List of Olympic venues in demonstration events

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For the Olympic Games until the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, there have been demonstration or exhibition events that have occurred on various sports. Some of these sports later became Olympic sports such as basketball, canoeing, and short track speed skating. These are a list of other venues that hosted demonstration sports that did not become nor had never been official Olympic sports.

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Summer Olympics

GamesSportVenueOther sports hosted at venue during those gamesCapacityRef.
1912 Stockholm Glima Olympic Stadium Athletics, Equestrian, Football, Gymnastics, Modern pentathlon (running), Tug of War, Wrestling Not listed [1]
1920 Antwerp Korfball Olympic Stadium Athletics, Equestrian, Field hockey, Football, Gymnastics, Modern pentathlon, Rugby union, Tug of war, Weightlifting 30,000 [2] [3]
1928 Amsterdam Kaatsen Olympic Stadium Athletics, Cycling, (track), Equestrian, (jumping), Football, Gymnastics 33,025 [4]
1928 Amsterdam Korfball Olympic Stadium Athletics, Cycling, (track), Equestrian, (jumping), Football, Gymnastics 33,025 [5]
1932 Los Angeles American football Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum None60,000 [6]
1952 Helsinki Pesäpallo Helsinki Olympic Stadium Athletics, Equestrian (jumping), Football (finale)19,309 [7]
1956 Melbourne Australian rules football Melbourne Cricket Ground Athletics, Field hockey (final)104,000 [8]
1964 Tokyo Budo Nippon Budokan Judo Not listed [9]
1972 Munich Water skiing Kieler Förde NoneNot listed [10]
1988 Seoul Bowling Royal Bowling Center NoneNot listed [11]
1992 Barcelona Rolley hockey Palau Blaugrana Judo, Taekwondo (demonstration)6,400 [12]
Pavelló de l'Ateneu de Sant Sadurní None1,300 [13]
Pavelló del Club Patí Vic None1,700 [13]
Pavelló d'Esports de Reus None3,000 [13]
1924 Savate
1924 La canne
1936 Gliding
1948 Swedish (Ling) gymnastics

Winter Olympics

GamesVenueSportOther sports hosted at venue for those gamesCapacityRef.
1952 Oslo Bislett stadion Bandy Figure skating, Speed skating 29,000 [14]
Dæhlenenga Ice hockey Not listed [15]
1992 Albertville Les Arcs Speed skiing NoneNot listed [16]
1928 Skijoring
1932 Sled-dog racing
1936 Ice stock sport
1964
1948 Winter pentathlon
1984 Disabled skiing
1988
1988 Ski ballet (acroski)
1992

References

  1. "Glima at the 1912 Olympics".
  2. Historical overview Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine from the Dutch Korfball Union
  3. Stadiumguide.com
  4. "Kaatsen Demonstration Sport at the 1928 Olympics".
  5. 1928 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 8 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine pp. 173–205.
  6. "American Football Demonstration Sport at the 1904 Olympics".
  7. "Pesäpallo: Demonstration Sport 1952".
  8. 1956 Summer Olympics official report. pp. 713–714.
  9. "Japanese Martial Arts (Budo) Demonstrations in 1964".
  10. Ed. Herbert Kunze (ed.). The official report of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXth Olympiad Munich 1972, Volume 3: The competitions (PDF) (PDF). München: proSport GmbH & Co. pp. 526–527.
  11. 1988 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 18 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. Part 1. p. 206. Accessed 1 December 2010.
  12. 1992 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 28 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 217–20. Accessed 6 December 2010.
  13. 1 2 3 1992 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 28 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 337–41. Accessed 6 December 2010.
  14. 1952 Winter Olympic official report. Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine p. 28.
  15. 1952 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine p. 33.
  16. 1992 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 26 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine pp. 96–99. Accessed 5 December 2010. (in English and French)