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{{Infobox Athletics Championships
|Name = 
|Logo = DonValleyStadium.jpg
|Size = 220
|Colour = #EDFF4B
|Optional caption = The host stadium during the 1991 Summer Universiade
|Host city = [[Sheffield]]<br />[[United Kingdom]] {{flagicon|GBR}}
|Dates = July 19 – 25, 1991
|Stadium = [[Don Valley Stadium]]
|Nations participating = 
|Athletes participating = 
|Events = 43
|Records set = [[List of Universiade records in athletics|6 Games records]]
|Previous = [[Athletics at the 1989 Summer Universiade|1989 Duisburg]]
|Next = [[Athletics at the 1993 Summer Universiade|1993 Buffalo]]
|Games = [[1991 Summer Universiade]]
}}

At the '''[[1991 Summer Universiade]]''', the '''[[Athletics (sport)|athletics]]''' events were held at the [[Don Valley Stadium]] in [[Sheffield]] in the United Kingdom from July 19–25. A total of 43 events were contested, of which 23 by male and 20 by female athletes.<ref name=GBR1>[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/wsgm.htm World Student Games (Universiade - Men)]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2012-08-31.</ref><ref name=GBR2>[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/wsgw.htm World Student Games (Universiade - Women)]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2012-08-31.</ref>

Performances were of a high standard, particularly in the men's competition, with [[List of Universiade records in athletics|6 Games records]] broken, with 1988 Olympic silver medalist [[Hollis Conway]] jumping 2.37 m in the [[high jump]] and home favourite [[Steve Backley]] throwing 87.42m in the [[javelin]], both performances that remain Universiade records to this day. Future Olympic champion [[Derrick Adkins]] won the 400 metre hurdles.

The United States easily topped the medal table with fifteen [[gold medal]]s and 31 medals in total. The Soviet Union won the next highest number of events, with six gold medallists, and 20 total medals. Great Britain, the host nation, came joint-third in the medal table with two [[gold medal]]s and nine medals in total. Twenty-eight nations reached the medal table in the athletics competition.<ref name=GBR1/><ref name=GBR2/>

