At the 2001 Summer Universiade

2001 Summer Universiade

The 2001 Summer Universiade, also known as the XXI Summer Universiade, was an international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, People's Republic of China, between the 22 August and 1 September. A total of 6757 athletes from 165 nations took part in 12 sports...

, the athletics events were held in Beijing

Beijing

Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

, People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

. 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

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 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

Dong Yanmei

Dong Yanmei is a Chinese long-distance runner who specialized in the 5000 metres. She has not competed on the top level since 2002.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*1500 metres - 3:55.07 min...

, who won golds in the women's 5000

5000 metres

The 5000 metres is a popular running distance also known as 5 km or 5K in American English. It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics. "5000 metres" refers to racing on a track and "5K" usually refers to a roadrace or cross country event...

 and 10,000 metres races, and 18-year-old Liu Xiang

Liu Xiang

Liu Xiang is a Chinese 110 meter hurdler. Liu is an Olympic Gold medalist and World Champion. His 2004 Olympic gold medal was the first in a men's track and field event for China....

 in the 110 metres hurdles

110 metres hurdles

The 110 metres hurdles is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is incuded in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympic Games. The female counterpart is the 100 metre hurdles. As part of a racing event, ten hurdles of 1.067 metres in height are evenly spaced along a straight...

. It was Liu's first gold on a world stage and he became the 2004 Olympic

Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics

At the 2004 Summer Olympics, the athletics events were held at the Athens Olympic Stadium from August 18 to August 29, except for the marathons , the race walks , and the shot put...

 champion in world record time three years later. As well as Dong, three other athletes took medals in multiple individual events: Gennadiy Chernovol

Gennadiy Chernovol

Gennadiy Sergeyevich Chernovol is a Kazakhstani athlete who competes in the sprints events. He is married to Anna Chicherova.-Achievements:*2003 Afro-Asian Games - silver medal *2003 Central Asian Games - gold medal...

 won silver in both the 100

100 metres

The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...

 and 200 metres

200 metres

A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...

 for Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

, Swiss

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

 athlete Christian Belz

Christian Belz

Christian Belz is a Swiss long-distance runner. He was initially a steeplechaser and represented Switzerland in the event at the World Championships in Athletics in 1999 and 2001 as well as the 2000 Summer Olympics. He broke the national record with a run of 8:22.24 in June 2001...

 won two bronze medals via the 5000 m and steeplechase

Steeplechase (athletics)

The steeplechase is an obstacle race in athletics, which derives its name from the steeplechase in horse racing.-Rules:The length of the race is usually 3000 m; junior events are 2000 m, as women's events formerly were. The circuit has four ordinary barriers and one water jump. Over 3000 m, each...

 races, and Brazilian Maurren Maggi

Maurren Maggi

Maurren Higa Maggi is a Brazilian athlete and Olympic gold medallist. She is the South American record holder at 100 metres hurdles and at long jump, with 12.71 seconds and 7.26 metres respectively. She also has 14.53 metres in the triple jump...

 took the women's long jump

Long jump

The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

 gold and a silver medal in the 100 metres hurdles

100 metres hurdles

The 100 m hurdles are an Olympic track and field athletics discipline run by women . For the race ten hurdles of a height of 83.8 cm are placed evenly spaced along a straight course of 100 meters. They are positioned so that they will fall over if bumped into by the runner...

.

Records

Name	Event	Country	Record	Type
Alwyn Myburgh Alwyn Myburgh Alwyn Myburgh is a South African hurdler.His personal best time is 48.09 seconds, achieved at the 2001 Summer Universiade in Beijing.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*100 metres - 10.66 s...	400 metres hurdles 400 metres hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...		48.09	UR
Gao Shuying Gao Shuying Gao Shuying is a Chinese pole vaulter.At the 2004 Summer Olympics she was eliminated in the first round of the pole vault competition.Her personal best is 4.64 metres, achieved in 2007 in New York City.-Achievements:-External links:...	Pole vault Pole vault Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...		4.52	UR
Tatyana Lebedeva Tatyana Lebedeva Tatyana Romanovna Lebedeva is a Russian athlete who competes in both the long jump and triple jump events. She is one of most successful athletes in the disciplines, having won gold medals at Olympic, world and European levels...	Triple jump Triple jump The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...		14.81	UR
Osleidys Menéndez Osleidys Menéndez Osleidys Menéndez Sáez is a Cuban athlete competing in the javelin throw. She is a former Olympic champion, world champion, and world record holder. She has been described as the female "Jan Železný" of her times....	Javelin throw Javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...		69.82	UR
Gao Hongmiao Gao Hongmiao Gao Hongmiao is a retired Chinese race walker.-Achievements:-External links:...	10 km racewalk		43:20	UR

