Idrottsmärke

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The Riksidrottsförbundets idrottsmärke , or Idrottsmärke for short, is a Swedish sports badge that was created in 1907 .

history

Emil Löfvenius from the board of directors of the Swedish National Association for Physical Exercise ( Riksidrottsförbundets ) founded an Idrotts-Märke in 1907 as a badge for athletic achievements. At first only men could acquire the Swedish sports badge; Women since 1916, male youth since 1919 and female youth since 1923.

The Idrottsmärke is awarded in bronze , silver and gold . The first time you are awarded the bronze level; Silver at the fourth award and gold from the eighth award or when completing the services over 32 years of age.

The sports functionary Carl Diem got to know the Idrottsmärke at the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 and used it as a template for the award for various achievements in the field of physical exercise - the predecessor of today's German sports badge .

Disciplines

The Swedish sports badge has been revised several times during its existence. The requirements in 1910 were as follows:

group Disciplines
1 200 m swimming , gymnastics
2 High jump , long jump
3 100/400/1500 m run
4th Fencing , javelin , discus , shot put
5 u. a. 10 km running, 1000 m swimming, 20 km cycling , participation in the finals in a district soccer tournament

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b A sports medal . In: Die Zeit , No. 39/1963
  2. ^ Almanack for ungdom . Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm 1906-1919, p. 153 (accessed March 8, 2019).
  3. ↑ Manfred Becht: The Olympics of the little man . In: Frankfurter Neue Presse . June 24, 2013. Archived from the original on August 22, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 3, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fnp.de
  4. ↑ Idrottsmärke . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 12 : Hyperemi-Johan . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1910, Sp. 363–365 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).