Athletics at the 1995 Summer Universiade

International athletics championship event

Athletics at the 1995 Summer Universiade

Dates| 29 August – 3 September
Host city| Fukuoka, Japan
Venue| Hakatanomori Athletic Stadium
Events| 43
Participation| 938 athletes from
136 nations

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1995 Summer Universiade

At the 1995 Summer Universiade, the athletics events were held at the Hakatanomori Athletic Stadium in Fukuoka, Japan from 29 August to 3 September.[1] A total of 43 events were contested, of which 23 by male and 20 by female athletes.

The medal table ended closely, with the United States, Russia and host nation Japan each winning five gold medals. The United States had the highest number of silver medals (six) while Russia had the largest medal haul with sixteen medals in total. Romania managed four gold medals, all of them in the women's competition, while Italy had the third greatest number of medals with ten. Thirty-six nations reached the medal table in the athletics competition. The gold medals won by sprinter Eswort Coombs from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and hurdler Nicole Ramalalanirina of Madagascar were their countries' only medals at the 1995 Universiade.

Two Universiade records were broken at the competition: the United States men's 4×400 metres relay team ran a time of 3:00.40 minutes and Italy's Annarita Sidoti set a new 10 km walk record. Furthermore, Šárka Kašpárková equalled the women's triple jump standard. Romania's Gabriela Szabo took two gold medals – winning the 1500 metres and 5000 metres – beginning an international career which would see her win three world titles and an Olympic gold. Future Olympic sprint medallists Obadele Thompson and Ekaterini Thanou were runners-up in the 100 metres races.

Abdelkader Chékhémani, Iulia Negură and Heike Meissner all defended their respective 1993 titles, while Hungary's István Bagyula took his third consecutive pole vault gold medal. Men's hammer throw winner Balázs Kiss went on to win the Olympic title in 1996 and the women's discus throw champion Natalya Sadova was the Olympic silver medallist that same year. The 1990 European champion Dragutin Topić was the winner of the men's high jump.

In the event programme, the women's 3000 metres was replaced by the 5000 metres for the first time, matching the IAAF's changes at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics earlier that August. The 1995 competition featured the last Universiade marathon races, as the distance was replaced by the shorter half marathon event at future editions.[2][3]

