# Athletics at the 1951 World Festival of Youth and Students

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.
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. European bronze medalist Olli Partanen was runner-up in the discus throw to AAA Championships winner Ferenc Klics.
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. 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. The Soviet Union was dominant at the event, winning all but seven of the 34 events on offer.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Vladimir Sukharev (URS) | 10.6 | Levan Sanadze (URS) | 10.7 | Emil Kiszka (POL) | 10.7 |
| 200 metres | Vladimir Sukharev (URS) | 21.4 | Angel Kolev (BUL) | 21.8 | Zdobysław Stawczyk (POL) | 21.9 |
| 400 metres | Zoltán Adamik (HUN) | 49.1 | Ferenc Banhalmi (HUN) | 49.1 | Sergey Komarov (URS) | 49.1 |
| 800 metres | Gennadiy Modoy (URS) | 1:54.2 | Roman Korban (POL) | 1:54.5 | Pyotr Chevgun (URS) | 1:55.3 |
| 1500 metres | Václav Čevona (TCH) | 3:50.4 | Ernő Béres (HUN) | 3:50.6 | Vilmos Tölgyesi (HUN) | 3:52.8 |
| 5000 metres | Vladimir Kazantsev (URS) | 14:40.0 | Ivan Semyonov (URS) | 14:50.4 | Gyula Pénzes (HUN) | 14:50.8 |
| 10,000 metres | Ivan Semyonov (URS) | 31:40.0 | Nikolay Alekseyev (URS) | 31:40.6 | Nikolay Yevseyev (URS) | 31:42.8 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase | Vladimir Kazantsev (URS) | 8:51.2 | Mikhail Saltykov (URS) | 8:57.6 | Jaroslav Slavíček (TCH) | 9:13.8 |
| 110 m hurdles | Yevgeniy Bulanchik (URS) | 14.4 | Timofey Lunyev (URS) | 14.5 | Milan Tošnar (TCH) | 14.6 |
| 400 m hurdles | Yuriy Lituyev (URS) | 52.3 | Timofey Lunyev (URS) | 52.7 | Igor Ilyin (URS) | 53.8 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | Soviet Union (URS) Lev Kalyayev Levan Sanadze Vladimir Sukharev Feodosy Golubyev | 41.4 | Poland (POL) Zygmunt Buhl Bogdan Lipski Zdobysław Stawczyk Emil Kiszka | 41.7 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) Jiří David Miroslav Horčic Rudolf Otava Miloš Trubl | 41.9 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | Soviet Union (URS) Pavel Kiyanenko Sergey Komarov Yuriy Lituyev Igor Ilyin | 3:16.0 | Hungary (HUN) Zoltán Adamik Ferenc Bánhalmi Péter Karádi Egon Solymossy | 3:16.8 | Poland (POL) Gerard Mach Bogdan Lipski Zygmunt Buhl Roman Korban | 3:17.2 |
| High jump | Jiří Lanský (TCH) | 1.97 m | Ioan Soter (ROM) | 1.97 m | Yevgeniy Vansovich (URS) | 1.90 m |
| Pole vault | Vladimir Brazhnik (URS) | 4.20 m | Edward Adamczyk (POL) | 4.10 m | Zenon Ważny (POL) | 4.10 m |
| Long jump | Vladimir Kotenkov (URS) | 7.32 m | Ödön Földessy (HUN) | 7.31 m | Leonid Grigoryev (URS) | 7.28 m |
| Triple jump | Leonid Shcherbakov (URS) | 15.09 m | Georg Frister (GDR) | 14.73 m | Zygfryd Weinberg (POL) | 14.59 m |
| Shot put | Georgiy Fyodorov (URS) | 16.09 m | Otto Grigalka (URS) | 15.59 m | Čestmír Kalina (TCH) | 15.06 m |
