1924 Summer Olympics

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Games of the VIII Olympiad
Olympic rings
Venue: Paris ( France )
Stadion: Stade Olympique de Colombes
Opening ceremony: May 4, 1924
Closing ceremony: July 27, 1924
Opened by: Gaston Doumergue (President)
Olympic oath : Géo André (athlete)
Disciplines: 23 (17 sports)
Competitions: 126
Countries: 44
Athletes: 3,089 (including 135 women)
← Antwerp 1920
Amsterdam 1928 →
Medal table
space country G S. B. Ges.
1 United States 48United States United States 45 27 27 99
2 FinlandFinland Finland 14th 13 10 37
3 Third French RepublicThird French Republic France 13 15th 10 38
4th United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Great Britain 9 13 12 34
5 Italy 1861Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) Italy 8th 3 5 16
6th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 7th 8th 10 25th
7th NorwayNorway Norway 5 2 3 10
8th SwedenSweden Sweden 4th 13 12 29
9 NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 4th 1 5 10
10 BelgiumBelgium Belgium 3 7th 3 13
... ... ... ... ... ...
20th AustriaAustria Austria - 3 1 4th
Complete medal table

The 1924 Summer Olympics (also known as the VIII Olympiad ) took place in Paris from May 4 to July 27, 1924 . The other candidate cities were Amsterdam and Barcelona , Los Angeles , Prague and Rome . The capital of France hosted the Summer Olympic Games for the second time since 1900 .

Highlights

Opening ceremony of the 1924 Olympic Games
Aerial view of the Olympic Stadium during the soccer final
  • The games were officially opened by the French President Gaston Doumergue . The French athlete Géo André spoke the athlete's oath .
  • At the closing ceremony, the ceremonial hoisting of the three flags, that of the Olympic Committee, that of the organizing nation and that of the next organizing nation, was carried out for the first time.
  • For the first time the new Olympic motto “citius, altius, fortius” (faster, higher, further (actually stronger)), invented by the French Father Henri Didon, was quoted .

Outstanding athletes

  • The swimmer Johnny Weissmüller from the USA won three gold medals, two of them in individual competitions and one with the team.
  • The Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi , who had already won three gold medals in 1920, won a sensational five gold medals. His compatriot Ville Ritola also won four gold and two silver as a runner.

Worth mentioning

  • The games were given to Paris at the express request of Pierre de Coubertin - the favorites of the other IOC members were Amsterdam and Los Angeles. To avoid a scandal, the next two Summer Games were given to Amsterdam and Los Angeles as a compromise.
  • Founder of the Olympic Games and IOC President Coubertin experienced his "wishful games", wanted to forget the "shame" of 1900 and withdrew from active events after the Games as IOC Honorary President.
  • 1000 accredited journalists reported on the games.
  • In the years between 1912 and 1948, medals for artistic achievements in 18 areas were also awarded at seven Olympic Games. In 1924 there were the following award-winning art competitions : urban planning designs, sculpture / sculptures, painting and graphics and music (with the subdivisions into music of all kinds, singing compositions, compositions for one instrument and compositions for orchestra).
  • In athletics, there were seven world records despite the heat (up to 45 degrees on some days).
  • These were the last games with tennis as an Olympic sport until Seoul in 1988 .
  • The film The Winner's Hour (from 1981) focuses on the participation of Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell in the athletics competitions.

Competition program

126 competitions (115 for men, 10 for women and 1 mixed competition) in 17 sports / 23 disciplines were held. That was 30 competitions and 5 sports / 6 disciplines less than in Antwerp in 1920 . The changes are detailed below:

  • Archery (10 competitions) and tug of war has been removed from the Olympic program.
  • Women's fencing debut with single foil.
  • Hockey was dropped in Paris in 1924.
  • In athletics , the 3000 m walk and the throwing weight of the men were omitted.
  • In equestrian sport , the discipline of art riding (vaulting) has been removed from the program.
  • In freestyle wrestling , the two weight classes bantam and welterweight were added. In the Greco-Roman style , the bantamweight weight class was included in the program.
  • In rowing , the two and four without a helmsman were reintroduced for men.
  • In shooting , rapid fire pistols and small caliber rifles, lying 50 m for men, were again in the program - the individual and team competitions in the open air rifle 400, 600 and 800 m, small caliber rifle running deer 100 m single shot and small caliber rifle running stag 100 m double shot were added - however, the singles were missing - and team competitions in army pistol 30 m, free pistol 50 m, army rifle prone 300 m, army rifle standing 300 m, army rifle 600 m, small bore rifle standing 50 m and free rifle three-position fight 300 m - the army rifle lying down, 300 and 600 m team was also missing .
  • The swim program for women was expanded to include 100 m back and 200 m chest - the 400 m freestyle replaced the 300 m freestyle for women. The men's 400 m breaststroke swim was omitted.
  • In sailing , the open boat class Monotype was added in 1924 - on the other hand the open boat classes 6.5 m class, 7 m class, 10 m classes, 12 m classes, 12-foot dinghy and 18-foot were omitted -Dinghy.
  • In gymnastics , the program for men was expanded to include bars, pommel horse, horizontal bar, rings and jump - the pommel horse jump and rope swinging were also added. The free system and the Swedish system for men were discontinued.

Olympic sports / disciplines

Number of competitions in brackets

Time schedule

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1In water polo, the Olympic champion was initially determined in a tournament. Then the losers played in a "consolation round" for the silver and bronze medals.

Color legend

  • Opening ceremony
  • Competition day (no decisions)
  • Competition day (x decisions)
  • Competition day ("consolation round" (see Bergvall system ))
  • Closing ceremony

    • In addition, five art competitions in the fields of architecture, literature, music, painting and sculpture were held.

    Demonstration sports

    In addition to the official sports, the following Olympic demonstration sports were also on the program:

    Attendees

    Tele-     participating nations: Participation in previous Olympic Games for the first time
    
    
    Team strength

    44 nations took part in the games. It was the first time for China, Ecuador, Haiti, Ireland, Lithuania, the Philippines, Mexico and Uruguay. For Latvia and Poland it was the first summer games after they had already participated in the winter games in Chamonix in 1924. China withdrew the athletes after the opening ceremony. Nations that were losing war, such as Bulgaria , Austria , Turkey and Hungary , which were still excluded in 1920, were allowed to participate in contrast to the Weimar Republic . Since Germany had to fear that it would remain excluded in the future, the German fighting games were expanded accordingly as a replacement.

    Europe (2,461 athletes from 27 nations)
    America (528 athletes from 10 nations)
    Asia (33 athletes from 3 nations)
    Africa (63 athletes from 2 nations)
    Oceania (40 athletes from 2 nations)
    (Number of athletes) * Participation in summer games for the first time

    Venues

    • Venues for the 1924 Summer Olympics

    literature

    Web links

    Commons : 1924 Summer Olympics  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ a b page of the IOC on the 1924 Summer Olympics (English), accessed on September 27, 2012
    2. ^ Arnd Krüger : The Olympic Games of 1936 as Fifth German Combat Games , in: Roland Naul (Ed.): Contemporary Studies in the National Olympic Games Movement . (= Sport Sciences International Vol. 2). Frankfurt / M .: P. Lang 1997, pp. 153-175.
    3. ^ Allen Guttmann: The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games . University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago 1992, ISBN 0-252-01701-3 , pp. P. 38.