# Athletics at the 1965 Summer Universiade

Athletics events were contested at the 1965 Summer Universiade in Budapest, Hungary.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: +5.0 m/s) details | Hideo Iijima (JPN) | 10.1 | George Anderson (USA) | 10.1 | Harry Jerome (CAN) | 10.2 |
| 200 metres (wind: +2.5 m/s) details | Edvin Ozolin (URS) | 21.0w | George Anderson (USA) | 21.0w | Menzies Campbell (GBR) | 21.2w |
| 400 metres details | Sergio Bello (ITA) | 46.8 | Fred van Herpen (NED) | 46.9 | Lynn Saunders (USA) | 47.2 |
| 800 metres details | Bill Crothers (CAN) | 1:47.7 | George Germann (USA) | 1:47.8 | Rudolf Klaban (AUT) | 1:48.2 |
| 1500 metres details | Bodo Tümmler (FRG) | 3:46.2 | Andy Green (GBR) | 3:46.7 | Zbigniew Wójcik (POL) | 3:47.3 |
| 5000 metres details | Keisuke Sawaki (JPN) | 13:45.2 | Lutz Philipp (FRG) | 13:46.6 | Fergus Murray (GBR) | 13:52.6 |
| 110 metres hurdles (wind: +0.6 m/s) details | Eddy Ottoz (ITA) | 13.6 | Giovanni Cornacchia (ITA) | 13.9 | Willie Davenport (USA) | 14.0 |
| 400 metres hurdles details | Roberto Frinolli (ITA) | 50.5 | Robert Poirier (FRA) | 50.7 | Ron Whitney (USA) | 51.1 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | West Germany (FRG) Gert Metz Fritz Obersiebrasse Hans-Jürgen Felsen Rudolf Sundermann | 39.9 | Soviet Union (URS) Nikolay Politiko Edvin Ozolin Boris Zubov Igor Ter-Ovanesyan | 40.1 | France (FRA) Alain Roy Jean-Paul Lambrot Marc Bienvenu Pierre Burrellier | 40.3 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay details | Italy (ITA) Sergio Bello Gian Paolo Iraldo Bruno Bianchi Roberto Frinolli | 3:08.5 | Hungary (HUN) Csaba Csutorás István Gyulai Gyula Rábai László Mihályfi | 3:08.7 | West Germany (FRG) Werner Tiemann Manfred Hanike Dirk von Maltitz Fritz Roth | 3:08.8 |
| High jump details | Valeriy Skvortsov (URS) | 2.14 | Edward Czernik (POL) | 2.07 | János Medovarszki (HUN) Kuniyoshi Sugioka (JPN) | 2.07 |
| Pole vault details | John Pennel (USA) | 5.00 | Hennadiy Bleznitsov (URS) | 4.90 | Igor Feld (URS) | 4.80 |
| Long jump details | Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS) | 8.19 | Lynn Davies (GBR) | 7.89 | Oleg Aleksandrov (URS) | 7.53 |
| Triple jump details | Henrik Kalocsai (HUN) | 16.36 | Drágán Ivanov (HUN) | 16.35 | Michael Sauer (FRG) | 16.35 |
| Shot put details | Randy Matson (USA) | 20.31 | Nikolay Karasyov (URS) | 18.68 | Eduard Gushchin (URS) | 18.45 |
| Discus throw details | Lars Haglund (SWE) | 57.86 | Jiří Žemba (TCH) | 56.22 | George Puce (CAN) | 56.20 |
| Hammer throw details | Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN) | 67.74 | Gennadiy Kondrashov (URS) | 65.76 | Yuriy Bakarinov (URS) | 63.74 |
| Javelin throw details | Rolf Herings (FRG) | 79.26 | Vanni Rodeghiero (ITA) | 77.60 | Lennart Hedmark (SWE) | 76.94 |
| Decathlon details | Bill Toomey (USA) | 7566 | József Bakai (HUN) | 7443 | Manfred Pflugbeil (FRG) | 7413 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: +2.6 m/s) details | Irena Kirszenstein (POL) | 11.3 | Miguelina Cobián (CUB) | 11.5 | Liz Gill (GBR) | 11.6 |
| 200 metres (wind: +1.3 m/s) details | Irena Kirszenstein (POL) | 23.5 | Miguelina Cobián (CUB) | 23.9 | Liz Gill (GBR) | 24.0 |
| 800 metres details | Laine Erik (URS) | 2:06.2 | Antje Gleichfeldt (FRG) | 2:06.6 | Abby Hoffman (CAN) | 2:07.8 |
| 80 metres hurdles details | Danuta Straszyńska (POL) | 10.6 | Snezhana Kerkova (BUL) | 10.8 | Tatyana Ilyina (URS) | 10.9 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | Soviet Union (URS) Lyudmila Samotyosova Renāte Lāce Vera Popkova Tatyana Shchelkanova | 45.5 | Poland (POL) Irena Kirszenstein Mirosława Sałacińska Danuta Straszyńska Irena Woldańska | 46.1 | Hungary (HUN) Irén Buskó Annamária Kovács Ildikó Jónás Ida Such | 46.4 |
| High jump details | Yordanka Blagoeva (BUL) | 1.65 | Klara Pushkaryeva (URS) | 1.65 | Nevenka Mrinjek (YUG) | 1.63 |
| Long jump details | Tatyana Shchelkanova (URS) | 6.42 | Viorica Viscopoleanu (ROM) | 6.18 | Dorothee Sander (FRG) | 5.98 |
| Shot put details | Tamara Press (URS) | 18.31 | Nadezhda Chizhova (URS) | 17.27 | Judit Bognár (HUN) | 15.37 |
| Discus throw details | Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek (HUN) | 55.66 | Judit Stugner (HUN) | 55.14 | Tamara Press (URS) | 53.62 |
| Javelin throw details | Mihaela Peneş (ROM) | 59.22 | Michèle Demys (FRA) | 52.71 | Valentina Popova (URS) | 52.65 |
| Pentathlon details | Tatyana Shchelkanova (URS) | 4802 | Annamária Kovács (HUN) | 4606 | Yelena Kolnich (URS) | 4479 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 8 | 6 | 8 | 22 |
| 2 | Italy (ITA) | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 3 | Hungary (HUN) | 3 | 5 | 3 | 11 |
| 4 | United States (USA) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 5 | West Germany (FRG) | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 6 | Poland (POL) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 7 | Japan (JPN) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Romania (ROM) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | Canada (CAN) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 11 | Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 13 | France (FRA) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 14 | Cuba (CUB) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 15 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (18 entries) | Totals (18 entries) | 30 | 30 | 31 | 91 |