# Athletics at the 1963 Summer Universiade

Athletics events were contested at the 1963 Summer Universiade in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres details | Enrique Figuerola (CUB) | 10.34 | Edvin Ozolin (URS) | 10.52 | Livio Berruti (ITA) | 10.56 |
| 200 metres details | Edvin Ozolin (URS) | 21.44 | Dick Steane (GBR) | 21.55 | Livio Berruti (ITA) | 21.60 |
| 400 metres details | Adrian Metcalfe (GBR) | 46.75 | Joachim Reske (FRG) | 46.92 | Jacques Pennewaert (BEL) | 47.02 |
| 800 metres details | Mamoru Morimoto (JPN) | 1:48.1 | John Boulter (GBR) | 1:48.6 | Norbert Haupert (LUX) | 1:49.5 |
| 1500 metres details | John Whetton (GBR) | 3:49.5 | Mamoru Morimoto (JPN) | 3:49.6 | Karl Eyerkaufer (FRG) | 3:49.7 |
| 5000 metres details | Leonid Ivanov (URS) | 14:21.4 | Béla Szekeres (HUN) | 14:32.0 | Ron Hill (GBR) | 14:43.2 |
| 110 metres hurdles details | Anatoly Mikhailov (URS) | 14.17 | Giorgio Mazza (ITA) | 14.25 | Mike Hogan (GBR) | 14.40 |
| 400 metres hurdles details | Roberto Frinolli (ITA) | 50.48 | Mike Hogan (GBR) | 51.52 | Salvatore Morale (ITA) | 51.95 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | Hungary (HUN) Csaba Csutorás László Mihályfi István Gyulai Gyula Rábai | 40.98 | Cuba (CUB) Alejandro Pasqual Manuel Montalvo Lázaro Betancourt Enrique Figuerola | 41.37 | France (FRA) Gérard Zingg Jean-Pierre Fabre Alain Roy Alain Moreaux | 41.82 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay details | Great Britain (GRB) Adrian Metcalfe John Boulter Menzies Campbell Dick Steane | 3:12.02 | West Germany (FRG) Peter Hoppe Wolfgang Scholl Johannes Schmitt Hans-Joachim Reske | 3:13.02 | Italy (ITA) Sergio Bello Marco Busatto Mario Fraschini Roberto Frinolli | 3:13.65 |
| High jump details | Valeriy Brumel (URS) | 2.15 | Mauro Bogliatto (ITA) | 2.09 | Roberto Abugattás (PER) | 1.99 |
| Pole vault details | Hennadiy Bleznitsov (URS) | 4.60 | Alain Moreaux (FRA) | 4.30 | Bernard Balastre (FRA) | 4.20 |
| Long jump details | Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS) | 7.95 | Wolfgang Klein (FRG) | 7.70 | Carlos Díaz Martínez (CUB) | 7.45 |
| Triple jump details | Satoshi Shimo (JPN) | 15.99 | Aleksandr Zolotarev (URS) | 15.94 | Luis Areta (ESP) | 15.80 |
| Shot put details | Zsigmond Nagy (HUN) | 18.44 | Mike Lindsay (GBR) | 17.76 | Dietrich Urbach (FRG) | 17.72 |
| Discus throw details | Gaetano Dalla Pria (ITA) | 51.63 | Mike Lindsay (GBR) | 51.23 | Dietrich Urbach (FRG) | 51.03 |
| Hammer throw details | Gennadiy Kondrashov (URS) | 65.76 | Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN) | 65.72 | Masatoshi Wakabayashi (JPN) | 60.90 |
| Javelin throw details | Jānis Lūsis (URS) | 79.77 | Hermann Salomon (FRG) | 77.78 | Gergely Kulcsár (HUN) | 77.62 |
| Decathlon details | Manfred Pflugbeil (FRG) | 6487 | Gerd Lossdörfer (FRG) | 6102 | Marseno Martins (BRA) | |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres details | Renāte Lāce (URS) | 11.91 | Vera Popkova (URS) | 12.02 | Miguelina Cobián (CUB) | 12.11 |
| 200 metres details | Jutta Heine (FRG) | 24.60 | Renāte Lāce (URS) | 24.64 | Miguelina Cobián (CUB) | 24.74 |
| 800 metres details | Olga Kazi (HUN) | 2:05.9 | Antje Gleichfeldt (FRG) | 2:08.2 | Joy Catling (GBR) | 2:10.3 |
| 80 metres hurdles details | Jutta Heine (FRG) | 10.95 | Tatyana Shchelkanova (URS) | 11.01 | Alla Chernisheva (URS) | 11.10 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | Soviet Union (URS) Alla Chernyshova Renāte Lāce Vera Popkova Tatyana Shchelkanova | 46.5 | West Germany (FRG) Bärbel Palmi Antje Gleichfeld Elke Masnfeld Jutta Heine | 47.5 | Cuba (CUB) Irene Martìnez Fulgencia Romay Norma Pérez Miguelina Cobián | 47.5 |
| High jump details | Taisiya Chenchik (URS) | 1.72 | Susan Dennler (GBR) | 1.67 | Heidemarie Hummel (FRG) | 1.65 |
| Long jump details | Tatyana Shchelkanova (URS) | 6.48 | Vlasta Přikrylová (TCH) | 5.71 | Bärbel Palmié (FRG) | 5.63 |
| Shot put details | Tamara Press (URS) | 17.29 | Judit Bognár (HUN) | 15.47 | Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek (HUN) | 14.75 |
| Discus throw details | Tamara Press (URS) | 55.90 | Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek (HUN) | 50.92 | Judit Bognár (HUN) | 49.73 |
| Javelin throw details | Almut Brömmel (FRG) | 49.61 | Elvīra Ozoliņa (URS) | 47.00 | Barbara Decker (FRG) | 43.91 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 14 | 6 | 1 | 21 |
| 2 | West Germany (FRG) | 4 | 7 | 6 | 17 |
| 3 | Great Britain (GBR) | 3 | 6 | 3 | 12 |
| 4 | Hungary (HUN) | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| 5 | Italy (ITA) | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 6 | Japan (JPN) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Cuba (CUB) | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 8 | France (FRA) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Brazil (BRA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Luxembourg (LUX) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Peru (PER) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Spain (ESP) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (13 entries) | Totals (13 entries) | 29 | 29 | 29 | 87 |