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.World Student Games (UIE). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.
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 100 metres 10.9 10.9 10.9200 metres 21.2 21.6 21.6400 metres 49.2 49.2 49.8800 metres 1:54.7 1:55.1 1:55.91500 metres 3:57.2 3:57.8 4:00.25000 metres 14:55.2 14:56.4 15:03.4110 m hurdles 14.7 15.1 15.3400 m hurdles 53.0 53.2 53.64 × 100 m relayLászló BarthaGyörgy CsányiBéla GoldoványiOttó Szebeni 41.6Jaroslav FikejzMiroslav HorčicJan SchmidLubomír RekLevan SanadzeVladimir KoroyevGeorg GildeVladimir Sukharev 42.0Not awarded4 × 400 m relayGeorges ElloyJean-Paul Martin du GardArmand JacquierChateau 3:16.6Yevhen BulanchykPetro ChevhunPavel KiyanenkoSergey Komarov 3:17.4Ferenc BánhalmiPéter KarádiEgon SolymossyLászló Marosi 3:17.81600 m medley relayYves CamusJean-Paul Martin du GardJean-Pierre GuillonJacques Rasse 3:27.6Petro ChevhunSergey KomarovLevan SanadzeVladimir Sukharev 3:30.0Zygmunt BuhlGerard MachZdobysław StawczykLeonard Statkiewicz 3:31.3High jump 1.94 m 1.94 m 1.90 mPole vault 4.15 m 4.10 m 4.00 mLong jump 7.27 m 7.14 m 7.02 mTriple jump 14.56 m 14.55 m 14.52 mShot put 15.10 m 14.76 m 14.42 mDiscus throw 50.40 m 44.97 m 44.64 mHammer throw 51.85 m 51.52 m 50.53 mJavelin throw 65.06 m 63.97 m 61.92 mDecathlon 7287 pts 7026 pts 6940 pts Exact mark not unverified
Women 100 metres 12.2 12.3 12.4200 metres 25.2 25.3 25.5800 metres 2:18.0 2:18.2 2:18.680 m hurdles 11.9 12.0 12.04 × 100 m relayAleksandra ChudinaZoya DukhovichSofiya MalshinaInga Zeltinja 48.7Ilona Tolnai-RákhelyIrén LohászLenke EgriMargit Bogdan 49.1Colette ElloyJacqueline ArtiguesJacqueline DufourOdette Lebré 49.24 × 200 m relayAleksandra ChudinaZoya DukhovichSofiya MalshinaInga Zeltinja 1:42.3Olga GyarmatiIlona Tolnai-RákhelyIrén LohászLenke Egri 1:42.8Colette ElloyRosine FaugouinJacqueline DufourOdette Lebré 1:44.1High jump 1.62 m 1.55 m 1.50 mLong jump 5.95 m 5.80 m 5.66 mShot put 14.29 m 13.61 m 12.97 mDiscus throw 51.24 m 43.28 m 42.83 mJavelin throw 51.10 m 45.91 m 40.83 m
Medal table
References
Results World Student Games (UIE). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.