1937 Workers' Summer Olympiad

1937 Workers' Summer Olympiad

Host city	Antwerp, Belgium
Nations	15
Dates	25 July 1937 (1937-07-25) – 1 August 1937 (1937-08-01)
Main venue	Olympisch Stadion
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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 to 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
• Field handball ( details  [ de ])
• Football ( details )
• Gymnastics
• Motor cycling
• Swimming
• Table tennis
• Tennis
• Tug of War
• Volleyball
• Water polo
• Weightlifting
• Wrestling

Nations table

Place	Nation	Total Points	Men's Athletic	Women's Athletic	Men's Swimming	Women's Swimming	Water Polo	Football	Handball	Cycling	Greco-Roman Wrestling	Freestyle Wrestling	Weightlifting	Boxing	Balle Pelote	Basketball	Tennis	Badminton	Chess
01.	Finland	172	89	-	31	25	-	-	-	-	44	-	-	7	-	-	-	-	-
02.	Norway	162	48	5	26	25	-	3	-	4	6	-	-	13	-	-	-	-	2
03.	France	143	30	27	16	9	4	-	-	35	-	13	3	3	3	4	3	2	4
04.	Soviet Union	134	40	46	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	28	16	-	-	-	-	-
05.	Belgium	126	-	2	19	3	3	-	-	26	13	38	6	7	4	2	1	1	1
06.	Switzerland	60	27	9	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	8	19	-	-	-	-	-	-
07.	Netherlands	53	1	16	5	14	1	-	3	8	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	3
08.	Czechoslovakia	45	10	6	20	-	2	1	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-
09.	Spain	40	6	1	16	4	-	2	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	2	3	-	-
10.	England	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	4	-
11.	Denmark	9	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	-	-	-	-	-
12.	Austria	8	2	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-
13.	Palestine	5	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-
13.	Latvia	5	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

The unofficial ranking system has been built considering: Gold medal: 4 points, Silver medal: 3 points, Bronze medal: 2 points, 4th place: 1 point

Source: ^[3]

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 ^[4]
• Spartak Moscow, football

References

1. 1937 Labour Olympiads Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
2. John Nauright & Charles Parrish (ed.): "Sports Around the World – History, Culture and Practice" (p. 463). Retrieved 11 July 2013.
3. "La IIIe Olympiade Ouvrière démontre la supériorité des pays nordiques". Le Peuple (in French). 35 (221): 6. 9 August 1937.
4. Hentilä, Seppo (2014). Bewegung, Kultur und Alltag im Arbeitersport. Helsinki: The Finnish Society for Labour History. p. 12. ISBN   978-952-59762-6-7.