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 medalist 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

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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   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 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   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 Slavíček (TCH) 9:13.8
110 m hurdles   Yevgeniy Bulanchik (URS) 14.4   Timofey Lunyev (URS) 14.5   Milan Tošnar (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)
Lev Kalyayev
Levan Sanadze
Vladimir Sukharev
Feodosy Golubyev
41.4   Poland (POL)
Zygmunt Buhl
Bogdan Lipski
Zdobysław Stawczyk
Emil Kiszka
41.7   Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Jiří David
Miroslav Horčic
Rudolf Otava
Miloš Trubl
41.9
4 × 400 m relay   Soviet Union (URS)
Pavel Kiyanenko
Sergey Komarov
Yuriy Lituyev
Igor Ilyin
3:16.0   Hungary (HUN)
Zoltán Adamik
Ferenc Bánhalmi
Péter Karádi
Egon Solymossy
3:16.8   Poland (POL)
Gerard Mach
Bogdan Lipski
Zygmunt Buhl
Roman Korban
3:17.2
High jump   Jiří Lanský (TCH) 1.97 m   Ioan Soter (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   Čestmír 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   Heorhiy 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   Petro Denysenko (URS) 7023 pts   Ernst Schmidt (GDR) 6722 pts

Women

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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)
Aleksandra Chudina
Zoya Dukhovich
Sofiya Malshina
Zinaida Safronova
48.3   Hungary (HUN)
Aranka Szabó-Bartha
Olga Gyarmati
Ilona Tolnai-Rákhely
Irén Lohász
48.5   East Germany (GDR)
Elfriede Preibisch
Alice Köckritz-Karger
Irmgard Piep
Roselinde Anders
48.7
4 × 200 m relay   East Germany (GDR)
Elfriede Preibisch
Alice Köckritz-Karger
Irmgard Piep
Roselinde Anders
1:41.5   Soviet Union (URS)
Zoya Dukhovich
Sofiya Malshina
Zinaida Safronova
Zoya Petrova
1:41.7   Hungary (HUN)
Aranka Szabó-Bartha
Olga Gyarmati
Ilona Tolnai-Rákhely
Irén Lohász
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
  • nb Times possibly wind-assisted[1]

Medal table

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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 entries)353338106

References

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  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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