Athletics at the 1955 Summer International University Sports Week explained

Athletics at the 1955 Summer International University Sports Week
Size:	220
Colour:	EDFF4B
Host City:	San Sebastián, Spain
Dates:	11–14 August
Nations Participating:	22
Events:	29
Previous:	1953 Dortmund
Next:	1957 Paris
Games:	1955 Summer International University Sports Week

The athletics events at the 1955 Summer International University Sports Week were held in San Sebastián, Spain, between 11 and 14 August. The top nations qualified for the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.^[1]

Medal summary

	11.0		11.1		11.1
	21.7		21.8		21.9
	48.0		48.2		48.9
	1:51.5		1:54.9		1:55.3
	3:51.9		3:52.1		3:53.4
	15:04.4		15:09.8		15:11.6
	15.2		15.4		15.4
	53.8		53.9		54.8
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
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
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
	1.90		1.85		1.80
	3.80		3.70		3.70
	7.50		7.37		7.17
	15.99		15.18		14.96
	14.46		14.35		13.74
	47.65		46.61		44.54
	51.09		49.97		48.64
	69.90		64.15		62.12
	2797.00		2784.00		2761.00

	12.0		12.5		12.6
	24.8		25.8		26.4
	11.5		11.5		12.5
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
	1.55		1.45		1.40
	5.54		5.48		5.40
	13.13		11.63		11.26
	43.48		41.51		41.39
	45.44		38.65		36.87