# Athletics at the 1995 Summer Universiade

At the 1995 Summer Universiade, the athletics events were held at the Hakatanomori Athletic Stadium in Fukuoka, Japan from 29 August to 3 September. A total of 43 events were contested, of which 23 by male and 20 by female athletes.
The medal table ended closely, with the United States, Russia and host nation Japan each winning five gold medals. The United States had the highest number of silver medals (six) while Russia had the largest medal haul with sixteen medals in total. Romania managed four gold medals, all of them in the women's competition, while Italy had the third greatest number of medals with ten. Thirty-six nations reached the medal table in the athletics competition. The gold medals won by sprinter Eswort Coombs from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and hurdler Nicole Ramalalanirina of Madagascar were their countries' only medals at the 1995 Universiade.
Two Universiade records were broken at the competition: the United States men's 4×400 metres relay team ran a time of 3:00.40 minutes and Italy's Annarita Sidoti set a new 10 km walk record. Furthermore, Šárka Kašpárková equalled the women's triple jump standard. Romania's Gabriela Szabo took two gold medals – winning the 1500 metres and 5000 metres – beginning an international career which would see her win three world titles and an Olympic gold. Future Olympic sprint medallists Obadele Thompson and Ekaterini Thanou were runners-up in the 100 metres races.
Abdelkader Chékhémani, Iulia Negură and Heike Meissner all defended their respective 1993 titles, while Hungary's István Bagyula took his third consecutive pole vault gold medal. Men's hammer throw winner Balázs Kiss went on to win the Olympic title in 1996 and the women's discus throw champion Natalya Sadova was the Olympic silver medallist that same year. The 1990 European champion Dragutin Topić was the winner of the men's high jump.
In the event programme, the women's 3000 metres was replaced by the 5000 metres for the first time, matching the IAAF's changes at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics earlier that August. The 1995 competition featured the last Universiade marathon races, as the distance was replaced by the shorter half marathon event at future editions.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres details | David Oaks (USA) | 10.28 | Obadele Thompson (BAR) | 10.34 | Terrence Bowen (USA) | 10.36 |
| 200 metres details | Anthuan Maybank (USA) | 20.46 | Dave Dopek (USA) | 20.47 | Thomas Sbokos (GRE) | 20.75 |
| 400 metres details | Eswort Coombs (VIN) | 45.38 | Udeme Ekpeyong (NGR) | 45.57 | Dmitriy Kosov (RUS) | 45.70 |
| 800 metres details | Hezekiél Sepeng (RSA) | 1:47.87 | Andrés Manuel Díaz (ESP) | 1:48.06 | Pavel Soukup (CZE) | 1:48.15 |
| 1500 metres details | Abdelkader Chékhémani (FRA) | 3:46.53 | Andrea Giocondi (ITA) | 3:47.11 | Abdelhamid Slimani (ALG) | 3:47.43 |
| 5000 metres details | Katsuhiro Kawauchi (JPN) | 13:53.86 | Brahim Boulami (MAR) | 13:54.05 | Maurizio Leone (ITA) | 13:54.13 |
| 10,000 metres details | Yasuyuki Watanabe (JPN) | 28:47.78 | Stephen Mayaka (KEN) | 28:55.02 | Gabino Apolonio (MEX) | 29:07.95 |
| 110 metres hurdles details | Jonathan Nsenga (BEL) | 13.51 | Brian Amos (USA) | 13.59 | Krzysztof Mehlich (POL) | 13.66 |
