1957 International Universities Championships

Host City Paris
Country FRA
Held 5 – 8 September 1957
Competitors 96
Countries 15

World University Games

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
100 m Men — Medal 3 3
200 m Men — Medal 3 3
400 m Men — Medal 3 3
800 m Men — Medal 3 3
1,500 m Men — Medal 3 3
5,000 m Men — Medal 3 3
110 m Hurdles Men — Medal 3 2
400 m Hurdles Men — Medal 3 3
4 x 100 m Relay Men — Medal 12 3
4 x 400 m Relay Men — Medal 12 3
10 km Walk Men — Medal 2 1
High Jump Men — Medal 3 2
Pole Vault Men — Medal 3 3
Long Jump Men — Medal 3 3
Triple Jump Men — Medal 3 3
Shot Put Men — Medal 3 3
Discus Throw Men — Medal 3 3
Hammer Throw Men — Medal 3 3
Javelin Throw Men — Medal 3 2
100 m Women — Medal 3 2
200 m Women — Medal 3 2
800 m Women — Medal 3 3
80 m Hurdles Women — Medal 3 2
4 x 100 m Relay Women — Medal 12 3
High Jump Women — Medal 3 3
Long Jump Women — Medal 3 3
Shot Put Women — Medal 3 3
Discus Throw Women — Medal 3 2
Javelin Throw Women — Medal 3 3

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union URS 14 8 2 24
2 Germany GER 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 ROU 2 0 0 2
7 France FRA 1 1 2 4
8 Austria AUT 1 1 0 2
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

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
100 m, Men Manfred Germar GER Ira Murchison USA Leonid Barteniev URS
200 m, Men Manfred Germar GER Leonid Barteniev URS Habib Thiam FRA
400 m, Men Jim Paterson GBR Walter Oberste GER Csaba Csutorás HUN
800 m, Men Olaf Lawrenz GER Josef Cegledi AUT Ted Campbell GBR
1,500 m, Men Josef Cegledi AUT Jonas Pipyné URS Harald Mengler GER
5,000 m, Men Kevin Gilligan GBR Veliša Mugoša YUG Gerhart Hecker HUN
110 m Hurdles, Men Stanko Lorger YUG Georgi Kaburov BUL Milad Petrušić YUG
400 m Hurdles, Men Igor Ilyin URS Anubes da Silva BRA Keiji Ogushi JPN
4 x 100 m Relay, Men France FRA Germany GER Soviet Union URS
4 x 400 m Relay, Men Germany GER Great Britain GBR Italy ITA
10 km Walk, Men Franciszek Szyszka POL Jerzy Loskoczyński POL
High Jump, Men Yury Stepanov URS Igor Kashkarov URS Ernie Shelton USA
Pole Vault, Men Zenon Ważny POL Jerry Welbourn USA Leon Lukman YUG
Long Jump, Men Dieter Witte GER Vladimir Popov URS Branko Miler YUG
Triple Jump, Men Oleg Ryakhovsky URS Éric Battista FRA Kari Rahkamo FIN
Shot Put, Men Vartan Ovsepyan URS Josef Klik GER Jean-Pierre Lassau FRA
Discus Throw, Men Viktor Kompaniyets URS József Szécsényi HUN Eugeniusz Wachowski POL
Hammer Throw, Men Anatoly Samotsvetov URS Zvonko Bezjak YUG Gyula Zsivótzky HUN
Javelin Throw, Men Viktor Tsybulenko URS Jan Kopyto POL Tadeusz Paprocki POL
100 m, Women Vira Krepkina URS Galina Popova URS Giuseppina Leone ITA
200 m, Women Mariya Itkina URS Nina Dyekonskaya URS Giuseppina Leone ITA
800 m, Women Yelizaveta Yermolayeva URS Ariane Döser GER Milica Rajkov-Ninkov YUG
80 m Hurdles, Women Milka Babović YUG Hilke Thymm GER Isabel Heider GER
4 x 100 m Relay, Women Soviet Union URS Germany GER Italy ITA
High Jump, Women Iolanda Balaș ROU Valentina Ballod URS Jarosława Jóźwiakowska-Bieda POL
Long Jump, Women Vira Krepkina URS Maria Ciastowska POL Inge Fuhrmann GER
Shot Put, Women Galina Zybina URS Earlene Brown USA Milena Usenik YUG
Discus Throw, Women Irina Beglyakova URS Györgyi Hegedűs HUN Ida Bucsányi HUN
Javelin Throw, Women Maria Diți-Diaconescu ROU Inese Jaunzeme URS Almut Brömmel GER