Athletics at the 1951 World Festival of Youth and Students

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  Zdobyslaw Stawczyk (POL) 21.9
400 metres  Zoltán Adamik (HUN) 49.1  Ferenc Banhalmi (HUN) 49.1  Sergey Komarov (URS) 49.1
800 metres  Gennadiy Modoy (URS) 1:54.2  Roman Korban (POL) 1:54.5  Pyotr Chevgun (URS) 1:55.3
1500 metres  Václav Cevona (TCH) 3:50.4  Ernõ Beres (HUN) 3:50.6  Vilmos Tölgyesi (HUN) 3:52.8
5000 metres  Vladimir Kazantsev (URS) 14:40.0  Ivan Semyonov (URS) 14:50.4  Gyula Pénzes (HUN) 14:50.8
10,000 metres  Ivan Semyonov (URS) 31:40.0  Nikolay Alekseyev (URS) 31:40.6  Nikolay Yevseyev (URS) 31:42.8
3000 metres steeplechase  Vladimir Kazantsev (URS) 8:51.2  Mikhail Saltykov (URS) 8:57.6  Jaroslav Slavícek (TCH) 9:13.8
110 m hurdles  Yevgeniy Bulanchik (URS) 14.4  Timofey Lunyev (URS) 14.5  Milan Tosnar (TCH) 14.6
400 m hurdles  Yuriy Lituyev (URS) 52.3  Timofey Lunyev (URS) 52.7  Igor Ilyin (URS) 53.8
4×100 m relay  Soviet Union (URS) 41.4  Poland (POL) 41.7  Czechoslovakia (TCH) 41.9
4×400 m relay  Soviet Union (URS) 3:16.0  Hungary (HUN) 3:16.8  Poland (POL) 3:17.2
High jump  Jirí Lánský (TCH) 1.97 m  Ion Söter (ROM) 1.97 m  Yevgeniy Vansovich (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  Vladimir Kotenkov (URS) 7.32 m  Ödön Földessy (HUN) 7.31 m  Leonid Grigoryev (URS) 7.28 m
Triple jump  Leonid Shcherbakov (URS) 15.09 m  Georg Frister (GDR) 14.73 m  Zygfryd Weinberg (POL) 14.59 m
Shot put  Georgiy Fyodorov (URS) 16.09 m  Otto Grigalka (URS) 15.59 m  Cestmír Kalina (TCH) 15.06 m
Discus throw  Ferenc Klics (HUN) 50.82 m  Olli Partanen (FIN) 47.38 m  Boris Butyenko (URS) 46.63 m
Hammer throw  Nikolay Shorin (URS) 54.84 m  Ádám Bonyhádi (HUN) 53.86 m  Georgiy Dybenko (URS) 53.32 m
Javelin throw  Janusz Sidło (POL) 66.38 m  Ivan Kaptyukh (URS) 64.35 m  Zbigniew Garncarczyk (POL) 61.91 m
Decathlon  Vladimir Volkov (URS) 7106 pts  Pyotr Denisenko (URS) 7023 pts  Ernst Schmidt (GDR) 6722 pts

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres  Elfriede Preibisch (GDR) 12.0  Sofya Malshina (URS) 12.2  Alice Kockritz (GDR) 12.3
200 metres  Olga Gyarmati (HUN) 25.4  Alice Kockritz (GDR) 25.5  Sofya Malshina (URS) 25.7
400 metres  Zoya Petrova (URS) 56.9  Valentina Bogatiryova (URS) 57.7  Vera Bystrova (URS) 58.4
800 metres  Polina Solopova (URS) 2:15.0  Valentina Pomogayeva (URS) 2:15.0  Klavdiya Dmitruk (URS) 2:16.5
80 m hurdles[nb]  Aleksandra Chudina (URS) 11.4  Galina Yerukhina (URS) 11.5  Olga Gyarmati (HUN) 11.6
4×100 m relay  Soviet Union (URS) 48.3  Hungary (HUN) 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) 1:44.2
High jump  Aleksandra Chudina (URS) 1.60 m  Lidiya Chaurskaya (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  Vera Guchkova (URS) 12.95 m
Discus throw  Nina Ponomaryova (URS) 46.67 m  Yelizaveta Bagriantseva (URS) 45.02 m  Rimma Shumskaya (URS) 41.23 m
Javelin throw  Vera Nobokova (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

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 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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