Athletics at the 1997 Summer Universiade
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
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
Half marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's long jump event at the 1997 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadio Cibali in Catania, Italy, on 30 and 31 August.^[1]

Medalists[edit]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Iván Pedroso  Cuba	James Beckford  Jamaica	Gregor Cankar  Slovenia

Results[edit]

Qualification[edit]

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	?	Iván Pedroso	Cuba	7.91
2	?	Brian Bowers	United States	7.88
3	?	Gregor Cankar	Slovenia	7.87
4	?	James Beckford	Jamaica	7.86
4	?	Yevgeniy Tretyak	Russia	7.86
6	?	Kevin Dilworth	United States	7.84
7	?	Nélson Carlos Ferreira	Brazil	7.82
7	?	Bogdan Tudor	Romania	7.82
9	?	Bogdan Țăruș	Romania	7.79
10	?	Oleksy Lukashevych	Ukraine	7.69
11	?	Douglas de Souza	Brazil	7.65
12	?	Diego Boschiero	Italy	7.64
13	?	Aleksandr Glavatskiy	Belarus	7.61
14	?	Sung Hee-jun	South Korea	7.60
14	?	Xu Bin	China	7.60
16	?	Roman Shchurenko	Ukraine	7.58
16	?	Dejan Vojnović	Croatia	7.58
18	?	János Uzsoki	Hungary	7.56
19	?	Bakri Darouèche	France	7.53
20	?	Aleksey Zhukov	Russia	7.51
21	?	Marko Rajić	Yugoslavia	7.44
22	?	Takanori Sugibayashi	Japan	7.38
23	?	Wilfried Dorombo	Central African Republic	7.35
24	?	Trevino Betty	Canada	7.32	[2]
25	?	Danijel Mišić	Yugoslavia	7.30
26	?	András Hegedüs	Hungary	7.27
27	?	Merujan Sarkisyan	Armenia	7.24
27	?	Niels Kruller	Netherlands	7.24
29	?	Wisnu Nugroho	Indonesia	7.07
30	?	Vachik Sahakyan	Armenia	6.99
31	?	Mohamed Abdelbaki	Jordan	6.81
32	?	Michael Sharapoff	New Zealand	6.74
33	?	Ancel Luis Daniel Flores	Honduras	6.73
34	?	Wong Chi Fai	Macau	6.67
35	?	Fathi Youssif	Sudan	6.64
36	?	Maziko Phiri	Zambia	6.58
37	?	An Dang Hoai	Vietnam	6.57
38	?	Omar Al-Monani	Jordan	6.08
?	?	Carlos Castelbranco	Portugal	2.38
	?	Erik Nys	Belgium	NM

Final[edit]

^[3]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Iván Pedroso	Cuba	8.40
	James Beckford	Jamaica	8.35
	Gregor Cankar	Slovenia	8.11
4	Nélson Carlos Ferreira	Brazil	8.01
5	Kevin Dilworth	United States	7.92
6	Brian Bowers	United States	7.85
7	Olexiy Lukashevych	Ukraine	7.79
8	Bogdan Țăruș	Romania	7.62
9	Yevgeniy Tretyak	Russia	7.61
10	Diego Boschiero	Italy	7.60
11	Douglas de Souza	Brazil	7.55
12	Bogdan Tudor	Romania	7.47

References[edit]