# Athletics at the 1975 Summer Universiade

With all other disciplines having been cancelled, the 1975 Summer Universiade only featured athletics events and was referred to as the World University Championships in athletics. The competition was held in Rome between 18 and 21 September.

## Medal summary
### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s) details | Pietro Mennea (ITA) | 10.28 GR | Charles Hopkins (USA) | 10.47 | Toma Petrescu (ROM) | 10.66 |
| 200 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s) details | Pietro Mennea (ITA) | 20.28 | Robert Martin (CAN) | 21.06 | Thorsten Johansson (SWE) | 21.15 |
| 400 metres details | Jerzy Pietrzyk (POL) | 46.26 | Roger Jenkins (GBR) | 46.55 | Brian Saunders (CAN) | 46.83 |
| 800 metres details | Waldemar Gondek (POL) | 1:50.04 | Pavel Litovchenko (URS) | 1:50.13 | Sid Ali Djouadi (ALG) | 1:50.19 |
| 1500 metres details | Thomas Wessinghage (FRG) | 3:39.73 | Steve Heidenreich (USA) | 3:40.56 | Gheorghe Ghipu (ROM) | 3:41.19 |
| 5000 metres details | Franco Fava (ITA) | 13:37.56 | Ilie Floroiu (ROM) | 13:39.20 | Julian Goater (GBR) | 13:42.02 |
| 10,000 metres details | Franco Fava (ITA) | 28:37.92 | Ilie Floroiu (ROM) | 28:52.49 | Jim Brown (GBR) | 29:03.54 |
| 110 metres hurdles (wind: 0.0 m/s) details | Charles Foster (USA) | 13.83 | Eduard Pereverzev (URS) | 13.94 | Borisav Pisić (YUG) | 14.28 |
| 400 metres hurdles details | Rolf Ziegler (FRG) | 50.43 | Jerzy Hewelt (POL) | 50.85 | Timo Ogunjimi (NGR) | 51.25 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase details | Bronisław Malinowski (POL) | 8:22.32 | Michael Karst (FRG) | 8:28.22 | Kazimierz Maranda (POL) | 8:29.23 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | Soviet Union (URS) Nikolay Kolesnikov Juris Silovs Sergey Vladimirtsev Aleksandr Zhidkikh | 39.80 | Canada (CAN) Marvin Nash Albin Dukowski Robert Martin Brian Sanders | 40.06 | West Germany (FRG) Klaus-Dieter Bieler Klaus Ehl Reinhard Borchert Dieter Steinmann | 40.20 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay details | Poland (POL) Waldemar Szlendak Jerzy Pietrzyk Jerzy Hewelt Waldemar Gondek | 3:09.13 | Yugoslavia (YUG) Milorad Čikić Ivica Ivičak Milorad Savić Dragan Životić | 3:09.71 | Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Nosenko Pavel Kozban Nikolay Yavtushenko Aleksandr Bratchikov | 3:10.09 |
| High jump details | Enzo del Forno (ITA) | 2.13 | István Major (HUN) | 2.13 | Danial Temim (YUG) | 2.13 |
| Pole vault details | François Tracanelli (FRA) | 5.20 | Bruce Simpson (CAN) | 5.20 | Renato Dionisi (ITA) | 5.10 |
| Long jump details | Grzegorz Cybulski (POL) | 8.27 GR | Nenad Stekić (YUG) | 8.13 | Aleksey Pereverzev (URS) | 7.90 |
| Triple jump details | Michał Joachimowski (POL) | 16.54 | Anatoliy Piskulin (URS) | 16.52 | Sergey Sidorenko (URS) | 16.42 |
| Shot put details | Bishop Dolegiewicz (CAN) | 19.45 | Anatoliy Yarosh (URS) | 19.11 | Valcho Stoev (BUL) | 18.90 |
| Discus throw details | Markku Tuokko (FIN) | 62.94 | Ferenc Tégla (HUN) | 58.10 | Igor Spasovkhodskiy (URS) | 57.80 |
| Hammer throw details | Aleksey Spiridonov (URS) | 73.82 | Walter Schmidt (FRG) | 72.00 | Yuriy Sedykh (URS) | 71.32 |
| Javelin throw details | Gheorghe Megelea (ROM) | 81.30 GR | Bill Schmidt (USA) | 80.20 | Ivan Morgol (URS) | 78.44 |
| Decathlon details | Sepp Zeilbauer (AUT) | 7857 | Philippe Bobin (FRA) | 7568 | Winfried Hartweck (FRG) | 7382 |

