1928 Summer Olympics
The Summer Olympic Games in 1928 ( officially Games of the IX. Olympiad called ) found in the Amsterdam district Stadionbuurt ( Netherlands). The only other candidate city was Los Angeles (USA). Los Angeles got the Olympics four years later.
Highlights
- The main venue was the Olympic stadium of the Dutch architect Jan Wils in the style of the Amsterdam School.
- For the first time the Olympic flame was lit; also for the first time rose to pigeons.
- At the opening ceremony of the arrival of the athletes of Greece was led and completed by the team of the Netherlands. This sequence, Greece at the beginning and the host nation at the end, was part of the Olympic protocol.
Outstanding athletes
- Johnny Weissmuller, as Tarzan, the actor later made a career in Hollywood, won two gold medals in swimming.
- Paavo Nurmi won his last three Medals of twelve.
Worth mentioning
- For the first time women's competitions in athletics (100 m, 800 m, 4 x 100 m relay, high jump, discus throw ). It was attended by 101 athletes from some 18 nations, the largest teams presented the United States with 17 and Germany with 16 athletes.
- In the years 1912-1948 also medals for artistic achievements were awarded to 18 areas in seven Olympic Games. In 1928 there were the following award-winning art competitions: Architectural designs, urban planning designs, sculpture / sculptures, medals and plaques, paintings and prints, drawings and watercolors, other graphic arts, literature / poetry of any kind, Lyrical works and music ( with the subdivisions in music at Art, song compositions, compositions for an instrument and orchestral compositions ).
Competitions
The football and hockey games were discharged from May to June. All other competitions were held July 28 to August 12. There were 109 competitions in 14 sports played (number of competitions in parentheses):
Boxes ( 8) Fencing ( 7) Football ( 1) Weightlifting ( 5) Hockey ( 1) Athletics (27 ) Modern Pentathlon ( 1)
Cycling (6 ) - Web (4) - Road (2) Horse riding ( 6) - Dressage ( 2) - Jumping ( 2) - Versatility ( 2)
Rings ( 13) - Freestyle ( 7) - Greco-Roman (6 ) Rowing ( 7)
Swimming (16 ) - Swimming ( 11) - Water Polo ( 1) - Diving ( 4) Sailing ( 3) Gymnastics ( 8)
Furthermore, 13 art competitions were held. Demonstration sports were Jeu de Paume and korfball.
Participant
A total of 46 nations took part in the Summer Olympic Games in 1928. Germany took the first time since the Summer Olympics in 1912 in Stockholm again at the Olympics in part.
For Malta, Panama and Rhodesia it was the first participation in the Olympic Games.
- Egypt 1922 Egypt ( 32)
- Argentina Argentina ( 81)
- Australia (18 )
- Belgium Belgium (186 )
- Bulgaria 1908 Bulgaria ( 5)
- Chile Chile ( 38)
- Denmark Denmark ( 91)
- German Empire German Empire (296)
- Estonia Estonia ( 20)
- Finland Finland ( 69)
- France France (255 )
- Haiti 1807 Haiti ( 2)
- British India British India (21 )
- Ireland Ireland ( 27)
- Italy 1861 Italy ( 174)
- Japan Japan (43 )
- Canada 1921 Canada ( 69)
- Cuba Cuba ( 1)
- Latvia Latvia ( 14)
- Lithuania 1918 Lithuania ( 12)
- Luxembourg Luxembourg (46 )
- Malta 1923 Malta ( 9)
- Mexico 1918 Mexico (30 )
- Monaco Monaco ( 7)
- New Zealand New Zealand (10 )
- Netherlands Netherlands (264 )
- Norway Norway ( 52)
- Austria Austria (73 )
- Panama Panama ( 1)
- Philippines 1919 Philippines ( 4)
- Poland Poland ( 93)
- Portugal Portugal ( 31)
- Romania Romania Kingdom (29 )
- Sweden Sweden (100 )
- Switzerland Switzerland (133 )
- Spain 1875 Spain ( 80)
- South Africa Union of South Africa 1928 ( 24)
- Czechoslovakia 1920 Czechoslovakia (70 )
- Turkey Turkey ( 31)
- Hungary 1918 Hungary ( 109)
- Uruguay Uruguay ( 22)
- United States 48 United States (280 )
- United Kingdom United Kingdom (232 )