title: Athletics at the 1983 Summer Universiade – Men's marathon
text: # Athletics at the 1983 Summer Universiade – Men's marathon
  
  The men's marathon event at the 1983 Summer Universiade was held in Edmonton, Canada on 9 July 1983.
  
  ## Results
  
  | Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | | Alessio Faustini | Italy | 2:17:10 |
  | | Giovanni D'Aleo | Italy | 2:17:20 |
  | | Michael Spöttel | West Germany | 2:18:12 |
  | 4 | Toshihiro Shibutani | Japan | 2:18:50 |
  | 5 | Yevgeniy Okorokov | Soviet Union | 2:18:55 |
  | 6 | Yakov Tolstikov | Soviet Union | 2:22:31 |
  | 7 | Lloyd Ness | United States | 2:22:51 |
  | 8 | Christopher Bunyan | Great Britain | 2:24:22 |
  | 9 | Alessandro Rastello | Italy | 2:25:19 |
  | 10 | Patrick Asakettle | New Zealand | 2:26:37 |
  | 11 | Aliosha Karushkov | Bulgaria | 2:26:55 |
  | 12 | Shigemasa Ikeda | Japan | 2:27:34 |
  | 13 | Roy Lambert | Canada | 2:27:52 |
  | 14 | Mario Pérez | Mexico | 2:31:51 |
  | 15 | Esau Zwane | Swaziland | 2:32:02 |
  | 16 | Francisco Silva | Mexico | 2:46:28 |
  | | Mark Orzel | Canada | DNF |
  | | Gerhard Krippner | West Germany | DNF |
  | | Michael Buist | New Zealand | DNF |
  