| Athletics at the 1983 Summer Universiade | |
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| Dates | 5–11 July 1983 |
| Host city | Edmonton, Canada  |
| Venue | Commonwealth Stadium |
| Events | 40 |
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. There was one new event, the women's marathon.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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| 100 metres (wind: -0.8 m/s) |  Chidi Imoh (NGR) | 10.33 | Desai Williams (CAN) | 10.37 |  Sam Graddy (USA) | 10.42 |
| 200 metres (wind: +0.6 m/s) | Innocent Egbunike (NGR) | 20.42 | Elliott Quow (USA) | 20.46 | Bernie Jackson (USA) | 20.57 |
| 400 metres | Sunday Uti (NGR) | 45.32 |  Viktor Markin (URS) | 45.38 | Sunder Nix (USA) | 45.53 |
| 800 metres |  Ryszard Ostrowski (POL) | 1:46.29 |  Graham Williamson (GBR) | 1:46.66 |  Mohamed Alouini (TUN) | 1:46.75 |
| 1500 metres |  Claudio Patrignani (ITA) | 3:41.02 |  Andreas Baranski (FRG) | 3:41.21 | Geoff Turnbull (GBR) | 3:41.24 |
| 5000 metres | Steve Harris (GBR) | 13:46.99 | Féthi Baccouche (TUN) | 13:47.69 |  Shuichi Yoneshige (JPN) | 13:48.13 |
| 10,000 metres | Shuichi Yoneshige (JPN) | 28:55.37 |  Agapius Amo (TAN) | 28:55.39 | Féthi Baccouche (TUN) | 28:55.76 |
| Marathon | Alessio Faustini (ITA) | 2:17:10 | Giovanni d'Aleo (ITA) | 2:17:20 | Michael Spöttel (FRG) | 2:18:12 |
| 110 metres hurdles (wind: +0.3 m/s) | Andrey Prokofyev (URS) | 13.46 | Willie Gault (USA) | 13.49 | Mark McKoy (CAN) | 13.57 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Aleksandr Kharlov (URS) | 49.41 |  Amadou Dia Bâ (SEN) | 49.94 | David Patrick (USA) | 50.28 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase |  Peter Daenens (BEL) | 8:28.86 | Farley Gerber (USA) | 8:29.07 | Shigeyuki Aikyo (JPN) | 8:33.44 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay | United States (USA) Terry Scott Sam Graddy Ken Robinson Willie Gault | 38.50 | Canada (CAN) Desai Williams Sterling Hinds Tony Sharpe Ben Johnson | 38.69 | Soviet Union (URS) Andrey Prokofyev Nikolay Sidorov Vladimir Muravyov Aleksandr Zolotaryev | 39.04 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay | United States (USA) Sunder Nix Eliot Tabron Alonzo Babers Cliff Wiley | 3:01.24 | Soviet Union (URS) Yevgeniy Lomtyev Aleksandr Troshchilo Sergey Kutsebo Viktor Markin | 3:01.58 |  France (FRA)Yann Quentrec Hector Llatser Pascal Chichignoud Aldo Canti | 3:04.89 |
| 20 kilometres walk | Guillaume Leblanc (CAN) | 1:24:03 | Maurizio Damilano (ITA) | 1:24:21 | Nikolay Matveyev (URS) | 1:25:07 |
| High jump | Igor Paklin (URS) | 2.31 UR | Eddy Annys (BEL) | 2.29 |  Clarence Saunders (BER) | 2.26 |
| Pole vault | Konstantin Volkov (URS) | 5.65 | Thierry Vigneron (FRA) | 5.60 | Jeff Ward (USA) | 5.50 |
| Long jump | Yusuf Alli (NGR) | 8.21 | Ralph Spry (USA) | 7.91 | Sergey Rodin (URS) | 7.85 |
| Triple jump | Ajayi Agbebaku (NGR) | 17.26 | Mike Conley (USA) | 17.20w | John Herbert (GBR) | 17.05 |
| Shot put | Mike Carter (USA) | 19.74 |  Zlatan Saračević (YUG) | 19.66 | Sergey Smirnov (URS) | 19.61 |
| Discus throw |  Luis Delís (CUB) | 69.46 UR | Dariusz Juzyszyn (POL) | 63.32 | Marco Bucci (ITA) | 60.62 |
| Hammer throw | Jüri Tamm (URS) | 76.82 | Robert Weir (GBR) | 74.10 | Yuriy Pastukhov (URS) | 73.38 |
| Javelin throw | Dainis Kūla (URS) | 87.80 | Helmut Schreiber (FRG) | 84.12 | Stanisław Górak (POL) | 83.20 |
| Decathlon | Dave Steen (CAN) | 8205w | Herbert Peter (FRG) | 8160w |  Georg Werthner (AUT) | 7905 |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 14 | 7 | 9 | 30 |
| 2 |  United States (USA) | 5 | 7 | 8 | 20 |
| 3 | Nigeria (NGR) | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 4 | Italy (ITA) | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 5 | Great Britain (GBR) | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 6 |  Romania (ROU) | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 7 | Canada (CAN) | 2 | 7 | 4 | 13 |
| 8 | West Germany (FRG) | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
| 9 | Cuba (CUB) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Poland (POL) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| 11 | Belgium (BEL) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Japan (JPN) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 13 | France (FRA) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Tunisia (TUN) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 15 | Senegal (SEN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Tanzania (TAN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Yugoslavia (YUG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 18 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Bermuda (BER) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Jamaica (JAM) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (20 entries) | 40 | 40 | 40 | 120 | |
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