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

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres   Angel Gavrilov (BUL)
  Václav Janeček (TCH)
10.6 Not awarded   Vladimir Sukharev (URS) 10.7
200 metres   Václav Janeček (TCH) 21.0   Ardalion Ignatyev (URS) 21.1   Ewald Schröder (GDR) 21.3
400 metres   Ardalion Ignatyev (URS) 46.8   Milan Fillo (TCH) 48.0   Edmunds Pīlāgs (URS) 48.3
800 metres   Stanislav Jungwirth (TCH) 1:51.4   Jenő Bakos (HUN) 1:51.8   Edmund Potrzebowski (POL) 1:51.9
1500 metres   Stanislav Jungwirth (TCH) 3:46.2   Ernő Béres (HUN) 3:46.6   Sándor Iharos (HUN) 3:48.8
5000 metres   Emil Zátopek (TCH) 14:03.0   Vladimir Kuts (URS) 14:04.0   József Kovács (HUN) 14:04.2
10,000 metres   Emil Zátopek (TCH) 29:25.8   Vladimir Kuts (URS) 29:41.4   Aleksandr Anufriyev (URS) 30:03.4
3000 metres steeplechase   Fyodor Marulin (URS) 8:56.2   László Jeszenszky (HUN) 8:57.4   József Apró (HUN) 9:03.0
110 m hurdles   Yevgeniy Bulanchik (URS) 14.4   Jan Mrázek (TCH) 14.7   Sergey Popov (URS) 14.7
400 m hurdles   Yuriy Lituyev (URS) 51.5   Anatoliy Yulin (URS) 51.8   Antal Lippay (HUN) 52.4
4 × 100 m relay   Hungary (HUN)
György Csányi
Géza Varasdi
László Zarándi
Béla Goldoványi
41.5   Czechoslovakia (TCH)
František Brož
Milan Fillo
Václav Janeček
Zdeněk Pospíšil
41.5   Soviet Union (URS)
Lev Kalyayev
Levan Sanadze
Vladimir Sukharev
Boris Tokarev
41.6
4 × 400 m relay   Soviet Union (URS)
Edmunds Pīlāgs
Ivan Bondarenko
Yuriy Lituyev
Ardalion Ignatyev
3:10.8   Hungary (HUN)
Ferenc Bánhalmi
Zoltán Adamik
Egon Solymosi
Lajos Szentgáli
3:11.2   East Germany (GDR)
Werner Schneider
Willi Bromberger
Rolf Bäslack
Gerhard Brauch
3:13.8
10,000 m walk   Josef Doležal (TCH) 44:09.8   Sándor László (HUN) 46:09.8   Ion Baboie (ROM) 46:15.4
50 km walk   Antal Róka (HUN) 4:26:19   Ion Baboie (ROM) 4:29:41   Ivan Yarmish (URS) 4:35:36
High jump   Ioan Soter (ROM) 2.00 m   Jaroslav Kovář (TCH) 1.93 m   Yuriy Ilyasov (URS) 1.93 m
Pole vault   Petro Denysenko (URS) 4.25 m   Tamás Homonnay (HUN) 4.20 m   Vladimir Brazhnik (URS) 4.20 m
Long jump   Ödön Földessy (HUN) 7.63 m   Viktor Leskyevich (URS) 7.34 m   Horst Ihlenfeld (GDR) 7.33 m
Triple jump   Leonid Shcherbakov (URS) 15.63 m   Martin Řehák (TCH) 15.02 m   Georg Frister (GDR) 14.90 m
Shot put   Jiří Skobla (TCH) 16.76 m   Otto Grigalka (URS) 16.23 m   Georgiy Fyodorov (URS) 16.09 m
Discus throw   Ferenc Klics (HUN) 49.27 m   Mikhail Krivosonov (URS) 48.90 m   Karel Merta (TCH) 48.43 m
Hammer throw   Sverre Strandli (NOR) 58.49 m   József Csermák (HUN) 58.49 m   Mikhail Krivosonov (URS) 57.90 m
Javelin throw   Vladimir Kuznetsov (URS) 74.76 m   Viktor Tsybulenko (URS) 73.47 m   Zbigniew Radziwonowicz (POL) 69.51 m
Decathlon   Vladimir Volkov (URS) 6308 pts   Walter Meier (GDR) 6194 pts   Gheorghe Zimbresteanu (ROM) 6188 pts

Women

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres   Christa Seliger (GDR) 11.7   Nadezhda Dvalishvili (URS) 11.8   Alice Karger (GDR) 11.9
200 metres   Christa Seliger (GDR) 23.9   Nadezhda Dvalishvili (URS) 24.1   Alice Karger (GDR) 24.5
400 metres   Polina Solopova (URS) 56.3   Nina Otkalenko (URS) 56.7   Ursula Jurewitz (GDR) 57.1
800 metres   Nina Otkalenko (URS) 2:10.5   Nina Chernoshchuk (URS) 2:12.7   Aranka Kazi (HUN) 2:13.5
80 m hurdles   Mariya Golubnichaya (URS) 11.2   Olga Gyarmati (HUN) 11.3   Zlata Lobintseva (URS) 11.4
4 × 100 m relay   East Germany (GDR)
Christa Stubnick
Alice Köckritz-Karger
Roselinde Anders
Annemarie Claussner
46.5   Soviet Union (URS)
Flora Kazantseva
Olga Kosheleva
Lidiya Polinichenko
Valentina Sopova
47.8   Hungary (HUN)
Aranka Szabó-Bartha
Klára Soós
Ibolya Tilkovszky
Irén Lohász
47.9
4 × 200 m relay   Soviet Union (URS) "A"
Vera Krepkina
Flora Kazantseva
Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili
Zinaida Safronova
1:36.4   East Germany (GDR)
Gisela Köhler
Christa Stubnick
Alice Köckritz-Karger
Annemarie Claussner
1:37.0   Soviet Union (URS) "B"
Galina Bystrova
Olga Kosheleva
Polina Solopova
Zlata Lobintseva
1:40.1
High jump   Aleksandra Chudina (URS) 1.64 m   Olga Modrachová (TCH) 1.61 m   Nina Kosova (URS) 1.58 m
Long jump   Aleksandra Chudina (URS) 5.98 m   Galina Segen (URS) 5.76 m   Olga Gyarmati (HUN) 5.69 m
Shot put   Galina Zybina (URS) 15.34 m   Tamara Tyshkevich (URS) 15.16 m   Mariya Kuznetsova (URS) 13.91 m
Discus throw   Nina Ponomaryova (URS) 52.63 m   Yevgeniya Arzumanova (URS) 46.75 m   Valentina Sbitnyeva (URS) 44.38 m
Javelin throw   Aleksandra Chudina (URS) 49.39 m   Lyudmila Vasilyeva (URS) 47.53 m   Nadezhda Korneyeva (URS) 46.70 m
Pentathlon   Aleksandra Chudina (URS) 4888 pts   Galina Segen (URS) 4109 pts   Lyudmila Aralova (URS) 4043 pts

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Soviet Union (URS)19181754
2  Czechoslovakia (TCH)86115
3  Hungary (HUN)48719
4  East Germany (GDR)32712
5  Romania (ROM)1124
6  Bulgaria (BUL)1001
  Norway (NOR)1001
8  Poland (POL)0022
Totals (8 entries)373536108

References

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  1. ^ a b c d World Student Games (UIE). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.
  2. ^ OLYMPIC GAMES MEDALLISTS - ATHLETICS (WOMEN). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-10.
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