- Medal summary Men Women
- Medal table
- References
The 6th World Festival of Youth and Students featured an athletics competition among its programme of events. The events were contested in Moscow, Soviet Union in August 1957. Mainly contested among Eastern European athletes, it served as an alternative to the more Western European-oriented 1957 World University Games held in Paris the same year.[1] Many top Soviet athletes were present and the event and the nation won the most titles. Pyotr Bolotnikov won the 10,000 metres – a feat which preceded a 1960 Olympic win at the distance. Semyon Rzhishchin, the steeplechase world record holder, won his specialist event, but Olympic walking champion Leonid Spirin settled for runner-up spot. In the triple jump, Leonid Shcherbakov failed an attempt to win a fifth straight title at the festival, being beaten by two-time and reigning Olympic champion Adhemar da Silva, who claimed Brazil's first gold in festival history. Javelin thrower Janusz Sidło won a fourth straight world student title and his throw of {{T&Fcalc|80.12}} marked the only time an athlete surpassed eighty metres at the competition. Yugoslavia was prominently represented by Franjo Mihalić, the Olympic runner-up and marathon winner here.[1] In women's events, former Olympic champion Galina Zybina won the shot put for a second time running, while in the discus her compatriot and fellow Olympic champion Nina Ponomaryova won her fourth straight gold at the festival. Also among the strong Soviet throwers were javelin specialist Inese Jaunzeme and Tamara Tyshkevich (both reigning Olympic champions). Iolanda Balaș had her third straight world student win in the high jump. She went on to win at the 1958 European Athletics Championships a year later, as did pentathlon winner Galina Bystrova and 800 m runner-up Yelizaveta Yermolayeva.[1][2] Medal summaryMen| 100 metres | Marian Foik|POL|1928}} | 10.5 | Leonid Bartenyev|URS}} | 10.6 | Mikhail Bachvarov|BUL|1946}} | 10.7 | | 200 metres | Sándor Jakabfy|HUN}} | 21.3 | Leonid Bartenyev|URS}} | 21.3 | Yuriy Konovalov|URS}} | 21.4 | | 400 metres | Jaroslav Jirásek|TCH}} | 47.6 | Ion Wiesenmayer|ROM|1952}} | 47.7 | Josef Trousil|TCH}} | 47.9 | | 800 metres | Tadeusz Kaźmierski|POL|1928}} | 1:48.2 | Helfried Reinnagel|GDR}} | 1:48.5 | Zoltan Vamoș|ROM|1952}} | 1:49.4 | | 1500 metres | Jonas Pipyné|URS}} | 3:41.1 | Yevgeniy Sokolov|URS}} | 3:41.7 | Stanislav Jungwirth|TCH}} | 3:41.7 | | 5000 metres | Miklós Szabó|HUN}} | 13:51.8 | Friedrich Janke|GDR}} | 13:52.0 | Al Lawrence|AUS}} | 13:54.2 | | 10,000 metres | Pyotr Bolotnikov|URS}} | 29:14.6 | Al Lawrence|AUS}} | 29:16.4 | Ivan Chernyavskiy|URS}} | 29:36.0 | | 110 m hurdles | Stanko Lorger|YUG}} | 14.5 | Boris Stolyarov|URS}} | 14.6 | Yuriy Petrov|URS}} | 14.6 | | 400 m hurdles | Yuriy Lituyev|URS}} | 51.2 | Igor Ilyin|URS}} | 51.3 | Pavel Syedov|URS}} | 53.9 | | 3000 metres steeplechase | Semyon Rzhishchin|URS}} | 8:50.2 | Ludvík Veselý|TCH}} | 8:51.8 | Gyula Varga|HUN}} | 8:53.8 | | 4 × 100 m relay | URS}} | 40.2 | POL|1928}} | 40.8 | ISL}} | 42.9 | | 4 × 400 m relay | URS}} | 3:11.1 | TCH}} | 3:12.6 | GDR}} | 3:13.7 | | Marathon | Franjo Mihalić|YUG}} | 2:21:24 | Albert Ivanov|URS}} | 2:22:30 | Sergey Popov|URS}} | 2:24:05 | | 20 km walk | Antanas Mikénas|URS}} | 1:33:02 | Leonid Spirin|URS}} | 1:33:02 | Grigoriy Panichkin|URS}} | 1:33:20 | | 50 km walk | Mikhail Lavrov|URS}} | 4:23:29 | Anatoly Vedyakov|URS}} | 4:25:00 | Grigory Klimov|URS}} | 4:26:05 | | High jump | Yuriy Stepanov|URS}} | 2.13 m | Igor Kashkarov|URS}} | 2.13 m | Vladimir Sitkin|URS}} | 2.01 m | | Pole vault | Vitaliy Chernobay|URS}} | 4.50 m | Vladimir Bulatov|URS}}
