Athletics at the 1977 Summer Universiade
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	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
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's triple jump event at the 1977 Summer Universiade was held at the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia on 20 and 22 August.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Anatoliy Piskulin  Soviet Union	Ron Livers  United States	Willie Banks  United States

^[2]

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	?	Ron Livers	United States	16.52
2	?	Aleksandr Yakovlev	Soviet Union	16.43
3	?	Roberto Mazzuccato	Italy	16.38
4	?	Willie Banks	United States	16.26
5	?	Juan Velásquez	Cuba	16.18
6	?	Junishi Usui	Japan	16.15
7	?	Paolo Piapan	Italy	16.02
8	?	Zou Zhenxian	China	16.01
9	?	Anatoliy Piskulin	Soviet Union	15.96
10	?	Janoš Hegediš	Yugoslavia	15.89
11	?	Adrian Ghioroaie	Romania	15.88
12	?	Andrzej Sontag	Poland	15.83
13	?	Mike Nipinak	Canada	15.79
14	?	Masami Nakanishi	Japan	15.76
15	?	Mikhail Mikhailov	Bulgaria	15.54
16	?	Georgi Georgiev	Bulgaria	15.41
17	?	Alberto Solanas	Spain	15.40	[3]
18	?	Bedros Bedrosian	Romania	15.35
19	?	Don Commons	Australia	15.33	[4]
20	?	John Okoro	Nigeria	15.20
21	?	Zdzisław Sobora	Poland	15.18
22	?	Thomas Thoma	Greece	14.85
23	?	Jim Wadda	Gambia	14.26
	?	H. Nkuria	Kenya	13.72

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Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Anatoliy Piskulin	Soviet Union	17.30w
	Ron Livers	United States	16.96w
	Willie Banks	United States	16.94
4	Juan Velásquez	Cuba	16.90
5	Aleksandr Yakovlev	Soviet Union	16.83
6	Zou Zhenxian	China	16.45
7	Andrzej Sontag	Poland	16.40
8	Janoš Hegediš	Yugoslavia	16.34
9	Adrian Ghioroaie	Romania	15.69
10	Paolo Piapan	Italy	14.21
	Junishi Usui	Japan	NM
	Roberto Mazzuccato	Italy	DNS