### Women's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s) details | Lyudmila Zharkova (URS) | 11.31 | Mona-Lisa Pursiainen (FIN) | 11.47 | Patty Loverock (CAN) | 11.57 |
| 200 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s) details | Pirjo Häggman (FIN) | 23.38 | Mona-Lisa Pursiainen (FIN) | 23.61 | Jelica Pavličić (YUG) | 23.78 |
| 400 metres details | Pirjo Häggman (FIN) | 51.80 GR | Inta Kļimoviča (URS) | 52.25 | Jelica Pavličić (YUG) | 52.50 |
| 800 metres details | Nina Morgunova (URS) | 2:01.94 | Jozefína Čerchlanová (TCH) | 2:02.45 | Nikolina Shtereva (BUL) | 2:02.74 |
| 1500 metres details | Ellen Wellmann (FRG) | 4:08.72 | Natalia Andrei (ROM) | 4:08.84 | Rositsa Pekhlivanova (BUL) | 4:10.17 |
| 3000 metres details | Natalia Andrei (ROM) | 8:54.09 | Thelma Wright (CAN) | 8:54.94 | Svetlana Ulmasova (URS) | 8:55.88 |
| 100 metres hurdles (wind: 0.0 m/s) details | Grażyna Rabsztyn (POL) | 13.14 | Bożena Nowakowska (POL) | 13.34 | Tatyana Anisimova (URS) | 13.64 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | Soviet Union (URS) Inta Kļimoviča Tatyana Anisimova Marina Sidorova Lyudmila Zharkova | 44.77 | Poland (POL) Ewa Długołęcka Aniela Szubert Barbara Bakulin Grażyna Rabsztyn | 44.87 | France (FRA) Cécile Cachera Danielle Camus Jacqueline Curtet Rose-Aimée Bacoul | 45.88 |
| High jump details | Galina Filatova (URS) | 1.88 | Sara Simeoni (ITA) | 1.88 | Alla Fedorchuk (URS) | 1.86 |
| Long jump details | Jarmila Nygrýnová (TCH) | 6.48 | Dorina Catineanu (ROM) | 6.34 | Alina Gheorghiu (ROM) | 6.32 |
| Shot put details | Elena Stoyanova (BUL) | 18.99 | Mihaela Loghin (ROM) | 18.21 | Rima Makauskaitė (URS) | 18.06 |
| Discus throw details | Mariya Vergova (BUL) | 65.28 | Argentina Menis (ROM) | 64.28 | Radostina Bakhchevanova (BUL) | 56.96 |
| Javelin throw details | Nadezhda Yakubovich (URS) | 61.72 | Kate Schmidt (USA) | 60.36 | Éva Zörgő (ROM) | 59.50 |
| Pentathlon details | Jane Frederick (USA) | 4442 | Djurdja Focic (YUG) | 4423 | Olga Rukavishnikova (URS) | 4313 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 7 | 5 | 11 | 23 |
| 2 | Poland (POL) | 7 | 3 | 1 | 11 |
| 3 | Italy (ITA) | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 4 | West Germany (FRG) | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | Finland (FIN) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 6 | Romania (ROM) | 2 | 6 | 4 | 12 |
| 7 | United States (USA) | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 8 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 9 | Canada (CAN) | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
| 10 | France (FRA) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Austria (AUT) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 14 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 15 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 16 | Algeria (ALG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 16 | Nigeria (NGR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 16 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (18 entries) | Totals (18 entries) | 35 | 35 | 35 | 105 |