN) Csaba Csutorás László Mihályfi István Gyulai Gyula Rábai	40.98	Cuba  (CUB) Alejandro Pasqual Manuel Montalvo Lázaro Betancourt Enrique Figuerola	41.37	France  (FRA) Gérard Zingg Jean-Pierre Fabre Alain Roy Alain Moreaux	41.82
4 × 400 metres relay details	Great Britain  (GRB) Adrian Metcalfe John Boulter Menzies Campbell Dick Steane	3:12.02	West Germany  (FRG) Peter Hoppe Wolfgang Scholl Johannes Schmitt Hans-Joachim Reske	3:13.02	Italy  (ITA) Sergio Bello Marco Busatto Mario Fraschini Roberto Frinolli	3:13.65
High jump details	Valeriy Brumel  (URS)	2.15	Mauro Bogliatto  (ITA)	2.09	Roberto Abugattás  (PER)	1.99
Pole vault details	Hennadiy Bleznitsov  (URS)	4.60	Alain Moreaux  (FRA)	4.30	Bernard Balastre  (FRA)	4.20
Long jump details	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan  (URS)	7.95	Wolfgang Klein  (FRG)	7.70	Carlos Díaz Martínez  (CUB)	7.45
Triple jump details	Satoshi Shimo  (JPN)	15.99	Aleksandr Zolotarev  (URS)	15.94	Luis Areta  (ESP)	15.80
Shot put details	Zsigmond Nagy  (HUN)	18.44	Mike Lindsay  (GBR)	17.76	Dietrich Urbach  (FRG)	17.72
Discus throw details	Gaetano Dalla Pria  (ITA)	51.63	Mike Lindsay  (GBR)	51.23	Dietrich Urbach  (FRG)	51.03
Hammer throw details	Gennadiy Kondrashov  (URS)	65.76	Gyula Zsivótzky  (HUN)	65.72	Masatoshi Wakabayashi  (JPN)	60.90
Javelin throw details	Jānis Lūsis  (URS)	79.77	Hermann Salomon  (FRG)	77.78	Gergely Kulcsár  (HUN)	77.62
Decathlon details	Manfred Pflugbeil  (FRG)	6487	Gerd Lossdörfer  (FRG)	6102	Marseno Martins  (BRA)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Renāte Lāce  (URS)	11.91	Vera Popkova  (URS)	12.02	Miguelina Cobián  (CUB)	12.11
200 metres details	Jutta Heine  (FRG)	24.60	Renāte Lāce  (URS)	24.64	Miguelina Cobián  (CUB)	24.74
800 metres details	Olga Kazi  (HUN)	2:05.9	Antje Gleichfeldt  (FRG)	2:08.2	Joy Catling  (GBR)	2:10.3
80 metres hurdles details	Jutta Heine  (FRG)	10.95	Tatyana Shchelkanova  (URS)	11.01	Alla Chernisheva  (URS)	11.10
4 × 100 metres relay details	Soviet Union  (URS) Alla Chernyshova Renāte Lāce Vera Popkova Tatyana Shchelkanova	46.5	West Germany  (FRG) Bärbel Palmi Antje Gleichfeld Elke Masnfeld Jutta Heine	47.5	Cuba  (CUB) Irene Martínez Fulgencia Romay Norma Pérez Miguelina Cobián	47.5
High jump details	Taisiya Chenchik  (URS)	1.72	Susan Dennler  (GBR)	1.67	Heidemarie Hummel  (FRG)	1.65
Long jump details	Tatyana Shchelkanova  (URS)	6.48	Vlasta Přikrylová  (TCH)	5.71	Bärbel Palmié  (FRG)	5.63
Shot put details	Tamara Press  (URS)	17.29	Judit Bognár  (HUN)	15.47	Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek  (HUN)	14.75
Discus throw details	Tamara Press  (URS)	55.90	Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek  (HUN)	50.92	Judit Bognár  (HUN)	49.73
Javelin throw details	Almut Brömmel  (FRG)	49.61	Elvīra Ozoliņa  (URS)	47.00	Barbara Decker  (FRG)	43.91

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union  (URS)	14	6	1	21
2	West Germany  (FRG)	4	7	6	17
3	Great Britain  (GBR)	3	6	3	12
4	Hungary  (HUN)	3	4	3	10
5	Italy  (ITA)	2	2	4	8
6	Japan  (JPN)	2	1	1	4
7	Cuba  (CUB)	1	2	4	7
8	France  (FRA)	0	1	2	3
9	Belgium  (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Brazil  (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Luxembourg  (LUX)	0	0	1	1
	Peru  (PER)	0	0	1	1
	Spain  (ESP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		29	29	29	87

References

• World Student Games (Universiade - Men) - GBR Athletics
• World Student Games (Universiade - Women) - GBR Athletics