Key:	WR — World record AR — Area record UR — Universiade record NR — National record

Men

100 metres		10.15		10.29		10.38
200 metres		20.56		20.57		20.58
400 metres		45.34		45.63		45.78
800 metres		1:45.27		1:45.49		1:45.63
1500 metres		3:43.98		3:44.21		3:44.48
5000 metres		13:44.24		13:46.63		13:48.21
10,000 metres		28:27.42		28:43.63		28:47.34
110 metre hurdles		13.33		13.36		13.40
400 metre hurdles		48.09 UR		48.46	| 48.63
3000 metre steeplechase		8:21.97		8:23.00		8:24.46
4×100 metre relay	Japan	38.77	United States	39.14	Italy	39.35
4×400 metre relay	United States	3:02.83	Ukraine	3:02.87	Japan	3:03.63
Half marathon		1:04:12		1:04:30		1:04:53
20 km walk		1:24:42		1:25:07		1:25:17
High jump		2.28		2.28		2.26
Pole vault		5.80		5.70		5.60
Long jump		8.07		8.04		7.99
Triple jump		17.22		17.11		16.92
Shot put		20.97		20.16		19.90
Discus throw		65.19		63.15		62.81
Hammer throw		78.41		77.99		77.73
Javelin throw		82.72		81.68		80.03
Decathlon		8069		8019		8019

Women

100 metres		11.42		11.58		11.59
200 metres		22.86		22.94		23.16
400 metres		51.22		51.82		51.92
800 metres		2:00.96		2:01.64		2:01.68
1500 metres		4:06.91		4:08.84		4:08.93
5000 metres		15:30.28		15:43.18		15:43.94
10,000 metres		32:45.14		32:53.55		32:57.35
100 metre hurdles		12.95		13.13		13.17
400 metre hurdles		54.94		55.27		55.72
4×100 metre relay	People's Republic of China	43.72	Brazil	44.13	France	44.24
4×400 metre relay	United States	3:28.04	United Kingdom	3:30.40	Belarus	3:30.65
Half marathon		1:15:24		1:15:31		1:15:36
10 km walk		43:20 UR		43:40		44:01
High jump		1.96		1.94		1.91
Pole vault		4.52 UR		4.35		4.20
Long jump		6.83		6.56		6.52
Triple jump		14.81 UR		14.57		14.39w
Shot put		18.90		18.79		18.31
Discus throw		61.66		60.50		58.04
Hammer throw		69.78		68.39		67.97
Javelin throw		69.82 UR		62.20		57.84
Heptathlon		6041		5985		5973

Medal table

Key:

1	People's Republic of China	9	3	4	16
2	United States	8	2	2	12
3	Cuba	3	2	0	5
4	Ukraine	2	4	1	7
5	Russia	2	3	2	7
6	Japan	2	2	6	10
7	Spain	2	2	0	4
8	United Kingdom	2	1	1	4
9	Italy	2	0	1	3
10=	Brazil	1	2	1	4
10=	Poland	1	2	1	4
12	Australia	1	1	2	4
13	Israel	1	1	0	2
14	France	1	0	3	4
15=	North Korea	1	0	1	2
15=	South Africa	1	0	1	2
17=	Estonia	1	0	0	1
17=	Kenya	1	0	0	1
17=	Latvia	1	0	0	1
17=	Morocco	1	0	0	1
17=	Slovenia	1	0	0	1
17=	Turkey	1	0	0	1
23	Belarus	0	3	4	7
24=	Kazakhstan	0	3	0	3
24=	Romania	0	3	0	3
26	Czech Republic	0	2	1	3
27	Portugal	0	2	0	2
28	Germany	0	1	1	2
29=	Austria	0	1	0	1
29=	Belgium	0	1	0	1
29=	Canada	0	1	0	1
29=	Republic of Ireland	0	1	0	1
29=	South Korea	0	1	0	1
29=	Namibia	0	1	0	1
35	Switzerland	0	0	4	4
36=	Botswana	0	0	2	2
36=	Hungary	0	0	2	2
38=	Croatia	0	0	1	1
38=	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
38=	Slovakia	0	0	1	1
38=	Sweden	0	0	1	1
38=	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1
Total		45	45	45	135

External links

• Official 2001 Universiade website