Athletics at the 1953 World Festival of Youth and Students information
The 4th World Festival of Youth and Students featured an athletics competition among its programme of events. The events were contested in Bucharest, Romania in August 1953. Mainly contested among Eastern European athletes, it served as an alternative to the more Western European-oriented 1953 Summer International University Sports Week held in Dortmund the same year.[1]
The event reached new peaks, in particular with men's long-distance battles between multiple Olympic champion Emil Zátopek and future Olympic champion Vladimir Kuts (Zátopek won both contests). Ardalion Ignatyev, Yevgeniy Bulanchik, Anatoliy Yulin, Josef Doležal, Ödön Földessy, Leonid Shcherbakov all went on to claim gold medals at the 1954 European Athletics Championships a year later. The men's hammer throw saw European champion Sverre Strandli take on and defeat the reigning Olympic champion József Csermák.[1]
The women's events contained similarly high profile athletes. Aleksandra Chudina defended three of her four titles from the previous edition and won a different fourth title in the javelin throw (having won the 80 metres hurdles in 1951 instead). Nina Otkalenko won the 800 metres – a feat she would repeat at the 1954 European Championships – and Maria Golubnichaya did the same in the 80 m hurdles. The 1948 Olympic championOlga Gyarmati returned but was again held off the long jump podium by Chudina. Having won the Olympic title since her previous runner-up performance at the tournament, shot putter Galina Zybina went on better and won the world student title. Nina Ponomaryova defended her discus throw title, having also become Olympic champion in the meantime.[1][2]
Yevgeniy Bulanchik (110 m hurdles), Leonid Shcherbakov (triple jump), Ferenc Klics (discus) and Aleksandra Chudina (high jump) became the first athletes to win three consecutive titles in a discipline at the World Festival of Youth and Students. The Soviet Union and East Germany won most of the women's medals, while the men's events were dominated by Soviet, Czechoslovak and Hungarian athletes.[1]
^ abcdWorld Student Games (UIE). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.
^OLYMPIC GAMES MEDALLISTS - ATHLETICS (WOMEN). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-10.
and 23 Related for: Athletics at the 1953 World Festival of Youth and Students information
The 7th WorldFestivalofYouthandStudents featured an athletics competition among its programme of events. The events were contested in Vienna, Austria...
The 1st WorldFestivalofYouthandStudents featured an athletics competition among its programme of events. The events were contested in Prague, Czechoslovakia...
The 2nd WorldFestivalofYouthandStudents featured an athletics competition among its programme of events. The events were contested in Budapest, Hungary...
The 6th WorldFestivalofYouthandStudents featured an athletics competition among its programme of events. The events were contested in Moscow, Soviet...
The 5th WorldFestivalofYouthandStudents featured an athletics competition among its programme of events. The events were contested in Warsaw, Poland...
departure from theathletics event being linked to the biennial WorldFestivalofYouthandStudents. The level of competition was not as high as the previous...
nations from the Arab world. They are organized by the Union of Arab National Olympic Committees. The first Games took place in 1953 in Alexandria, Egypt...
Athletics were held atthe 2021 Summer World University Games during August 1 to 6, 2023, atthe Shuangliu Sports Centre Stadium in Chengdu, China. Source:...
field of academic medicine, including William Osler, William Halsted, Howard Kelly, and William Welch. Students came from all over theworld to study at Johns...
a free youthfestival people between 13 and 19 years. Runs in parallel with the Stockholm Culture Festival in August and is held by the City of Stockholm...
direct family; 17 percent ofstudents live off-campus. Most students assert Ohio Wesleyan's policy of off-campus housing as one ofthe "worst things" about...
Arena hosted the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships andthe 2003 and 2018 World Indoor Championships, as well as hosting the annual Aviva Indoor...
English-style boarding schools in the United States and an early proponent ofstudent financial aid, having accepted scholarship students since its inception. A...
several international athletics events, including the 2017 Asian YouthAthletics Championships andthe 2021 World Mountain and Trail Running Championships...
Citizen's AthleticsFestival, Shikoku East Summer Festival is held conjunctively with Kagawa Prefecture. 1993 October – The East Shikoku Autumna Athletics Festival...
medals attheWorldFestivalofYouthandStudents, twice winning the 800 m title in 1953and 1955, as well as taking 400 metres silver medals at both those...
Global Information