1979 Summer Universiade

The 1979 Summer Universiade, also known as the X Summer Universiade, took place in Mexico City, Mexico.

Sports

• Athletics ()
• Basketball ()
• Diving ()
• Fencing ()
• Football ()
• Gymnastics ()
• Swimming ()
• Tennis ()
• Volleyball ()
• Water polo ()

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	31	26	16	73
2	United States	21	14	16	51
3	Romania	14	3	14	31
4	East Germany	6	4	4	16
5	West Germany	4	6	7	17
6	Hungary	4	3	4	11
7	Italy	3	2	5	10
8	Netherlands	2	4	3	9
9	Poland	2	3	3	8
10	United Kingdom	1	5	4	10
11	Mexico	1	2	1	4
12	Brazil	1	2	0	3
13	China	1	1	4	6
14	France	1	1	3	5
15	South Korea	1	1	1	3
16	Czechoslovakia	1	0	3	4
17	Canada	1	0	2	3
18	Australia	1	0	1	2
19	Austria	1	0	0	1
20	Japan	0	3	5	8
21	Cuba	0	3	2	5
22	Finland	0	3	0	3
23	Bulgaria	0	1	1	2
23	Yugoslavia	0	1	1	2
25	Ivory Coast	0	1	0	1
25	India	0	1	0	1
25	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
25	Uruguay	0	1	0	1
29	Kenya	0	0	1	1
Total		97	92	101	290

Universiade
Summer Universiade	Turin 1959 Sofia 1961 Porto Alegre 1963 Budapest 1965 Tokyo 1967 Turin 1970 Moscow 1973 Rome 1975 Sofia 1977 Mexico City 1979 Bucharest 1981 Edmonton 1983 Kobe 1985 Zagreb 1987 Duisburg 1989 Sheffield 1991 Buffalo 1993 Fukuoka 1995 Sicily 1997 Palma de Mallorca 1999 Beijing 2001 Daegu 2003 İzmir 2005 Bangkok 2007 Belgrade 2009 Shenzhen 2011 Kazan 2013 Gwangju 2015 Taipei 2017 Naples 2019 TBD 2021
Winter Universiade	Chamonix 1960 Villars 1962 Špindlerův Mlýn 1964 Sestriere 1966 Innsbruck 1968 Rovaniemi 1970 Lake Placid 1972 Livigno 1975 Špindlerův Mlýn 1978 Jaca 1981 Sofia 1983 Belluno 1985 Štrbské Pleso 1987 Sofia 1989 Sapporo 1991 Zakopane 1993 Jaca 1995 Muju/Chonju 1997 Poprad/Tatry 1999 Zakopane 2001 Tarvisio 2003 Innsbruck 2005 Turin 2007 Harbin 2009 Erzurum 2011 Trentino 2013 Granada/Štrbské Pleso 2015 Almaty 2017 Krasnoyarsk 2019 Lucerne 2021 TBD 2023
FISU Sports at the Universiade All-time Universiade medal table