## Medal summary

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### Men

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 metres
details |  David Oaks (USA) | 10.28  |  Obadele Thompson (BAR) | 10.34  |  Terrence Bowen (USA) | 10.36
200 metres
details |  Anthuan Maybank (USA) | 20.46  |  Dave Dopek (USA) | 20.47  |  Thomas Sbokos (GRE) | 20.75
400 metres
details |  Eswort Coombs (VIN) | 45.38  |  Udeme Ekpeyong (NGR) | 45.57  |  Dmitriy Kosov (RUS) | 45.70
800 metres
details |  Hezekiél Sepeng (RSA) | 1:47.87  |  Andrés Manuel Díaz (ESP) | 1:48.06  |  Pavel Soukup (CZE) | 1:48.15
1500 metres
details |  Abdelkader Chékhémani (FRA) | 3:46.53  |  Andrea Giocondi (ITA) | 3:47.11  |  Abdelhamid Slimani (ALG) | 3:47.43
5000 metres
details |  Katsuhiro Kawauchi (JPN) | 13:53.86  |  Brahim Boulami (MAR) | 13:54.05  |  Maurizio Leone (ITA) | 13:54.13
10,000 metres
details |  Yasuyuki Watanabe (JPN) | 28:47.78  |  Stephen Mayaka (KEN) | 28:55.02  |  Gabino Apolonio (MEX) | 29:07.95
110 metres hurdles
details |  Jonathan Nsenga (BEL) | 13.51  |  Brian Amos (USA) | 13.59  |  Krzysztof Mehlich (POL) | 13.66
400 metres hurdles
details |  Kazuhiko Yamazaki (JPN) | 48.58  |  Octavius Terry (USA) | 48.95  |  Yoshihiko Saito (JPN) | 49.18
3000 metres steeplechase
details |  Daniel Njenga (KEN) | 8:27.03  |  Joël Bourgeois (CAN) | 8:28.44  |  Brahim Boulami (MAR) | 8:35.53
4 × 100 metres relay
details |  United States (USA)
Terrance Bowen
David Oaks
Peter Hargraves
David Dopek | 38.96  |  Great Britain (GBR)
Paul White
Toby Box
Douglas Walker
Michael Afilaka | 39.39  |  Italy (ITA)
Angelo Cipolloni
Alessandro Orlandi
Carlo Occhiena
Andrea Colombo | 39.64
4 × 400 metres relay
details |  United States (USA)
Ryan Hayden
Leonard Byrd
Andre Morris
Anthuan Maybank | 3:00.40 GR |  Russia (RUS)
Innokentiy Zharov
Dmitriy Bey
Sergey Voronin
Dmitriy Kosov | 3:01.95  |  Great Britain (GBR)
Anthony Williams
Jared Deacon
Gary Jennings
David Grindley | 3:02.42
Marathon
details |  Takaki Morikawa (JPN) | 2:21:32  |  Patrick Muturi (KEN) | 2:24:29  |  Kim Ki-Young (KOR) | 2:24:43
20 kilometres walk
details |  Daniel García (MEX) | 1:24:11  |  Giovanni Perricelli (ITA) | 1:24:19  |  Arturo Di Mezza (ITA) | 1:24:33
High jump
details |  Dragutin Topić (YUG) | 2.29 m  |  Wolfgang Kreissig (GER) | 2.29 m  |  Brendan Reilly (GBR) | 2.27 m
Pole vault
details |  István Bagyula (HUN) | 5.70 m  |  Lawrence Johnson (USA) | 5.60 m  |  Nuno Fernandes (POR) | 5.55 m
Long jump
details |  Kirill Sosunov (RUS) | 8.21 m  |  Georg Ackermann (GER) | 8.21 m  |  Gregor Cankar (SLO) | 8.18 m (w)
Triple jump
details |  Andrey Kurennoy (RUS) | 17.30 m  |  Armen Martirosyan (ARM) | 16.82 m  |  LaMark Carter (USA) | 16.62 m
Shot put
details |  Yuriy Bilonog (UKR) | 19.70 m  |  Viktor Bulat (BLR) | 19.69 m  |  Thorsten Herbrand (GER) | 18.88 m
Discus throw
details |  Vitaliy Sidorov (UKR) | 62.16 m  |  Frits Potgieter (RSA) | 61.38 m  |  Diego Fortuna (ITA) | 61.16 m
Hammer throw
details |  Balázs Kiss (HUN) | 79.74 m  |  Oleksandr Krykun (UKR) | 77.06 m  |  Sergey Gavrilov (RUS) | 75.50 m
Javelin throw
details |  Zhang Lianbiao (CHN) | 79.30 m  |  Gregor Högler (AUT) | 77.52 m  |  Andrey Uglov (UKR) | 76.16 m
Decathlon
details |  Dezsõ Szabó (HUN) | 8051 pts  |  Sebastian Chmara (POL) | 8014 pts  |  Dmitriy Sukhomazov (BLR) | 7971 pts

