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

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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   Eduard Lomtadze (URS) 22.1
400 metres   Viktor Lyubimov (URS) 49.6   Zdenek Mateyka (TCH) 49.7   Keijo Ceder (FIN) 50.4
800 metres   Josef Odložil (TCH) 1:51.4   Vasiliy Savinkov (URS) 1:51.5   István Rózsavölgyi (HUN) 1:52.8
1500 metres   Witold Baran (POL) 3:43.6   Tomáš Salinger (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   Jan Toman (TCH) 15.2   Pekka Harjunpää (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   Eugen Ducu (ROM) 2.00 m
Pole vault   Rudolf Tomášek (TCH) 4.45 m   Włodzimierz Osiński (POL) 4.20 m   Jan Odvárka (TCH) 4.20 m
Long jump   Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS) 7.93 m   Todor Dashkov (BUL) 7.29 m   Andrzej Stalmach (POL) 7.25 m
Triple jump   Artur Szczepański (POL) 15.34 m   Andrzej Stalmach (POL) 14.15 m   Slim Hayouni (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   Pauli Kalliorinne (FIN) 68.31 m

Women

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres   Ana Besuan (ROM) 12.4   Mariya Knyayetsina (URS) 12.4   Elżbieta Twardowska (POL) 12.5
400 metres   Tsvetana Isaeva (BUL) 57.9   Jarmila Popelková (TCH) 58.1   Florica Grecescu (ROM) 58.3
800 metres   Florica Grecescu (ROM) 2:10.3   Jarmila Popelková (TCH) 2:11.3   Tsvetana Isaeva (BUL) 2:17.4
80 m hurdles   Irina Press (URS) 10.9   Teresa Ciepły (POL) 11.0   Liliya Makoshina (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   Galina Yesukova (URS) 1.65 m   Liisa Oksava (FIN) 1.45 m
Long jump   Tatyana Shchelkanova (URS) 6.59 m   Diana Yorgova (BUL) 5.99 m   Olga Borangic (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   Verzhinia Mikhailova (BUL) 51.84 m
Javelin throw   Elvīra Ozoliņa (URS) 56.42 m   Maria Diaconescu (ROM) 51.02 m   Margarita Baltakova (BUL) 46.73 m

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Soviet Union (URS)148325
2  Czechoslovakia (TCH)47112
3  Poland (POL)36211
4  Romania (ROM)3159
5  Bulgaria (BUL)13610
6  Hungary (HUN)1124
7  Finland (FIN)0055
8  Mongolia (MGL)0011
  Tunisia (TUN)0011
Totals (9 entries)26262678

References

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

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