Athletics at the 2015 Summer Universiade
Dates	July 8, 2015 (2015-07-08) – July 12, 2015 (2015-07-12)
Host city	Gwangju, South Korea
Venue	Gwangju Universiade Main Stadium
Level	Senior
Events	46
Participation	1073 athletes from 107 nations
Records set	3 URs
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Athletics was contested at the 2015 Summer Universiade from July 8 to 12 at the Gwangju Universiade Main Stadium in Gwangju, South Korea.^[1]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Akani Simbine  South Africa	9.97 UR	Kemarley Brown  Jamaica	10.12	Ramil Guliyev  Turkey	10.16
200 metres details	Hua Wilfried Koffi  Ivory Coast	20.41 SB	Bryce Robinson  United States	20.51	Ramil Guliyev  Turkey	20.59 SB
400 metres details	Luguelín Santos  Dominican Republic	44.91 SB	Leaname Maotoanong  Botswana	45.63 PB	Jan Tesař  Czech Republic	45.73 PB
800 metres details	Shaquille Walker  United States	1:49.05	Abdelati El Guesse  Morocco	1:49.29	Rynardt van Rensburg  South Africa	1:49.30
1500 metres details	Aleksey Kharitonov  Russia	3:39.13 PB	Abdelali Razyn  Morocco	3:39.20 PB	Staffan Ek  Sweden	3:39.68 PB
5000 metres details	Hayle Ibrahimov  Azerbaijan	13:44.28	Zouhair Talbi  Morocco	14:02.26	Rinas Akhmadeev  Russia	14:05:88
10,000 metres details	Igor Maksimov  Russia	29:15.30	Nicolae Soare  Romania	29:18.71 PB	Keisuke Nakatani  Japan	29:19.30
110 metres hurdles details	Greggmar Swift  Barbados	13.43	Konstantin Shabanov  Russia	13.57 SB	Genta Masuno  Japan	13.69
400 metres hurdles details	Thomas Barr  Ireland	48.78	Abdelmalik Lahoulou  Algeria	48.99 PB	Ivan Shablyuev  Russia	49.04 PB
3000 metres steeplechase details	Martin Christian Grau  Germany	8:31.55 SB	Kaur Kivistik  Estonia	8:32.23 PB	Yuriy Kloptsov  Russia	8:33.09
4 × 100 metres relay details	Japan (JPN) Kazuma Oseto Kotaro Taniguchi Takuya Nagata Tatsuro Suwa Yuki Koike*	39.08	Poland (POL) Adam Pawłowski Grzegorz Zimniewicz Artur Zaczek Kamil Kryński Jakub Adamski*	39.50	South Africa (RSA) Akani Simbine Gideon Trotter Eckhardt Roussouw Ncincilili Titi	39.68
4 × 400 metres relay details	Dominican Republic (DOM) Luguelín Santos Gustavo Cuesta Juander Santos Máximo Mercedes Leonel Bonon*	3:05.05	Japan (JPN) Julian Jrummi Walsh Kentaro Sato Kazuma Oseto Takamasa Kitagawa Nobuya Kato	3:07.75	Poland (POL) Mateusz Zagórski Michał Pietrzak Kamil Gurdak Rafał Omelko Robert Bryliński*	3:07.77
Half marathon details	Yusuke Ogura  Japan	1:04:41	Tadashi Isshiki  Japan	1:04:52	Yuta Takahashi  Japan	1:05:29
Half marathon team details	Japan (JPN) Yusuke Ogura Tadashi Isshiki Yuta Takahashi Naoki Kudo	3:15:03	Turkey (TUR) Vedat Günen Şeref Dirli Aykut Taşdemir Mehmet Akkoyun	3:26:17	South Africa (RSA) Thabang Masihleho Sibabalwe Mzazi Marianio Eesou Zolani Ngqaqa Goitsemodimo Bothobutle	3:26:29
20 kilometres walk details	Dane Bird-Smith  Australia	1:21:30	Benjamin Thorne  Canada	1:21:33 SB	Daisuke Matsunaga  Japan	1:22:06
20 km walk team details	Ukraine (UKR) Ihor Hlavan Nazar Kovalenko Ivan Banzeruk	4:17:44	China (CHN) Sun Chenggang Yin Jiaxing Zhang Zhi Xie Sichao	4:26:10	Russia (RUS) Sergey Sharypov Aleksandr Nazarov Vladislav Maksimov	4:27:17