| Discus throw | Ferenc Klics (HUN) | 50.82 m | Olli Partanen (FIN) | 47.38 m | Boris Butyenko (URS) | 46.63 m |
| Hammer throw | Nikolay Shorin (URS) | 54.84 m | Ádám Bonyhádi (HUN) | 53.86 m | Heorhiy Dybenko (URS) | 53.32 m |
| Javelin throw | Janusz Sidło (POL) | 66.38 m | Ivan Kaptyukh (URS) | 64.35 m | Zbigniew Garncarczyk (POL) | 61.91 m |
| Decathlon | Vladimir Volkov (URS) | 7106 pts | Petro Denysenko (URS) | 7023 pts | Ernst Schmidt (GDR) | 6722 pts |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Elfriede Preibisch (GDR) | 12.0 | Sofya Malshina (URS) | 12.2 | Alice Kockritz (GDR) | 12.3 |
| 200 metres | Olga Gyarmati (HUN) | 25.4 | Alice Kockritz (GDR) | 25.5 | Sofya Malshina (URS) | 25.7 |
| 400 metres | Zoya Petrova (URS) | 56.9 | Valentina Bogatiryova (URS) | 57.7 | Vera Bystrova (URS) | 58.4 |
| 800 metres | Polina Solopova (URS) | 2:15.0 | Valentina Pomogayeva (URS) | 2:15.0 | Klavdiya Dmitruk (URS) | 2:16.5 |
| 80 m hurdles | Aleksandra Chudina (URS) | 11.4 | Galina Yerukhina (URS) | 11.5 | Olga Gyarmati (HUN) | 11.6 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandra Chudina Zoya Dukhovich Sofiya Malshina Zinaida Safronova | 48.3 | Hungary (HUN) Aranka Szabó-Bartha Olga Gyarmati Ilona Tolnai-Rákhely Irén Lohász | 48.5 | East Germany (GDR) Elfriede Preibisch Alice Köckritz-Karger Irmgard Piep Roselinde Anders | 48.7 |
| 4 × 200 m relay | East Germany (GDR) Elfriede Preibisch Alice Köckritz-Karger Irmgard Piep Roselinde Anders | 1:41.5 | Soviet Union (URS) Zoya Dukhovich Sofiya Malshina Zinaida Safronova Zoya Petrova | 1:41.7 | Hungary (HUN) Aranka Szabó-Bartha Olga Gyarmati Ilona Tolnai-Rákhely Irén Lohász | 1:44.2 |
| High jump | Aleksandra Chudina (URS) | 1.60 m | Lidiya Chaurskaya (URS) | 1.55 m | Mariya Pisareva (URS) | 1.50 m |
| Long jump | Aleksandra Chudina (URS) | 5.86 m | Olga Gyarmati (HUN) | 5.70 m | Nadezhda Khnykina (URS) | 5.52 m |
| Shot put | Klavdiya Tochonova (URS) | 14.48 m | Galina Zybina (URS) | 13.83 m | Vera Guchkova (URS) | 12.95 m |
| Discus throw | Nina Ponomaryova (URS) | 46.67 m | Yelizaveta Bagriantseva (URS) | 45.02 m | Rimma Shumskaya (URS) | 41.23 m |
| Javelin throw | Vera Nobokova (URS) | 49.14 m | Galina Zybina (URS) | 48.43 m | Natalya Smirnitskaya (URS) | 41.89 m |
| Pentathlon | Aleksandra Chudina (URS) | 3999 pts | Nina Tyurkina (URS) | 3234 pts | Olga Modrachová (TCH) | 3186 pts |
* $^{nb}$ Times possibly wind-assisted

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 26 | 19 | 16 | 61 |
| 2 | Hungary (HUN) | 3 | 7 | 4 | 14 |
| 3 | East Germany (GDR) | 3 | 2 | 7 | 12 |
| 4 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 |
| 5 | Poland (POL) | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 |
| 6 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Romania (ROM) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals (7 entries) | Totals (7 entries) | 35 | 33 | 38 | 106 |