Athletics at the 1962 World Festival of Youth and Students

The 8th World Festival of Youth and Students featured an athletics competition among its programme of events. Organised under the Union Internationale des Étudiants (UIE), the events were contested in Helsinki, Finland in August 1962. Mainly contested among Eastern European athletes, it served as an alternative to the Universiade. It was the final time that a major international athletics competition was incorporated into the festival, as athletics at the Universiade grew to be the most prominent student athletics venue for both Western and Eastern-aligned countries.^[1]

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Edvin Ozolin (URS)	10.5	Vilém Mandlík (TCH)	10.6	Mikhail Bachvarov (BUL)	10.7
200 metres	Vilém Mandlík (TCH)	21.3	Edvin Ozolin (URS)	21.6	(URS)	22.1
400 metres	(URS)	49.6	(TCH)	49.7	(FIN)	50.4
800 metres	Josef Odložil (TCH)	1:51.4	(URS)	1:51.5	István Rózsavölgyi (HUN)	1:52.8
1500 metres	Witold Baran (POL)	3:43.6	(TCH)	3:51.6	Zoltan Vamoș (ROM)	3:52.2
5000 metres	Pyotr Bolotnikov (URS)	13:50.6	Aleksey Konov (URS)	14:03.7	Zoltan Vamoș (ROM)	14:10.6
110 m hurdles	Viktor Balikhin (URS)	14.7	(TCH)	15.2	(FIN)	15.4
4 × 100 m relay	Soviet Union (URS)	41.7	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	42.4	Bulgaria (BUL)	43.8
4 × 400 m relay	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	3:17.7	Soviet Union (URS)	3:17.8	Mongolia (MGL)	3:34.0
High jump	Valeriy Brumel (URS)	2.22 m	Evgeni Yordanov (BUL)	2.00 m	(ROM)	2.00 m
Pole vault	Rudolf Tomášek (TCH)	4.45 m	(POL)	4.20 m	(TCH)	4.20 m
Long jump	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS)	7.93 m	(BUL)	7.29 m	Andrzej Stalmach (POL)	7.25 m
Triple jump	(POL)	15.34 m	Andrzej Stalmach (POL)	14.15 m	(TUN)	13.76 m
Shot put	Vilmos Varjú (HUN)	18.81 m	Edmund Piątkowski (POL)	16.38 m	Vladimir Trusenyov (URS)	16.00 m
Discus throw	Edmund Piątkowski (POL)	57.37 m	Vladimir Trusenyov (URS)	57.28 m	József Szécsényi (HUN)	56.62 m
Javelin throw	Jānis Lūsis (URS)	78.80 m	Janusz Sidło (POL)	72.59 m	(FIN)	68.31 m

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	(ROM)	12.4	(URS)	12.4	(POL)	12.5
400 metres	(BUL)	57.9	(TCH)	58.1	Florica Grecescu (ROM)	58.3
800 metres	Florica Grecescu (ROM)	2:10.3	(TCH)	2:11.3	(BUL)	2:17.4
80 m hurdles	Irina Press (URS)	10.9	Teresa Ciepły (POL)	11.0	(URS)	11.1
4 × 100 m relay	Soviet Union (URS)	47.4	Poland (POL)	47.7	Finland (FIN)	52.0
High jump	Iolanda Balaș (ROM)	1.84 m	(URS)	1.65 m	(FIN)	1.45 m
Long jump	Tatyana Shchelkanova (URS)	6.59 m	Diana Yorgova (BUL)	5.99 m	(ROM)	5.89 m
Shot put	Tamara Press (URS)	16.96 m	Irina Press (URS)	16.12 m	Ivanka Khristova (BUL)	15.18 m
Discus throw	Tamara Press (URS)	54.59 m	Jolán Kontsek (HUN)	53.97 m	(BUL)	51.84 m
Javelin throw	Elvīra Ozoliņa (URS)	56.42 m	Maria Diaconescu (ROM)	51.02 m	(BUL)	46.73 m

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	14	8	3	25
2	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	4	7	1	12
3	Poland (POL)	3	6	2	11
4	Romania (ROM)	3	1	5	9
5	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	3	6	10
6	Hungary (HUN)	1	1	2	4
7	Finland (FIN)	0	0	5	5
8	Mongolia (MGL)	0	0	1	1
	Tunisia (TUN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 nations)		26	26	26	78

References[]

Sources[]

Results

• World Student Games (UIE). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-15.