Athletics at the 1955 World Festival of Youth and Students

The 5th World Festival of Youth and Students featured an athletics competition among its programme of events. The events were contested in Warsaw, Poland in August 1955. Mainly contested among Eastern European athletes, it served as an alternative to the more Western European-oriented 1955 Summer International University Sports Week held in San Sebastián the same year.[1]

Following the one-off stand-alone athletics tournament held by the Union Internationale des Étudiants (the 1954 World Student Games), the resumption of the UIE thletics tournament within the World Festival marked a return to top level competitions. The men's winners of the 1954 European Athletics Championships were greatly represented at the competition, with the eleven champions being: Ardalion Ignatyev, Lajos Szentgáli, Emil Zátopek, Yevgeniy Bulanchik, Anatoliy Yulin, Josef Doležal, Ödön Földessy, Leonid Shcherbakov, Mikhail Krivonosov, Janusz Sidło and Vasili Kuznetsov. Triple jumper Leonid Shcherbakov retained his position as the sole man to win that event at the festival; extending his streak from 1949, his fourth straight win at the festival made him the most successful individual male athlete of the competition's history.[1][2]

In the women's events, the appearance of Australia's Shirley Strickland (a 1952 Olympic champion) added a global element to the normally European contests. She won both the 100 metres and 80 metres hurdles events, as well as taking the 200 metres bronze. Women's European champion Nina Otkalenko won the 800 metres, while reigning Olympic champion Nina Ponomaryova won her fourth straight discus throw title at this competition (only one of two women ever to achieve that feat at the competition, after Iolanda Balaș). Fellow Soviet Olympic champion Galina Zybina took her third world student title in the shot put. Aleksandra Chudina took her ninth career title at the tournament across all events, winning in the javelin throw. Iolanda Balaș won the high jump, following her win at the 1954 World Student Games, and fellow 1954 winner Ursula Donath won the 400 metres in Warsaw.[1]

Medal summary

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres  Leonid Bartenyev (URS) 10.4  Boris Tokarev (URS) 10.4  Béla Goldoványi (HUN) 10.5
200 metres  Václav Janecek (TCH) 21.2  Edward Schmidt (POL) 21.3  Leonid Bartenyev (URS) 21.3
400 metres  Ardalion Ignatyev (URS) 47.2  Zbigniew Makomaski (POL) 47.9  Zoltán Adamik (HUN) 48.0
800 metres  Lajos Szentgáli (HUN) 1:51.9  Roman Kreft (POL) 1:52.4  Ludvík Liška (TCH) 1:52.6
1500 metres  László Tábori (HUN) 3:41.6  István Rózsavölgyi (HUN) 3:42.0  Siegfried Herrmann (GDR) 3:42.6
5000 metres  Jerzy Chromik (POL) 13:55.2  Sándor Iharos (HUN) 13:56.6  József Kovács (HUN) 13:57.6
10,000 metres  Emil Zátopek (TCH) 29:34.4  Grigoriy Basalyev (URS) 29:50.6  Stanislaw Ozóg (POL) 29:51.8
Marathon  Ivan Filin (URS) 2:28:42  Boris Grishayev (URS) 2:28:42  Drahomír Pechánek (TCH) 2:34:20
110 m hurdles  Boris Stolyarov (URS) 14.6  Vyacheslav Bogatov (URS) 14.6  Yevgeniy Bulanchik (URS) 14.7
400 m hurdles  Ilie Savel (ROM) 52.1  Anatoliy Yulin (URS) 52.2  Yuriy Lituyev (URS) 52.8
3000 metres steeplechase  Vasiliy Vlasenko (URS) 8:49.4  Vlastimil Brlica (TCH) 8:54.0  Mikhail Saltykov (URS) 9:01.2
20 km walk  Josef Doležal (TCH) 1:32:55  Mikhail Lavrov (URS) 1:35:32  Dumitru Paraschivescu (ROM) 1:40:10
50 km walk  Mikhail Lavrov (URS) 4:16:52  Josef Doležal (TCH) 4:29:09  Yevgeniy Maskinskov (URS) 4:32:54
4×100 m relay  Hungary (HUN) 40.7  Soviet Union (URS) 40.8  Poland (POL) 40.9
4×400 m relay  Soviet Union (URS) 3:11.6  Poland (POL) 3:11.8  East Germany (GDR) 3:14.2
High jump  Jaroslav Kovár (TCH) 1.99 m  Vladimir Sitkin (URS) 1.99 m  Ion Söter (ROM) 1.96 m
Pole vault  Vitaliy Chernobay (URS) 4.35 m  Zenon Ważny (POL) 4.30 m  Vladimir Bulatov (URS) 4.30 m
Long jump  Ödön Földessy (HUN) 7.42 m  Kazimierz Kropidłowski (POL) 7.29 m  Vladimir Popov (URS) 7.23 m
Triple jump  Leonid Shcherbakov (URS) 16.35 m  Yevgeniy Chen (URS) 15.80 m  Martin Rehák (TCH) 15.46 m
Shot put  Otto Grigalka (URS) 17.05 m  Jirí Skobla (TCH) 16.94 m  Feliks Pirts (URS) 16.58 m
Discus throw  Boris Matveyev (URS) 54.41 m  Karel Merta (TCH) 53.01 m  József Szécsényi (HUN) 52.56 m
Hammer throw  Mikhail Krivonosov (URS) 64.33 m  József Csermák (HUN) 61.48 m  Nikolay Ryedkin (URS) 60.20 m
Javelin throw  Janusz Sidło (POL) 77.93 m  Aleksandr Gorshkov (URS) 75.02 m  Vladimir Kuznetsov (URS) 72.08 m
Decathlon  Vasili Kuznetsov (URS) 7262 pts  Walter Meier (GDR) 6834 pts  Boris Stolyarov (URS) 6700 pts

