# 1954 World Student Games

The 1954 World Student Games were an athletics competition held in Budapest, Hungary by the Union Internationale des Étudiants (UIE). It marked a one-off departure from the athletics event being linked to the biennial World Festival of Youth and Students.
The level of competition was not as high as the previous, festival-associated event, but still featured winning performances from four 1954 European champions: Lajos Szentgáli (800 metres), Anatoliy Yulin (400 metres hurdles), Ödön Földessy (long jump), and Janusz Sidło (javelin throw). Javelin thrower Földessy was the only man to retain his world student title and in the women's section Christa Stubnick repeated her sprint double (the only female repeat victor).
The women's events featured less established talents, though many winners in Budapest went on to greater success. Lyudmila Lisenko, Iolanda Balaș and Vera Krepkina eventually became Olympic champions at the 1960 Rome Olympics, while Christa Stubnick, Gisela Köhler and Irina Beglyakova were all runners-up at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Discus bronze medallist Lia Manoliu grew to become Olympic champion fourteen years later.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Zdobysław Stawczyk (POL) | 10.6 | Levan Sanadze (URS) | 10.7 | Angel Kolev (BUL) | 10.8 |
| 200 metres | Zdobysław Stawczyk (POL) | 21.5 | Ewald Schröder (GDR) | 21.6 | Zenon Baranowski (POL) | 21.7 |
| 400 metres | Willi Bromberger (GDR) | 48.2 | Gerard Mach (POL) | 48.3 | Horst Mann (GDR) | 48.5 |
| 800 metres | Lajos Szentgáli (HUN) | 1:50.5 | Edmund Potrzebowski (POL) | 1:50.8 | László Tanay (HUN) | 1:51.5 |
| 1500 metres | Edmund Potrzebowski (POL) | 3:49.8 | Ernő Béres (HUN) | 3:50.4 | Alojzy Graj (POL) | 3:50.8 |
| 5000 metres | Alojzy Graj (POL) | 14:44.8 | László Tábori (HUN) | 14:45.6 | Ernő Béres (HUN) | 14:47.6 |
| 10,000 metres | Gyula Pénzes (HUN) | 31:02.8 | Hubert Berta (HUN) | 31:43.6 | Tege Yitao (CHN) | 33:00.4 |
| 110 m hurdles | Boris Stolyarov (URS) | 14.3 | Vyacheslav Bogatov (URS) | 14.5 | Ion Opris (ROM) | 14.8 |
| 400 m hurdles | Anatoliy Yulin (URS) | 51.9 | Igor Ilyin (URS) | 52.1 | Ilie Savel (ROM) | 52.6 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase | Ferenc Dejeny (HUN) | 9:00.0 | Grigore Cojocaru (ROM) | 9:03.4 | Jaroslav Slavíček (TCH) | 9:20.2 |
| 10,000 m walk | Haralambie Racescu (ROM) | 47:07.4 | Hans-Joachim Kolletzki (GDR) | 47:55.6 | László Palotai (HUN) | 48:07.4 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | Soviet Union (URS) Leonid Barteniev Viktor Ryabov Levan Sanadze Boris Tokarev | 41.1 | Poland (POL) Zenon Baranowski Wiesław Holajn Emil Kiszka Zdobysław Stawczyk | 41.4 | Hungary (HUN) József Senkei Géza Varasdi László Zarándi Béla Goldoványi | 41.5 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | East Germany (GDR) Ewald Schröder Willi Bromberger Horst Mann Rolf Seliger | 3:14.2 | Poland (POL) Gerard Mach Zbigniew Makomaski Leszek Sierek Stanisław Swatowski | 3:14.6 | Hungary (HUN) Péter Karádi Béla Deri József Darvas Attila Botár | 3:16.7 |
