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. 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. At the same time Mr. Feinberg obtained participation by American student athletes.

Men’s events

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)01:50.3  Josef Cegledi (AUT)01:50.6  Edward Buswell (GBR)01:51.6
1500 Metres  Josef Cegledi (AUT)03:50.5  Jonas Pipynė (URS)03:51.0  Harald Mengler (FRG)03:51.3
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
High Jump  Yuriy Stepanov (URS)2.12  Igor Kashkarov (URS)2.01  Ernie Shelton (USA)1.98
Pole Vault  Zenon Wazny (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  Vartan Ovsepyan (URS)16.57  Josef Klik (FRG)15.91  Jean-Pierre Lassau (FRA)15.89
Discus  Viktor Kompaneyets (URS)53.38  József Szécsényi (HUN)51.57  Eugeniusz Wachowski (POL)49.59
Hammer  Anatoliy Samotsvetov (URS)58.60  Zvonko Bezjak (YUG)57.95  Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN)55.81
Javelin  Viktor Tsybulenko (URS)80.63  Jan Kopyto (POL)77.79  Tadeusz Paprocki (POL)73.58
10000 Metres Track Walk  Franciszek Szynska (POL)47:10.6  Jerzy Loskoczynski (POL)49:30.2 only 2 finishersN/A
4 x 100 Metres Relay France France41.40 West Germany West Germany41.40 Soviet Union Soviet Union41.40
4 x 400 Metres Relay West Germany West Germany03:16.9 United Kingdom Great Britain & N.I.03:16.9 Italy Italy03:18.6

Women’s events

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)02:12.3  Ariane Doser (FRG)02:13.4  Milica Rajkov (YUG)02:13.6
80 Metres Hurdles  Milka Babović (YUG)11.50  Hilke Thymm (FRG)11.70  Ilsabe Heider (FRG)11.70
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  Galina Zybina (URS)15.75  Earlene Brown (USA)14.43  Milena Usenik (YUG)14.02
Discus  Irina Beglyakova (URS)48.83  Györgyi Hegedus (HUN)45.11  Ida Bucsányi (HUN)43.64
Javelin  Maria Diti (ROM)52.38  Inese Jaunzeme (URS)52.19  Almut Brömmel (FRG)51.76
4 x 100 Metres Relay Soviet Union Soviet Union46.40 West Germany West Germany46.40 Italy Italy47.40

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
15  Japan (JPN) 0 0 1 1
Total 28 28 27 83

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