{{flagathlete|Manfred Preussger|GDR}} | 4.40 m | Not awarded |
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| Long jump | Henryk Grabowski|POL|1928}} | 7.46 m | Yevgeniy Chen|URS}} | 7.43 m | Branko Miler|YUG}} | 7.25 m | | Triple jump | Adhemar da Silva|BRA}} | 15.92 m | Vilhjálmur Einarsson|ISL}} | 15.90 m | Leonid Shcherbakov|URS}} | 15.76 m | | Shot put | Jiří Skobla|TCH}} | 17.20 m | Jaroslav Plíhal|TCH}} | 16.98 m | Vartan Ovsepyan|URS}} | 16.94 m | | Discus throw | Karel Merta|TCH}} | 53.55 m | Boris Matveyev|URS}} | 52.43 m | Edmund Piątkowski|POL|1928}} | 52.19 m | | Hammer throw | Mikhail Krivonosov|URS}} | 62.91 m | Zvonko Bezjak|YUG}} | 62.35 m | Anatoliy Samotsvetov|URS}} | 62.13 m | | Javelin throw | Janusz Sidło|POL|1928}} | 80.12 m | Jan Kopyto|POL|1928}} | 76.70 m | Vladimir Kuznetsov|URS}} | 76.44 m | | Decathlon | Yuriy Kutyenko|URS}} | 7294 pts | Walter Meier|GDR}} | 7193 pts | Helmut Hengst|GDR}} | 6574 pts |
Women| 100 metres | Vera Krepkina|URS}} | 11.9 | Gisela Köhler|GDR}} | 12.0 | Galina Popova|URS}} | 12.0 | | 200 metres | Gisela Köhler|GDR}} | 23.9 | Mariya Itkina|URS}} | 24.0 | Albina Kobranova|URS}} | 24.4 | | 400 metres | Antonina Khomutova|URS}} | 54.4 | Ursula Donath|GDR}} | 54.7 | Mariya Itkina|URS}} | 54.7 | | 800 metres | Ursula Donath|GDR}} | 2:07.8 | Yelizaveta Yermolayeva|URS}} | 2:08.1 | Gizella Sasvári|HUN}} | 2:08.7 | | 80 m hurdles | Nelli Yeliseyeva|URS}} | 10.8 | Gisela Köhler|GDR}} | 10.8 | Galina Bystrova|URS}} | 11.0 | | 4 × 100 m relay | URS}} | 46.0 | GDR}} | 46.3 | TCH}} | 51.2 | | High jump | Iolanda Balas|ROM|1952}} | 1.66 m | Mariya Pisareva|URS}} | 1.66 m | Valentina Ballod|URS}} | 1.66 m | | Long jump | Vilve Maremäe|URS}} | 5.87 m | Nadezhda Dvalishvili|URS}} | 5.82 m | Nelli Yeliseyeva|URS}} | 5.81 m | | Shot put | Galina Zybina|URS}} | 16.26 m | Tamara Tyshkevich|URS}} | 16.14 m | Zinaida Doinikova|URS}} | 15.64 m | | Discus throw | Nina Ponomaryova|URS}} | 53.13 m | Irina Beglyakova|URS}} | 52.04 m | Štepánka Mertová|TCH}} | 50.42 m | | Javelin throw | Inese Jaunzeme|URS}} | 51.60 m | Maria Diti|ROM|1952}} | 50.06 m | Eleonora Bogun|URS}} | 49.92 m | | Pentathlon | Galina Bystrova|URS}} | 4560 pts | Vilve Maremäe|URS}} | 4413 pts | Lidiya Shmakova|URS}} | 4283 pts |
Medal table{{Medals table
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| gold_URS = 21 | silver_URS = 19 | bronze_URS = 21
| gold_POL = 4 | silver_POL = 2 | bronze_POL = 1 | name_POL = {{flagteam|POL|1928}}
| gold_TCH = 3 | silver_TCH = 3 | bronze_TCH = 4
| gold_GDR = 2 | silver_GDR = 8 | bronze_GDR = 2
| gold_YUG = 2 | silver_YUG = 1 | bronze_YUG = 0
| gold_HUN = 2 | silver_HUN = 0 | bronze_HUN = 2
| gold_ROM = 1 | silver_ROM = 2 | bronze_ROM = 1 | name_ROM = {{flagteam|ROM|1952}}
| gold_BRA = 1 | silver_BRA = 0 | bronze_BRA = 0
| gold_AUS = 0 | silver_AUS = 1 | bronze_AUS = 1
| gold_ISL = 0 | silver_ISL = 1 | bronze_ISL = 1
| gold_BUL = 0 | silver_BUL = 0 | bronze_BUL = 1 | name_BUL = {{flagteam|BUL|1946}}
}}References1. ^1 2 World Student Games (UIE). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.
2. ^European Championships (Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-11.
- Results
- World Student Games (UIE). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.
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