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 triple jump event at the 1961 Summer Universiade was held at the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia, Bulgaria,^[1] on 3 September 1961.

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Sorin Ioan	Romania	15.93
	Oleg Ryakhovskiy	Soviet Union	15.85
	Tomio Ota	Japan	15.65
4	Satoshi Shimo	Japan	15.58
5	Gyula Czapalai	Hungary	15.48
6	Norbert Hermann	West Germany	15.14
7	Ramón López	Cuba	14.93
8	Pierluigi Gatti	Italy	14.91
9	Kiril Kirchev	Bulgaria	14.87
10	Ze'ev Reiss	Israel	14.07
11	Hüseyin Çakmak	Turkey	14.01
12	Sabaudin Ramku	Albania	12.95