1933 International University Games

Stamp commemorating the 1933 International University Games, with statue of Benito Mussolini and obelisk.

The 1933 International University Games were organised by the Confederation Internationale des Etudiants (CIE) and held in Turin, Italy. Held from 1–10 September, 27 nations competed in nine sports. Women competed only in the athletics, swimming, fencing, and tennis events (the latter two being debut events for women). This edition marked the first appearance of African athletes at the competition, as South Africa and Egypt sent delegations for the first time.^[1]

Sports[]

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	(GER)	10.7	(FIN)	10.8	Ulderico Di Blas (ITA)	10.9
200 metres	Andrej Engel (TCH)	22.1	(GER)	22.2	Angelo Ferrario (ITA)	22.3
400 metres	Ivan Fuqua (USA)	47.8	Harry Voigt (GER)	48.3	Adolf Metzner (GER)	48.5
800 metres	Wolfgang Dessecker (GER)	1:54.6	Max Danz (GER)	1:55.0	Umberto Cerati (ITA)	1:55.6?
1500 metres	Luigi Beccali (ITA)	3:49.2	Jack Lovelock (NZL)	3:49.8	Wolfgang Dessecker (GER)	4:03.0
3000 metres	Umberto Cerati (ITA)	8:43.0	Joe McCluskey (USA)	8:44.2	(TCH)	9:02.8?
110 metres hurdles	(USA)	14.4	Erwin Wegner (GER)	14.9	Corrado Valle (ITA)	15.6
400 metres hurdles	Géza Nagy (HUN)	54.7	Ralph Brown (ENG)	54.8	Emilio Mori (ITA)	56.0
4×100 metres relay	Germany (GER) Stein	42.0	Italy (ITA) Ulderico Di Blas Angelo Ferrario Tullio Gonnelli	42.6	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Andrej Engel Karel Kněnický	42.7
4×400 metres relay	Germany (GER) Adolf Metzner Fritz Nottbrock Harry Voigt	3:17.6	France (FRA) Raymond Boisset Pierre Skawinski	3:19.0	Italy (ITA) Mario Rabaglino	3:22.4
1600 metres medley relay	Italy (ITA) Angelo Ferrario Tullio Gonnelli Luigi Beccali	3:28.2	Germany (GER) Max Danz Fritz Nottbrock	3:31.2	Hungary (HUN) Mihály Iglói	3:32.6
High jump	Mihály Bodosi (HUN)	1.94	Aksel Kuuse (EST)	1.91	Nils Bergström (SWE)	1.85
Pole vault	Bo Ljungberg (SWE)	3.90	(ARG)	3.80	(ITA)	3.80
Long jump	(EST)	7.26	Martti Tolamo (FIN)	7.03	Hans-Heinrich Sievert (GER)	6.94
Shot put	Risto Kuntsi (FIN)	15.52	Arnold Viiding (EST)	15.09	Hans-Heinrich Sievert (GER)	14.95
Discus throw	Henri LaBorde (USA)	48.90	Arnold Viiding (EST)	45.40	Hans-Heinrich Sievert (GER)	44.54
Javelin throw	József Várszegi (HUN)	64.85	Gustav Sule (EST)	64.03?	Gottfried Weimann (GER)	64.02
Pentathlon	Hans-Heinrich Sievert (GER)	4163.54	Wolrad Eberle (GER)	3979.51	Martti Tolamo (FIN)	3941.24

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Trebisonda Valla (ITA)	12.9	Audrey Brown (ENG)	13.0	Claudia Testoni (ITA)	13.0
80 metres hurdles	Trebisonda Valla (ITA)	12.2	Claudia Testoni (ITA)	12.6	(HUN)	13.0
4 x 100 metres relay	Italy (ITA) Lidia Bongiovanni Claudia Testoni Trebisonda Valla	51.5	England (ENG) Audrey Brown V. Booth	51.9	Latvia (LAT)	54.6
High jump	Trebisonda Valla (ITA)	1.45	(ENG)	1.40	(LAT)	1.40
Long jump	Claudia Testoni (ITA)	5.03	(HUN)	4.97	Trebisonda Valla (ITA)	4.85
Discus throw	Lidia Bongiovanni (ITA)	25.62	V. Booth (ENG)	24.27?	(ENG)	22.12
Javelin throw	Margaret Cox (ENG)	29.16	(ENG)	28.81	(ITA)	27.81

Athletics medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	9	1	9	19
2	Germany (GER)	4	6	6	16
3	Hungary (HUN)	3	1	2	6
4	United States (USA)	3	1	0	4
5	Estonia (EST)	1	4	0	5
6	Finland (FIN)	1	2	1	4
7	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	1	2
	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	1	2
9	England (ENG)	0	5	1	6
10	Argentina (ARG)	0	1	0	1
	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	1	0	1
13	Latvia (LAT)	0	0	2	2
Totals (13 nations)		23	23	23	69

Participating nations[]

References[]

• World Student Games (Pre-Universiade) - GBR Athletics