### Women

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 metres
details |  Melanie Paschke (GER) | 11.16  |  Ekaterini Thanou (GRE) | 11.30  |  Mary Tombiri (NGR) | 11.43
200 metres
details
(wind: +1.7 m/s) |  Du Xiujie (CHN) | 22.53  |  Oksana Dyachenko (RUS) | 22.89  |  Zlatka Georgieva (BUL) | 23.04
400 metres
details |  Olabisi Afolabi (NGR) | 50.50  |  Tatyana Chebykina (RUS) | 51.01  |  Yelena Rurak (UKR) | 51.76
800 metres
details |  Stella Jongmans (NED) | 2:02.13  |  Svetlana Tverdokhleb (UKR) | 2:02.92  |  Natalie Tait (GBR) | 2:03.32
1500 metres
details |  Gabriela Szabo (ROM) | 4:11.73  |  Julie Henner (USA) | 4:12.70  |  Ursula Friedmann (GER) | 4:13.32
5000 metres
details |  Gabriela Szabo (ROM) | 15:29.86  |  Silvia Sommaggio (ITA) | 15:34.32  |  Yumi Sato (JPN) | 15:35.28
10,000 metres
details |  Iulia Negură (ROM) | 32:28.25  |  Alina Tecuţa (ROM) | 32:43.38  |  Yasuko Kimura (JPN) | 33:03.01
100 metres hurdles
details |  Nicole Ramalalanirina (MAD) | 13.02  |  Olena Ovcharova (UKR) | 13.07  |  Svetlana Laukhova (RUS) | 13.08
400 metres hurdles
details |  Heike Meissner (GER) | 55.57  |  Ionela Târlea (ROM) | 55.99  |  Tonya Williams (USA) | 56.04
4 × 100 metres relay
details |  United States (USA)
Cheryl Taplin
Inger Miller
Juan Ball
Kenya Walton | 43.58  |  Russia (RUS)
Natalya Anisimova
Oksana Dyachenko
Olga Voronova
Janna Levacheva | 44.06  |  Nigeria (NGR)
Ime Akpan
Taiwo Aladefa
Pat Itanyi
Mary Tombiri | 44.08
4 × 400 metres relay
details |  Russia (RUS)
Ioulia Sotnikova
Natalia Khrouchtcheleva
Elena Andreeva
Tatiana Tchebykina | 3:28.32  |  United States (USA)
Nicole Green
Camara Jones
Janeen Jones
Youlanda Warren | 3:30.25  |  Ukraine (UKR)
Viktoriya Fomenko
Svetlana Tverdokhleb
Tatyana Movchan
Olena Rurak | 3:30.57
Marathon
details |  Masako Kusakaya (JPN) | 2:53:03  |  Nao Otani (JPN) | 2:57:09  |  Kristi Klinnert (USA) | 2:57:29
10 kilometres walk
details |  Annarita Sidoti (ITA) | 43:22 GR |  Rossella Giordano (ITA) | 43:30  |  Larisa Ramazanova (RUS) | 43:56
High jump
details |  Viktoriya Fyodorova (RUS) | 1.92 m  |  Svetlana Zalevskaya (KAZ) | 1.92 m  |  Natalia Jonckheere (BEL) | 1.88 m
Long jump
details |  Viktoriya Vershynina (UKR) | 6.76 m  |  Sharon Jaklofsky (NED) | 6.74 m  |  Lyudmila Galkina (RUS) | 6.55 m
Triple jump
details |  Šárka Kašpárková (CZE) | 14.20 m GR= |  Lyudmila Dubkova (RUS) | 13.87 m  |  Barbara Lah (ITA) | 13.85 m
Shot put
details |  Wu Xianchun (CHN) | 18.31 m  |  Cheng Xiaoyan (CHN) | 17.95 m  |  Corrie de Bruin (NED) | 17.82 m
Discus throw
details |  Natalya Sadova (RUS) | 62.92 m  |  Anja Gündler (GER) | 60.78 m  |  Bao Dongying (CHN) | 59.30 m
Javelin throw
details
(Old javelin model) |  Felicia Ţilea (ROM) | 62.16 m  |  Claudia Isaila (ROM) | 61.74 m  |  Lee Young-Sun (KOR) | 61.62 m
Heptathlon
details |  Jane Jamieson (AUS) | 6123 pts  |  Mona Steigauf (GER) | 6102 pts  |  Irina Tyukhay (RUS) | 5989 pts

## Medal table

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Romania's Gabriela Szabo won two gold medals. Triple jump champion Šárka Kašpárková won Olympic bronze in 1996. High jump winner Dragutin Topić was Yugoslavia's sole medallist.

*   Host nation (Japan)

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  United States| 5| 6| 4| 15
2|  Russia| 5| 5| 6| 16
3|  Japan*| 5| 1| 3| 9
4|  Romania| 4| 3| 0| 7
5|  Ukraine| 3| 3| 3| 9
6|  China| 3| 1| 1| 5
7|  Hungary| 3| 0| 0| 3
8|  Germany| 2| 4| 2| 8
9|  Italy| 1| 4| 5| 10
10|  Kenya| 1| 2| 0| 3
11|  Nigeria| 1| 1| 2| 4
12|  Netherlands| 1| 1| 1| 3
13|  South Africa| 1| 1| 0| 2
14|  Belgium| 1| 0| 1| 2
Czech Republic| 1| 0| 1| 2
Mexico| 1| 0| 1| 2
17|  Australia| 1| 0| 0| 1
France| 1| 0| 0| 1
Madagascar| 1| 0| 0| 1
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines| 1| 0| 0| 1
Yugoslavia| 1| 0| 0| 1
22|  Great Britain| 0| 1| 3| 4
23|  Belarus| 0| 1| 1| 2
Greece| 0| 1| 1| 2
Morocco| 0| 1| 1| 2
Poland| 0| 1| 1| 2
27|  Armenia| 0| 1| 0| 1
Austria| 0| 1| 0| 1
Barbados| 0| 1| 0| 1
Canada| 0| 1| 0| 1
Kazakhstan| 0| 1| 0| 1
Spain| 0| 1| 0| 1
33|  South Korea| 0| 0| 2| 2
34|  Algeria| 0| 0| 1| 1
Bulgaria| 0| 0| 1| 1
Portugal| 0| 0| 1| 1
Slovenia| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (37 entries)| 43| 43| 43| 129

