# Athletics at the 1973 Summer Universiade

Athletics events were contested at the 1973 Summer Universiade in Moscow, Soviet Union, between 16 and 20 August.

## Medal summary
### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s) details | Juris Silovs (URS) | 10.37 | Silvio Leonard (CUB) | 10.43 | Pietro Mennea (ITA) | 10.48 |
| 200 metres (wind: +0.1 m/s) details | Pietro Mennea (ITA) | 20.56 | Chris Monk (GBR) | 20.70 | Wardell Gilbreath (USA) | 20.80 |
| 400 metres details | Alberto Juantorena (CUB) | 45.36 | Semyon Kocher (URS) | 46.32 | David Jenkins (GBR) | 46.39 |
| 800 metres details | Yevgeniy Arzhanov (URS) | 1:46.88 | Marcel Philippe (FRA) | 1:47.29 | Hans-Henning Ohlert (GDR) | 1:47.51 |
| 1500 metres details | Frank Clement (GBR) | 3:42.32 UR | Tony Waldrop (USA) | 3:42.70 | Reggie McAfee (USA) | 3:43.20 |
| 5000 metres details | Mikhail Zhelobovskiy (URS) | 13:41.25 | Glenn Herold (USA) | 13:41.87 | Valentin Zotov (URS) | 13:43.60 |
| 10,000 metres details | Dane Korica (YUG) | 28:48.90 | Norman Morrison (GBR) | 28:48.99 | Patrick Kiingi (KEN) | 28:50.80 |
| 110 metres hurdles (wind: 0.0 m/s) details | Berwyn Price (GBR) | 13.69 | Anatoliy Moshiashvili (URS) | 13.73 | Thomas Munkelt (GDR) | 13.80 |
| 400 metres hurdles details | Dmitriy Stukalov (URS) | 49.62 | Miroslav Kodejš (TCH) | 49.94 | Tadeusz Kulczycki (POL) | 50.54 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase details | Leonid Savelyev (URS) | 8:26.49 | Michael Karst (FRG) | 8:28.32 | Jan Kondzior (POL) | 8:28.66 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | United States (USA) Thomas Whatley Wardell Gilbreath Larry Brown Steve Riddick | 39.10 UR | Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandr Zhidkikh Vladimir Lovetskiy Juris Silovs Vladimir Atamas | 39.46 | Italy (ITA) Vincenzo Guerini Luigi Benedetti Sergio Morselli Pietro Mennea | 39.55 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay details | United States (USA) Mark Lutz Darwin Bond Ron Jenkins Dennis Schultz | 3:04.40 | Great Britain (GBR) David Jenkins Joe Chivers Stephen Black Stewart McCallum | 3:05.38 | West Germany (FRG) Franz-Josef Gleen Siegfried Götz Wolfgang Druschky Bernd Herrmann | 3:06.11 |
| High jump details | Vladimír Malý (TCH) | 2.18 | István Major (HUN) | 2.18 | Vladimir Abramov (URS) Enzo Del Forno (ITA) Csaba Dosa (ROM) Valentin Gavrilov (URS) John Hawkins (CAN) Robert Joseph (USA) Roman Moravec (TCH) | 2.15 |
| Pole vault details | François Tracanelli (FRA) | 5.42 | Yuriy Isakov (URS) Terry Porter (USA) | 5.30 | |
| Long jump details | Valeriy Podluzhniy (URS) | 8.15 | Jean-François Bonhème (FRA) | 7.85 | Hans Baumgartner (FRG) | 7.85 |
| Triple jump details | Mikhail Bariban (URS) | 17.20 | Viktor Saneyev (URS) | 17.00 | Jörg Drehmel (GDR) | 16.76 |
| Shot put details | Valeriy Voykin (URS) | 19.56 | Leszek Gajdziński (POL) | 19.07 | Aleksandr Baryshnikov (URS) | 19.01 |
| Discus throw details | Viktor Zhurba (URS) | 61.60 | Gunnar Müller (GDR) | 59.72 | Ferenc Tégla (HUN) | 59.48 |
| Hammer throw details | Valentin Dmitriyenko (URS) | 72.42 | Aleksey Spiridonov (URS) | 71.82 | Uwe Beyer (FRG) | 71.18 |
| Javelin throw details | Jānis Zirnis (URS) | 80.08 | Dmitriy Sitnikov (URS) | 79.65 | Anthony Hall (USA) | 78.36 |
| Decathlon details | Ryszard Skowronek (POL) | 7965 | Mykola Avilov (URS) | 7903 | Rudolf Sigert (URS) | 7825 |

