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.World Student Games (UIE). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.
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 Championships (Men). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09. European bronze medalist Olli Partanen was runner-up in the discus throw to AAA Championships winner Ferenc Klics.AAA Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.
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.Olympic Games Medallists (Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09. 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.Olympic Games Medallist (Men). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09. The Soviet Union was dominant at the event, winning all but seven of the 34 events on offer.
Medal summary Men 100 metres 10.6 10.7 10.7200 metres 21.4 21.8 21.9400 metres 49.1 49.1 49.1800 metres 1:54.2 1:54.5 1:55.31500 metres 3:50.4 3:50.6 3:52.85000 metres 14:40.0 14:50.4 14:50.810,000 metres 31:40.0 31:40.6 31:42.83000 metres steeplechase 8:51.2 8:57.6 9:13.8110 m hurdles 14.4 14.5 14.6400 m hurdles 52.3 52.7 53.84 × 100 m relayLev KalyayevLevan SanadzeVladimir SukharevFeodosy Golubyev 41.4Zygmunt BuhlBogdan LipskiZdobysław StawczykEmil Kiszka 41.7Jiří DavidMiroslav HorčicRudolf OtavaMiloš Trubl 41.94 × 400 m relayPavel KiyanenkoSergey KomarovYuriy LituyevIgor Ilyin 3:16.0Zoltán AdamikFerenc BánhalmiPéter KarádiEgon Solymossy 3:16.8Gerard MachBogdan LipskiZygmunt BuhlRoman Korban 3:17.2High jump 1.97 m 1.97 m 1.90 mPole vault 4.20 m 4.10 m 4.10 mLong jump 7.32 m 7.31 m 7.28 mTriple jump 15.09 m 14.73 m 14.59 mShot put 16.09 m 15.59 m 15.06 mDiscus throw 50.82 m 47.38 m 46.63 mHammer throw 54.84 m 53.86 m 53.32 mJavelin throw 66.38 m 64.35 m 61.91 mDecathlon 7106 pts 7023 pts 6722 pts
Women 100 metres 12.0 12.2 12.3200 metres 25.4 25.5 25.7400 metres 56.9 57.7 58.4800 metres 2:15.0 2:15.0 2:16.580 m hurdles 11.4 11.5 11.64 × 100 m relayAleksandra ChudinaZoya DukhovichSofiya MalshinaZinaida Safronova 48.3Aranka Szabó-BarthaOlga GyarmatiIlona Tolnai-RákhelyIrén Lohász 48.5Elfriede PreibischAlice Köckritz-KargerIrmgard PiepRoselinde Anders 48.74 × 200 m relayElfriede PreibischAlice Köckritz-KargerIrmgard PiepRoselinde Anders 1:41.5Zoya DukhovichSofiya MalshinaZinaida SafronovaZoya Petrova 1:41.7Aranka Szabó-BarthaOlga GyarmatiIlona Tolnai-RákhelyIrén Lohász 1:44.2High jump 1.60 m 1.55 m 1.50 mLong jump 5.86 m 5.70 m 5.52 mShot put 14.48 m 13.83 m 12.95 mDiscus throw 46.67 m 45.02 m 41.23 mJavelin throw 49.14 m 48.43 m 41.89 mPentathlon 3999 pts 3234 pts 3186 pts Times possibly wind-assisted
Medal table
References
Results World Student Games (UIE). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.