Athletics at the 2009 Summer Universiade
Dates	7 July – 12 July
Host city	Belgrade, Serbia
Venue	Stadion Crvena Zvezda
Level	Senior
Events	46
Participation	982 athletes from 96 nations
Records set	4 UR's
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The athletics competition at the 2009 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadion Crvena Zvezda in Belgrade, Serbia from July 7 to July 12, 2009.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Rolando Palacios  Honduras	10.30	Amr Seoud  Egypt	10.31	Masashi Eriguchi  Japan	10.33
200 metres	Ramil Guliyev  Azerbaijan	20.04 NR	Amr Seoud  Egypt	20.52	Thuso Mpuang  South Africa	20.69
400 metres	Yuzo Kanemaru  Japan	45.68	Clemens Zeller  Austria	46.12	Daniel Harper  Canada	46.22
800 metres	Sajjad Moradi  Iran	1:48.02	Goran Nava  Serbia	1:48.06	Fabiano Peçanha  Brazil	1:48.07
1500 metres	Vyacheslav Sokolov  Russia	3:42.49	Samir Khadar  Algeria	3:42.50	Goran Nava  Serbia	3:42.88
5000 metres	Halil Akkaş  Turkey	14:06.96	Piedra Bayron  Ecuador	14:07.11	Elroy Gelant  South Africa	14:07.97
10,000 metres	Sibabalwe Mzazi  South Africa	28:21.44	Denis Mayaud  France	28:21.50	Lungisa Mdedelwa  South Africa	28:21.52
Half marathon	Zhao Ran  China	1:04:28	Tomoya Onishi  Japan	1:04:30	Francesco Bona  Italy	1:04:35
3000 metres steeplechase	Ion Luchianov  Moldova	8:25.79	Halil Akkaş  Turkey	8:25.80	Steffen Uliczka  Germany	8:26.18
110 metres hurdles	Yin Jing  China	13.38	Lehann Fourie  South Africa	13.66	Emanuele Abate  Italy	13.70
400 metres hurdles	Tristan Thomas  Australia	48.75	Kazuaki Yoshida  Japan	49.78	Michael Bultheel  Belgium	49.79
20 km walk	Sergey Bakulin  Russia	1:20:52 UR	Andrey Ruzavin  Russia	1:21:08	Moacir Zimmermann  Brazil	1:21:35
4 × 100 m relay	Maxim Mokrousov Ivan Teplykh Roman Smirnov Konstantin Petryashov  Russia	39.21	Robert Kubaczyk Artur Zaczek Kamil Masztak Dariusz Kuć  Poland	39.33	Leigh Julius Thuso Mpuang Kagisho Kumbane Wilhelm van der Vyver  South Africa	39.52
4 × 400 m relay	Chris Troode Brendan Cole Tristan Thomas Sean Wroe Clay Watkins John Burstow  Australia	3:03.67	Witold Bańka Kacper Kozłowski Piotr Kędzia Rafał Wieruszewski Piotr Wiaderek  Poland	3:05.69	Hideyuki Hirose Yusuke Ishitsuka Kazuaki Yoshida Yuzo Kanemaru  Japan	3:06.46
High jump	Eduard Malchenko  Russia	2.23	Michael Mason  Canada	2.23	Ivan Ilichev  Russia	2.20
Pole vault	Aleksandr Gripich  Russia	5.60	Giorgio Piantella  Italy	5.55	Hendrik Gruber  Germany	5.45
Long jump	Kim Deok-Hyeon  South Korea	8.41w	Ndiss Kaba Badji  Senegal	8.19	Marcin Starzak  Poland	8.10
Triple jump	Nelson Évora  Portugal	17.22	Héctor Dairo Fuentes  Cuba	17.13	Vladimir Letnicov  Moldova	16.80
Shot put	Soslan Tsyrikhov  Russia	19.59	Zhang Jun  China	19.58	Krzysztof Krzywosz  Poland	19.38
Discus throw	Mohammad Samimi  Iran	65.33	Mahmoud Samimi  Iran	64.67	Markus Münch  Germany	63.76
Hammer throw	Yury Shayunou  Belarus	76.92	James Steacy  Canada	74.88	Oleksiy Sokyrsky  Ukraine	73.73
Javelin throw	Ainārs Kovals  Latvia	81.58	Stuart Farquhar  New Zealand	79.48	Park Jae-Myong  South Korea	79.29
Decathlon	Mikalai Shubianok  Belarus	7960	Brent Newdick  New Zealand	7874	Attila Szabó  Hungary	7748

