Athletics at the 1949 World Festival of Youth and Students

The 2nd World Festival of Youth and Students featured an athletics competition among its programme of events. The events were contested in Budapest, Hungary in August 1949. Mainly contested among Eastern European athletes, it served as an alternative to the more Western European-oriented 1949 Summer International University Sports Week held in Merano the same year.[1]

The women's events provided the most prominent top level athletes. Hungary's Olga Gyarmati, the reigning long jump champion from the 1948 Summer Olympics, won her specialist event along with a silver medal in the 80 metres hurdles. The 1946 European Championships high jump silver medallist Aleksandra Chudina also won in her speciality and medalled in four other events as well. Several of the competing athletes went on to compete at the 1952 Summer Olympics three years later. A handful of participants were later among the top in their field, including: Leonid Shcherbakov (1950 and 1954 European triple jump winner), Yevgeniy Bulanchik (1954 European hurdles champion) and 1952 Olympic medallists Vladimir Kazantsev, Yuriy Lituyev and Klavdiya Tochonova.

Medal summary

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres  Miroslav Horcic (TCH) 10.9  Otto Szebeni (HUN) 10.9  Zdobyslaw Stawczyk (POL) 10.9
200 metres  Zdobyslaw Stawczyk (POL) 21.2  Miroslav Horcic (TCH) 21.6  Yves Camus (FRA) 21.6
400 metres  Ferenc Banhalmi (HUN) 49.2  Jean-Paul Martin-du-Gard (FRA) 49.2  Sergey Komarov (URS) 49.8
800 metres  Dumitru Tilmaciu (ROM) 1:54.7  Armand Jacquier (FRA) 1:55.1  Jacques Rasse (FRA) 1:55.9
1500 metres  Sándor Garay (HUN) 3:57.2  Dumitru Tilmaciu (ROM) 3:57.8  Victor Pop (ROM) 4:00.2
5000 metres  Vladimir Kazantsev (URS) 14:55.2  Ivan Semyonov (URS) 14:56.4  Ivan Pozhidayev (URS) 15:03.4
110 m hurdles  Yevgeniy Bulanchik (URS) 14.7  Milan Tosnar (TCH) 15.1  Alois Krul (TCH) 15.3
400 m hurdles  Georges Elloy (FRA) 53.0  Timofey Lunyev (URS) 53.2  Yuriy Lituyev (URS) 53.6[nb]
4×100 m relay  Hungary (HUN) 41.6  Czechoslovakia (TCH)
 Soviet Union (URS) 		42.0 Not awarded
4×400 m relay  France (FRA) 3:16.6  Soviet Union (URS) 3:17.4  Hungary (HUN) 3:17.8
1600 m medley relay  France (FRA) 3:27.6  Soviet Union (URS) 3:30.0  Poland (POL) 3:31.3
High jump  Yuriy Ilyasov (URS) 1.94 m  Ion Söter (ROM) 1.94 m  German Res (URS) 1.90 m
Pole vault  Viktor Knyatsev (URS) 4.15 m  Georges Breitman (FRA) 4.10 m  Boris Sukharev (URS) 4.00 m
Long jump  Edward Adamczyk (POL) 7.27 m  Vladimir Volkov (URS) 7.14 m  Khandadash Madatov (URS) 7.02 m
Triple jump  Leonid Shcherbakov (URS) 14.56 m  Pierre Pustoch (FRA) 14.55 m  Antal Puskás (HUN) 14.52 m
Shot put  Cestmír Kalina (TCH) 15.10 m  Otto Grigalka (URS) 14.76 m  Boris Butyenko (URS) 14.42 m
Discus throw  Ferenc Klics (HUN) 50.40 m  Jan Kypta (TCH) 44.97 m[nb]  Aladár Kobold (HUN) 44.64 m
Hammer throw  Lajos Petike (HUN) 51.85 m  Constantin Dumitru (ROM) 51.52 m  Arnošt Kadrnožka (TCH) 50.53 m
Javelin throw  Viktor Iyevlev (URS) 65.06 m  Georgiy Lukyanov (URS) 63.97 m  Ivan Kaptyukh (URS) 61.92 m
Decathlon  Pyotr Denisenko (URS) 7287 pts  Vladimir Volkov (URS) 7026 pts  Viktor Iyevlev (URS) 6940 pts

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres  Zoya Dukhovich (URS) 12.2  Sofya Malshina (URS) 12.3  Irén Lohász (HUN) 12.4
200 metres  Zoya Dukhovich (URS) 25.2  Rosine Faugouin (FRA) 25.3  Inga Zeltinja (URS) 25.5
800 metres  Valentina Bogatiryova (URS) 2:18.0  Lyudmila Sokolova (URS) 2:18.2  Anna Bleha (HUN) 2:18.6
80 m hurdles  L. Kerim-Zade (URS) 11.9  Olga Gyarmati (HUN) 12.0  Aleksandra Chudina (URS) 12.0
4×100 m relay  Soviet Union (URS) 48.7  Hungary (HUN) 49.1  France (FRA) 49.2
4×200 m relay  Soviet Union (URS) 1:42.3  Hungary (HUN) 1:42.8  France (FRA) 1:44.1
High jump  Aleksandra Chudina (URS) 1.62 m  Varvara Papisheva (URS) 1.55 m  Lidiya Borodina (URS) 1.50 m
Long jump  Olga Gyarmati (HUN) 5.95 m  Lyudmila Vasilyeva (URS) 5.80 m  Aleksandra Chudina (URS) 5.66 m
Shot put  Klavdiya Tochonova (URS) 14.29 m  Aleksandra Chudina (URS) 13.61 m  Lyudmila Vasilyeva (URS) 12.97 m
Discus throw  Nina Dumbadze (URS) 51.24 m  Yelizaveta Bagriantseva (URS) 43.28 m  Klavdiya Tochonova (URS) 42.83 m
Javelin throw  Natalya Smirnitskaya (URS) 51.10 m  Aleksandra Chudina (URS) 45.91 m  Mária Rohonczi (HUN) 40.83 m

References

  1. 1 2 World Student Games (UIE). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.
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