Athletics at the 1983 Summer Universiade
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	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
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's triple jump event at the 1983 Summer Universiade was held at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Canada on 8 July 1983.^[1][2][3]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Ajayi Agbebaku	Nigeria	17.26
	Mike Conley	United States	17.20w
	John Herbert	Great Britain	17.05
4	Nikolay Musiyenko	Soviet Union	16.86
5	Bedros Bedrosian	Romania	16.82
6	Dan Simion	Romania	16.67
7	Al Joyner	United States	16.39
8	Mai Guoqiang	China	16.22
9	Satoshi Kanamaru	Japan	15.79
10	George Wright	Canada	14.79
11	Fethi Querani	Tunisia	14.76
	Aleksandr Beskrovniy	Soviet Union	NM
	Klaus Kübler	West Germany	NM
	Antonio Santos	Angola	NM