| Athletics at the I Summer Universiade | |
| Size: | 220 |
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| Host City: | Turin, Italy  |
| Dates: | 3–6 September |
| Stadium: | Stadio Comunale di Torino |
| Events: | 29 |
| Previous: | 1957 Paris |
| Next: | 1961 Sofia |
| Games: | 1959 Summer Universiade |
Athletics events were contested at the 1959 Summer Universiade in Turin, Italy. The top nations qualified for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy.
| 10.5 | 10.8 | 10.8 | |||||
| 20.9 | 21.6 | 21.7 | |||||
| 47.5 | 47.9 | 47.9 | |||||
| 1:50.5 | 1:50.5 | 1:50.9 | |||||
| 3:50.9 | 3:52.0 | 3:52.1 | |||||
| 14:09.8 | 14:14.8 | 14:18.0 | |||||
| 14.2 | 14.4 | 14.4 | |||||
| 52.1 | 52.8 | 53.2 | |||||
Guido De Murtas Salvatore Giannone Giorgio Mazza Livio Berruti | 41.0 | Rudolf Sundermann Martin Reichert Burkhart Quantz Fritz Helfrich | 41.0 | Ali Brakchi Joël Caprice Jean-Claude Penez Guy Lagorce | 41.4 | ||
Albert Grawitz Burkhart Quantz Walter Oberste Otto Klappert | 3:09.5 | Elio Catola Nereo Fossati Mario Fraschini Germano Gimelli | 3:11.4 | Robert Hay Mike Robinson John Holt Norman Futter | 3:12.2 | ||
| 2.01 | 1.96 | 1.96 | |||||
| 4.35 | 4.30 | 4.20 | |||||
| 7.46 | 7.43 | 7.42 | |||||
| 15.74 | 15.55 | 15.44 | |||||
| 17.32 | 17.10 | 16.70 | |||||
| 53.07 | 52.79 | 52.22 | |||||
| 63.65 | 63.61 | 62.32 | |||||
| 75.95 | 75.80 | 72.81 | |||||
| 4006 | 3530 | 3048 |
| 11.7 | 12.0 | 12.1 | |||||
| 23.8 | 24.2 | 24.7 | |||||
| 2:11.1 | 2:11.3 | 2:12.3 | |||||
| 11.1 | 11.4 | 11.5 | |||||
Nelli Yeliseyeva Larisa Kuleshova Tamara Makarova Lyudmila Nechayeva | 46.9 | Anna Doro Fausta Galluzzi Giuseppina Leone Nadia Mecocci | 47.5 | Ilsabe Heider Antje Gleichfeld Kristianne Foss Inge Fuhrmann | 48.1 | ||
| 1.80 | 1.73 | 1.61 | |||||
| 5.94 | 5.76 | 5.71 | |||||
| 13.97 | 13.90 | 13.11 | |||||
| 46.76 | 45.56 | 43.38 | |||||
| 49.95 | 47.02 | 46.86 |