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 Silver Bronze
100 metres  Zdobyslaw Stawczyk (POL) 10.6  Levan Sanadze (URS) 10.7  Angel Kolev (BUL) 10.8
200 metres  Zdobyslaw 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  Ernõ Beres (HUN) 3:50.4  Alojzy Graj (POL) 3:50.8
5000 metres  Alojzy Graj (POL) 14:44.8  László Tábori (HUN) 14:45.6  Ernõ Beres (HUN) 14:47.6
10,000 metres  Gyula Pénzes (HUN) 31:02.8  Hubert Berta (HUN) 31:43.6  Yitao Tege (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 Slavícek (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) 41.1  Poland (POL) 41.4  Hungary (HUN) 41.5
4×400 m relay  East Germany (GDR) 3:14.2  Poland (POL) 3:14.6  Hungary (HUN) 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 Silver 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  Elzbieta Bocian (POL) 11.4
4×100 m relay  Soviet Union (URS) 46.3  East Germany (GDR) 46.5  Poland (POL) 47.4
High jump  Iolanda Balaș (ROM) 1.61 m  Ida Németh (HUN) 1.56 m  Erzsébet Kertés (HUN) 1.53 m
Long jump  Elzbieta Dunska (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  Elzbieta Dunska (POL) 3971 pts  Nina Martinenko (URS) 3738 pts  Lyudmila Aralova (URS) 3717 pts

References

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