==Medal summary==
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===Men===
{| {{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|100 metres|Men|0.0}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Michael Bates (athlete)|Michael Bates]]|USA}} ||10.17
|{{flagathlete|[[Boris Goins]]|USA}} ||10.34
|{{flagathlete|[[Steve Gookey]]|GBR}} ||10.39
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|200 metres|Men|+1.0}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Jon Drummond]]|USA}} ||20.58
|{{flagathlete|[[Daniel Phillip]]|NGR}} ||20.69
|{{flagathlete|[[Patrick Stevens]]|BEL}} ||20.99
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|400 metres|Men}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Patrick O'Connor (athlete)|Patrick O'Connor]]|JAM}} ||45.52
|{{flagathlete|[[Benyounès Lahlou]]|MAR}} ||45.55
|{{flagathlete|[[Marlin Cannon]]|USA}} ||45.78
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|800 metres|Men}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Giuseppe D'Urso]]|ITA}} ||1:46.82
|{{flagathlete|[[Dean Kenneally]]|AUS}}<hr>{{flagathlete|[[Curtis Robb]]|GBR}} ||1:46.88
|colspan=2|''Not awarded''
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|1500 metres|Men}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Niall Bruton]]|IRL}} ||3:50.69
|{{flagathlete|[[Davide Tirelli]]|ITA}} ||3:50.79
|{{flagathlete|[[Juan Viudes]]|ESP}} ||3:51.22
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|5000 metres|Men}}
|{{flagathlete|[[John Mayock]]|GBR}} ||13:39.25
|{{flagathlete|[[David Evans (distance runner)|David Evans]]|AUS}}<hr>{{flagathlete|[[Peter Sherry]]|USA}} ||13:39.31
|colspan=2|''Not awarded''
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|10,000 metres|Men}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Stephan Freigang]]|GER}} ||28:15.84 '''GR'''
|{{flagathlete|[[Ryuki Takei]]|JPN}} ||28:17.02
|{{flagathlete|[[Mogambi Otwori]]|KEN}} ||28:18.91
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|110 metres hurdles|Men}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Elbert Ellis]]|USA}} ||13.83
|{{flagathlete|[[Jerry Roney]]|USA}} ||13.83
|{{flagathlete|[[Dmitriy Buldov]]|URS}} ||13.85
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|400 metres hurdles|Men}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Derrick Adkins]]|USA}} ||49.01
|{{flagathlete|[[Yoshihiko Saito]]|JPN}} ||50.02
|{{flagathlete|[[Oleg Tverdokhleb]]|URS}} ||50.09
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|3000 metres steeplechase|Men}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Shaun Creighton]]|AUS}} ||8:32.30
|{{flagathlete|[[Akira Nakamura (athlete)|Akira Nakamura]]|JPN}} ||8:33.50
|{{flagathlete|[[Gavin Gaynor]]|USA}} ||8:34.21
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|4 × 100 metres relay|Men}}
|{{flagteam|USA}}<br />[[Jon Drummond]]<br />[[Boris Goins]]<br />[[Michael Bates (American football)|Michael Bates]]<br />[[James Trapp]]||39.10
|{{flagteam|SLE}}<br />[[Joselyn Thomas]]<br />[[Horace Dove-Edwin]]<br />[[Benjamin Grant]]<br />[[Sanusi Turay]]||39.88
|{{flagteam|BEL}}<br />[[David Branle]]<br />[[Jeroen Fischer]]<br />[[Stefaan Allemeersch]]<br />[[Patrick Stevens]]||40.05
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|4 × 400 metres relay|Men}}
|{{flagteam|USA}}<br />[[Chuck Wilson (athlete)|Chuck Wilson]]<br />[[Marlin Cannon]]<br />[[Brian Irvin]]<br />[[Gabriel Luke]] ||3:03.65
|{{flagteam|JAM}}<br />[[Linval Laird]]<br />[[Evon Clarke]]<br />[[Howard Davis (sprinter)|Howard Davis]]<br />[[Patrick O'Connor (athlete)|Patrick O'Connor]]||3:05.93
|{{flagteam|ITA}}<br />[[Marcello Pantone]]<br />[[Gianrico Boncompagni]]<br />[[Riccardo Cardone]]<br />[[Vito Petrella]]||3:07.54
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|Marathon|Men}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Hwang Young-Jo]]|KOR}} ||2:12:40 '''GR'''
|{{flagathlete|[[Kenjiru Jitsui]]|JPN}} ||2:14:22
|{{flagathlete|[[Choi Hyong-Chol]]|PRK}} ||2:17:45
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|20 kilometres walk|Men}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Robert Korzeniowski]]|POL}} ||1:24:37
|{{flagathlete|[[Jaime Barroso]]|ESP}} ||1:25:01
|{{flagathlete|[[Arturo Di Mezza]]|ITA}} ||1:25:09
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|High jump|Men}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Hollis Conway]]|USA}} ||2.37 m '''GR'''
|{{flagathlete|[[Arturo Ortiz (athlete)|Arturo Ortiz]]|ESP}} ||2.31 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Yuriy Sergiyenko]]|URS}} ||2.25 m
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|Pole vault|Men}}
|{{flagathlete|[[István Bagyula]]|HUN}} ||5.80 m '''GR'''
|{{flagathlete|[[Bill Payne (athlete)|Bill Payne]]|USA}} ||5.60 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Pyotr Bochkaryov]]|URS}} ||5.60 m
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|Long jump|Men}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Alan Turner (athlete)|Alan Turner]]|USA}} ||8.18 m (w)
|{{flagathlete|[[George Ogbeide]]|NGR}} ||8.08 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Bogdan Tudor]]|ROM}} ||8.01 m
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|Triple jump|Men}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Brian Wellman]]|BER}} ||17.07 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Chen Yanping]]|CHN}} ||16.97 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Wu Lijun]]|CHN}} ||16.72 m (w)
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|Shot put|Men}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Aleksandr Klimenko (athlete)|Aleksandr Klimenko]]|URS}} ||19.35 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Matt Simson]]|GBR}} ||19.07 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Jordan Reynolds]]|USA}} ||19.01 m
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|Discus throw|Men}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Adewale Olukoju]]|NGR}} ||61.48 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Anthony Washington]]|USA}} ||61.46 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Alexis Elizalde]]|CUB}} ||59.04 m
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|Hammer throw|Men}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Ken Flax]]|USA}} ||76.46 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Valeriy Gubkin]]|URS}} ||76.28 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Heinz Weis]]|GER}} ||75.62 m
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|Javelin throw|Men}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Steve Backley]]|GBR}} ||87.42 m '''GR'''
|{{flagathlete|[[Vladimir Ovchinnikov (athlete)|Vladimir Ovchinnikov]]|URS}} ||80.60 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Knut Hempel]]|FIN}} ||77.90 m
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|Decathlon|Men}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Steve Fritz]]|USA}} ||7874 pts
|{{flagathlete|[[Kris Szabadhegy]]|USA}} ||7719 pts
|{{flagathlete|[[Anthony Brannen]]|GBR}} ||7656 pts
|}

