Athletics at the 1961 Summer Universiade – Men's decathlon

Athletics at the 1961 Summer Universiade
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Decathlon	men
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The men's decathlon event at the 1961 Summer Universiade was held at the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia, Bulgaria,^[1] on 31 August and 1 September 1961.

The winning margin was an astonishing 1,692 points which as of 2024 remains the only time the men's decathlon was won by more than 400 points at these games.

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	100m	LJ	SP	HJ	400m	110m H	DT	PV	JT	1500m	Points	Notes
	Vasili Kuznetsov	Soviet Union	10.9	7.29	13.94	1.83	49.7	15.0	47.73	4.10	67.03	4:59.0	7918	[2]
	Milan Kuzmanov	Bulgaria											6226
	Klaus-Dieter Röper	West Germany											6209
4	Hermann Salomon	West Germany											6147
5	Josef Habr	Czechoslovakia											6047
6	Johannes de Haas	Netherlands											6004
7	Mario Piccolo	Italy											5782
8	Yordan Dzhikelov	Bulgaria											5249