The 1954 World Student Games were an athletics competition held in Budapest, Hungary by the Union Internationale des Étudiants (UIE) between 5 and 8 August. 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 100 metres 10.6 10.7 10.8200 metres 21.5 21.6 21.7400 metres 48.2 48.3 48.5800 metres 1:50.5 1:50.8 1:51.51500 metres 3:49.8 3:50.4 3:50.85000 metres 14:44.8 14:45.6 14:47.610,000 metres 31:02.8 31:43.6 33:00.4110 m hurdles 14.3 14.5 14.8400 m hurdles 51.9 52.1 52.63000 metres steeplechase 9:00.0 9:03.4 9:20.210,000 m walk 47:07.4 47:55.6 48:07.44 × 100 m relayLeonid BartenievViktor RyabovLevan SanadzeBoris Tokarev 41.1Zenon BaranowskiWiesław HolajnEmil KiszkaZdobysław Stawczyk 41.4József SenkeiGéza VarasdiLászló ZarándiBéla Goldoványi 41.54 × 400 m relayEwald SchröderWilli BrombergerHorst MannRolf Seliger 3:14.2Gerard MachZbigniew MakomaskiLeszek SierekStanisław Swatowski 3:14.6Péter KarádiBéla DeriJózsef DarvasAttila Botár 3:16.7High jump 1.99 m 1.99 m 1.95 mPole vault 4.20 m 4.15 m 4.10 mLong jump 7.70 m 7.33 m 7.30 mTriple jump 15.30 m 15.08 m 15.07 mShot put 15.88 m 15.70 m 15.49 mDiscus throw 51.19 m 48.54 m 47.16 mHammer throw 55.48 m 54.55 m 53.50 mJavelin throw 75.24 m 70.46 m 69.63 mDecathlon 6587 pts 5746 pts 5678 pts
Women 100 metres 11.8 11.8 11.9200 metres 23.6 24.2 24.3400 metres 55.0 56.5 58.0800 metres 2:10.1 2:11.3 2:12.180 m hurdles 11.0 11.3 11.44 × 100 m relayMariya ItkinaVera KrepkinaOlga KoshelevaRimma Uliskina 46.3Ulla DonathGisela KöhlerChrista StubnickAlice Köckritz-Karger 46.5Elżbieta BocianCelina JesionowskaMaria KusionBarbara Janiszewska 47.4High jump 1.61 m 1.56 m 1.53 mLong jump 6.12 m 6.00 m 5.94 mShot put 15.01 m 14.35 m 12.91 mDiscus throw 45.36 m 43.59 m 42.46 mJavelin throw 51.52 m 47.00 m 46.65 mPentathlon 3971 pts 3738 pts 3717 pts
Medal table
References
Results World Student Games (UIE). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.