1925 Workers' Summer Olympiad

1925 Workers' Summer Olympiad
Host city	Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Nations	11
Athletes	3,000
Events	44
Dates	July 24, 1925–; July 28, 1925
	← 1925 Workers' Winter Olympiad 1931 Workers' Winter Olympiad →

Last updated June 10, 2024

The 1925 Workers' Summer Olympiad was the second edition of International Workers' Olympiads. The games were held from July 24 to July 28 at Frankfurt am Main in Germany.

The events mostly took place at the newly opened Waldstadion that is today known as Commerzbank-Arena. An outdoor swimming pool, Stadionbad, was built for the swimming competitions.^[3] The opening ceremony had a choir of 1,200 people singing and later 60,000 actors took part in the drama presentation "Worker Struggle for the Earth" marching through the streets of Frankfurt.^[2]^[4] All events attracted a total of 450,000 spectators.^[5]

The most notable result was a new world record of 51.3 in women's 4×100 metres relay set by the German team of Arbeiter-Turn- und Sportbund (ATSB), although it was never ratified by IAAF.^[2]^[4] Football tournament was also won by the German team of ATSB. The most successful athletes came from Finnish Workers' Sports Federation, winning 31 events out of 44.^[2]

Sports

Participating countries

Men's results

Athletics

Source:^[6]^[7]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Jalmari Etholén	11.3	Väinö Mattila	11.4	Vilho Mankki	11.4
200 metres	Jalmari Etholén	23.2	Karl-Emil Virta	23.3	Niilo Mattila	23.7
400 metres	Karl-Emil Virta	51.6	Emil Elo	52.2	Vilho Mankki	52.8
800 metres	Eino Borg	1:59.0	Yrjö Järvinen	2:03.5	Yrjö Halén	2:04.1
1500 metres	Eino Borg	4:07.0	Mauno Rutanen	4:11.5	Wagner
3000 metres	Eino Borg	8:47.2	Yrjö Jokela	8:47.6	A. Vuorinen	9:03.2
5000 metres	Yrjö Jokela	15:31.0	Toivo Salmi	15:43.5	A. Vuorinen	16:06.7
10,000 metres	Yrjö Jokela	32:21.6	Jalmari Kaila	33:02.0	Toivo Salmi	33:34.2
25,000 metres	Iivari Rötkö	1:24:37.0	Väinö Laaksonen	1:24:51.5	Yrjö Vänttinen	1:25:10.0
110 metres hurdles	Niilo Mattila	16.4	Väinö Kääriäinen	16.6	Wells	16.6
400 metres hurdles	Niilo Mattila	58.2	Väinö Kääriäinen	59.5	Wells	1:00.8
4×100 metres relay	Finland	44.0	Latvia	45.8	Germany	45.8
10×100 metres relay	Finland	1:51.8	Germany	1:54.1	Germany II	1:55.1
4×400 metres relay	Finland	3:34.0	Germany	3:37.5	France
3×1000 metres relay	Finland	8:04.4	Germany	8:20.0	France	8:54.8
Sprint medley relay	Finland	3:43.2	Germany	3:49.7	Austria	3:55.5
Swedish relay	Finland	2:07.8	Germany	2:08.1	Switzerland	2:08.8
3000 metres team race	Finland	9:31.7	Germany	10:03.1	France	10:33.9
10 kilometres walk	Burghardt	48:38.0	Wolff	48:52.4	Bohner	49:16.1
High jump	Kalle Korpi	1.79	Artturi Niemi	1.79	Onni Heinänen	1.73
Pole vault	Nestor Kristoffersson Robert Vitthoff	343	–	–	Rudolf Muukkonen	330
Long jump	Onni Heinänen	6.88	Paavo Virtanen	6.80	Rodzit	6.60
Triple jump	Paavo Virtanen	14.28	Vilho Takkinen	14.04	Hauerstein	13.65
Shot put	Oskar Lindborg	12.98	Jussi Laiho	12.72	Oskar Lindborg	12.57
Shot put (light)	Kalervo Kotivalo	19.96	Jussi Laiho	17.75	Barthel	17.39
Discus throw	Oskar Lindborg	41.55	Jussi Laiho	40.57	T. Subatnik	38.82
Hammer throw	Jussi Laiho	43.29	Vilhelm Silius	38.85	Hefele	32.62
Javelin throw	Kalle Korpi	54.71	H. Ilmonen	54.64	U. Virtanen	53.50
Stone throw	Kalervo Kotivalo	8.83	Oskar Lindborg	8.31	E. Hummel	7.75
Weight throw	Jussi Laiho	15.59	Vilhelm Silius	15.11	–	–
Slingshot throw ^[8]	Barthel	55.95	Hensge		Weber
Pentathlon	Kalervo Kotivalo	578	U. Virtanen	557	Nestor Kristoffersson	545
Decathlon	Rudolf Muukkonen	1119.0	Vilho Takkinen	1029.5	Robeschnich	983.5
Tug of war	Germany		Belgium		–	–

Boxing

Source:^[9]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight	Veikko Mutikainen	Gutte	Müller
Bantamweight	Onni Rautiainen	Oiva Johtonen	Klippel
Featherweight	Berger	Reppin	Möveberg
Lightweight	Scherm	Eino Kalervo	–
Welterweight	Soini Andersin	Völkel	Sven Vilenius
Middleweight	Bauer	Gösta Brännäs	Veikko Paananen
Light heavyweight	Janis Vigriezis	Braun	–
Heavyweight	Vilis Klesbergs	Schädler	–

