Regional Regional championships · since 1958

1958 USA vs USSR Series

Moscow, Soviet Union 27–28 Jul 1958

events: 32
medals awarded: 93
nations on the podium: 2
world records: 2

Podiums

Sprints

100m

Ira Murchison 10.2

Ed Collymore 10.2

Leonid Bartenev 10.4

Sprints

200m

Ed Collymore 21.3

Yuriy Konovalov 21.4

Leonid Bartenev 21.8

Sprints

400m

Glenn Davis 45.6

Eddie Southern 47.3

Valentin Rakhmanov 47.5

Middle & long

800m

Tom Courtney 1:48.8

Georgi Govorov 1:50.4

Petr Varrak 1:50.4

Middle & long

1500m

Jim Grelle 3:46.7

Jonas Pipyne 3:47.3

Ed Moran (1937) 3:47.7

Middle & long

5000m

Hubert Parnakivi 14:28.4

Bill Dellinger 14:28.4

Max Truex 14:32.0

Middle & long

10,000m

Yevgeniy Zhukov (1930) MR 29:59.8

Aleksey Desyatchikov 30:20.4

Jerry Smart 31:11.4

Middle & long

3000m steeplechase

Semyon Rzhishchin 8:42.0

Phil Coleman 8:47.6

Sergey Ponomaryov 8:49.0

Hurdles

110m hurdles

Ancel Robinson 13.9

Hayes Jones 14.0

Anatoliy Mikhailov 14.2

Hurdles

400m hurdles

Glenn Davis 50.4

Josh Culbreath 50.7

Yuriy Lituyev 51.3

Jumps

High jump

Yuriy Stepanov 2.12

Igor Kashkarov 2.03

Charles Dumas 2.03

Jumps

Pole vault

Vladimir Bulatov 4.50

Ron Morris 4.40

Vitaliy Chernobay 4.30

Jumps

Long jump

Ernest Shelby 7.94

Igor Ter-Ovanesyan 7.76

William Jackson 7.49

Jumps

Triple jump

Oleg Ryakhovskiy WR 16.59

Vitold Kreyer 16.30

Kent Floerke 15.51

Throws

Shot put

Parry O'Brien 19.14

Dallas Long 17.77

Vladimir Loshchilov 16.98

Throws

Discus throw

Rink Babka 57.00

Al Oerter 56.37

Vladimir Trusenyov 52.23

Throws

Hammer throw

Harold Connolly 67.48

Al Hall 64.94

Anatoliy Samotsvetov 64.65

Throws

Javelin throw

Vladimir Kuznetsov 74.67

Charles Vallman 74.49

Al Cantello 72.71

Race walks

20 km race walk

Leonid Spirin 1:33:44 43,2

Valentin Guk 1:35:07 06,2

James Hewson 1:41:16 15,2

Combined

Decathlon

Rafer Johnson WR 8302

Vasiliy Kuznetsov 7865

Dave Edstrom 7399

Relays

4x100m

United States of America

Ira Murchison Ira Davis James Segrest Ed Collymore

39.6

Soviet Union

Boris Tokarev Edvin Ozolin Yuriy Konovalov Leonid Bartenev

40.3

Relays

4x400m

United States of America

Jack Yerman Tom Courtney Eddie Southern Glenn Davis

3:07.0

Soviet Union

Mikhail Nikolskiy Valentin Rakhmanov Abram Krivosheev Konstantin Grachev

3:11.7

Medal table

2 nations · 93 medals

#	Nation				Total	Share
1	United States of America USA	18	11	16	45
2	Soviet Union URS	14	21	13	48

Records set

2 WR · 1 MR

WR Oleg Ryakhovskiy Triple jump · Men 16.59
WR Rafer Johnson Decathlon · Men 8302
MR Yevgeniy Zhukov (1930) 10,000m · Men 29:59.8

About this edition

Series winner: USSR by 172-170 in total score.

Breakdown:

Men USA 126 - URS 109

Women URS 63 - USA 44

(Scoring system: 4-3-2-1 points in 32 disciplines.)

NOTES: Held in Lenin Stadium. Two world records broken. 1956 Olympic champion Glenn Davis won two individual events.