| High jump | Jaroslav Kovár (TCH) | 1.99 m | Zbigniew Lewandowski (POL) | 1.99 m | Yuriy Stepanov (URS) | 1.95 m |
| Pole vault | Tamás Homonnay (HUN) | 4.20 m | Edward Adamczyk (POL) | 4.15 m | Zenon Ważny (POL) | 4.10 m |
| Long jump | Ödön Földessy (HUN) | 7.70 m | Ion Wiesenmayer (ROM) | 7.33 m | Nikolay Andrushenko (URS) | 7.30 m |
| Triple jump | Zygfryd Weinberg (POL) | 15.30 m | Virgil Zavadescu (ROM) | 15.08 m | Ion Sorin (ROM) | 15.07 m |
| Shot put | Vartan Ovsepyan (URS) | 15.88 m | Ferenc Kövesdi (HUN) | 15.70 m | Gabriel Georgescu (ROM) | 15.49 m |
| Discus throw | József Szécsényi (HUN) | 51.19 m | Rudolf Solyóm (HUN) | 48.54 m | Géjza Valent, Sr. (TCH) | 47.16 m |
| Hammer throw | Boris Popov (BUL) | 55.48 m | Oldrich Engl (TCH) | 54.55 m | Lajos Kapcsos (HUN) | 53.50 m |
| Javelin throw | Janusz Sidło (POL) | 75.24 m | Zbigniew Radziwonowicz (POL) | 70.46 m | Sándor Krasznai (HUN) | 69.63 m |
| Decathlon | Walter Meier (GDR) | 6587 pts | Gheorghe Zimbresteanu (ROM) | 5746 pts | Tibor Kertész (HUN) | 5678 pts |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Christa Stubnick (GDR) | 11.8 | Vera Krepkina (URS) | 11.8 | Mariya Itkina (URS) | 11.9 |
| 200 metres | Christa Stubnick (GDR) | 23.6 | Mariya Itkina (URS) | 24.2 | Vera Krepkina (URS) | 24.3 |
| 400 metres | Ursula Donath (GDR) | 55.0 | Polina Solopova (URS) | 56.5 | Anna Suták (HUN) | 58.0 |
| 800 metres | Ursula Donath (GDR) | 2:10.1 | Lyudmila Lisenko (URS) | 2:11.3 | Dota Barakhovich (URS) | 2:12.1 |
| 80 m hurdles | Gisela Köhler (GDR) | 11.0 | Yevgeniya Gurvich (URS) | 11.3 | Elżbieta Bocian (POL) | 11.4 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | Soviet Union (URS) Mariya Itkina Vera Krepkina Olga Kosheleva Rimma Uliskina | 46.3 | East Germany (GDR) Ulla Donath Gisela Köhler Christa Stubnick Alice Köckritz-Karger | 46.5 | Poland (POL) Elżbieta Bocian Celina Jesionowska Maria Kusion Barbara Janiszewska | 47.4 |
| High jump | Iolanda Balaș (ROM) | 1.61 m | Ida Németh (HUN) | 1.56 m | Erzsébet Kertés (HUN) | 1.53 m |
| Long jump | Elżbieta Duńska (POL) | 6.12 m | Maria Kusion (POL) | 6.00 m | Galina Vinogradova (URS) | 5.94 m |
| Shot put | Mariya Kuznetsova (URS) | 15.01 m | Lea Maremäe (URS) | 14.35 m | Edit Sebes (HUN) | 12.91 m |
| Discus throw | Irina Beglyakova (URS) | 45.36 m | Zsuzsa Serédi (HUN) | 43.59 m | Lia Manoliu (ROM) | 42.46 m |
| Javelin throw | Virve Roolaid (URS) | 51.52 m | Erzsébet Vígh (HUN) | 47.00 m | Lea Maremäe (URS) | 46.65 m |
| Pentathlon | Elżbieta Duńska (POL) | 3971 pts | Nina Martinenko (URS) | 3738 pts | Lyudmila Aralova (URS) | 3717 pts |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 8 | 10 | 8 | 26 |
| 2 | Poland (POL) | 8 | 8 | 5 | 21 |
| 3 | East Germany (GDR) | 8 | 3 | 1 | 12 |
| 4 | Hungary (HUN) | 6 | 8 | 11 | 25 |
| 5 | Romania (ROM) | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | China (CHN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (8 entries) | Totals (8 entries) | 34 | 34 | 34 | 102 |