High jump details	Daniil Tsyplakov  Russia	2.31 m	Matúš Bubeník  Slovakia	2.28 m PB	Hsiang Chun-Hsien  Chinese Taipei	2.28 m PB
Pole vault details	Nikita Filippov  Kazakhstan	5.50 m	Ilya Mudrov  Russia	5.50 m	Robert Sobera  Poland	5.50 m
Long jump details	Pavel Shalin  Russia	8.29 m	Vasiliy Kopeykin  Russia	8.13 m	Rudolph Johannes Pienaard  South Africa	7.98 m
Triple jump details	Dmitriy Sorokin  Russia	17.29 m PB	Hugues Fabrice Zango  Burkina Faso	16.76 m PB	Xu Xiaolong  China	16.76 m
Shot put details	Inderjeet Singh  India	20.27 m	Andrei Marius Gag  Romania	19.92 m	Aleksandr Bulanov  Russia	19.84 m
Discus throw details	Philip Milanov  Belgium	64.15 m	Matthew Denny  Australia	62.58 m PB	Andrius Gudžius  Lithuania	62.54 m
Hammer throw details	Paweł Fajdek  Poland	80.05 m	Pavel Bareisha  Belarus	75.75 m	Siarhei Kalamoyets  Belarus	74.68 m
Javelin throw details	Tanel Laanmäe  Estonia	81.71 m	Huang Shih-Feng  Chinese Taipei	81.27 m	Zigismunds Sirmais  Latvia	79.37 m SB
Decathlon details	Thomas Van Der Plaetsen  Belgium	7952 pts	Bastien Auzeil  France	7913 pts	Rene Strauss  Germany	7791 pts

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Viktoriya Zyabkina  Kazakhstan	11.23	Shimayra Williams  Jamaica	11.46	Yelena Kozlova  Russia	11.47
200 metres details	Viktoriya Zyabkina  Kazakhstan	22.77 NR	Akeyla Mitchell  United States	22.95 PB	Kedisha Dallas  Jamaica	23.24 PB
400 metres details	Justine Palframan  South Africa	51.27 PB	Małgorzata Hołub  Poland	51.93 SB	Yang Huizhen  China	51.98 PB
800 metres details	Angie Petty  New Zealand	1:59.06 PB	Simoya Campbell  Jamaica	1:59.26 PB	Fabienne Kohlmann  Germany	1:59.54 PB
1500 metres details	Docus Ajok  Uganda	4:18.53 SB	Gabriela Stafford  Canada	4:19.27	Kristina Ugarova  Russia	4:19.78
5000 metres details	Kristiina Mäki  Czech Republic	16:03.29	Camille Buscomb  New Zealand	16:03.72	Daria Maslova  Kyrgyzstan	16:04.09
10,000 metres details	Alla Kuliatina  Russia	32:52.27 PB	Gulshat Fazlitdinova  Russia	32:55.35	Zhang Yingying  China	32:56.60 SB
100 metres hurdles details	Danielle Williams  Jamaica	12.78	Nina Morozova  Russia	12.83	Michelle Jenneke  Australia	12.94
400 metres hurdles details	Joanna Linkiewicz  Poland	55.62	Emilia Ankiewicz  Poland	56.55 SB	Irina Takuncheva  Russia	56.57 PB
3000 metres steeplechase details	Yekaterina Sokolenko  Russia	9:25.77 UR	Natalya Vlasova  Russia	9:35.99 SB	Özlem Kaya  Turkey	9:37.79
4 × 100 metres relay details	Kazakhstan (KAZ) Anastassiya Tulapina Svetlana Ivanchukova Yuliya Rakhmanova Viktoriya Zyabkina	44.28	United States (USA) Ana Holland Kylie Price Jade Barber Nataliyah Friar	44.95	Thailand (THA) Supawan Thaipat Phensri Chairoek Tassaporn Wannakit Khanrutai Pakdee	45.03
4 × 400 metres relay details	Poland (POL) Małgorzata Hołub Monika Szczęsna Joanna Linkiewicz Justyna Święty	3:31.98	Russia (RUS) Liliya Gafiyatullina Kristina Malvinova Irina Takuncheva Yelena Zuykevich	3:32.46	United States (USA) Akeyla Mitchell Madeline Kopp Kimberly Mackay Alissa Martinez	3:37.20
Half marathon details	Zhang Yingying  China	1:15:06	Nanako Kanno  Japan	1:15:24	Ayumi Uehara  Japan	1:15:35
