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Athletics at the 1955 Summer International University Sports Week
Dates	11–14 August
Host city	San Sebastián, Spain
Events	29
Participation	22 nations
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The athletics events at the 1955 Summer International University Sports Week were held in San Sebastián, Spain, between 11 and 14 August.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Jacques Vercruysse (BEL)	11.0	Lothar Prinz (FRG)	11.1	Stanley Orman (GBR)	11.1
200 metres details	Grant Scruggs (USA)	21.7	Karl-Heinz Naujoks (FRG)	21.8	Lothar Prinz (FRG)	21.9
400 metres details	Grant Scruggs (USA)	48.0	Jean-Jacques Hegg (SUI)	48.2	John Wrighton (GBR)	48.9
800 metres details	Olaf Lawrenz (FRG)	1:51.5	Wolfgang Ring (FRG)	1:54.9	José María Giménez (ESP)	1:55.3
1500 metres details	John Evans (GBR)	3:51.9	Martin Walmsley (GBR)	3:52.1	David Law (GBR)	3:53.4
5000 metres details	Adrian Jackson (GBR)	15:04.4	Alan Gordon (GBR)	15:09.8	Stephan Lüpfert (FRG)	15:11.6
110 metres hurdles details	Ezio Nardelli (ITA)	15.2	Jan Parlevliet (NED)	15.4	Vic Matthews (GBR)	15.4
400 metres hurdles details	Jan Parlevliet (NED)	53.8	Gianfranco Fantuzzi (ITA)	53.9	Clive Dennis (GBR)	54.8
4 × 100 metres relay details	F.R. Germany Heinz Oberbeck Lothar Prinz Peter Röthig Karl-Heinz Naujoks	42.5	Italy Mario Colarrosi Sergio D'Asnasch Angelo De Fraia Franco Panizza	42.5	Great Britain & N.I. Stanley Orman Graham Robertson Gwilym Roberts John Groves	43.1
4 × 400 metres relay details	Great Britain & N.I. John Wrighton Jim Paterson Roger Baker Jock Beesley	3:20.0	F.R. Germany Rolf Ude Urban Cleve Wolfgang Ring Heinrich Moser	3:20.5	Italy Enrico Archilli Giovanni Bonanno Mario Paoletti Gianfranco Fantuzzi	3:20.5
Medley relay details	F.R. Germany Olaf Lawrenz Lothar Prinz Karl-Heinz Naujoks Heinrich Moser	3:14.3	Great Britain & N.I. Donald Gorrie John Wrighton Graham Robertson Stanley Orman	3:16.0	Spain José María Giménez José Alonso Peralta Fernando Bremón Manuel García Cabrera	3:20.3
High jump details	Mario Roveraro (ITA)	1.90	Yukio Ishikawa (JPN)	1.85	Juan Ignacio Ariño (ESP)	1.80
Pole vault details	Edmondo Ballotta (ITA)	3.80	Wolfgang Goldenbohm (FRG)	3.70	Kenneth North (NZL)	3.70
Long jump details	Ary de Sá (BRA)	7.50	Heinz Oberbeck (FRG)	7.37	Chiyoko Teruya (JPN)	7.17
Triple jump details	Adhemar da Silva (BRA)	15.99	Akaru Abe (JPN)	15.18	Antonio Trogu (ITA)	14.96
Shot put details	Heinz Lutter (FRG)	14.46	Alfred Meyer (SUI)	14.35	Piero Monguzzi (ITA)	13.74
Discus throw details	Martin Bührle (FRG)	47.65	Luitpold Maier (FRG)	46.61	Luis Ortiz Urbina (ESP)	44.54
Hammer throw details	John Bard (USA)	51.09	Takami Ogasawara (JPN)	49.97	Robert Scott (GBR)	48.64
Javelin throw details	Hermann Rieder (FRG)	69.90	Peter Cullen (GBR)	64.15	Gian Luigi Farina (ITA)	62.12
Pentathlon details	Walter Tschudi (SUI)	2797.00	Edy Egli (SUI)	2784.00	Hans von Schnering (FRG)	2761.00

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Giuseppina Leone (ITA)	12.0	Friederike Harasek (AUT)	12.5	Hilke Thymm (FRG)	12.6
200 metres details	Giuseppina Leone (ITA)	24.8	Ann Cartwright (GBR)	25.8	L. Barr (GBR)	26.4
80 metres hurdles details	Milena Greppi (ITA)	11.5	Hilke Thymm (FRG)	11.5	Ursula Schitteck (FRG)	12.5
4 × 100 metres relay details	Italy Angiolina Costantino Giuseppina Leone Luciana Cecchi Milena Greppi	49.0	F.R. Germany Hilde Ostermann Hilke Thymm Ilse Schauwienhold Ursula Schitteck	49.5	Great Britain & N.I. L. Barr W. Bowden Ann Cartwright Mary Bridgeford	50.5
High jump details	Lesley Line (GBR)	1.55	Ursula Schitteck (FRG)	1.45	Mary Bridgeford (GBR)	1.40
Long jump details	Friederike Harasek (AUT)	5.54	Ursula Schitteck (FRG)	5.48	Ilse Schauwienhold (FRG)	5.40
Shot put details	Lore Klute (FRG)	13.13	Almut Brömmel (FRG)	11.63	Ursula Dreimann (FRG)	11.26
Discus throw details	Almut Brömmel (FRG)	43.48	Lore Klute (FRG)	41.51	Maya Giri (GBR)	41.39
Javelin throw details	Almut Brömmel (FRG)	45.44	Ursula Dreimann (FRG)	38.65	Edith Schiller (FRG)	36.87

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	West Germany (FRG)	9	14	8	31
2	Italy (ITA)	7	2	4	13
3	Great Britain (GBR)	4	5	11	20
4	United States (USA)	3	0	0	3
5	Brazil (BRA)	2	0	0	2
6	Switzerland (SUI)	1	3	0	4
7	Austria (AUT)	1	1	0	2
	Netherlands (NED)	1	1	0	2
9	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
10	Japan (JPN)	0	3	1	4
11	Spain (ESP)	0	0	4	4
12	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		29	29	29	87

References

• World Student Games (Pre-Universiade) - GBR Athletics

1. "Resultados de la IV Semana Internacional Deportiva Universitaria" (PDF). Atletismo (in Spanish). October 1955: 15–19. Retrieved 4 March 2021.

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