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1955
Track
Field
High Jump
1
Ernest Shelton
USA
2.115
2
Bengt Nilsson
SWE
2.10
3
Charles Dumas
USA
2.089
4
Charles Holding
USA
2.051
5
Jaroslav Kovar
TCH
2.05
5
Vladimir Sitkin
URS
2.05
7
Floyd Smith
USA
2.048
8
Stig Pettersson
SWE
2.04
9
Julius O. Chigbolu
NGR
2.038
9
Robert Barksdale
USA
2.038
Pole Vault
1
Robert Richards
USA
4.64
2
Donald Bragg
USA
4.59
3
Robert Smith
USA
4.54
4
Donald Laz
USA
4.52
5
Ron Morris
USA
4.51
5
Walt Levack
USA
4.51
7
Eeles Landström
FIN
4.50
8
Jerry Welbourn
USA
4.47
9
Ragnar Lundberg
SWE
4.45
10
Edward Adamczyk
POL
4.43
Long Jump
1
Rosslyn Range
USA
8.03
A
2
John Bennett
USA
8.01
A
3
Gregory Bell
USA
7.94
A
4
Neville Price
RSA
7.87
A
5
Ary Facanha de Sa
BRA
7.84
A
6
James Gamble
USA
7.69
7
Malachi Andrews
USA
7.64
8
Heinz Oberbeck
FRG
7.62
A
9
Donald Stuart
RSA
7.57
A
10
Monte Upshaw
USA
7.56
Triple Jump
1
Adhemar Ferreira da Silva
BRA
16.56
A
2
Leonid Shcherbakov
URS
16.35
3
Arnoldo Devonish
VEN
16.13
A
4
Yevgeniy Chen
URS
15.85
5
Martin Rehak
TCH
15.80
6
Valentin Dementyev
URS
15.78
7
Oleg Fedoseyev
URS
15.69
8
Victor Hernandez
CUB
15.60
A
9
Teruji Kogake
JPN
15.52
10
Vlastimil Kalecky
TCH
15.50
Shot Put
1
Parry O'Brien
USA
18.09
2
Tom Jones
USA
18.00
3
William Nieder
USA
17.66
4
Ray Martin
USA
17.53
5
Don Vick
USA
17.50
6
Jiri Skobla
TCH
17.46
7
Tom Meyer
USA
17.43
8
Vartan Ovsepyan
URS
17.17
9
Roosevelt Grier
USA
17.15
10
Otto Grigalka
URS
17.05
Discus Throw
1
Adolfo Consolini
ITA
56.98
2
Karel Merta
TCH
56.69
3
Otto Grigalka
URS
55.50
4
Fortune Gordien
USA
55.14
5
Simeon Iness
USA
54.74
6
Boris Matveyev
URS
54.41
7
Thorsteinn Löve
ISL
54.28
8
József Szécsényi
HUN
54.24
9
Parry O'Brien
USA
53.90
10
Desmond Koch
USA
53.65
Hammer Throw
1
Mikhail Krivonosov
URS
64.52
2
Harold Connolly
USA
63.88
3
Nikolay Redkin
URS
61.51
4
Jozsef Csermak
HUN
61.48
4
Stanislav Nyenashev
URS
61.48
6
Milos Maca
TCH
61.43
7
Sverre Strandli
NOR
61.19
8
Fyodor Tkachev
URS
60.97
9
Tadeusz Rut
POL
60.79
10
Dimitriy Yegorov
URS
60.52
Javelin Throw
1
Franklin Held
USA
81.76
2
Janusz Sidlo
POL
80.07
3
Soini Nikkinen
FIN
79.64
4
William Miller
USA
78.65
5
Cyrus Young
USA
78.33
6
Sandor Krasznai
HUN
78.04
7
Charles Vallmann
URS
77.90
8
Heiner Will
FRG
77.01
9
Vladimir Kuznetsov
URS
76.55
10
Viktor Tsybulenko
URS
75.85
Decathlon
1
Rafer Johnson
USA
7985
2
Vasiliy Kuznetsov
URS
7647
3
Robert Lawson
USA
7063
4
Robert Richards
USA
7043
5
Walter Meier
GDR
6835
6
Brayton Norton
USA
6829
7
Yuriy Kutenko
URS
6708
8
Boris Stolyarov
URS
6702
9
Kim Bukhantsev
URS
6546
10
Torbjorn Lassenius
FIN
6511