Athletics at the 1961 Summer Universiade
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Decathlon	men
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The men's 5000 metres event at the 1961 Summer Universiade was held at the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia, Bulgaria, in September 1961.^[1]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	János Pintér	Hungary	14:23.4
	Andrei Barabás	Romania	14:23.8
	Peter Kubicki	West Germany	14:23.8
4	Aleksey Konov	Soviet Union	14:23.8
5	Saburo Yokomizo	Japan	14:28.0
6	Béla Szekeres	Hungary	14:30.0
7	Jaroslav Bohatý	Czechoslovakia	14:36.8
8	Edward Owczarek	Poland	14:40.4
9	Tereo Funai	Japan	14:44.8
10	Ivan Peyev	Bulgaria	15:09.8
11	Michael Turner	Great Britain	15:21.4
12	Boris Ivanov	Bulgaria	15:24.0
13	Östen Bergman	Sweden	15:37.8
14	Gurnam Singh	Indonesia	15:54.5