1979 Mexico City ↗ 1983 Edmonton All 34 editions

Global Global championships · since 1959

1981 Universiade

Bucharest, Romania 19–30 Jul 1981

events: 39
medals awarded: 117
nations on the podium: 23
world records: 0

Podiums

Sprints

100m

wind -0.4

Mel Lattany 10.18

Calvin Smith Sr 10.26

Ernest Obeng 10.37

Sprints

200m

Yuriy Naumenko 20.79 nwi

Istvan Nagy 20.83 nwi

Georges Kablan Degnan 20.97 nwi

Sprints

400m

Cliff Wiley 45.18

Walter McCoy 45.33

Gerson De Souza 45.91

Middle & long

800m

Andreas Hauck 1:50.12

Sotirios Moutsanas 1:50.20

Pavel Troshchilo 1:50.26

Middle & long

1500m

Said Aouita CR 3:38.43

Vinko Pokrajcic 3:39.83

Amar Brahmia 3:39.85

Middle & long

5000m

Doug Padilla 13:49.95

Jozef Lences Competed under TCH (Czechoslovakia) 13:50.34

Frank Zimmermann Competed under FRG (West Germany) 13:50.84

Middle & long

10,000m

Toomas Turb 29:42.83

Gyorgy Marko 29:51.13

Dave Murphy 29:51.27

Road

Marathon

Ivan Kovalchuk 2:22:14

Herb Wills 2:23:22

Gheorghe Buruiana 2:24:45

Middle & long

3000m steeplechase

John Gregorek Sr CR 8:21.26

Tommy Ekblom 8:21.93

Mariano Scartezzini 8:28.03

Hurdles

110m hurdles

wind +1.0

Larry Cowling 13.65

Pal Palffy 13.73

Georgiy Shabanov 13.82

Hurdles

400m hurdles

David Lee 49.05

Dmitriy Shkarupin 49.52

Antonio Diaz Ferreira 50.04

Jumps

High jump

Leo Williams 2.25

Zhu Jianhua 2.25

Gerd Nagel Competed under FRG (West Germany) 2.25

Jumps

Pole vault

Konstantin Volkov CR 5.75

Vladimir Polyakov (1960) 5.70

Philippe Houvion 5.65

Jumps

Long jump

Laszlo Szalma 8.23 w

Liu Yuhuang 8.11

Ubaldo Duany 8.10

Jumps

Triple jump

Zou Zhenxian CR 17.32

Bela Bakosi 16.97

Keith Connor 16.88

Throws

Shot put

Mike Carter 20.19

Detlef Mortag 19.35

Dalibor Vasicek Competed under TCH (Czechoslovakia) 19.20

Throws

Discus throw

Armin Lemme CR 65.90

Wolfgang Warnemünde 63.54

Ion Zamfirache 63.40

Throws

Hammer throw

Klaus Ploghaus Competed under FRG (West Germany) CR 77.74

Jüri Tamm 76.54

Igor Nikulin 75.24

Throws

Javelin throw

Dainis Kula CR 89.52

Gerald Weiss 87.80

Heino Puuste 87.22

Race walks

20 km race walk

Maurizio Damilano 1:26:47

Carlo Mattioli 1:28:10

Liodor Pescaru (1953) 1:28:56

Combined

Decathlon

Aleksandr Shablenko 8055

Sergey Zhelanov 8013

Georg Werthner 7825

Relays

4x100m

United States of America 38.70

Soviet Union 38.94

France 39.50

Relays

4x400m

Soviet Union 3:02.75

United States of America 3:03.01

Brazil 3:06.79

Medal table

23 nations · 117 medals

#	Nation				Total
1	Soviet Union URS	11	10	10	31
2	United States of America USA	11	6	0	17
3	Germany DR (1949-89) GDR	4	6	0	10
4	Italy ITA	3	3	2	8
5	Romania ROU	2	4	9	15
6	Great Britain & NI GBR	2	1	2	5
7	China PR CHN	1	2	0	3
8	Hungary HUN	1	2	0	3
9	Yugoslavia SR JUG	1	1	0	2
10	Germany GER	1	0	2	3
11	Poland POL	1	0	1	2
12	Morocco MAR	1	0	0	1
13	Czech Republic CZE	0	1	1	2
14	Bulgaria BUL	0	1	0	1
15	Finland FIN	0	1	0	1
16	Greece GRE	0	1	0	1
17	Brazil BRA	0	0	3	3
18	France FRA	0	0	3	3
19	Cuba CUB	0	0	2	2
20	Algeria ALG	0	0	1	1
21	Austria AUT	0	0	1	1
22	Ivory Coast CIV	0	0	1	1
23	Ghana GHA	0	0	1	1

Records set

12 CR

CR Said Aouita 1500m · Men 3:38.43
CR John Gregorek Sr 3000m steeplechase · Men 8:21.26
CR Konstantin Volkov Pole vault · Men 5.75
CR Zou Zhenxian Triple jump · Men 17.32
CR Armin Lemme Discus throw · Men 65.90
CR Klaus Ploghaus Hammer throw · Men 77.74
CR Dainis Kula Javelin throw · Men 89.52
CR Gabriella Dorio 1500m · Women 4:05.35
CR Breda Pergar 3000m · Women 8:53.78
CR Ana Kastetskaja 400m hurdles · Women 55.52
CR Sara Simeoni High jump · Women 1.96
CR Florenta Craciunescu Discus throw · Women 67.48