Athletics at the IX Summer Universiade
The host stadium for the events
Dates	19–23 August 1977
Host city	Sofia, Bulgaria
Venue	Vasil Levski National Stadium
Level	University
Events	34
Records set	2 WR
← 1975 Rome 1979 Mexico → 1977 Summer Universiade

Athletics events were contested at the 1977 Summer Universiade in Sofia, Bulgaria between 19 and 23 August.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.2 m/s) details	Silvio Leonard (CUB)	10.08	Petar Petrov (BUL)	10.19	Osvaldo Lara (CUB)	10.31
200 metres (wind: -1.8 m/s) details	Clancy Edwards (USA)	20.46	Silvio Leonard (CUB)	20.64	William Snoddy (USA)	21.17
400 metres details	Fons Brydenbach (BEL)	45.18	Willie Smith (USA)	45.34	Ryszard Podlas (POL)	45.36
800 metres details	Alberto Juantorena (CUB)	1:43.44 WR	Milovan Savić (YUG)	1:45.6	José Marajo (FRA)	1:45.89
1500 metres details	Jozef Plachý (TCH)	3:40.2	Mike Kearns (GBR)	3:40.9	Abderrahmane Morceli (ALG)	3:41.0
5000 metres details	Enn Sellik (URS)	13:44.6	Jerzy Kowol (POL)	13:45.1	Leonid Moseyev (URS)	13:45.6
10,000 metres details	Leonid Moseyev (URS)	29:12.0	Franco Fava (ITA)	29:12.7	Ilie Floroiu (ROM)	29:13.4
110 metres hurdles (wind: +0.6 m/s) details	Alejandro Casañas (CUB)	13.21 WR	Jan Pusty (POL)	13.53	Vyacheslav Kulebyakin (URS)	13.55
400 metres hurdles details	Tom Andrews (USA)	49.52	Klaus Schönberger (GDR)	49.55	Rolf Ziegler (FRG)	49.72
3000 metres steeplechase details	Michael Karst (FRG)	8:25.9	Paul Copu (ROM)	8:28.8	Ron Addison (USA)	8:29.4
4 × 100 metres relay details	Soviet Union (URS) Nikolay Kolesnikov Aleksandr Aksinin Juris Silovs Vladimir Ignatenko	38.75	Italy (ITA) Stefano Curini Stefano Rasori Pietro Farina Luciano Caravani	39.15	United States (USA) William Snoddy Mike Kee Clancy Edwards Harvey Glance	39.17
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States (USA) Elvis Jennings Willie Smith Tim Dale Tom Andrews	3:01.2	Poland (POL) Jerzy Pietrzyk Henryk Galant Cezary Łapiński Ryszard Podlas	3:01.52	West Germany (FRG) Lothar Krieg Eberhard Schneider Ulrich Zunker Rolf Ziegler	3:06.3
High jump details	Jacek Wszoła (POL)	2.22	Paul Poaniewa (FRA)	2.19	Aleksandr Grigoryev (URS)	2.19
Pole vault details	Władysław Kozakiewicz (POL)	5.55	Tadeusz Ślusarski (POL)	5.50	Vladimir Trofimenko (URS)	5.50
Long jump details	Nenad Stekić (YUG)	7.97	Grzegorz Cybulski (POL)	7.95	David Giralt (CUB)	7.92
Triple jump details	Anatoliy Piskulin (URS)	17.30w	Ron Livers (USA)	16.96w	Willie Banks (USA)	16.94
Shot put details	Valcho Stoev (BUL)	19.55	Nikolai Khristov (BUL)	19.44	Wolfgang Warnemünde (GDR)	18.94
Discus throw details	Nikolay Vikhor (URS)	64.14	Vladimir Rayev (URS)	62.42	Wolfgang Warnemünde (GDR)	61.98
Hammer throw details	Emanuil Dyulgerov (BUL)	73.50	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	72.42	Aleksandr Kozlov (URS)	72.40
Javelin throw details	Vasiliy Yershov (URS)	81.60	David Ottley (GBR)	81.14	Valentin Dzhonev (BUL)	79.76
Decathlon details	Sepp Zeilbauer (AUT)	8097	Valeriy Kachanov (URS)	7958	Rumen Petrov (BUL)	7949

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.8 m/s) details	Lyudmila Storozhkova (URS)	11.21	Andrea Lynch (GBR)	11.22	Silvia Chivás (CUB)	11.23
200 metres (wind: -2.2 m/s) details	Silvia Chivás (CUB)	23.08	Marina Sidorova (URS)	23.09	Andrea Lynch (GBR)	23.23
400 metres details	Rosalyn Bryant (USA)	52.10	Natalya Sokolova (URS)	52.15	Beatriz Castillo (CUB)	52.95
800 metres details	Totka Petrova (BUL)	1:57.6	Tatyana Kazankina (URS)	1:58.6	Svetla Koleva (BUL)	1:58.9
1500 metres details	Totka Petrova (BUL)	4:05.7	Natalia Mărăşescu (ROM)	4:05.8	Maricica Puică (ROM)	4:06.4
100 metres hurdles (wind: -0.6 m/s) details	Grażyna Rabsztyn (POL)	12.86	Tatyana Anisimova (URS)	13.03	Natalya Lebedeva (URS)	13.05
4 × 100 metres relay details	Soviet Union (URS) Lyudmila Maslakova Vera Anisimova Marina Sidorova Tatyana Prorochenko	43.16	Bulgaria (BUL) Sofka Popova Atanaska Georgieva Ivanka Valkova Lyubina Dimitrova	44.30	Poland (POL) Bogusława Kaniecka Helena Fliśnik Ewa Witkowska Ewa Długołęcka	44.79
High jump details	Sara Simeoni (ITA)	1.92	Debbie Brill (CAN)	1.90	Tatyana Boyko (URS)	1.86
Long jump details	Jacqueline Curtet (FRA)	6.38	Jarmila Nygrýnová (TCH)	6.35	Jodi Anderson (USA)	6.35
Shot put details	Elena Stoyanova (BUL)	19.98	Nina Isayeva (URS)	19.56	Helma Knorscheidt (GDR)	19.29
Discus throw details	Mariya Vergova (BUL)	66.34	Svetlana Melnikova (URS)	61.78	Radostina Bakhchevanova (BUL)	61.08
Javelin throw details	Nadezhda Yakubovich (URS)	61.42	Ivanka Vancheva (BUL)	61.12	Aranka Vágási (HUN)	61.12
Pentathlon details	Valentina Dimitrova (BUL)	4630	Jane Frederick (USA)	4625	Yekaterina Smirnova (URS)	4521

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	9	9	8	26
2	Bulgaria (BUL)	7	4	4	15
3	United States (USA)	4	3	5	12
4	Cuba (CUB)	4	1	4	9
5	Poland (POL)	3	5	2	10
6	Italy (ITA)	1	2	0	3
7	France (FRA)	1	1	1	3
8	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	1	0	2
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	1	1	0	2
10	West Germany (FRG)	1	0	2	3
11	Austria (AUT)	1	0	0	1
	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
13	Great Britain (GBR)	0	3	1	4
14	Romania (ROM)	0	2	2	4
15	East Germany (GDR)	0	1	3	4
16	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
17	Algeria (ALG)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 entries)		34	34	34	102

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