# Athletics at the 1970 Summer Universiade

At the 1970 Summer Universiade, the Athletics events were held at the Stadio Comunale in Turin, Italy between 2 and 6 September.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s) details | Siegfried Schenke (GDR) | 10.5 | Jim Green (USA) | 10.5 | Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa (MAD) | 10.5 |
| 200 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s) details | Martin Reynolds (GBR) | 21.0 | Siegfried Schenke (GDR) | 21.0 | Jim Green (USA) | 21.1 |
| 400 metres details | Tom Ulan (USA) | 45.9 | Martin Jellinghaus (FRG) | 46.2 | Jacques Carette (FRA) | 46.3 |
| 800 metres details | Franz-Josef Kemper (FRG) | 1:49.1 | Martin Winbolt Lewis (GBR) | 1:49.2 | Donaldo Arza (PAN) | 1:49.5 |
| 1500 metres details | Francesco Arese (ITA) | 3:52.7 | John Kirkbride (GBR) | 3:52.9 | Gianni Del Buono (ITA) | 3:53.0 |
| 5000 metres details | Nikolay Puklakov (URS) | 13:56.4 | Jens Wollenberg (FRG) | 14:00.8 | Giuseppe Cindolo (ITA) | 14:01.4 |
| 10,000 metres details | Rashid Sharafetdinov (URS) | 29:02.2 | Jack Lane (GBR) | 29:08.8 | Mike Tagg (GBR) | 29:22.2 |
| 110 metres hurdles details | David Hemery (GBR) | 13.8 | Günther Nickel (FRG) | 13.9 | Sergio Liani (ITA) | 13.9 |
| 400 metres hurdles details | Larry James (USA) | 50.2 | Werner Reibert (FRG) | 50.4 | Dmitriy Stukalov (URS) | 50.7 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase details | Mikhail Zhelev (BUL) | 8:32.6 | Andy Holden (GBR) | 8:36.6 | Takaharu Koyama (JPN) | 8:38.0 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | Poland (POL) Stanisław Wagner Jan Werner Gerard Gramse Zenon Nowosz | 39.2 | Cuba (CUB) Barbaro Bandomo Juan Morales Pablo Montes José Triana | 39.2 | Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandr Kornelyuk Vladislav Sapeya Boris Izmestyev Valentin Maslakov | 39.4 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay details | United States (USA) Tom Ulan Roger Colglazier Tommie Turner Larry James | 3:03.3 | Soviet Union (URS) Yevgeniy Borisenko Yuriy Zorin Borys Savchuk Aleksandr Bratchikov | 3:04.2 | France (FRA) Patrice Viel Christian Nicolau Gilles Bertould Jacques Carette | 3:04.4 |
| High jump details | Valentin Gavrilov (URS) | 2.18 | Erminio Azzaro (ITA) | 2.15 | Șerban Ioan (ROM) | 2.15 |
| Pole vault details | Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR) | 5.46 | Christos Papanikolaou (GRE) | 5.42 | François Tracanelli (FRA) | 5.30 |
| Long jump details | Alan Lerwill (GBR) | 7.91 | Arnie Robinson (USA) | 7.78 | Geoff Hignett (GBR) | 7.76 |
| Triple jump details | Viktor Saneyev (URS) | 17.22 | Nikolay Dudkin (URS) | 17.00 | Jörg Drehmel (GDR) | 16.93 |
| Shot put details | Hartmut Briesenick (GDR) | 19.97 | Valeriy Voykin (URS) | 19.30 | Uwe Grabe (GDR) | 19.06 |
| Discus throw details | János Murányi (HUN) | 60.16 | Hein-Direck Neu (FRG) | 58.62 | Silvano Simeon (ITA) | 58.22 |
| Hammer throw details | Jochen Sachse (GDR) | 72.34 | Vasiliy Khmelevskiy (URS) | 68.54 | Vladimir Ambrosyev (URS) | 66.80 |
| Javelin throw details | Miklós Németh (HUN) | 81.94 | József Csík (HUN) | 80.32 | Zygmunt Jałoszyński (POL) | 79.84 |
| Decathlon details | Mykola Avilov (URS) | 7803 | Lennart Hedmark (SWE) | 7783 | Vladimir Shcherbatykh (URS) | 7551 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres details | Renate Meißner (GDR) | 11.5 | Wilma van den Berg (NED) | 11.6 | Györgyi Balogh (HUN) | 11.7 |
| 200 metres details | Renate Meißner (GDR) | 22.7 | Györgyi Balogh (HUN) | 23.2 | Wilma van den Berg (NED) | 23.5 |
| 400 metres details | Maria Sykora (AUT) | 52.8 | Carmen Trustée (CUB) | 53.5 | Aurelia Pentón (CUB) | 53.8 |
| 800 metres details | Gunhild Hoffmeister (GDR) | 2:01.8 | Maria Sykora (AUT) | 2:01.9 | Karin Burneleit (GDR) | 2:02.2 |
| 100 metres hurdles details | Teresa Sukniewicz (POL) | 13.0 | Bärbel Podeswa (GDR) | 13.4 | Valeria Bufanu (ROM) | 13.5 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | Soviet Union (URS) Lyudmila Zharkowa Marina Nikiforova Lyudmila Golomazova Tatyana Kondrasheva | 44.7 | Hungary (HUN) Éva Pusztai Judit Szabóné Györgyi Balogh Klára Woth | 45.1 | West Germany (FRG) Heidi Schuller Kirsten Roggenkamp Hannelore Groh Heide Rosendahl | 45.4 |
| High jump details | Snežana Hrepevnik (YUG) | 1.86 | Cornelia Popescu (ROM) | 1.83 | Ilona Gusenbauer (AUT) | 1.83 |
| Long jump details | Heide Rosendahl (FRG) | 6.84 | Elena Vintila (ROM) | 6.35 | Hiroko Yamashita (JPN) | 6.17 |
| Shot put details | Nadezhda Chizhova (URS) | 19.51 | Hannelore Friedel (GDR) | 17.84 | Ingeburg Friedrich (GDR) | 17.03 |
| Discus throw details | Karin Illgen (GDR) | 62.04 | Brigitte Berendonk (FRG) | 56.78 | Liesel Westermann (FRG) | 56.46 |
| Javelin throw details | Daniela Jaworska (POL) | 56.16 | Magda Vidos (HUN) | 50.60 | Valentina Evert (URS) | 50.00 |
| Pentathlon details | Tatyana Kondrashova (URS) | 4884 | Nedyalka Angelova (BUL) | 4859 | Mieke Sterk (NED) | 4828 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 8 | 4 | 5 | 17 |
| 2 | East Germany (GDR) | 8 | 3 | 4 | 15 |
| 3 | Great Britain (GBR) | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 |
| 4 | United States (USA) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 5 | Poland (POL) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | West Germany (FRG) | 2 | 6 | 2 | 10 |
| 7 | Hungary (HUN) | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| 8 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 9 | Austria (AUT) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Romania (ROM) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 13 | Cuba (CUB) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 14 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 15 | Greece (GRE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | France (FRA) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 18 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 19 | Madagascar (MAD) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Panama (PAN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (20 entries) | Totals (20 entries) | 33 | 33 | 33 | 99 |