Athletics at the 1987 Summer Universiade explained

Athletics events were contested at the 1987 Summer Universiade in Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia between 13 and 19 July. The top nations qualified for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

Medal summary

	10.07		10.21		10.25
	20.42		20.44		20.92
	45.33		45.37		45.67
	1:46.13		1:46.71		1:47.07
	3:44.87		3:45.13		3:45.52
	14:08.15		14:08.30		14:09.21
	29:07.02		29:08.65		29:20.95
	2:24:23		2:24:55		2:27:01
	13.29		13.38		13.40
	48.75		48.80		49.20
	8:33.23		8:33.86		8:34.23
Lee McRae Floyd Heard Lorenzo Daniel Wallace Spearmon Sr. Michael Marsh Brian Cooper	38.66	Pierre Boutry Christophe Boyer Jean-Charles Trouabal Bruno Dufernez	39.42	Shinji Aoto Takashi Ichikawa Hirohisa Ota Hiroki Fuwa	39.57
Raymond Pierre Lorenzo Daniel David Patrick Kevin Robinzine	3:01.78	Branislav Karaulić Slobodan Popović Slobodan Branković Ismail Mačev	3:03.95	Oleg Fatun Valery Starodubtsev Tagir Zemskov Vladimir Prosin	3:05.85
	1:25:02		1:25:17		1:26:58
	2.30		2.30		2.30
	5.65		5.60		5.60
	8.19		8.11		8.06
	17.16		17.07		16.90
	20.38		20.12		20.09
	62.38		61.72		60.54
	78.46		76.98		75.70
	81.42		80.26		78.82
	8348		8026		7786

	11.09		11.34		11.40
	22.44		22.64		22.72
	51.07		51.32		51.42
	1:56.88		1:59.28		1:59.92
	4:01.32		4.03.03		4:03.04
	8:53.61		8:59.56		9:02.98
	33:11.26		33:11.59		33:14.71
	2:46:30		2:46:33		3:03:00
	12.84		12.84		12.84
	55.21		55.35		55.45
Wendy Vereen Jackie Washington Dannette Young Gwen Torrence	42.90	Nadezhda Roshchupkina Natalya Pomoshchnikova-Voronova Yelena Vinogradova Irina Slyusar	43.17	Tina Iheagwam Lynda Eseimokumoh Mary Onyali Falilat Ogunkoya	43.71
Sonia Fridy Denise Mitchell Rochelle Stevens Denean Howard	3:27.16	Yelena Vinogradova Tatyana Ledovskaya Larisa Lesnykh Lyudmila Dzhigalova	3:27.65	Sadia Sowunmi Kehinde Vaughan Airat Bakare Maria Usifo	3:33.37
	21:51.50		22:00.01		22:01.09
	1.95		1.91		1.88
	6.81		6.78		6.74
	20.48		20.07		19.49
	67.96		64.12		64.04
	66.72		65.36		61.24
	6364		6272		6224