| 400 metres hurdles details | Kazuhiko Yamazaki (JPN) | 48.58 | Octavius Terry (USA) | 48.95 | Yoshihiko Saito (JPN) | 49.18 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase details | Daniel Njenga (KEN) | 8:27.03 | Joël Bourgeois (CAN) | 8:28.44 | Brahim Boulami (MAR) | 8:35.53 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | United States (USA) Terrance Bowen David Oaks Peter Hargraves David Dopek | 38.96 | Great Britain (GBR) Paul White Toby Box Douglas Walker Michael Afilaka | 39.39 | Italy (ITA) Angelo Cipolloni Alessandro Orlandi Carlo Occhiena Andrea Colombo | 39.64 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay details | United States (USA) Ryan Hayden Leonard Byrd Andre Morris Anthuan Maybank | 3:00.40 GR | Russia (RUS) Innokentiy Zharov Dmitriy Bey Sergey Voronin Dmitriy Kosov | 3:01.95 | Great Britain (GBR) Anthony Williams Jared Deacon Gary Jennings David Grindley | 3:02.42 |
| Marathon details | Takaki Morikawa (JPN) | 2:21:32 | Patrick Muturi (KEN) | 2:24:29 | Kim Ki-Young (KOR) | 2:24:43 |
| 20 kilometres walk details | Daniel García (MEX) | 1:24:11 | Giovanni Perricelli (ITA) | 1:24:19 | Arturo Di Mezza (ITA) | 1:24:33 |
| High jump details | Dragutin Topić (YUG) | 2.29 m | Wolfgang Kreissig (GER) | 2.29 m | Brendan Reilly (GBR) | 2.27 m |
| Pole vault details | István Bagyula (HUN) | 5.70 m | Lawrence Johnson (USA) | 5.60 m | Nuno Fernandes (POR) | 5.55 m |
| Long jump details | Kirill Sosunov (RUS) | 8.21 m | Georg Ackermann (GER) | 8.21 m | Gregor Cankar (SLO) | 8.18 m (w) |
| Triple jump details | Andrey Kurennoy (RUS) | 17.30 m | Armen Martirosyan (ARM) | 16.82 m | LaMark Carter (USA) | 16.62 m |
| Shot put details | Yuriy Bilonog (UKR) | 19.70 m | Viktor Bulat (BLR) | 19.69 m | Thorsten Herbrand (GER) | 18.88 m |
| Discus throw details | Vitaliy Sidorov (UKR) | 62.16 m | Frits Potgieter (RSA) | 61.38 m | Diego Fortuna (ITA) | 61.16 m |
| Hammer throw details | Balázs Kiss (HUN) | 79.74 m | Oleksandr Krykun (UKR) | 77.06 m | Sergey Gavrilov (RUS) | 75.50 m |
| Javelin throw details | Zhang Lianbiao (CHN) | 79.30 m | Gregor Högler (AUT) | 77.52 m | Andrey Uglov (UKR) | 76.16 m |
| Decathlon details | Dezsõ Szabó (HUN) | 8051 pts | Sebastian Chmara (POL) | 8014 pts | Dmitriy Sukhomazov (BLR) | 7971 pts |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres details | Melanie Paschke (GER) | 11.16 | Ekaterini Thanou (GRE) | 11.30 | Mary Tombiri (NGR) | 11.43 |
| 200 metres details (wind: +1.7 m/s) | Du Xiujie (CHN) | 22.53 | Oksana Dyachenko (RUS) | 22.89 | Zlatka Georgieva (BUL) | 23.04 |
| 400 metres details | Olabisi Afolabi (NGR) | 50.50 | Tatyana Chebykina (RUS) | 51.01 | Yelena Rurak (UKR) | 51.76 |
| 800 metres details | Stella Jongmans (NED) | 2:02.13 | Svetlana Tverdokhleb (UKR) | 2:02.92 | Natalie Tait (GBR) | 2:03.32 |
| 1500 metres details | Gabriela Szabo (ROM) | 4:11.73 | Julie Henner (USA) | 4:12.70 | Ursula Friedmann (GER) | 4:13.32 |
| 5000 metres details | Gabriela Szabo (ROM) | 15:29.86 | Silvia Sommaggio (ITA) | 15:34.32 | Yumi Sato (JPN) | 15:35.28 |
| 10,000 metres details | Iulia Negură (ROM) | 32:28.25 | Alina Tecuţa (ROM) | 32:43.38 | Yasuko Kimura (JPN) | 33:03.01 |
| 100 metres hurdles details | Nicole Ramalalanirina (MAD) | 13.02 | Olena Ovcharova (UKR) | 13.07 | Svetlana Laukhova (RUS) | 13.08 |
| 400 metres hurdles details | Heike Meissner (GER) | 55.57 | Ionela Târlea (ROM) | 55.99 | Tonya Williams (USA) | 56.04 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | United States (USA) Cheryl Taplin Inger Miller Juan Ball Kenya Walton | 43.58 | Russia (RUS) Natalya Anisimova Oksana Dyachenko Olga Voronova Janna Levacheva | 44.06 | Nigeria (NGR) Ime Akpan Taiwo Aladefa Pat Itanyi Mary Tombiri | 44.08 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay details | Russia (RUS) Ioulia Sotnikova Natalia Khrouchtcheleva Elena Andreeva Tatiana Tchebykina | 3:28.32 | United States (USA) Nicole Green Camara Jones Janeen Jones Youlanda Warren | 3:30.25 | Ukraine (UKR) Viktoriya Fomenko Svetlana Tverdokhleb Tatyana Movchan Olena Rurak | 3:30.57 |
