Athletics at the 1961 Summer Universiade – Men's long jump

The men's long jump event at the 1961 Summer Universiade was held at the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 31 August and 1 September 1961.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan Soviet Union	Takayuki Okazaki Japan	Ivan Ivanov Bulgaria

Results

Qualifications

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan	Soviet Union	7.64	q
	Takayuki Okazaki	Japan	7.20	q
	Ivan Ivanov	Bulgaria	7.10	q
	Maurizio Terenziani	Italy	7.07	q
	Pedro de Almeida	Portugal	6.96	q
	Wolfgang Klein	West Germany	6.95	q
	Katsumi Hanada	Japan	6.91	q
	László Mihályfi	Hungary	6.85	q
	Newton de Castro	Brazil	6.82	q
	Todor Dashkov	Bulgaria	6.77	q
	Harald Ihmig	West Germany	6.72	q
13	Hüseyin Çakmak	Turkey	6.65
14	Sabaudin Ramku	Albania	6.31
15	Antonio Bortoli	Italy	6.20
16	Ramanathan Sundaralingama	Ceylon	5.64

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan	Soviet Union	7.90 (w)
	Takayuki Okazaki	Japan	7.67 (w)
	Ivan Ivanov	Bulgaria	7.58 (w)
4	Aarre Asiala	Finland	7.54
5	Wolfgang Klein	West Germany	7.45
6	Katsumi Hanada	Japan	7.31
7	Newton de Castro	Brazil	7.22
8	Harald Ihmig	West Germany	7.18
9	Todor Dashkov	Bulgaria	6.99
10	Pedro de Almeida	Portugal	6.91
	László Mihályfi	Hungary	DNS
	Maurizio Terenziani	Italy	DNS