===Women===
{| {{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|100 metres|Women|+1.6}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Chryste Gaines]]|USA}} ||11.56
|{{flagathlete|[[Anita Howard]]|USA}} ||11.57
|{{flagathlete|[[Sølvi Olsen]]|NOR}} ||11.61
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|200 metres|Women|+1.6}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Wang Huei-Chen]]|TPE|univ}} ||23.22
|{{flagathlete|[[Sølvi Olsen]]|NOR}} ||23.41
|{{flagathlete|[[Michelle Collins (athlete)|Michelle Collins]]|USA}} ||23.47
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|400 metres|Women}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Maicel Malone]]|USA}} ||50.65
|{{flagathlete|[[Gretha Tromp]]|NED}} ||52.06
|{{flagathlete|[[Galina Moskvina]]|URS}} ||52.34
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|800 metres|Women}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Inna Yevseyeva]]|URS}} ||1:59.80
|{{flagathlete|[[Gabi Lesch]]|GER}} ||2:00.97
|{{flagathlete|[[Jasmin Jones]]|USA}} ||2:02.00
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|1500 metres|Women}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Sonia O'Sullivan]]|IRL}} ||4:12.14
|{{flagathlete|[[Iulia Besliu]]|ROM}} ||4:12.24
|{{flagathlete|[[Qu Yunxia]]|CHN}} ||4:12.43
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|3000 metres|Women}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Iulia Besliu]]|ROM}} ||8:55.42
|{{flagathlete|[[Sonia O'Sullivan]]|IRL}} ||8:56.35
|{{flagathlete|[[Zita Ágoston]]|HUN}} ||9:01.09
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|10,000 metres|Women}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Anne Marie Letko]]|USA}} ||32:36.87
|{{flagathlete|[[Suzana Ćirić]]|YUG}} ||32:37.94
|{{flagathlete|[[Olga Nazarkina]]|URS}} ||32:40.83
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|100 metres hurdles|Women|+1.6}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Marina Azyabina]]|URS}} ||12.95
|{{flagathlete|[[Mary Cobb (athlete)|Mary Cobb]]|USA}} ||13.19
|{{flagathlete|[[Keri Maddox]]|GBR}} ||13.32
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|400 metres hurdles|Women}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Gretha Tromp]]|NED}} ||55.30
|{{flagathlete|[[Nicoleta Carutasu]]|ROM}} ||56.07
|{{flagathlete|[[Anna Knoroz|Anna Chuprina]]|URS}} ||56.74
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|4 × 100 metres relay|Women}}
| {{flagteam|USA}}<br />[[Andrea James (athlete)|Andrea James]]<br />[[Tamela Saldana]]<br />[[Chryste Gaines]]<br />[[Anita Howard]]||44.45
| {{flagteam|GBR}}<br />[[Rachel Kirby]]<br />[[Louise Stuart (athlete)|Louise Stuart]]<br />[[Melanie Neef]]<br />[[Christine Bloomfield]]||44.97
| {{flagteam|ITA}}<br />[[Annarita Balzani]]<br />[[Laura Galligani]]<br />[[Cristina Picchi]]<br />[[Lara Sinico]]||45.24
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|4 × 400 metres relay|Women}}
| {{flagteam|USA}}<br />[[Keisha Demas]]<br />[[Tasha Downing]]<br />[[Teri Smith]]<br />[[Maicel Malone]]||3:27.93
| {{flagteam|URS}}<br />[[Yelena Golesheva]]<br />[[Inna Yevseyeva]]<br />[[Galina Moskvina]]<br />[[Anna Knoroz]]||3:29.64
| {{flagteam|POL}}<br />[[Barbara Grzywocz]]<br />[[Agata Sadurska]]<br />[[Monika Warnicka]]<br />[[Sylwia Pachut]]||3:35.03
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|Marathon|Women}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Miyako Iwai]]|JPN}} ||2:36:27
|{{flagathlete|[[Kim Yen-Ku]]|KOR}} ||2:37:58
|{{flagathlete|[[Mariya Doskoch]]|URS}} ||2:38:48
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|10 kilometres walk|Women}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Sari Essayah]]|FIN}} ||44:04
|{{flagathlete|[[Chen Yueling]]|CHN}} ||44:33
|{{flagathlete|[[Annarita Sidoti]]|ITA}} ||45:10
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|High jump|Women}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Alison Inverarity]]|AUS}} ||1.92 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Svetlana Lavrova]]|URS}} ||1.92 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Tisha Waller]]|USA}}||1.90 m
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|Long jump|Women}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Inessa Kravets]]|URS}} ||6.87 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Fiona May]]|GBR}} ||6.67 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Yelena Khlopotnova]]|URS}} ||6.66 m (w)
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|Triple jump|Women}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Li Huirong]]|CHN}} ||14.20 m '''GR'''
|{{flagathlete|[[Yelena Semiraz]]|URS}} ||13.75 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Li Jing (triple jumper)|Li Jing]]|CHN}} ||13.63 m (w)
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|Shot put|Women}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Svetlana Krivelyova]]|URS}} ||19.62 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Zhou Tianhua]]|CHN}} ||19.23 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Agnes Deselaers]]|GER}} ||17.32 m
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|Discus throw|Women}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Xiao Yanling]]|CHN}} ||64.36 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Qiu Qiaoping]]|CHN}} ||62.40 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Antonina Patoka]]|URS}} ||62.22 m
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|Javelin throw|Women| |old model}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Tatyana Shikolenko]]|URS}} ||63.56 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Isel López]]|CUB}} ||62.32 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Paula Berry]]|USA}} ||58.28 m
|-
|{{AthleticsLink|Heptathlon|Women}}
|{{flagathlete|[[Birgit Clarius]]|GER}} ||6419 pts
|{{flagathlete|[[Urszula Włodarczyk]]|POL}} ||6319 pts
|{{flagathlete|[[Maria Kamrowska]]|POL}} ||6279 pts
|}

