Athletics at the 1957 World Festival of Youth and Students

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 an 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 80.12 m (262 ft 10 1⁄4 in) 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 summary

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres  Marian Foik (POL) 10.5  Leonid Bartenyev (URS) 10.6  Mikhail Bapchvarov (BUL) 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) 47.7  Josef Trousil (TCH) 47.9
800 metres  Tadeusz Kazimierski (POL) 1:48.2  Helfried Reinnagel (GDR) 1:48.5  Zoltan Vamos (ROM) 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  Soviet Union (URS) 40.2  Poland (POL) 40.8  Iceland (ISL) 42.9
4×400 m relay  Soviet Union (URS) 3:11.1  Czechoslovakia (TCH) 3:12.6  East Germany (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  Anatoliy Vedyakov (URS) 4:25:00  Grigoriy 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)
 Manfred Preussger (GDR) 		4.40 m Not awarded
Long jump  Henryk Grabowski (POL) 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  Jirí 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) 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) 80.12 m  Jan Kopyto (POL) 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

Event Gold Silver Bronze
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  Soviet Union (URS) 46.0  East Germany (GDR) 46.3  Czechoslovakia (TCH) 51.2
High jump  Iolanda Balas (ROM) 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) 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

References

  1. 1 2 3 World Student Games (UIE). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.
  2. ↑ European Championships (Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-11.
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