Athletics at the 1951 World Festival of Youth and Students

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The 3rd World Festival of Youth and Students featured an athletics competition among its programme of events. The events were contested in East Berlin, East Germany in August 1951. Mainly contested among Eastern European athletes, it served as an alternative to the more Western European-oriented 1951 Summer International University Sports Week held in Luxembourg the same year.[1]

The calibre of the competition improved at the 3rd edition of the competition, with six athletes successfully returning and defending their titles from the 1949 competition. Among the most prominent of these was Leonid Shcherbakov, the triple jump winner at the 1950 European Athletics Championships a year earlier.[2] European bronze medallist Olli Partanen was runner-up in the discus throw to AAA Championships winner Ferenc Klics.[3]

The 1948 Olympic long jump champion Olga Gyarmati won the 200 metres but was defeated in her Olympic event by Aleksandra Chudina who won four individual titles; her other victories came in the 80 metres hurdles, high jump, and women's pentathlon.[1] The women's throwing events here presaged the 1952 Summer Olympics, as shot put winner Galina Zybina and discus throw champion Nina Ponomaryova added Olympic gold to their World Student titles.[4] Six other medal-winning Soviet athletes reached the Olympic podium the following year: Nadezhda Khnykina, Klavdiya Tochonova, Vladimir Sukharev, Levan Sanadze, Vladimir Kazantsev and Yuriy Lituyev.[5] The Soviet Union was dominant at the event, winning all but seven of the 34 events on offer.[1]

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres  Vladimir Sukharev (URS) 10.6  Levan Sanadze (URS) 10.7  Emil Kiszka (POL) 10.7
200 metres  Vladimir Sukharev (URS) 21.4  Angel Kolev (BUL) 21.8  Zdobysław Stawczyk (POL) 21.9
400 metres  Zoltán Adamik (HUN) 49.1  Ferenc Banhalmi (HUN) 49.1   (URS) 49.1
800 metres   (URS) 1:54.2  Roman Korban (POL) 1:54.5  Pyotr Chevgun (URS) 1:55.3
1500 metres  Václav Čevona (TCH) 3:50.4  Ernő Béres (HUN) 3:50.6  Vilmos Tölgyesi (HUN) 3:52.8
5000 metres  Vladimir Kazantsev (URS) 14:40.0  Ivan Semyonov (URS) 14:50.4   (HUN) 14:50.8
10,000 metres  Ivan Semyonov (URS) 31:40.0   (URS) 31:40.6   (URS) 31:42.8
3000 metres steeplechase  Vladimir Kazantsev (URS) 8:51.2  Mikhail Saltykov (URS) 8:57.6   (TCH) 9:13.8
110 m hurdles  Yevgeniy Bulanchik (URS) 14.4   (URS) 14.5  Milan Tošnar (TCH) 14.6
400 m hurdles  Yuriy Lituyev (URS) 52.3   (URS) 52.7   (URS) 53.8
4 × 100 m relay  Soviet Union (URS)

Levan Sanadze
Vladimir Sukharev
 41.4  Poland (POL)
Zygmunt Buhl

Zdobysław Stawczyk
Emil Kiszka		 41.7  Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Jiří David
Miroslav Horčic

 41.9
4 × 400 m relay  Soviet Union (URS)


Yuriy Lituyev
 3:16.0  Hungary (HUN)
Zoltán Adamik
Ferenc Bánhalmi
Péter Karádi
Egon Solymossy		 3:16.8  Poland (POL)
Gerard Mach

Zygmunt Buhl
Roman Korban		 3:17.2
High jump  Jiří Lanský (TCH) 1.97 m  Ioan Soter (ROM) 1.97 m   (URS) 1.90 m
Pole vault  Vladimir Brazhnik (URS) 4.20 m  Edward Adamczyk (POL) 4.10 m  Zenon Ważny (POL) 4.10 m
Long jump   (URS) 7.32 m  Ödön Földessy (HUN) 7.31 m  Leonid Grigoryev (URS) 7.28 m
Triple jump  Leonid Shcherbakov (URS) 15.09 m   (GDR) 14.73 m  Zygfryd Weinberg (POL) 14.59 m
Shot put   (URS) 16.09 m  Otto Grigalka (URS) 15.59 m  Čestmír Kalina (TCH) 15.06 m
Discus throw  Ferenc Klics (HUN) 50.82 m  Olli Partanen (FIN) 47.38 m   (URS) 46.63 m
Hammer throw   (URS) 54.84 m   (HUN) 53.86 m  Heorhiy Dybenko (URS) 53.32 m
Javelin throw  Janusz Sidło (POL) 66.38 m   (URS) 64.35 m   (POL) 61.91 m
Decathlon  Vladimir Volkov (URS) 7106 pts  Petro Denysenko (URS) 7023 pts   (GDR) 6722 pts

Women[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres   (GDR) 12.0   (URS) 12.2   (GDR) 12.3
200 metres  Olga Gyarmati (HUN) 25.4   (GDR) 25.5   (URS) 25.7
400 metres   (URS) 56.9   (URS) 57.7   (URS) 58.4
800 metres   (URS) 2:15.0   (URS) 2:15.0   (URS) 2:16.5
80 m hurdles[nb]  Aleksandra Chudina (URS) 11.4   (URS) 11.5  Olga Gyarmati (HUN) 11.6
4 × 100 m relay  Soviet Union (URS)
Aleksandra Chudina


 48.3  Hungary (HUN)
Aranka Szabó-Bartha
Olga Gyarmati
Ilona Tolnai-Rákhely
 48.5  East Germany (GDR)



 48.7
4 × 200 m relay  East Germany (GDR)



 1:41.5  Soviet Union (URS)



 1:41.7  Hungary (HUN)
Aranka Szabó-Bartha
Olga Gyarmati
Ilona Tolnai-Rákhely
 1:44.2
High jump  Aleksandra Chudina (URS) 1.60 m   (URS) 1.55 m  Mariya Pisareva (URS) 1.50 m
Long jump  Aleksandra Chudina (URS) 5.86 m  Olga Gyarmati (HUN) 5.70 m  Nadezhda Khnykina (URS) 5.52 m
Shot put  Klavdiya Tochonova (URS) 14.48 m  Galina Zybina (URS) 13.83 m   (URS) 12.95 m
Discus throw  Nina Ponomaryova (URS) 46.67 m  Yelizaveta Bagriantseva (URS) 45.02 m   (URS) 41.23 m
Javelin throw   (URS) 49.14 m  Galina Zybina (URS) 48.43 m  Natalya Smirnitskaya (URS) 41.89 m
Pentathlon  Aleksandra Chudina (URS) 3999 pts  Nina Tyurkina (URS) 3234 pts  Olga Modrachová (TCH) 3186 pts
  • nb Times possibly wind-assisted[1]

Medal table[]

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union (URS)26191661
2 Hungary (HUN)37414
3 East Germany (GDR)32712
4 Czechoslovakia (TCH)2057
5 Poland (POL)13610
6 Bulgaria (BUL)0101
 Romania (ROM)0101
Totals (7 nations)353338106

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d World Student Games (UIE). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.
  2. ^ European Championships (Men). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.
  3. ^ AAA Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.
  4. ^ Olympic Games Medallists (Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.
  5. ^ Olympic Games Medallist (Men). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.
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