Half marathon team details	Japan (JPN) Nanako Kanno Ayumi Uehara Maki Izumida Sakurako Fukuuchi	3:47:08	China (CHN) Zhang Yingying Zhang Meixia Xiao Huinin	3:55:15	Turkey (TUR) Nilay Ersun Şeyma Yıldız Yasemin Can Elif Tozlu Burcu Büyükbezgin	3:55:36
20 kilometres walk details	Anisya Kirdyapkina  Russia	1:28:18 UR	Marina Pandakova  Russia	1:29:52	Hou Yongbo  China	1:32:42
20 km walk team details	Russia (RUS) Anisya Kirdyapkina Marina Pandakova Sofiya Brodatskaya Lina Kalutskaya	4:33:11	China (CHN) Hou Yongbo Yang Jiayu Yang Mingxia Liu Huan	4:47:58	Australia (AUS) Rachel Tallent Stephanie Stigwood Nicole Fagan	5:06:28
High jump details	Airinė Palšytė  Lithuania	1.84 m	Elisabeth Boyer  United States Madara Onužāne  Latvia	1.80 m
Pole vault details	Li Ling  China	4.45 m	Eliza McCartney  New Zealand	4.40 m SB	Chloé Henry  Belgium	4.40 m SB
Long jump details	Yuliya Pidluzhnaya  Russia	6.79 m SB	Anna Jagaciak  Poland	6.57 m SB	Naa Adjeley Anang  Australia	6.55 m PB
Triple jump details	Yekaterina Koneva  Russia	14.60 m	Jenny Elbe  Germany	13.86 m	Anna Jagaciak  Poland	13.81 m
Shot put details	Lena Urbaniak  Germany	18.00 m PB	Paulina Guba  Poland	17.94 m PB	Brittany Crew  Canada	17.27 m PB
Discus throw details	Yuliya Maltseva  Russia	59.37 m	Marike Steinacker  Germany	58.83 m	Stefania Strumillo  Italy	58.22 m PB
Hammer throw details	Hanna Skydan  Azerbaijan	70.67 m	Joanna Fiodorow  Poland	69.69 m	Julia Ratcliffe  New Zealand	67.54 m
Javelin throw details	Tatsiana Khaladovich  Belarus	60.45 m	Līna Mūze  Latvia	60.26 m	Irena Šedivá  Czech Republic	59.89 m PB
Heptathlon details	Anna Stephanie Maiwald  Germany	5965 pts	Ida Marcussen  Norway	5865 pts	Anna Petrich  Russia	5795 pts

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	12	8	9	29
2	Japan (JPN)	4	3	5	12
3	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	4	0	0	4
4	Poland (POL)	3	6	3	12
5	Germany (GER)	3	2	2	7
6	China (CHN)	2	3	4	9
7	South Africa (RSA)	2	0	4	6
8	Belgium (BEL)	2	0	1	3
9	Azerbaijan (AZE)	2	0	0	2
	Dominican Republic (DOM)	2	0	0	2
11	United States (USA)	1	4	1	6
12	Jamaica (JAM)	1	3	1	5
13	New Zealand (NZL)	1	2	1	4
14	Australia (AUS)	1	1	3	5
15	Belarus (BLR)	1	1	1	3
16	Estonia (EST)	1	1	0	2
17	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	2	3
18	Lithuania (LTU)	1	0	1	2
19	Barbados (BAR)	1	0	0	1
	India (IND)	1	0	0	1
	Ireland (IRL)	1	0	0	1
	Ivory Coast (CIV)	1	0	0	1
	Uganda (UGA)	1	0	0	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	0	1
25	Morocco (MAR)	0	3	0	3
26	Canada (CAN)	0	2	1	3
	Latvia (LAT)	0	2	1	3
28	Romania (ROU)	0	2	0	2
29	Turkey (TUR)	0	1	4	5
30	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	1	1	2
31	Algeria (ALG)	0	1	0	1
	Botswana (BOT)	0	1	0	1
	Burkina Faso (BUR)	0	1	0	1
	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	0	1
37	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
	Thailand (THA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (40 entries)		50	51	49	150

• Mulkeen, Jon (2015-07-09). Van der Plaetsen retains World University Games decathlon title. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-07-10.
• Mulkeen, Jon (2015-07-09). Simbine and Fajdek win World University Games titles in Gwangju. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-07-10.

• Official results