Athletics at the 1961 Summer Universiade
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	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
Decathlon	men

The men's long jump event at the 1961 Summer Universiade was held at the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia, Bulgaria,^[1] on 31 August and 1 September 1961.

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan  Soviet Union	Takayuki Okazaki  Japan	Ivan Ivanov  Bulgaria

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan	Soviet Union	7.64	q
	Takayuki Okazaki	Japan	7.20	q
	Ivan Ivanov	Bulgaria	7.10	q
	Maurizio Terenziani	Italy	7.07	q
	Pedro de Almeida	Portugal	6.96	q
	Wolfgang Klein	West Germany	6.95	q
	Katsumi Hanada	Japan	6.91	q
	László Mihályfi	Hungary	6.85	q
	Newton de Castro	Brazil	6.82	q
	Todor Dashkov	Bulgaria	6.77	q
	Harald Ihmig	West Germany	6.72	q
13	Hüseyin Çakmak	Turkey	6.65
14	Sabaudin Ramku	Albania	6.31
15	Antonio Bortoli	Italy	6.20
16	Ramanathan Sundaralingama	Ceylon	5.64

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan	Soviet Union	7.90 (w)
	Takayuki Okazaki	Japan	7.67 (w)
	Ivan Ivanov	Bulgaria	7.58 (w)
4	Aarre Asiala	Finland	7.54
5	Wolfgang Klein	West Germany	7.45
6	Katsumi Hanada	Japan	7.31
7	Newton de Castro	Brazil	7.22
8	Harald Ihmig	West Germany	7.18
9	Todor Dashkov	Bulgaria	6.99
10	Pedro de Almeida	Portugal	6.91
	László Mihályfi	Hungary	DNS
	Maurizio Terenziani	Italy	DNS