1931 Workers' Summer Olympiad

1931 Workers' Summer Olympiad
Host cityVienna, Austria
Nations26
DatesJuly 19, 1931 (1931-07-19)–
July 26, 1931 (1931-07-26)

The 1931 Workers' Olympiad was the third edition of the International Workers' Olympiads. The games were held from 19 to 26 July in Vienna, Austria.

Some 100,000 athletes participated in the Olympiad, including those taking part at the mass gymnastics event. The games had about 250,000 spectators, making them larger than the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics both in participants and spectators.[1] The opening ceremony, Das Große Festspiel, was written by the Austrian writer Robert Lucas with music composed by the Argentinian composer Erwin Leuchter together with Franz Leo Human.[2]

The Workers' Olympiad was the largest sporting event held in Vienna up to that date. The Praterstadion (today known as Ernst-Happel-Stadion) and an outdoor swimming pool, the Stadionbad, were finished for the games.[3][4] The final of the football tournament was played at Praterstadion in front of 60,000 spectators as the Austrian amateur team Freie Vereinigung der Amateur-Fußballvereine Österreichs beat the German team Arbeiter-Turn- und Sportbund 3–2.

Sports

References

  1. ^ Socialist Sports in Yiddish: The Bundist Sport Organization Morgnshtern in Interwar Poland
  2. ^ Erwin Leuchter (1902–1973) Retrieved 12 July 2013. Archived 2013-07-14.
  3. ^ "Wiener Praterstadion – Ernst-Happel-Stadion – Historische Sportstätte der Stadt Wien" (in German). City of Vienna. Archived from the original on 2013-06-29. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
  4. ^ "Wiener Stadionbad – Historische Sportstätte der Stadt Wien" (in German). City of Vienna. Archived from the original on 2011-04-06. Retrieved 11 July 2013.