Athletics at the 1957 World University Games

Under the direction of Jean Petitjean the 1957 World University Games were organised by the Paris University Club in Paris at their Stadium Charlety in September. He engaged an American student athlete at the Paris University Club, Martin Feinberg as his assistant. Mr. Petitjean met with and encouraged both eastern and western block Student Sports Federations to participate together; which they did for the first time since the end of World War II.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Manfred Germar (FRG)	10.50	Ira Murchison (USA)	10.60	Leonid Bartenyev (URS)	10.70
200 metres	Manfred Germar (FRG)	21.30	Leonid Bartenyev (URS)	21.70	Habib Thiam (FRA)	21.80
400 metres	Jim Paterson (GBR)	48.40	Walter Oberste (FRG)	48.80	Csaba Csutorás (HUN)	48.80
800 metres	Olaf Lawrenz (FRG)	1:50.3	Josef Cegledi (AUT)	1:50.6	Edward Buswell (GBR)	1:51.6
1500 metres	Josef Cegledi (AUT)	3:50.5	Jonas Pipyne (URS)	3:51.0	Harald Mengler (FRG)	3:51.3
5000 metres	Kevin Gilligan (GBR)	14:31.0	Veliša Mugoša (YUG)	14:32.8	Gerhart Hecker (HUN)	14:37.0
110 metres hurdles	Stanko Lorger (YUG)	14.50	Georgi Kaburov (BUL)	14.90	Milad Petrušić (YUG)	14.90
400 metres hurdles	Igor Ilyin (URS)	53.30	Anubes da Silva (BRA)	53.60	Keiji Ogushi (JPN)	54.10
4 × 100 metres relay	France	41.40	West Germany	41.40	Soviet Union	41.40
4 × 400 metres relay	West Germany	3:16.9	Great Britain & N.I. Chris Goudge Les Locke Edward Buswell Jim Paterson	3:16.9	Italy	3:18.6
10,000 metres track walk	Franciszek Szynska (POL)	47:10.6	Jerzy Łoskoczyński (POL)	49:30.2	only 2 finishers	N/A
High jump	Yuriy Stepanov (URS)	2.12	Igor Kashkarov (URS)	2.01	Ernie Shelton (USA)	1.98
Pole vault	Zenon Ważny (POL)	4.40	Jerry Welbourn (USA)	4.30	Leon Lukman (YUG)	4.25
Long jump	Dieter Witte (FRG)	7.41	Vladimir Popov (URS)	7.23	Branko Miler (YUG)	7.19
Triple jump	Oleg Ryakhovskiy (URS)	16.01	Eric Battista (FRA)	15.78	Kari Rahkamo (FIN)	15.38
Shot put	Vartan Ovsepyan (URS)	16.57	Josef Klik (FRG)	15.91	Jean-Pierre Lassau (FRA)	15.89
Discus throw	Viktor Kompaniyets (URS)	53.38	József Szécsényi (HUN)	51.57	Eugeniusz Wachowski (POL)	49.59
Hammer throw	Anatoliy Samotsvetov (URS)	58.60	Zvonko Bezjak (YUG)	57.95	Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN)	55.81
Javelin throw	Viktor Tsybulenko (URS)	80.63	Jan Kopyto (POL)	77.79	Tadeusz Paprocki (POL)	73.58

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Vera Krepkina (URS)	11.80	Galina Popova (URS)	11.80	Giuseppina Leone (ITA)	11.90
200 metres	Mariya Itkina (URS)	24.60	Nina Dyeonskaya (URS)	25.00	Giuseppina Leone (ITA)	25.00
800 metres	Yelizaveta Yermolayeva (URS)	2:12.3	Ariane Doser (FRG)	2:13.4	Milica Rajkov (YUG)	2:13.6
80 metres hurdles	Milka Babović (YUG)	11.50	Hilke Thymm (FRG)	11.70	Ilsabe Heider (FRG)	11.70
4 × 100 metres relay	Soviet Union	46.40	West Germany	46.40	Italy	47.40
High jump	Iolanda Balas (ROM)	1.66	Valentina Ballod (URS)	1.60	Jarosława Jóźwiakowska (POL)	1.55
Long jump	Vera Kalashnikova (URS)	6.03	Maria Ciastowska (POL)	5.93	Inge Fuhrmann (FRG)	5.83
Shot put	Galina Zybina (URS)	15.75	Earlene Brown (USA)	14.43	Milena Usenik (YUG)	14.02
Discus throw	Irina Beglyakova (URS)	48.83	Györgyi Hegedus (HUN)	45.11	Ida Bucsányi (HUN)	43.64
Javelin throw	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 entries)		29	28	28	85

References

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