==Medal table==
[[File:Sonia osullivan 2000-2.jpg|thumb|[[Sonia O'Sullivan]] of Ireland won Gold in the 1500m and Silver in the 3000m.]]
[[File:Fiona may.JPG|thumb|1995 Long jump World Champion [[Fiona May]] won silver for Great Britain.]]
{{Medals table
 | caption        = 
 | host           = GBR
 | flag_template  = flagcountry
 | event          = univ
 | team           = 
 | gold_USA = 15 | silver_USA = 8 | bronze_USA = 8
 | gold_URS = 6 | silver_URS = 5 | bronze_URS = 10
 | gold_CHN = 2 | silver_CHN = 4 | bronze_CHN = 3
 | gold_GBR = 2 | silver_GBR = 4 | bronze_GBR = 3 | host_GBR = yes 
 | gold_AUS = 2 | silver_AUS = 2 | bronze_AUS = 0
 | gold_GER = 2 | silver_GER = 1 | bronze_GER = 3
 | gold_IRL = 2 | silver_IRL = 1 | bronze_IRL = 0
 | gold_JPN = 1 | silver_JPN = 4 | bronze_JPN = 0
 | gold_ROM = 1 | silver_ROM = 2 | bronze_ROM = 1
 | gold_NGR = 1 | silver_NGR = 2 | bronze_NGR = 0
 | gold_ITA = 1 | silver_ITA = 1 | bronze_ITA = 4
 | gold_POL = 1 | silver_POL = 1 | bronze_POL = 2
 | gold_JAM = 1 | silver_JAM = 1 | bronze_JAM = 0
 | gold_NED = 1 | silver_NED = 1 | bronze_NED = 0
 | gold_KOR = 1 | silver_KOR = 1 | bronze_KOR = 0
 | gold_HUN = 1 | silver_HUN = 0 | bronze_HUN = 1
 | gold_BER = 1 | silver_BER = 0 | bronze_BER = 0
 | gold_TPE = 1 | silver_TPE = 0 | bronze_TPE = 0
 | gold_FIN = 1 | silver_FIN = 0 | bronze_FIN = 0
 | gold_ESP = 0 | silver_ESP = 2 | bronze_ESP = 1
 | gold_CUB = 0 | silver_CUB = 1 | bronze_CUB = 1
 | gold_NOR = 0 | silver_NOR = 1 | bronze_NOR = 1
 | gold_MAR = 0 | silver_MAR = 1 | bronze_MAR = 0
 | gold_SLE = 0 | silver_SLE = 1 | bronze_SLE = 0
 | gold_YUG = 0 | silver_YUG = 1 | bronze_YUG = 0
 | gold_BEL = 0 | silver_BEL = 0 | bronze_BEL = 2
 | gold_KEN = 0 | silver_KEN = 0 | bronze_KEN = 1
 | gold_PRK = 0 | silver_PRK = 0 | bronze_PRK = 1
}}

==References==
{{reflist}}
*[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/wsgm.htm World Student Games (Universiade - Men)]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2012-08-31.
*[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/wsgw.htm World Student Games (Universiade - Women)]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2012-08-31.

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