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, between 15 and 21 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]

Official poster

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

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres   Miroslav Horčic (TCH) 10.9   Otto Szebeni (HUN) 10.9   Zdobysław Stawczyk (POL) 10.9
200 metres   Zdobysław Stawczyk (POL) 21.2   Miroslav Horčic (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)
László Bartha
György Csányi
Béla Goldoványi
Ottó Szebeni
41.6   Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Jaroslav Fikejz
Miroslav Horčic
Jan Schmid
Lubomír Rek
  Soviet Union (URS)
Levan Sanadze
Vladimir Koroyev
Georg Gilde
Vladimir Sukharev
42.0 Not awarded
4 × 400 m relay   France (FRA)
Georges Elloy
Jean-Paul Martin du Gard
Armand Jacquier
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3:16.6   Soviet Union (URS)
Yevhen Bulanchyk
Petro Chevhun
Pavel Kiyanenko
Sergey Komarov
3:17.4   Hungary (HUN)
Ferenc Bánhalmi
Péter Karádi
Egon Solymossy
László Marosi
3:17.8
1600 m medley relay   France (FRA)
Yves Camus
Jean-Paul Martin du Gard
Jean-Pierre Guillon
Jacques Rasse
3:27.6   Soviet Union (URS)
Petro Chevhun
Sergey Komarov
Levan Sanadze
Vladimir Sukharev
3:30.0   Poland (POL)
Zygmunt Buhl
Gerard Mach
Zdobysław Stawczyk
Leonard Statkiewicz
3:31.3
High jump   Yuriy Ilyasov (URS) 1.94 m   Ioan Soter (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   Čestmír 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   Petro Denysenko (URS) 7287 pts   Vladimir Volkov (URS) 7026 pts   Viktor Iyevlev (URS) 6940 pts

Women

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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)
Aleksandra Chudina
Zoya Dukhovich
Sofiya Malshina
Inga Zeltinja
48.7   Hungary (HUN)
Ilona Tolnai-Rákhely
Irén Lohász
Lenke Egri
Margit Bogdan
49.1   France (FRA)
Colette Elloy
Jacqueline Artigues
Jacqueline Dufour
Odette Lebré
49.2
4 × 200 m relay   Soviet Union (URS)
Aleksandra Chudina
Zoya Dukhovich
Sofiya Malshina
Inga Zeltinja
1:42.3   Hungary (HUN)
Olga Gyarmati
Ilona Tolnai-Rákhely
Irén Lohász
Lenke Egri
1:42.8   France (FRA)
Colette Elloy
Rosine Faugouin
Jacqueline Dufour
Odette Lebré
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

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Soviet Union (URS)17161548
2  Hungary (HUN)64616
3  France (FRA)35412
4  Czechoslovakia (TCH)2428
5  Poland (POL)2024
6  Romania (ROM)1315
Totals (6 entries)31323093

References

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