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
6th World Festival of Youth and Students
6th World Festival of Youth and Students
Athletics at the 1957 World Festival of Youth and Students