## Participating nations

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*  Algeria (6)
*  Albania (2)
*  American Samoa (1)
*  Angola (1)
*  Antigua and Barbuda (2)
*  Armenia (2)
*  Australia (20)
*  Austria (5)
*  Azerbaijan (3)
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*  Bulgaria (5)
*  Burkina Faso (2)
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*  Canada (50)
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*  Chile (9)
*  China (17)
* Chinese Taipei (11)
*  Colombia (2)
* Comoros (2)
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*  Croatia (2)
*  Cyprus (3)
*  Czech Republic (6)
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*  Finland (8)
*  France (18)
*  Gambia (2)
* Georgia (1)
*  Germany (24)
*  Ghana (2)
*  Great Britain (29)
*  Greece (20)
*  Grenada (2)
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*  Haiti (1)
*  Hungary (15)
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*  Ivory Coast (6)
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*  Japan (78)
*  Jordan (2)
*  Kazakhstan (7)
*  Kenya (7)
*  Kyrgyzstan (4)
*  Laos (2)
*  Latvia (3)
*  Liberia (2)
* Libya (2)
* Macau (11)
*  Madagascar (1)
*  Malawi (2)
*  Malaysia (5)
*  Maldives (2)
*  Mali (1)
*  Malta (2)
* Mauritania (1)
*  Mexico (13)
*  Moldova (2)
*  Morocco (2)
*  Mozambique (2)
* Myanmar (2)
*  Namibia (9)
*  Nepal (2)
*  Netherlands (12)
*  New Zealand (20)
*  Nicaragua (2)
*  Niger (2)
*  Nigeria (15)
*  Pakistan (1)
*  Papua New Guinea (2)
*  Peru (6)
* Philippines (1)
*  Poland (12)
*  Portugal (10)
*  Puerto Rico (2)
*  Republic of the Congo (1)
*  Romania (21)
*  Russia (45)
* Saint Lucia (1)
*  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (2)
*  El Salvador (2)
*  San Marino (1)
*  São Tomé and Príncipe (1)
*  Senegal (1)
* Seychelles (1)
*  Sierra Leone (2)
*  Singapore (5)
*  Slovakia (1)
*  Slovenia (7)
*  Solomon Islands (1)
*  South Africa (19)
*  South Korea (10)
*  Spain (26)
*  Sri Lanka (5)
*  Sudan (4)
* Swaziland (2)
*  Sweden (1)
*  Switzerland (12)
*  Tajikistan (1)
*  Tanzania (4)
*  Togo (2)
*  Tonga (2)
*  Turkey (6)
*  Uganda (6)
*  Ukraine (24)
*  United Arab Emirates (1)
*  United States (79)
*  United States Virgin Islands (1)
*  Uzbekistan (1)
*  Vanuatu (1)
*  Vietnam (2)
*  Western Samoa (1)
*  Yemen (2)
*  Yugoslavia (3)
*  Zimbabwe (1)

## References

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1. ^ THE 18th UNIVERSIADE 1995 FUKUOKA: Event Schedule. 1995 Universiade. Retrieved on 2012-06-09.
2. ^ World Student Games (Universiade - Men). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2012-06-16.
3. ^ World Student Games (Universiade - Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2012-06-16.

* World Student Games (Universiade - Men) \- GBR Athletics
* World Student Games (Universiade - Women) \- GBR Athletics
* Athletics results from official site Archived 2018-07-23 at the Wayback Machine

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