At the 2001 Summer Universiade, the athletics events were held in Beijing, People's Republic of China between 27 August and 1 September. A total of 45 events were contested, of which 23 by male and 22 by female athletes. The host country, China, took the most gold medals (9) and the most medals overall (16). The United States were a close second with a total of 8 golds. Five Universiade records were broken during the course of the athletics competition.
Amongst the gold medallists for the host country were Dong Yanmei, who won golds in the women's 5000 and 10,000 metres races, and 18-year-old Liu Xiang in the 110 metres hurdles. It was Liu's first gold on a world stage and he became the 2004 Olympic champion in world record time three years later. As well as Dong, three other athletes took medals in multiple individual events: Gennadiy Chernovol won silver in both the 100 and 200 metres for Kazakhstan, Swiss athlete Christian Belz won two bronze medals via the 5000 m and steeplechase races, and Brazilian Maurren Maggi took the women's long jump gold and a silver medal in the 100 metres hurdles.
Records NameEventCountryRecordTypeAlwyn Myburgh 400 metres hurdles 48.09 URGao Shuying Pole vault 4.52 UR Tatyana Lebedeva Triple jump 14.81 UR Osleidys Menéndez Javelin throw 69.82 UR Gao Hongmiao 10 km racewalk 43:20 UR
Key:WR — World record AR — Area record UR — Universiade record NR — National record
Medal summary
Men 10.15 10.29 10.38 20.56 20.57 20.58 45.34 45.63 45.78 1:45.27 1:45.49 1:45.63 3:43.98 3:44.21 3:44.48 13:44.24 13:46.63 13:48.21 28:27.42 28:43.63 28:47.34 13.33 13.36 13.40 48.09 UR 48.46 48.63 8:21.97 8:23.00 8:24.46Shingo KawabataKenji NaraYusuke OmaeMasayuki Okusako 38.77Gerald WilliamsMarcus BrunsonJosh NormanKaaron ConwrightJosephus Howard39.14Andrea RabinoMassimiliano DonatiAndrea ColomboLuca Verdecchia39.35Thomas GerdingGeno WhiteBrandon CoutsAndrew Pierce3:02.83Andriy TverdostupYevhen ZyukovOleksandr KaydashVolodymyr Rybalka3:02.87Mitsuhiro SatoKen YoshizawaRyuji MurakiMasayuki OkusakoYoshihiro Chiba3:03.63 1:04:12 1:04:30 1:04:53 1:24:42 1:25:07 1:25:17 2.28 2.28 2.26 5.80 5.70 5.60 8.07 8.04 7.99 17.22 17.11 16.92 20.97 20.16 19.90 65.19 63.15 62.81 78.41 77.99 77.73 82.72 81.68 80.03 8069 8019 8019
Women 11.42 11.58 11.59 22.86 22.94 23.16 51.22 51.82 51.92 2:00.96 2:01.64 2:01.68 4:06.91 4:08.84 4:08.93 15:30.28 15:43.18 15:43.94 32:45.14 32:53.55 32:57.35 12.95 13.13 13.17 54.94 55.27 55.72Li XuemeiChen YueqinZeng XiujunYan Jiankui43.72Lucimar MouraMaíla MachadoRosemar Coelho NetoMaurren MaggiMaria Laura Almirão44.13Katia BenthSylvanie MorandaisCéline ThelamonReïna-Flor Okori44.24Me'Lisa BarberCarolyn JacksonDemetria WashingtonMikele Barber3:28.04Tracey DuncanJennifer MeadowsTasha DanversLee McConnell3:30.40Sviatlana UsovichNatallia SafronnikavaHanna KazakIryna Khliustava3:30.65 1:15:24 1:15:31 1:15:36 43:20 UR 43:40 44:01 1.96 1.94 1.91 4.52 UR 4.35 4.20 6.83 6.56 6.52 14.81 UR 14.57 14.39w 18.90 18.79 18.31 61.66 60.50 58.04 69.78 68.39 67.97 69.82 UR 62.20 57.84 6041 5985 5973
Medal table
References World Student Games (Universiade – Men). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2010-02-18. World Student Games (Universiade – Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2010-02-18. (archived)
External links Official 2001 Universiade website