1959 World Festival of Youth and Students

Host City Wien
Country AUT
Held 1 – 2 August 1959
Competitors 64
Countries 12

Events

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

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union URS 10 6 3 19
2 East Germany GDR 7 4 9 20
3 Poland POL 6 3 0 9
4 Romania ROU 1 1 1 3
5 Austria AUT 1 0 0 1
6 Czechoslovakia TCH 0 8 1 9
7 Yugoslavia YUG 0 2 2 4
8 Sweden SWE 0 1 2 3
9 Hungary HUN 0 0 4 4
10 Argentina ARG 0 0 1 1
= Bulgaria BUL 0 0 1 1
= Italy ITA 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
100 m, Men Jerzy Juskowiak POL Edvin Ozolin URS Reinhard Seidler GDR
200 m, Men Jerzy Kowalski POL Vilém Mandlík TCH Edvin Ozolin URS
400 m, Men Jerzy Kowalski POL Jaroslav Jirásek TCH Vilém Mandlík TCH
800 m, Men Siegfried Valentin GDR Traian Sudrigean ROU Ingemar Hägglund SWE
1,500 m, Men Siegfried Valentin GDR Witold Baran POL Hans Grodotzki GDR
5,000 m, Men Friedrich Janke GDR Aleksandr Artynyuk URS Osvaldo Suárez ARG
110 m Hurdles, Men Anatoly Mikhaylov URS Ivan Veselský TCH Georgi Kaburov BUL
400 m Hurdles, Men Hans Dittner GDR Ingvar Carlsson SWE Elio Catola ITA
High Jump, Men Igor Kashkarov URS Jiří Lanský TCH Richard Dahl SWE
Pole Vault, Men Gerhard Jeitner GDR Igor Petrenko URS Peter Laufer GDR
Long Jump, Men Igor Ter-Ovanesyan URS Branko Miler YUG Peter Becher GDR
Triple Jump, Men Oleg Ryakhovsky URS Y Sidorov URS Karl Thierfelder GDR
Shot Put, Men Fritz Kühl GDR Dako Radošević YUG Manfred Grieser GDR
Discus Throw, Men Edmund Piątkowski POL Manfred Grieser GDR Fritz Kühl GDR
Hammer Throw, Men Heinrich Thun AUT Olgierd Ciepły POL Imre Trényi HUN
Javelin Throw, Men Janusz Sidło POL Vladimir Kuznetsov URS Alexandru Bizim ROU
100 m, Women Vira Krepkina URS Gisela Birkemeyer GDR Olga Šikovec YUG
200 m, Women Lyudmila Ignatyeva URS Gisela Birkemeyer GDR Antónia Munkácsi HUN
400 m, Women Maria Bienia POL Bedřiška Kulhavá TCH Antónia Munkácsi HUN
80 m Hurdles, Women Gisela Birkemeyer GDR Alena Stolzová TCH Draga Stamejčič YUG
High Jump, Women Iolanda Balaș ROU Taisiya Chenchik URS Margarita Fatyanova URS
Long Jump, Women Vira Krepkina URS Teresa Wieczorek POL Hildrun Claus GDR
Shot Put, Women Tamara Press URS Johanna Lüttge GDR Judit Bognár HUN
Discus Throw, Women Tamara Press URS Štěpánka Mertová TCH Irene Schuch GDR
Javelin Throw, Women Alevtina Shastitko URS Dana Zátopková TCH Birutė Zalogaitytė URS