Athletics at the 1957 World University Games

Athletics at the 1957 World University Games
Dates	5–8 September
Host city	Paris, France
Venue	Stadium Charlety
Events	29
← 1955 San Sebastián 1959 Turin → 1957 World University Games

Athletics events were contested at the 1957 World University Games in Paris, France, between 5 and 8 September.

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Manfred Germar (FRG)	10.5	Ira Murchison (USA)	10.6	Leonid Bartenyev (URS)	10.7
200 metres details	Manfred Germar (FRG)	21.3	Leonid Bartenyev (URS)	21.7	Habib Thiam (FRA)	21.8
400 metres details	(GBR)	48.4	Walter Oberste (FRG)	48.8	Csaba Csutorás (HUN)	48.8
800 metres details	(FRG)	1:50.3	(AUT)	1:50.6	(GBR)	1:51.6
1500 metres details	(AUT)	3:50.5	Jonas Pipyne (URS)	3:51.0	(FRG)	3:51.3
5000 metres details	(GBR)	14:31.0	Veliša Mugoša (YUG)	14:32.8	Gerhart Hecker (HUN)	14:37.0
110 metres hurdles details	Stanko Lorger (YUG)	14.5	(BUL)	14.9	Milad Petrušić (YUG)	14.9
400 metres hurdles details	(URS)	53.3	Anubes da Silva (BRA)	53.6	Keiji Ogushi (JPN)	54.1
4 × 100 metres relay details	France Habib Thiam	41.4	West Germany Manfred Germar	41.4	Soviet Union Leonid Bartenyev	41.5
4 × 400 metres relay details	West Germany Walter Oberste	3:16.9	Great Britain & N.I. Chris Goudge	3:18.6	Italy Elio Catola	3:21.8
10,000 metres walk details	(POL)	47:10.6	(POL)	49:30.2	only 2 finishers	N/A
High jump details	Yuriy Stepanov (URS)	2.12	Igor Kashkarov (URS)	2.01	Ernie Shelton (USA)	1.98
Pole vault details	Zenon Ważny (POL)	4.40	(USA)	4.30	Leon Lukman (YUG)	4.25
Long jump details	(FRG)	7.41	(URS)	7.23	(YUG)	7.19
Triple jump details	Oleg Ryakhovskiy (URS)	16.01	Éric Battista (FRA)	15.78	Kari Rahkamo (FIN)	15.38
Shot put details	(URS)	16.57	(FRG)	15.91	(FRA)	15.89
Discus throw details	Viktor Kompaniyets (URS)	53.38	József Szécsényi (HUN)	51.57	(POL)	49.59
Hammer throw details	Anatoliy Samotsvetov (URS)	58.60	Zvonko Bezjak (YUG)	57.95	Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN)	55.81
Javelin throw details	Viktor Tsybulenko (URS)	80.63	Jan Kopyto (POL)	77.79	(POL)	73.58

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Vera Krepkina (URS)	11.8	Galina Popova (URS)	11.8	Giuseppina Leone (ITA)	11.9
200 metres details	Mariya Itkina (URS)	24.6	(URS)	25.0	Giuseppina Leone (ITA)	25.0
800 metres details	Yelizaveta Yermolayeva (URS)	2:12.3	(FRG)	2:13.4	(YUG)	2:13.6
80 metres hurdles details	Milka Babović (YUG)	11.5	(FRG)	11.7	(FRG)	11.7
4 × 100 metres relay details	Soviet Union Vera Krepkina Mariya Itkina Galina Popova	46.4	West Germany Inge Fuhrmann	47.4	Italy Giuseppina Leone Franca Peggion	49.0
High jump details	Iolanda Balas (ROM)	1.66	Valentina Ballod (URS)	1.60	Jarosława Jóźwiakowska (POL)	1.55
Long jump details	Vera Kalashnikova (URS)	6.03	(POL)	5.93	Inge Fuhrmann (FRG)	5.83
Shot put details	Galina Zybina (URS)	15.75	Earlene Brown (USA)	14.43	Milena Usenik (YUG)	14.02
Discus throw details	Irina Beglyakova (URS)	48.83	(HUN)	45.11	(HUN)	43.64
Javelin throw details	Maria Diţi (ROM)	52.38	Inese Jaunzeme (URS)	52.19	Almut Brömmel (FRG)	51.76

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	14	8	2	24
2	West Germany (FRG)	5	6	4	15
3	Poland (POL)	2	3	3	8
4	Yugoslavia (YUG)	2	2	5	9
5	Great Britain (GBR)	2	1	1	4
6	Romania (ROM)	2	0	0	2
7	Austria (AUT)	1	1	0	2
8	France (FRA)	1	0	2	3
9	United States (USA)	0	3	1	4
10	Hungary (HUN)	0	2	4	6
11	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	0	1
	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
13	Italy (ITA)	0	0	4	4
14	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 nations)		29	28	28	85

References[]

• World Student Games (Pre-Universiade) - GBR Athletics