| Marathon details | Masako Kusakaya (JPN) | 2:53:03 | Nao Otani (JPN) | 2:57:09 | Kristi Klinnert (USA) | 2:57:29 |
| 10 kilometres walk details | Annarita Sidoti (ITA) | 43:22 GR | Rossella Giordano (ITA) | 43:30 | Larisa Ramazanova (RUS) | 43:56 |
| High jump details | Viktoriya Fyodorova (RUS) | 1.92 m | Svetlana Zalevskaya (KAZ) | 1.92 m | Natalia Jonckheere (BEL) | 1.88 m |
| Long jump details | Viktoriya Vershynina (UKR) | 6.76 m | Sharon Jaklofsky (NED) | 6.74 m | Lyudmila Galkina (RUS) | 6.55 m |
| Triple jump details | Šárka Kašpárková (CZE) | 14.20 m GR= | Lyudmila Dubkova (RUS) | 13.87 m | Barbara Lah (ITA) | 13.85 m |
| Shot put details | Wu Xianchun (CHN) | 18.31 m | Cheng Xiaoyan (CHN) | 17.95 m | Corrie de Bruin (NED) | 17.82 m |
| Discus throw details | Natalya Sadova (RUS) | 62.92 m | Anja Gündler (GER) | 60.78 m | Bao Dongying (CHN) | 59.30 m |
| Javelin throw details (Old javelin model) | Felicia Ţilea (ROM) | 62.16 m | Claudia Isaila (ROM) | 61.74 m | Lee Young-Sun (KOR) | 61.62 m |
| Heptathlon details | Jane Jamieson (AUS) | 6123 pts | Mona Steigauf (GER) | 6102 pts | Irina Tyukhay (RUS) | 5989 pts |

## Medal table

* Host nation (Japan)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | United States | 5 | 6 | 4 | 15 |
| 2 | Russia | 5 | 5 | 6 | 16 |
| 3 | Japan* | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 4 | Romania | 4 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 5 | Ukraine | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 6 | China | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 7 | Hungary | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Germany | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| 9 | Italy | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 |
| 10 | Kenya | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 11 | Nigeria | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 12 | Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 13 | South Africa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | Belgium | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 14 | Czech Republic | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 14 | Mexico | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 17 | Australia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | France | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | Madagascar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | Yugoslavia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 22 | Great Britain | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 23 | Belarus | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 23 | Greece | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 23 | Morocco | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 23 | Poland | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 27 | Armenia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 27 | Austria | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 27 | Barbados | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 27 | Canada | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 27 | Kazakhstan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 27 | Spain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 33 | South Korea | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 34 | Algeria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 34 | Bulgaria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 34 | Portugal | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 34 | Slovenia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (37 entries) | Totals (37 entries) | 43 | 43 | 43 | 129 |

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