# Athletics at the 1949 World Festival of Youth and Students

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.
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 | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Miroslav Horčic (TCH) | 10.9 | Otto Szebeni (HUN) | 10.9 | Zdobysław Stawczyk (POL) | 10.9 |
| 200 metres | Zdobysław Stawczyk (POL) | 21.2 | Miroslav Horčic (TCH) | 21.6 | Yves Camus (FRA) | 21.6 |
| 400 metres | Ferenc Banhalmi (HUN) | 49.2 | Jean-Paul Martin-du-Gard (FRA) | 49.2 | Sergey Komarov (URS) | 49.8 |
| 800 metres | Dumitru Tilmaciu (ROM) | 1:54.7 | Armand Jacquier (FRA) | 1:55.1 | Jacques Rasse (FRA) | 1:55.9 |
| 1500 metres | Sándor Garay (HUN) | 3:57.2 | Dumitru Tilmaciu (ROM) | 3:57.8 | Victor Pop (ROM) | 4:00.2 |
| 5000 metres | Vladimir Kazantsev (URS) | 14:55.2 | Ivan Semyonov (URS) | 14:56.4 | Ivan Pozhidayev (URS) | 15:03.4 |
| 110 m hurdles | Yevgeniy Bulanchik (URS) | 14.7 | Milan Tosnar (TCH) | 15.1 | Alois Krul (TCH) | 15.3 |
| 400 m hurdles | Georges Elloy (FRA) | 53.0 | Timofey Lunyev (URS) | 53.2 | Yuriy Lituyev (URS) | 53.6 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | Hungary (HUN) László Bartha György Csányi Béla Goldoványi Ottó Szebeni | 41.6 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) Jaroslav Fikejz Miroslav Horčic Jan Schmid Lubomír Rek Soviet Union (URS) Levan Sanadze Vladimir Koroyev Georg Gilde Vladimir Sukharev | 42.0 | Not awarded | Not awarded |
| 4 × 400 m relay | France (FRA) Georges Elloy Jean-Paul Martin du Gard Armand Jacquier Chateau | 3:16.6 | Soviet Union (URS) Yevhen Bulanchyk Petro Chevhun Pavel Kiyanenko Sergey Komarov | 3:17.4 | Hungary (HUN) Ferenc Bánhalmi Péter Karádi Egon Solymossy László Marosi | 3:17.8 |
| 1600 m medley relay | France (FRA) Yves Camus Jean-Paul Martin du Gard Jean-Pierre Guillon Jacques Rasse | 3:27.6 | Soviet Union (URS) Petro Chevhun Sergey Komarov Levan Sanadze Vladimir Sukharev | 3:30.0 | Poland (POL) Zygmunt Buhl Gerard Mach Zdobysław Stawczyk Leonard Statkiewicz | 3:31.3 |
| High jump | Yuriy Ilyasov (URS) | 1.94 m | Ioan Soter (ROM) | 1.94 m | German Res (URS) | 1.90 m |
| Pole vault | Viktor Knyatsev (URS) | 4.15 m | Georges Breitman (FRA) | 4.10 m | Boris Sukharev (URS) | 4.00 m |
| Long jump | Edward Adamczyk (POL) | 7.27 m | Vladimir Volkov (URS) | 7.14 m | Khandadash Madatov (URS) | 7.02 m |
| Triple jump | Leonid Shcherbakov (URS) | 14.56 m | Pierre Pustoch (FRA) | 14.55 m | Antal Puskás (HUN) | 14.52 m |
| Shot put | Čestmír Kalina (TCH) | 15.10 m | Otto Grigalka (URS) | 14.76 m | Boris Butyenko (URS) | 14.42 m |
| Discus throw | Ferenc Klics (HUN) | 50.40 m | Jan Kypta (TCH) | 44.97 m | Aladár Kobold (HUN) | 44.64 m |
| Hammer throw | Lajos Petike (HUN) | 51.85 m | Constantin Dumitru (ROM) | 51.52 m | Arnošt Kadrnožka (TCH) | 50.53 m |
| Javelin throw | Viktor Iyevlev (URS) | 65.06 m | Georgiy Lukyanov (URS) | 63.97 m | Ivan Kaptyukh (URS) | 61.92 m |
| Decathlon | Petro Denysenko (URS) | 7287 pts | Vladimir Volkov (URS) | 7026 pts | Viktor Iyevlev (URS) | 6940 pts |
* Exact mark not unverified

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Zoya Dukhovich (URS) | 12.2 | Sofya Malshina (URS) | 12.3 | Irén Lohász (HUN) | 12.4 |
| 200 metres | Zoya Dukhovich (URS) | 25.2 | Rosine Faugouin (FRA) | 25.3 | Inga Zeltinja (URS) | 25.5 |
| 800 metres | Valentina Bogatiryova (URS) | 2:18.0 | Lyudmila Sokolova (URS) | 2:18.2 | Anna Bleha (HUN) | 2:18.6 |
| 80 m hurdles | L. Kerim-Zade (URS) | 11.9 | Olga Gyarmati (HUN) | 12.0 | Aleksandra Chudina (URS) | 12.0 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandra Chudina Zoya Dukhovich Sofiya Malshina Inga Zeltinja | 48.7 | Hungary (HUN) Ilona Tolnai-Rákhely Irén Lohász Lenke Egri Margit Bogdan | 49.1 | France (FRA) Colette Elloy Jacqueline Artigues Jacqueline Dufour Odette Lebré | 49.2 |
| 4 × 200 m relay | Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandra Chudina Zoya Dukhovich Sofiya Malshina Inga Zeltinja | 1:42.3 | Hungary (HUN) Olga Gyarmati Ilona Tolnai-Rákhely Irén Lohász Lenke Egri | 1:42.8 | France (FRA) Colette Elloy Rosine Faugouin Jacqueline Dufour Odette Lebré | 1:44.1 |
| High jump | Aleksandra Chudina (URS) | 1.62 m | Varvara Papisheva (URS) | 1.55 m | Lidiya Borodina (URS) | 1.50 m |
| Long jump | Olga Gyarmati (HUN) | 5.95 m | Lyudmila Vasilyeva (URS) | 5.80 m | Aleksandra Chudina (URS) | 5.66 m |
| Shot put | Klavdiya Tochonova (URS) | 14.29 m | Aleksandra Chudina (URS) | 13.61 m | Lyudmila Vasilyeva (URS) | 12.97 m |
| Discus throw | Nina Dumbadze (URS) | 51.24 m | Yelizaveta Bagriantseva (URS) | 43.28 m | Klavdiya Tochonova (URS) | 42.83 m |
| Javelin throw | Natalya Smirnitskaya (URS) | 51.10 m | Aleksandra Chudina (URS) | 45.91 m | Mária Rohonczi (HUN) | 40.83 m |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 17 | 16 | 15 | 48 |
| 2 | Hungary (HUN) | 6 | 4 | 6 | 16 |
| 3 | France (FRA) | 3 | 5 | 4 | 12 |
| 4 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| 5 | Poland (POL) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 6 | Romania (ROM) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Totals (6 entries) | Totals (6 entries) | 31 | 32 | 30 | 93 |