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. [ 1]
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. [ 2] European bronze medalist Olli Partanen was runner-up in the discus throw to AAA Championships winner Ferenc Klics . [ 3]
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 . [ 1] 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. [ 4] 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 . [ 5] The Soviet Union was dominant at the event, winning all but seven of the 34 events on offer. [ 1]
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