The men's shot put event at the 1957 World University Games was held at the Stadium Charlety in Paris with the final on 6 September 1957. [1] [2]
| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|
| Vartan Ovsepyan | Josef Klik | Jean-Pierre Lassau |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vartan Ovsepyan | 15.71 | 16.20 | 16.38 | 16.57 | 16.39 | 16.09 | 16.57 | |||
| Josef Klik | 14.92 | 15.34 | 15.41 | 15.04 | 15.81 | 15.91 | 15.91 | |||
| Jean-Pierre Lassau | 15.86 | 15.89 | 15.84 | 15.44 | 15.22 | ? | 15.89 | |||
| 4 | Raymond Thomas | 15.39 | x | 15.21 | 15.47 | 15.48 | 15.55 | 15.55 | ||
| 5 | Todor Artarski Todorov | 14.89 | 14.80 | 14.69 | 14.66 | 15.12 | 14.86 | 15.12 | ||
| 6 | Piero Monguzzi | 15.00 | 14.12 | 14.25 | 15.00 | |||||
| 7 | Helmut Huber | 14.33 | ||||||||
| 8 | Ronald Taylor | 14.28 | ||||||||
| 9 | Le Maître | 14.12 | ||||||||
| 10 | Alfonso Vidal | 13.98 | ||||||||
| 11 | Venc | 13.09 | ||||||||
| 12 | Northern | 12.91 | ||||||||
| Estanislao Quadra | x | x | x | NM | [3] |