Cycling

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1,000 m ^[10]	Durand	1:33.7	Inman		Ilmari Mäkelä
2,000 m ^[10]	Durand	3:14.7	Dewener		Inman
10 km ^[10]	Frot	16:22.5	Stoll		Dewener
50 km ^[11]	Pirson	1:23.1	May		Frot
10 km road race ^[12]	Stoll	15:12.5	Ilmari Mäkelä		Bemforth
20 km road race ^[12]	Seguet	32:01.4	Fisch	32:01.6	Hanakam	32:05.2
50 km road race ^[11]	W. Rau	1:30.1	F. Appel		Josef Rotz
6×1,000 m ^[11]	Austria		Great Britain		–	–
50 km, team ^[13]	Austria	1:27.07	France		Germany

Football

see Football at the International Workers' Olympiads#Frankfurt am Main 1925

Gymnastics

Source:^[14]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Octathlon	Kurt Rödel	149.5	Albert Rahnfeldt	149.5	Wilhelm Buri	139.5
Dodecathlon	Toivo Salonen	208.5	Onni Mäki	194.0	Kalle Lehtinen	188.8
Dodecathlon, team ^[15]	Finland

Handball

see Handball at the 1925 Workers' Summer Olympiad [ de ]

Swimming

Source:^[16]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Werner	1:09.6	Koluza	1:10.0	Urhalt	1:12.0
400 m freestyle	Gödke	5:59.2	Koluza	6:10.4	Hope	6:21.0
1500 m freestyle	Krause	25:28.4	Dahle	26:15.0	Gold	27:48.6
100 m backstroke	Schultz	1:21.4	Lohrer	1:24.4	Stechert	1:25.0
100 m breaststroke	Jaskulsky	1:28.2	Schultz	1:29.6	Pentti Vihervaara	1:32.4
200 m breaststroke	Lehmann	3:11.6	Schultz	3:19.2	Kannenberg	3:19.6
400 m breaststroke	Lehmann	6:48.2	Kannenberg	6:52.0	Küster	7:02.4
100 m sidestroke	Faulde	1:17.6	Schultz	1:19.2	Hampe	1:20.6
4×100 m freestyle relay	Germany	4:48.4	Finland	5:32.8	–	–
4×100 m breaststroke relay	Germany	6:16.4	Finland	6:45.0	Belgium	7:20.8
4×100 m medley relay	Germany	5:25.4	Austria		Belgium
Springboard	Fritsche	56.3	Papke	49.9	Nachtigall	48.9
Plain high diving	Lehmann	42.3	Toivo Paavilainen	38.0	Eino Währn	34.1

Water polo

Source:^[8]^[16]

Semi-finals		Final

Germany	11

France	1
		Germany (a.e.t.)	6

		Austria	5
Austria	5

Belgium	1	Third place


		France	5

		Belgium	2

Wrestling (Greco-Roman)

Source:^[17]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bantamweight	Justin Gehring	Albert Siponen W. Joneleit	P. Sachse
Featherweight	Arvo Salin	Paavo Suomi	H. Wittwer
Lightweight	Matti Saarikoski	A. Sipol	Jukka Ikonen
Middleweight	Väinö Kokkinen	Kaarlo Tammi	H. Schädler
Light Heavyweight	Verner Salonen	P. Merkel	Edwin Järnmark
Heavyweight	Aleksi Kuusisto	H. Kämpfer	H. Sattel

Women's results

Athletics

Source:^[18]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Dittmar	12.9	Hochholzer	13.0	Hippler	13.3
4×100 metres	Germany	51.3	Finland	56.6	France	57.2
10×100 metres ^[a]	Czechoslovakia	2:29.2	–	–	–	–
Sprint medley relay	Germany	53.5	Finland	55.5	Germany II	57.4
Triathlon	Elina Jääskeläinen	284	Hochholzer	268	Eugenie Indersson	261
High jump	Haase Bleul	1.39	Kauschke Sarnes Koch	1.29	Vonier	1.26
Long jump	Rauh	4.96	Sally Virtanen	4.93	Eugenie Indersson	4.66
Shot put	Olga Drivin	8.07	Elli Mattila	7.79	Sally Virtanen	7.78
Discus throw	Fransiska Vodickova	20.39	Olga Drivin	20.17	Kehrt	20.16
Javelin throw	Olga Drivin	33.28	Elina Jääskeläinen	32.91	Eugenie Indersson	29.64
Slingshot throw	Lang	24.80	Sulova	33.91	Mauleova	33.54

^[a] Germany (2:14.6) disqualified

Gymnastics

Source:^[14]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Octathlon	Hilda Neubaner	145.5	Lisbeth Benedix	144.5	Frida Gierke	144.0
Dodecathlon	Helene Dick	177.7	Hela Pestowa	160.7	Dora Rechbach	155.7

Swimming

Source:^[19]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle ^[a]	Mentrup	1:36.0	Weller	1:45.0	Vieno Kari	1:54.2
100 m breaststroke	Scholle	1:37.0	Boer	1:38.4	Mentrup	1:41.0
200 m breaststroke	Boer	3:42.2	Irja Henriksson	3:45.4	Buchbinder	3:56.6
100 m backstroke	Guitscholle	1:37.2	Klein	1:40.0	Buchbinder	1:40.4
3×100 m medley relay ^[b]	Austria	4:56.4	Finland	5:28.2	–	–
4×100 m freestyle relay	Germany	6:52.0	Finland	7:07.4	–	–
Artistic swimming	Meier		Kender		Trommel
Springboard	Boer	56.1	Ende	47.0	Trommar	44.4

^[a] Irma Lumivuokko, FIN (1:35.4) disqualified
^[b] Germany (4:51.4) disqualified

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1925 Workers' Summer Olympiad

Contents

Sports

Participating countries

Men's results

Athletics

Boxing

Cycling

Football

Gymnastics

Handball

Swimming

Water polo

Wrestling (Greco-Roman)

Women's results

Athletics

Gymnastics

Swimming

Related Research Articles

References