Athletics at the 1951 World Festival of Youth and Students explained

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. 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

Men

100 metres10.610.710.7
200 metres21.421.821.9
400 metres49.149.149.1
800 metres1:54.21:54.51:55.3
1500 metres3:50.43:50.63:52.8
5000 metres14:40.014:50.414:50.8
10,000 metres31:40.031:40.631:42.8
3000 metres steeplechase8:51.28:57.69:13.8
110 m hurdles14.414.514.6
400 m hurdles52.352.753.8
4 × 100 m relay41.441.741.9
4 × 400 m relay3:16.03:16.83:17.2
High jump1.97 m1.97 m1.90 m
Pole vault4.20 m4.10 m4.10 m
Long jump7.32 m7.31 m7.28 m
Triple jump15.09 m14.73 m14.59 m
Shot put16.09 m15.59 m15.06 m
Discus throw50.82 m47.38 m46.63 m
Hammer throw54.84 m53.86 m53.32 m
Javelin throw66.38 m64.35 m61.91 m
Decathlon7106 pts7023 pts6722 pts

Women

100 metres12.012.212.3
200 metres25.425.525.7
400 metres56.957.758.4
800 metres2:15.02:15.02:16.5
80 m hurdles11.411.511.6
4 × 100 m relay48.348.548.7
4 × 200 m relay1:41.51:41.71:44.2
High jump1.60 m1.55 m1.50 m
Long jump5.86 m5.70 m5.52 m
Shot put14.48 m13.83 m12.95 m
Discus throw46.67 m45.02 m41.23 m
Javelin throw49.14 m48.43 m41.89 m
Pentathlon3999 pts3234 pts3186 pts

References

Results

Notes and References

  1. http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/uie.htm World Student Games (UIE)
  2. http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/ec.htm European Championships (Men)
  3. http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/bc3.htm AAA Championships
  4. http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/ogw.htm Olympic Games Medallists (Women)
  5. http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/ogm.htm Olympic Games Medallist (Men)