The men's javelin throw event at the 1957 World University Games was held at the Stadium Charlety in Paris with the final on 8 September 1957. [1] [2]
| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Viktor Kompaniyets | Jan Kopyto | Tadeusz Paprocki |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viktor Tsybulenko | 76.69 | x | 76.68 | 80.63 | 72.58 | 72.13 | 80.63 | GR | ||
| Jan Kopyto | 72.74 | 74.49 | 75.35 | 77.79 | x | x | 77.79 | |||
| Tadeusz Paprocki | x | 69.24 | 71.47 | 73.58 | 72.22 | x | 73.58 | |||
| 4 | Luitpold Maier | 73.38 | x | 66.29 | 60.42 | x | 62.57 | 73.38 | ||
| 5 | Gergely Kulcsár | 65.94 | 67.28 | x | 62.61 | x | 68.40 | 68.40 | ||
| 6 | Hermann Rieder | 67.48 | 65.03 | 63.92 | 64.93 | 64.78 | 65.45 | 67.48 | ||
| 7 | Giovanni Lievore | 67.13 | ||||||||
| 8 | Manfred Hütsch | 66.00 | ||||||||
| 9 | Gheorghe Popescu | 65.66 | ||||||||
| 10 | Alexandru Bizim | 64.80 | ||||||||
| 11 | Guy Van Zeune | 63.42 | ||||||||
| 12 | Raymond Davies | 62.09 | ||||||||
| 13 | Raffaele Bonaiuto | 60.57 | ||||||||
| 14 | Pavel Jílek | 60.08 | ||||||||
| 15 | John Roberts | 59.00 | ||||||||
| 16 | John Lawson | 46.75 |