### Women's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: -0.6 m/s) details | Mona-Lisa Pursiainen (FIN) | 11.41 | Elfgard Schittenhelm (FRG) | 11.62 | Ellen Stropahl (GDR) | 11.63 |
| 200 metres (wind: +0.6 m/s) details | Mona-Lisa Pursiainen (FIN) | 22.39 | Marina Sidorova (URS) | 22.72 | Ellen Stropahl (GDR) | 22.73 |
| 400 metres details | Nadezhda Kolesnikova (URS) | 52.04 | Judy Canty (AUS) | 52.82 | Carmen Trustée (CUB) | 53.44 |
| 800 metres details | Lilyana Tomova (BUL) | 1:59.52 | Nijolė Sabaitė (URS) | 2:00.19 | Elżbieta Katolik (POL) | 2:00.85 |
| 1500 metres details | Paola Pigni-Cacchi (ITA) | 4:10.69 | Glenda Reiser (CAN) | 4:12.50 | Tonka Petrova (BUL) | 4:13.50 |
| 100 metres hurdles details | Grażyna Rabsztyn (POL) | 13.23 | Annerose Krumpholz (GDR) | 13.38 | Natalya Lebedeva (URS) | 13.50 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | Soviet Union (URS) Tatyana Chernikova Lyudmila Zharkova Marina Sidorova Nadezhda Besfamilnaya | 43.99 | Poland (POL) Ewa Długołęcka Barbara Bakulin Urszula Styranka Maria Żukowska | 44.42 | East Germany (GDR) Annerose Krumpholz Ellen Stropahl Bärbel Struppert Doris Maletzki | 44.44 |
| High jump details | Virginia Ioan (ROM) | 1.84 | Jutta Kirst (GDR) | 1.84 | Galina Filatova (URS) Sara Simeoni (ITA) | 1.81 |
| Long jump details | Margrit Olfert (GDR) | 6.63 | Margarita Treinytė (URS) | 6.51 | Brenda Eisler (CAN) | 6.48 |
| Shot put details | Nadezhda Chizhova (URS) | 20.82 UR | Elena Stoyanova (BUL) | 18.64 | Faina Melnik (URS) | 18.31 |
| Discus throw details | Faina Melnik (URS) | 64.54 | Argentina Menis (ROM) | 63.92 | Nadezhda Sergeyeva (URS) | 59.26 |
| Javelin throw details | Svetlana Korolyova (URS) | 62.00 | Kate Schmidt (USA) | 60.34 | Lyutviyan Mollova (BUL) | 59.04 |
| Pentathlon details | Nadiya Tkachenko (URS) | 4629 | Tatyana Vorokhobko (URS) | 4444 | Diane Jones (CAN) | 4370 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 17 | 12 | 9 | 38 |
| 2 | United States (USA) | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 |
| 3 | Great Britain (GBR) | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 4 | Poland (POL) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 5 | Italy (ITA) | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 6 | Finland (FIN) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | East Germany (GDR) | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 |
| 8 | France (FRA) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 10 | Cuba (CUB) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | Romania (ROM) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 13 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 15 | Canada (CAN) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 16 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 17 | Australia (AUS) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | Kenya (KEN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (18 entries) | Totals (18 entries) | 34 | 35 | 40 | 109 |