1937 Workers' Summer Olympiad
| Dates | 25 July 1937 – 1 August 1937 |
|---|---|
The 1937 Workers' Summer Olympiad was the sixth edition of International Workers' Olympiads. The games were held from 25 July to 1 August at Antwerp in Belgium. They were originally planned for Barcelona 1936, but cancelled due the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.[1]
1937 Olympiad was a joint event with the Red Sport International organized Spartakiads. It was the first time as a delegation from Soviet Union took part at the Workers' Olympiad.[2] German athletes no longer participated since the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Federation of Germany had been banned by the Nazi regime in 1933.
Sports
- Athletics
- Basketball
- Basque pelota
- Boxing
- Chess
- Cycling
- Czech handball
- Football ()
- Gymnastics
- Motor cycling
- Swimming
- Table tennis
- Tennis
- Tug of War
- Volleyball
- Water polo
- Weightlifting
- Wrestling
Notable winners
Moisey Kasyanik, weightlifting (60 kg)- Mikhail Kasyanik, gymnastics
- Nikolay Korolyov, heavyweight boxing
Väinö Leskinen, 200 and 400 meter breaststroke swimming- Seraphim Znamensky, 5,000 meters run[3]
- Spartak Moscow, football
References
- ^ 1937 Labour Olympiads Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
- ^ John Nauright & Charles Parrish (ed.): "Sports Around the World – History, Culture and Practice" (p. 463). Retrieved 11 July 2013.
- ^ Hentilä, Seppo (2014). Bewegung, Kultur und Alltag im Arbeitersport. Helsinki: The Finnish Society for Labour History. p. 12. ISBN 978-952-59762-6-7.