Athletics at the 1953 World Festival of Youth and Students
The 4th World Festival of Youth and Students featured an athletics competition among its programme of events. The events were contested in Bucharest, Romania in August 1953. Mainly contested among Eastern European athletes, it served as an alternative to the more Western European-oriented 1953 Summer International University Sports Week held in Dortmund the same year.[1]
The event reached new peaks, in particular with men's long-distance battles between multiple Olympic champion Emil Zátopek and future Olympic champion Vladimir Kuts (Zátopek won both contests). Ardalion Ignatyev, Yevgeniy Bulanchik, Anatoliy Yulin, Josef Doležal, Ödön Földessy, Leonid Shcherbakov all went on to claim gold medals at the 1954 European Athletics Championships a year later. The men's hammer throw saw European champion Sverre Strandli take on and defeat the reigning Olympic champion József Csermák.[1]
The women's events contained similarly high profile athletes. Aleksandra Chudina defended three of her four titles from the previous edition and won a different fourth title in the javelin throw (having won the 80 metres hurdles in 1951 instead). Nina Otkalenko won the 800 metres – a feat she would repeat at the 1954 European Championships – and Maria Golubnichaya did the same in the 80 m hurdles. The 1948 Olympic championOlga Gyarmati returned but was again held off the long jump podium by Chudina. Having won the Olympic title since her previous runner-up performance at the tournament, shot putter Galina Zybina went on better and won the world student title. Nina Ponomaryova defended her discus throw title, having also become Olympic champion in the meantime.[1][2]
Yevgeniy Bulanchik (110 m hurdles), Leonid Shcherbakov (triple jump), Ferenc Klics (discus) and Aleksandra Chudina (high jump) became the first athletes to win three consecutive titles in a discipline at the World Festival of Youth and Students. The Soviet Union and East Germany won most of the women's medals, while the men's events were dominated by Soviet, Czechoslovak and Hungarian athletes.[1]
Medal summary[]
Men[]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
100 metres | ![]() ![]() |
10.6 | Not awarded | ![]() |
10.7 | |
200 metres | ![]() |
21.0 | ![]() |
21.1 | ![]() |
21.3 |
400 metres | ![]() |
46.8 | ![]() |
48.0 | ![]() |
48.3 |
800 metres | ![]() |
1:51.4 | ![]() |
1:51.8 | ![]() |
1:51.9 |
1500 metres | ![]() |
3:46.2 | ![]() |
3:46.6 | ![]() |
3:48.8 |
5000 metres | ![]() |
14:03.0 | ![]() |
14:04.0 | ![]() |
14:04.2 |
10,000 metres | ![]() |
29:25.8 | ![]() |
29:41.4 | ![]() |
30:03.4 |
3000 metres steeplechase | ![]() |
8:56.2 | ![]() |
8:57.4 | ![]() |
9:03.0 |
110 m hurdles | ![]() |
14.4 | ![]() |
14.7 | ![]() |
14.7 |
400 m hurdles | ![]() |
51.5 | ![]() |
51.8 | ![]() |
52.4 |
4 × 100 m relay | ![]() György Csányi Géza Varasdi László Zarándi Béla Goldoványi |
41.5 | ![]() František Brož Milan Fillo Václav Janeček Zdeněk Pospíšil |
41.5 | ![]() Levan Sanadze Vladimir Sukharev Boris Tokarev |
41.6 |
4 × 400 m relay | ![]() Edmunds Pīlāgs Yuriy Lituyev Ardalion Ignatyev |
3:10.8 | ![]() Ferenc Bánhalmi Zoltán Adamik Lajos Szentgáli |
3:11.2 | ![]() |
3:13.8 |
10,000 m walk | ![]() |
44:09.8 | ![]() |
46:09.8 | ![]() |
46:15.4 |
50 km walk | ![]() |
4:26:19 | ![]() |
4:29:41 | ![]() |
4:35:36 |
High jump | ![]() |
2.00 m | ![]() |
1.93 m | ![]() |
1.93 m |
Pole vault | ![]() |
4.25 m | ![]() |
4.20 m | ![]() |
4.20 m |
Long jump | ![]() |
7.63 m | ![]() |
7.34 m | ![]() |
7.33 m |
Triple jump | ![]() |
15.63 m | ![]() |
15.02 m | ![]() |
14.90 m |
Shot put | ![]() |
16.76 m | ![]() |
16.23 m | ![]() |
16.09 m |
Discus throw | ![]() |
49.27 m | ![]() |
48.90 m | ![]() |
48.43 m |
Hammer throw | ![]() |
58.49 m | ![]() |
58.49 m | ![]() |
57.90 m |
Javelin throw | ![]() |
74.76 m | ![]() |
73.47 m | ![]() |
69.51 m |
Decathlon | ![]() |
6308 pts | ![]() |
6194 pts | ![]() |
6188 pts |
Women[]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
100 metres | ![]() |
11.7 | ![]() |
11.8 | ![]() |
11.9 |
200 metres | ![]() |
23.9 | ![]() |
24.1 | ![]() |
24.5 |
400 metres | ![]() |
56.3 | ![]() |
56.7 | ![]() |
57.1 |
800 metres | ![]() |
2:10.5 | ![]() |
2:12.7 | ![]() |
2:13.5 |
80 m hurdles | ![]() |
11.2 | ![]() |
11.3 | ![]() |
11.4 |
4 × 100 m relay | ![]() Christa Stubnick |
46.5 | ![]() Flora Kazantseva Olga Kosheleva |
47.8 | ![]() Aranka Szabó-Bartha Klára Soós Ibolya Tilkovszky |
47.9 |
4 × 200 m relay | ![]() Vera Krepkina Flora Kazantseva Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili |
1:36.4 | ![]() Gisela Köhler Christa Stubnick |
1:37.0 | ![]() Galina Bystrova Olga Kosheleva |
1:40.1 |
High jump | ![]() |
1.64 m | ![]() |
1.61 m | ![]() |
1.58 m |
Long jump | ![]() |
5.98 m | ![]() |
5.76 m | ![]() |
5.69 m |
Shot put | ![]() |
15.34 m | ![]() |
15.16 m | ![]() |
13.91 m |
Discus throw | ![]() |
52.63 m | ![]() |
46.75 m | ![]() |
44.38 m |
Javelin throw | ![]() |
49.39 m | ![]() |
47.53 m | ![]() |
46.70 m |
Pentathlon | ![]() |
4888 pts | ![]() |
4109 pts | ![]() |
4043 pts |
Medal table[]
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | 19 | 18 | 17 | 54 |
2 | ![]() | 8 | 6 | 1 | 15 |
3 | ![]() | 4 | 8 | 7 | 19 |
4 | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 7 | 12 |
5 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
6 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
8 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Totals (8 nations) | 37 | 35 | 36 | 108 |
References[]
- ^ a b c d World Student Games (UIE). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.
- ^ OLYMPIC GAMES MEDALLISTS - ATHLETICS (WOMEN). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-10.
- Results
- World Student Games (UIE). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.
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