1931 Workers' Summer Olympiad

Third edition of International Workers' Olympiads 1931 Workers' Summer Olympiad 1931 Workers' Summer Olympiad poster.jpg 150px Vienna, Austria 26 1931 07 19–1931 07 26 1931 Workers' Winter Olympiad 1937 Workers' Winter Olympiad 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.Socialist Sports in Yiddish: The Bundist Sport Organization Morgnshtern in Interwar Poland 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.Erwin Leuchter (1902–1973) Retrieved 12 July 2013. Archived 2013-07-14. 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.http://www.wien.gv.at/freizeit/sportamt/annodazumal/sportstaetten/stadion.html Wiener Praterstadion – Ernst-Happel-Stadion – Historische Sportstätte der Stadt Wien City of Vienna German 11 July 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130629195004/http://www.wien.gv.at/freizeit/sportamt/annodazumal/sportstaetten/stadion.html 2013-06-29 dead http://www.wien.gv.at/freizeit/sportamt/annodazumal/sportstaetten/stadionbad.html Wiener Stadionbad – Historische Sportstätte der Stadt Wien City of Vienna German 11 July 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20110406114309/http://www.wien.gv.at/freizeit/sportamt/annodazumal/sportstaetten/stadionbad.html 2011-04-06 dead 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 Athletics Boxing Canoeing Chess Cycling Czech or Field handball (Handball at the 1931 Workers' Summer Olympiad de Arbeiter-Sommerolympiade 1931/Handball details) Fencing Football (details) Gymnastics Motor cycling Rowing Swimming Water polo Weightlifting Wrestling References Category:International Workers' Olympiads Workers' Summer Olympiad Workers' Summer Olympiad Category:International sports competitions hosted by Austria Category:Sports competitions in Vienna Workers' Summer Olympiad Category:1930s in Vienna Category:Multi-sport events in Austria Workers' Summer Olympiad