USSR Athletics Championship 1955

The 1955 USSR Personal Athletics Championships were held from November 13 to 17 in Tbilisi at the Dynamo Republican Stadium . The capital of the Georgian SSR for the first time hosted the main track and field competitions of the season in the country. 1,100 athletes representing 18 national teams of the Union republics and cities of Moscow and Leningrad came to the start. Over the course of five days, 36 sets of medals were won (23 for men and 13 for women).

USSR Athletics Championship 1955
Host city	Tbilisi
Of the participants	1100
Medals	36
Opening	November 13, 1955
Closing	November 17, 1955
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Stadium	Dynamo

Despite adverse weather conditions, a number of high results were shown at the championship. So, Galina Zybina for the 13th time in a row improved the world record in shot put. The attempt at 16.67 m became the fourth record for the Leningrad athlete in 1955. The previous achievement, 16.45 m, Zybina installed a week before the USSR championship at the tournament in Dushanbe .

22-year-old Anatoly Egorov became the strongest in walking 50 km with a new highest world achievement - 4: 07.28.6. Together with two other winners, Anatoly Vedyakov and Mikhail Lavrov , they became the first athletes in history to overcome this distance faster than 4 hours 10 minutes.

Decathlete Vasily Kuznetsov improved his own European record . He managed to score 7647 points (according to the tables of 1950), which consisted of the following results in separate forms: 100 m - 10.9, long jump - 7.28 m, shot put - 14.30 m, high jump - 1.83 m, 400 m - 51.0, 110 m s / b - 14.9, discus throw - 47.88 m, pole vault - 3.90 m, javelin throw - 65.33 m, 1500 m - 5.11.4.

Otto Grigalka won the men's discus throw with a new USSR record (55.50 m). He was also a favorite in the shot put sector, where he won the previous three championships and retained the all-Union achievement, but in the end he took only third place. The first championship title in his career was taken by Vartan Hovsepyan from Yerevan.

For the fifth year in a row, Olympic champion Nina Ponomaryova won the women's discus throw. She set a high personal record of 56.62 m, which was inferior to Nina Dumbadze’s world achievement of 42 cm. Dumbadze herself took second place with her own stands at 53.52 m. Irina Beglyakova supplemented the podium with an attempt at 50.17 m. Thus, for the first time in the history of the championships of the USSR, all three winners in this form overcame the 50-meter mark.

Two-time champion of the country was Galina Vinogradova . In the long jump, she did not have enough to reach her own world record (6.28 m) of only 4 cm. To this victory, she added first place at a distance of 100 meters.

USSR Championship in marathon was held separately, July 10 in Moscow .