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 in September.World Student Games (UIE). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.
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 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.
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.European Championships (Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-11.
Medal summary Men 100 metres 10.5 10.6 10.7200 metres 21.3 21.3 21.4400 metres 47.6 47.7 47.9800 metres 1:48.2 1:48.5 1:49.41500 metres 3:41.1 3:41.7 3:41.75000 metres 13:51.8 13:52.0 13:54.210,000 metres 29:14.6 29:16.4 29:36.0110 m hurdles 14.5 14.6 14.6400 m hurdles 51.2 51.3 53.93000 metres steeplechase 8:50.2 8:51.8 8:53.84 × 100 m relayBoris TokaryevYuriy KonovalovAlbert PlaskeyevLeonid Bartenyev 40.2Zenon BaranowskiMarian FoikJan JarzembowskiHenryk Grabowski 40.8Vilhjálmur EinarssonHilmar ÞorbjörnssonDaníel HalldórssonAdólf Óskarsson 42.94 × 400 m relayLeopold ShupilovVladimir YefishinValentin RakhmanovMikhail Nikolskiy 3:11.1Stanislav JungwirthJozef KočišJosef TrousilJaroslav Jirásek 3:12.6Helmut HengstKarl-Heinz KruseHelfried ReinnagelWalter Meier 3:13.7Marathon 2:21:24 2:22:30 2:24:0520 km walk 1:33:02 1:33:02 1:33:2050 km walk 4:23:29 4:25:00 4:26:05High jump 2.13 m 2.13 m 2.01 mPole vault 4.50 m 4.40 mNot awardedLong jump 7.46 m 7.43 m 7.25 mTriple jump 15.92 m 15.90 m 15.76 mShot put 17.20 m 16.98 m 16.94 mDiscus throw 53.55 m 52.43 m 52.19 mHammer throw 62.91 m 62.35 m 62.13 mJavelin throw 80.12 m 76.70 m 76.44 mDecathlon 7294 pts 7193 pts 6574 pts
Women 100 metres 11.9 12.0 12.0200 metres 23.9 24.0 24.4400 metres 54.4 54.7 54.7800 metres 2:07.8 2:08.1 2:08.780 m hurdles 10.8 10.8 11.04 × 100 m relayMariya ItkinaVera KrepkinaGalina PopovaNina Dyekonskaya 46.0Gisela Köhler-BirkemeyerBärbel MayerBrigitte WeinmeisterMargot Eichler 46.3Miroslava TrkalováBedriska MüllerováAnna Pišková? 51.2High jump 1.66 m 1.66 m 1.66 mLong jump 5.87 m 5.82 m 5.81 mShot put 16.26 m 16.14 m 15.64 mDiscus throw 53.13 m 52.04 m 50.42 mJavelin throw 51.60 m 50.06 m 49.92 mPentathlon 4560 pts 4413 pts 4283 pts
Medal table
References
Results World Student Games (UIE). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.