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Lina Grincikaitė  Lithuania	11.31	Momoko Takahashi  Japan	11.52	Sónia Tavares  Portugal	11.54
200 metres	Monique Williams  New Zealand	23.11	Isabel Le Roux  South Africa	23.18	Sabina Veit  Slovenia	23.34
400 metres	Fatou Bintou Fall  Senegal	51.65	Esther Akinsulie  Canada	51.70	Carline Muir  Canada	52.07
800 metres	Madeleine Pape  Australia	2:01.91	Olga Cristea  Moldova	2:03.49	Rebecca Johnstone  Canada	2:03.67
1500 metres	Marina Muncan  Serbia	4:15.53	Kaila McKnight  Australia	4:16.10	Elena Garcia Grimau  Spain	4:17.02
5000 metres	Sara Moreira  Portugal	15:32.78	Kasumi Nishihara  Japan	15:46.95	Natalia Medvedeva  Russia	15:49.60
10,000 metres	Kasumi Nishihara  Japan	33:14.62	Tatiana Shutova  Russia	33:29.99	Volha Minina  Belarus	33:32.35
Half marathon	Chisato Saito  Japan	1:13:44	Kikuyo Tsuzaki  Japan	1:14:03	Sayo Nomura  Japan	1:14:23
3000 metres steeplechase	Sara Moreira  Portugal	9:32.62 UR	Ancuța Bobocel  Romania	9:38.14	Türkan Erişmiş  Turkey	9:38.87
100 metres hurdles	Nevin Yanıt  Turkey	12.89	Sonata Tamošaitytė  Lithuania	13.10	Andrea Miller  New Zealand	13.13
400 metres hurdles	Vania Stambolova  Bulgaria	55.14	Jonna Tilgner  Germany	56.02	Sara Slott Petersen  Denmark	56.40
20 km walk	Olga Mikhaylova  Russia	1:30:43 UR	Masumi Fuchise  Japan	1:31:42	Olga Povalyaeva  Russia	1:33:58
4 × 100 m relay	Audrey Alloh Doris Tomasini Giulia Arcioni Maria Aurora Salvagno  Italy	43.83	Ewelina Ptak Marika Popowicz Dorota Jędrusińska Marta Jeschke Iwona Brzezińska  Poland	43.96	Laetitia Denis Ayodelé Ikuesan Amandine Elard Lucienne M'belu  France	44.31
4 × 400 m relay	Carline Muir Amonn Nelson Kimberly Hyacinthe Esther Akinsulie  Canada	3:33.09	Ekaterina Voronenkova Alexandra Zaytseva Nadezda Sozontova Ekaterina Vukolova  Russia	3:34.45	Ndeye Fatouseck Soumah Mame Fatou Faye Fatou Diabaye Fatou Bintou Fall  Senegal	3:36.33
High jump	Ariane Friedrich  Germany	2.00	Yekaterina Yevseyeva  Kazakhstan	1.91	Julia Wanner  Germany	1.91
Pole vault	Jiřina Ptáčníková  Czech Republic	4.55	Nicole Büchler   Switzerland	4.50	Kristina Gadschiew  Germany	4.50
Long jump	Ivana Španović  Serbia	6.64	Irina Kryachkova  Russia	6.47	Ruky Abdulai  Canada	6.44
Triple jump	Yarianna Martínez  Cuba	14.40	Natalia Kutyakova  Russia	14.14	Anastasia Matveeva  Russia	13.94
Shot put	Mailín Vargas  Cuba	18.91	Chiara Rosa  Italy	18.21	Alena Kopets  Belarus	17.48
Discus throw	Dani Samuels  Australia	62.48	Żaneta Glanc  Poland	60.57	Kateryna Karsak  Ukraine	60.47
Hammer throw	Betty Heidler  Germany	75.83 UR	Martina Hrašnová  Slovakia	72.85	Kathrin Klaas  Germany	70.97
Javelin throw	Sunette Viljoen  South Africa	62.52	Vira Rebryk  Ukraine	61.02	Mareike Rittweg  Germany	59.44
Heptathlon	Jessica Samuelsson  Sweden	6004	Jana Korešová  Czech Republic	5956	Saludes Cristina Barcena  Spain	5828

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	7	5	4	16
2	Australia (AUS)	4	1	0	5
3	Japan (JPN)	3	6	3	12
4	Portugal (POR)	3	0	1	4
5	South Africa (RSA)	2	2	4	8
6	Germany (GER)	2	1	7	10
7	Serbia (SRB)	2	1	1	4
	Turkey (TUR)	2	1	1	4
9	China (CHN)	2	1	0	3
	Cuba (CUB)	2	1	0	3
	Iran (IRI)	2	1	0	3
12	Belarus (BLR)	2	0	2	4
13	Canada (CAN)	1	3	4	8
14	Italy (ITA)	1	2	2	5
15	New Zealand (NZL)	1	2	1	4
16	Moldova (MDA)	1	1	1	3
	Senegal (SEN)	1	1	1	3
18	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	1	0	2
	Lithuania (LTU)	1	1	0	2
20	South Korea (KOR)	1	0	1	2
21	Azerbaijan (AZE)	1	0	0	1
	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	0	0	1
	Honduras (HON)	1	0	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	1	0	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
26	Poland (POL)	0	4	2	6
27	Egypt (EGY)	0	2	0	2
28	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	2	3
29	France (FRA)	0	1	1	2
30	Algeria (ALG)	0	1	0	1
	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Ecuador (ECU)	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	1	0	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
37	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	2	2
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	2	2
39	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	0	1	1
Totals (42 entries)		46	46	46	138

Participating nations

References

Day reports

• van Kuijen, Hans (2009-07-12). Friedrich 2m; gold for hosts, two for Iran – World University Games, Final Day. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-23.
• van Kuijen, Hans (2009-07-12). Impressive Triple Jump; Japanese sweep half marathon at World University Games, Day 5 . IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-23.
• van Kuijen, Hans (2009-07-11). World Champion Heidler hammers 75.83m, as Games' records highlight World University Games - Day 4. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-23.
• van Kuijen, Hans (2009-07-10). Evora adds another title to his impressive CV – World University Games, Day 3. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-23.
• van Kuijen, Hans (2009-07-09). Gold for Serbian junior Spanovic in Long Jump – World University Games Day 2. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-23.
• van Kuijen, Hans (2009-07-08). 65.46m African record in the Javelin Throw for Viljoen in Belgrade – World University Games Day 1. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-23.
• Results (Archived)