# Athletics at the 1977 Summer Universiade

Athletics events were contested at the 1977 Summer Universiade in Sofia, Bulgaria between 19 and 23 August.

## Medal summary
### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: +0.2 m/s) details | Silvio Leonard (CUB) | 10.08 | Petar Petrov (BUL) | 10.19 | Osvaldo Lara (CUB) | 10.31 |
| 200 metres (wind: -1.8 m/s) details | Clancy Edwards (USA) | 20.46 | Silvio Leonard (CUB) | 20.64 | William Snoddy (USA) | 21.17 |
| 400 metres details | Fons Brydenbach (BEL) | 45.18 | Willie Smith (USA) | 45.34 | Ryszard Podlas (POL) | 45.36 |
| 800 metres details | Alberto Juantorena (CUB) | 1:43.44 WR | Milovan Savić (YUG) | 1:45.6 | José Marajo (FRA) | 1:45.89 |
| 1500 metres details | Jozef Plachý (TCH) | 3:40.2 | Mike Kearns (GBR) | 3:40.9 | Abderrahmane Morceli (ALG) | 3:41.0 |
| 5000 metres details | Enn Sellik (URS) | 13:44.6 | Jerzy Kowol (POL) | 13:45.1 | Leonid Moseyev (URS) | 13:45.6 |
| 10,000 metres details | Leonid Moseyev (URS) | 29:12.0 | Franco Fava (ITA) | 29:12.7 | Ilie Floroiu (ROM) | 29:13.4 |
| 110 metres hurdles (wind: +0.6 m/s) details | Alejandro Casañas (CUB) | 13.21 WR | Jan Pusty (POL) | 13.53 | Vyacheslav Kulebyakin (URS) | 13.55 |
| 400 metres hurdles details | Tom Andrews (USA) | 49.52 | Klaus Schönberger (GDR) | 49.55 | Rolf Ziegler (FRG) | 49.72 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase details | Michael Karst (FRG) | 8:25.9 | Paul Copu (ROM) | 8:28.8 | Ron Addison (USA) | 8:29.4 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | Soviet Union (URS) Nikolay Kolesnikov Aleksandr Aksinin Juris Silovs Vladimir Ignatenko | 38.75 | Italy (ITA) Stefano Curini Stefano Rasori Pietro Farina Luciano Caravani | 39.15 | United States (USA) William Snoddy Mike Kee Clancy Edwards Harvey Glance | 39.17 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay details | United States (USA) Evis Jennings Willie Smith Tim Dale Tom Andrews | 3:01.2 | Poland (POL) Jerzy Pietrzyk Henryk Galant Cezary Łapiński Ryszard Podlas | 3:01.52 | West Germany (FRG) Lothar Krieg Eberhard Schneider Ulrich Zunker Rolf Ziegler | 3:06.3 |
| High jump details | Jacek Wszoła (POL) | 2.22 | Paul Poaniewa (FRA) | 2.19 | Aleksandr Grigoryev (URS) | 2.19 |
| Pole vault details | Władysław Kozakiewicz (POL) | 5.55 | Tadeusz Ślusarski (POL) | 5.50 | Vladimir Trofimenko (URS) | 5.50 |
| Long jump details | Nenad Stekić (YUG) | 7.97 | Grzegorz Cybulski (POL) | 7.95 | David Giralt (CUB) | 7.92 |
| Triple jump details | Anatoliy Piskulin (URS) | 17.30w | Ron Livers (USA) | 16.96w | Willie Banks (USA) | 16.94 |
| Shot put details | Valcho Stoev (BUL) | 19.55 | Nikolai Khristov (BUL) | 19.44 | Wolfgang Warnemünde (GDR) | 18.94 |
| Discus throw details | Nikolay Vikhor (URS) | 64.14 | Vladimir Rayev (URS) | 62.42 | Wolfgang Warnemünde (GDR) | 61.98 |
| Hammer throw details | Emanuil Dyulgerov (BUL) | 73.50 | Yuriy Sedykh (URS) | 72.42 | Aleksandr Kozlov (URS) | 72.40 |
| Javelin throw details | Vasiliy Yershov (URS) | 81.60 | David Ottley (GBR) | 81.14 | Valentin Dzhonev (BUL) | 79.76 |
| Decathlon details | Sepp Zeilbauer (AUT) | 8097 | Valeriy Kachanov (URS) | 7958 | Rumen Petrov (BUL) | 7949 |

### Women's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: +0.8 m/s) details | Lyudmila Storozhkova (URS) | 11.21 | Andrea Lynch (GBR) | 11.22 | Silvia Chivás (CUB) | 11.23 |
| 200 metres (wind: -2.2 m/s) details | Silvia Chivás (CUB) | 23.08 | Marina Sidorova (URS) | 23.09 | Andrea Lynch (GBR) | 23.23 |
| 400 metres details | Rosalyn Bryant (USA) | 52.10 | Natalya Sokolova (URS) | 52.15 | Beatriz Castillo (CUB) | 52.95 |
| 800 metres details | Totka Petrova (BUL) | 1:57.6 | Tatyana Kazankina (URS) | 1:58.6 | Svetla Koleva (BUL) | 1:58.9 |
| 1500 metres details | Totka Petrova (BUL) | 4:05.7 | Natalia Mărăşescu (ROM) | 4:05.8 | Maricica Puică (ROM) | 4:06.4 |
| 100 metres hurdles (wind: -0.6 m/s) details | Grażyna Rabsztyn (POL) | 12.86 | Tatyana Anisimova (URS) | 13.03 | Natalya Lebedeva (URS) | 13.05 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | Soviet Union (URS) Lyudmila Maslakova Vera Anisimova Marina Sidorova Tatyana Prorochenko | 43.16 | Bulgaria (BUL) Sofka Popova Atanaska Georgieva Ivanka Valkova Lyubina Dimitrova | 44.30 | Poland (POL) Bogusława Kaniecka Helena Fliśnik Ewa Witkowska Ewa Długołęcka | 44.79 |
| High jump details | Sara Simeoni (ITA) | 1.92 | Debbie Brill (CAN) | 1.90 | Tatyana Boyko (URS) | 1.86 |
| Long jump details | Jacqueline Curtet (FRA) | 6.38 | Jarmila Nygrýnová (TCH) | 6.35 | Jodi Anderson (USA) | 6.35 |
| Shot put details | Elena Stoyanova (BUL) | 19.98 | Nina Isayeva (URS) | 19.56 | Helma Knorscheidt (GDR) | 19.29 |
| Discus throw details | Mariya Vergova (BUL) | 66.34 | Svetlana Melnikova (URS) | 61.78 | Radostina Bakhchevanova (BUL) | 61.08 |
| Javelin throw details | Nadezhda Yakubovich (URS) | 61.42 | Ivanka Vancheva (BUL) | 61.12 | Aranka Vágási (HUN) | 61.12 |
| Pentathlon details | Valentina Dimitrova (BUL) | 4630 | Jane Frederick (USA) | 4625 | Yekaterina Smirnova (URS) | 4521 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 9 | 9 | 8 | 26 |
| 2 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 7 | 4 | 4 | 15 |
| 3 | United States (USA) | 4 | 3 | 5 | 12 |
| 4 | Cuba (CUB) | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 5 | Poland (POL) | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10 |
| 6 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | France (FRA) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | West Germany (FRG) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | Austria (AUT) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Belgium (BEL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 14 | Romania (ROM) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 15 | East Germany (GDR) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 16 | Canada (CAN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | Algeria (ALG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (18 entries) | Totals (18 entries) | 34 | 34 | 34 | 102 |