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres  Shirley Strickland de la Hunty (AUS) 11.3  Vera Neszmélyi (HUN) 11.5  Zinaida Safronova (URS) 11.6
200 metres  Zinaida Safronova (URS) 24.2  Mariya Itkina (URS) 24.5  Shirley Strickland de la Hunty (AUS) 24.5
400 metres  Ursula Donath (GDR) 54.4  Nina Otkalenko (URS) 55.5  Alexandra Sicoe (ROM) 56.0
800 metres  Nina Otkalenko (URS) 2:09.4  Lyudmila Lisenko (URS) 2:10.0  Ursula Donath (GDR) 2:10.2
80 m hurdles  Shirley Strickland de la Hunty (AUS) 11.1  Galina Grinvald (URS) 11.2  Gisela Köhler (GDR) 11.2
4×100 m relay  East Germany (GDR) 47.0  Hungary (HUN) 47.3  Poland (POL) 47.4
High jump  Iolanda Balaș (ROM) 1.66 m  Olga Modrachová (TCH) 1.64 m  Mariya Pisareva (URS) 1.64 m
Long jump  Galina Vinogradova (URS) 6.27 m  Maria Kusion (POL) 5.92 m  Valentina Lituyeva (URS) 5.90 m
Shot put  Galina Zybina (URS) 15.43 m  Zinaida Doinikova (URS) 14.91 m  Johanna Lüttge (GDR) 14.12 m
Discus throw  Nina Ponomaryova (URS) 49.28 m  Irina Beglyakova (URS) 47.12 m  Štepánka Mertová (TCH) 46.74 m
Javelin throw  Aleksandra Chudina (URS) 51.60 m  Maria Ciach (POL) 48.99 m  Jadwiga Majka (POL) 47.89? m
Pentathlon  Galina Grinvald (URS) 4575 pts  Galina Dolzhenkova (URS) 4486 pts  Nina Martinenko (URS) 4470 pts

References

  1. 1 2 3 World Student Games (UIE). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.
  2. ↑ European Championships (Men). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-10.
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