1953 Summer International University Sports Week

The 1953 Summer International University Sports Week were organised by the International University Sports Federation (FISU) and held in Dortmund, West Germany. At these games a number of Athletic events were contested.

Men’s events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 Metres	Romeo Galán (ARG)	10.7w?	Milovan Jovančić (YUG)	10.7w?	Jacques Vercruysse (BEL)	10.7w?
200 Metres	Jacques Vercruysse (BEL)	21.90	Milovan Jovančić (YUG)	22.00	Austin Pinnington (GBR)	22.00
400 Metres	Karl-Friedrich Haas (FRG)	47.60	Keith Whittaker (GBR)	49.60	Peter Phillips (GBR)	49.70
800 Metres	Urban Cleve (FRG)	01:51.9	Brian Grogan (GBR)	01:52.2	Gérard Rasquin (LUX)	01:52.5
1500 Metres	David Law (GBR)	03:50.4	Ralph Dunkley (GBR)	03:50.6	Veliša Mugoša (YUG)	03:51.6
5000 Metres	Osamu Inoue (JPN)	14:48.6	Tony Weeks-Pearson (GBR)	14:49.0	Velimir Veka Ilić (YUG)	14:55.2
110 Metres Hurdles	Berthold Steines (FRG)	14.70	Estanislao Kocourek (ARG)	14.70	Paul Vine (GBR)	14.90
400 Metres Hurdles	David Gracie (GBR)	52.70	Eitaro Okano (JPN)	53.10	Georg Sallen (FRG)	53.90
High Jump	Jacques Delelienne (BEL)	1.90	Yukio Ishikawa (JPN)	1.90	Takehiko Nakajima (JPN)	1.85
Pole Vault	Milan Milakov (YUG)	4.31	Geoff Elliott (GBR)	4.20	Hélio da Silva (BRA)	4.00
Long Jump	Masaji Tajima (JPN)	7.66	Heinz Oberbeck (FRG)	7.43	Gian Piero Druetto (ITA)	7.32
Triple Jump	Adhemar da Silva (BRA)	15.92	Akira Nishimura (JPN)	14.95	Heinz Oberbeck (FRG)	14.65
Shot	Heinz Lutter (FRG)	14.59	Mark Pharaoh (GBR)	14.34	Heinz Oberbeck (FRG)	???
Discus	Mark Pharaoh (GBR)	47.84	Darko Krnjajić (YUG)	46.25	Miguel Quadra-Salcedo (ESP)	44.87
Hammer	Yoshio Kojima (JPN)	50.33	Mark Pharaoh (GBR)	46.46	Willy Druyts (BEL)	45.22
Javelin	Gerhard Keller (FRG)	61.88	Hermann Rieder (FRG)	60.13	Hidemine Nakagawa (JPN)	59.71
Pentathlon	Gerhard Keller (FRG)	2923.00	Francisco Moura (BRA)	2774.00	Leonhard Zanier (AUT)	2621.00
4 x 100 Metres Relay	Argentina	42.20	Italy	42.20	Great Britain & N.I.	42.20
4 x 400 Metres Relay	F.R. Germany	03:16.0	Great Britain & N.I.	03:16.0	Belgium	03:19.3
1600 Metres Medley Relay	F.R. Germany	03:12.8	Great Britain & N.I.	03:12.8	Japan	03:16.2

Women’s events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 Metres	Milena Greppi (ITA)	12.30	Margaret Francis (GBR)	12.30	Friederike Harasek (AUT)	12.40
200 Metres	Margaret Francis (GBR)	25.90	Friederike Harasek (AUT)	25.90	Constance Cartwright (GBR)	26.10
80 Metres Hurdles	Milka Babović (YUG)	11.70	Hilke Thymm (FRG)	11.80	Milena Greppi (ITA)	11.90
High Jump	Lesley Line (GBR)	1.60	Julia McLeod (GBR)	1.56	Ursula Ehrhardt (FRG)	1.56
Long Jump	Else Jores (FRG)	5.55	Friederike Harasek (AUT)	5.36	Ursula Schitteck (FRG)	5.30
Shot	Lore Klute (FRG)	12.32	Lotte Klos (FRG)	10.96	Doris Bethe (FRG)	10.72
Discus	Lore Klute (FRG)	39.65	Almut Brömmel (FRG)	34.97	Babette Schweizer (SUI)	34.14
Javelin	Almut Brömmel (FRG)	42.62	Cmiljka Kalušević (YUG)	42.46	Siegrid Lewandowski (FRG)	35.09
4 x 100 Metres Relay	Italy	48.90	F.R. Germany	48.90	Great Britain & N.I.	49.20

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	West Germany (FRG)	9	5	6	20
2	Great Britain (GBR)	5	9	4	18
3	Japan (JPN)	3	3	2	8
4	Yugoslavia (YUG)	2	3	2	7
5	Belgium (BEL)	2	0	3	5
6	Italy (ITA)	2	0	2	4
7	Brazil (BRA)	1	1	1	3
8	Argentina (ARG)	1	1	0	2
9	Austria (AUT)	0	2	2	4
10	Greece (GRE)	0	2	1	3
11	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
12	Luxembourg (LUX)	0	0	1	1
13	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Total		25	26	26	77

References

• World Student Games (Pre-Universiade) - GBR Athletics