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]
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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 | ![]() | 10.9 | ![]() | 10.9 | ![]() | 10.9 |
200 metres | ![]() | 21.2 | ![]() | 21.6 | ![]() | 21.6 |
400 metres | ![]() | 49.2 | ![]() | 49.2 | ![]() | 49.8 |
800 metres | ![]() | 1:54.7 | ![]() | 1:55.1 | ![]() | 1:55.9 |
1500 metres | ![]() | 3:57.2 | ![]() | 3:57.8 | ![]() | 4:00.2 |
5000 metres | ![]() | 14:55.2 | ![]() | 14:56.4 | ![]() | 15:03.4 |
110 m hurdles | ![]() | 14.7 | ![]() | 15.1 | ![]() | 15.3 |
400 m hurdles | ![]() | 53.0 | ![]() | 53.2 | ![]() | 53.6[nb] |
4 × 100 m relay | ![]() László Bartha György Csányi Béla Goldoványi Ottó Szebeni | 41.6 | ![]() Jaroslav Fikejz Miroslav Horčic Jan Schmid Lubomír Rek ![]() Levan Sanadze Vladimir Koroyev Georg Gilde Vladimir Sukharev | 42.0 | Not awarded | |
4 × 400 m relay | ![]() Georges Elloy Jean-Paul Martin du Gard Armand Jacquier Chateau | 3:16.6 | ![]() Yevhen Bulanchyk Petro Chevhun Pavel Kiyanenko Sergey Komarov | 3:17.4 | ![]() Ferenc Bánhalmi Péter Karádi Egon Solymossy László Marosi | 3:17.8 |
1600 m medley relay | ![]() Yves Camus Jean-Paul Martin du Gard Jean-Pierre Guillon Jacques Rasse | 3:27.6 | ![]() Petro Chevhun Sergey Komarov Levan Sanadze Vladimir Sukharev | 3:30.0 | ![]() Zygmunt Buhl Gerard Mach Zdobysław Stawczyk Leonard Statkiewicz | 3:31.3 |
High jump | ![]() | 1.94 m | ![]() | 1.94 m | ![]() | 1.90 m |
Pole vault | ![]() | 4.15 m | ![]() | 4.10 m | ![]() | 4.00 m |
Long jump | ![]() | 7.27 m | ![]() | 7.14 m | ![]() | 7.02 m |
Triple jump | ![]() | 14.56 m | ![]() | 14.55 m | ![]() | 14.52 m |
Shot put | ![]() | 15.10 m | ![]() | 14.76 m | ![]() | 14.42 m |
Discus throw | ![]() | 50.40 m | ![]() | 44.97 m[nb] | ![]() | 44.64 m |
Hammer throw | ![]() | 51.85 m | ![]() | 51.52 m | ![]() | 50.53 m |
Javelin throw | ![]() | 65.06 m | ![]() | 63.97 m | ![]() | 61.92 m |
Decathlon | ![]() | 7287 pts | ![]() | 7026 pts | ![]() | 6940 pts |
Women
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
100 metres | ![]() | 12.2 | ![]() | 12.3 | ![]() | 12.4 |
200 metres | ![]() | 25.2 | ![]() | 25.3 | ![]() | 25.5 |
800 metres | ![]() | 2:18.0 | ![]() | 2:18.2 | ![]() | 2:18.6 |
80 m hurdles | ![]() | 11.9 | ![]() | 12.0 | ![]() | 12.0 |
4 × 100 m relay | ![]() Aleksandra Chudina Zoya Dukhovich Sofiya Malshina Inga Zeltinja | 48.7 | ![]() Ilona Tolnai-Rákhely Irén Lohász Lenke Egri Margit Bogdan | 49.1 | ![]() Colette Elloy Jacqueline Artigues Jacqueline Dufour Odette Lebré | 49.2 |
4 × 200 m relay | ![]() Aleksandra Chudina Zoya Dukhovich Sofiya Malshina Inga Zeltinja | 1:42.3 | ![]() Olga Gyarmati Ilona Tolnai-Rákhely Irén Lohász Lenke Egri | 1:42.8 | ![]() Colette Elloy Rosine Faugouin Jacqueline Dufour Odette Lebré | 1:44.1 |
High jump | ![]() | 1.62 m | ![]() | 1.55 m | ![]() | 1.50 m |
Long jump | ![]() | 5.95 m | ![]() | 5.80 m | ![]() | 5.66 m |
Shot put | ![]() | 14.29 m | ![]() | 13.61 m | ![]() | 12.97 m |
Discus throw | ![]() | 51.24 m | ![]() | 43.28 m | ![]() | 42.83 m |
Javelin throw | ![]() | 51.10 m | ![]() | 45.91 m | ![]() | 40.83 m |
Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | 17 | 16 | 15 | 48 |
2 | ![]() | 6 | 4 | 6 | 16 |
3 | ![]() | 3 | 5 | 4 | 12 |
4 | ![]() | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
5 | ![]() | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
6 | ![]() | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
Totals (6 entries) | 31 | 32 | 30 | 93 |
References
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