Athletics at the 1983 Summer Universiade
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's marathon event at the 1983 Summer Universiade was held in Edmonton, Canada on 9 July 1983.^[1][2]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Alessio Faustini	Italy	2:17:10
	Giovanni D'Aleo	Italy	2:17:20
	Michael Spöttel	West Germany	2:18:12
4	Toshihiro Shibutani	Japan	2:18:50
5	Yevgeniy Okorokov	Soviet Union	2:18:55
6	Yakov Tolstikov	Soviet Union	2:22:31
7	Lloyd Ness	United States	2:22:51
8	Christopher Bunyan	Great Britain	2:24:22
9	Alessandro Rastello	Italy	2:25:19
10	Patrick Asakettle	New Zealand	2:26:37
11	Aliosha Karushkov	Bulgaria	2:26:55
12	Shigemasa Ikeda	Japan	2:27:34
13	Roy Lambert	Canada	2:27:52
14	Mario Pérez	Mexico	2:31:51
15	Esau Zwane	Swaziland	2:32:02
16	Francisco Silva	Mexico	2:46:28
	Mark Orzel	Canada	DNF
	Gerhard Krippner	West Germany	DNF
	Michael Buist	New Zealand	DNF