As for track and field, iron man Ku Chin-shui won the decathlon. He and Li Fu-en had just set a new national record of 5.25 meters in the pole vault when he pushed it to 5.26 in the decathlon.
撐竿、跳遠締新猷田徑場上，仍以「十項鐵人」古金水表現最佳，他先在撐竿跳決賽中，和李福恩雙雙以五公尺廿五打破原全國紀錄五公尺廿三，接著於十項運動的撐竿跳項目中，再將全國紀錄推進至五公尺廿六，看得全場觀眾大呼過癮。