Athletics at the 1985 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	women
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
5000 m walk		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 1985 Summer Universiade was held at the Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium in Kobe on 1 September 1985.^[1][2]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Orlando Pizzolato	Italy	2:20:06
	Salvatore Nicosia	Italy	2:21:09
	Paul Gompers	United States	2:21:40
4	Yuriy Straykov	Soviet Union	2:23:02
5	Yu Jae-seong	South Korea	2:23:17
6	Petr Saltyakov	Soviet Union	2:24:55
7	Toshihiro Shibutani	Japan	2:27:12
8	Sam Cho Myong	North Korea	2:30:00
9	Peter Lyrenmann	Switzerland	2:30:49
10	James Njeru	Kenya	2:33:02
11	Li D.	North Korea	2:42:17
12	Adolphe Ambowode	Central African Republic	2:45:18
13	Ismael Mahmoud Ghassab	Jordan	2:45:27
14	Tomohiro Imamura	Japan	2:46:08
15	Amira Prasad Yadav	Nepal	3:03:20
	George Mambosasa	Malawi	DNF
	Chik Ho Sing	Hong Kong	DNF
	Kiyoji Hayashi	Japan	DNF
	Mark Stickley	United States	DNF
	Richard Cawkwell	Canada	DNF
	Georgios Afordakos	Greece	DNF
	Patrick Ashkettle	New Zealand	DNF
	M. Alombi	Zaire	DNF