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Athletics at the 1957 World University Games
Dates	5–8 September
Host city	Paris, France
Venue	Stadium Charlety
Events	29
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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	Jim Paterson (GBR)	48.4	Walter Oberste (FRG)	48.8	Csaba Csutorás (HUN)	48.8
800 metres details	Olaf Lawrenz (FRG)	1:50.3	Josef Cegledi (AUT)	1:50.6	Edward Buswell (GBR)	1:51.6
1500 metres details	Josef Cegledi (AUT)	3:50.5	Jonas Pipyne (URS)	3:51.0	Harald Mengler (FRG)	3:51.3
5000 metres details	Kevin Gilligan (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	Georgi Kaburov (BUL)	14.9	Milad Petrušić (YUG)	14.9
400 metres hurdles details	Igor Ilyin (URS)	53.3	Anubes da Silva (BRA)	53.6	Keiji Ogushi (JPN)	54.1
4 × 100 metres relay details	France Hubert Dufernez Christian Larrieu Habib Thiam Joël Caprice	41.4	West Germany Dieter Kröger Klaus Förster Karl-Heinz Naujoks Manfred Germar	41.4	Soviet Union Vladilyen Marin Albert Plaskeyev Yuriy Petrov Leonid Bartenyev	41.5
4 × 400 metres relay details	West Germany Günther Glaeske Otto Klappert Ralph Seidel Walter Oberste	3:16.9	Great Britain & N.I. Chris Goudge Les Locke Edward Buswell Jim Paterson	3:18.6	Italy Germano Gimelli Elio Catola Mario Paoletti Enrico Archilli	3:21.8
10,000 metres walk details	Franciszek Szyszka (POL)	47:10.6	Jerzy Łoskoczyński (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	Jerry Welbourn (USA)	4.30	Leon Lukman (YUG)	4.25
Long jump details	Dieter Witte (FRG)	7.41	Vladimir Popov (URS)	7.23	Branko Miler (YUG)	7.19
Triple jump details	Oleg Ryakhovskiy (URS)	16.01	Éric Battista (FRA)	15.78	Kari Rahkamo (FIN)	15.38
Shot put details	Vartan Ovsepyan (URS)	16.57	Josef Klik (FRG)	15.91	Jean-Pierre Lassau (FRA)	15.89
Discus throw details	Viktor Kompaniyets (URS)	53.38	József Szécsényi (HUN)	51.57	Eugeniusz Wachowski (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	Tadeusz Paprocki (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	Nina Dyeonskaya (URS)	25.0	Giuseppina Leone (ITA)	25.0
800 metres details	Yelizaveta Yermolayeva (URS)	2:12.3	Ariane Doser (FRG)	2:13.4	Milica Rajkov (YUG)	2:13.6
80 metres hurdles details	Milka Babović (YUG)	11.5	Hilke Thymm (FRG)	11.7	Ilsabe Heider (FRG)	11.7
4 × 100 metres relay details	Soviet Union Vera Krepkina Nina Dyeonskaya Mariya Itkina Galina Popova	46.4	West Germany Christiane Voß Inge Fuhrmann Irene Brütting Hilke Thymm	47.4	Italy Elisabetta Mattana Giuseppina Leone Franca Peggion Anna Doro	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	Maria Ciastowska (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	Györgyi Hegedus (HUN)	45.11	Ida Bucsányi (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 entries)		29	28	28	85

References

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

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