Nordic Games

The Nordic Games ( Nordiska Millionaire ) were sporting events in Sweden, which focused in the winter sports competitions. The games were of the " Swedish central organization for the promotion of sport" ( Sveriges Centralförening promote Idrottens främjande, SCFIF ) aligned under the leadership of Viktor Gustaf Balck and discharged 1901-1926 seven times.

• 2.1 End of the Nordic Games

Events

Sports

At the Nordic games in addition to the popular winter sports ski jumping, downhill skiing, cross-country skiing, Nordic Combined, Skeleton, ice sailing, skate sailing, speed skating, figure skating, hockey, curling, Bandy, dog sled races, kick sleds and sled were held even more contests. In addition to unusual winter sports like skeleton riding behind horses and skijoring behind reindeer also many sports were conducted, which do not fall into the winter sports area - next to the fencing and swimming and long-distance horse race Enköping to Stockholm (about 80 km ), various forms of military sports, horse chases, car races, motorcycle racing and ballooning ..

Venues

The games were held in Stockholm, lack of snow, the competitions were moved to Östersund (1907 and 1913). 1903 in Christiania ( today's Oslo ), which belonged at the time yet to Sweden, a Nordic winter sports week ( Nordisk Vinteridroesuge ) discharged, many of which are also referred to as the second Nordic Games. It is not known whether this was intended from the beginning as a one-off event - or whether the winter sports week was discontinued only because of the independence of Norway (1905 ).

World and European Championships

In the framework of the Nordic Games, many European and World Championships were held - this led to a further increase of the reputation of the Games.

World Figure Skating Championships - were originally scheduled for London, she moved shortly after the death of Queen Victoria ( January 1901 ) to Stockholm

World Figure Skating Championships

Framework Programme

In the environment of athletic competitions, a cultural program was organized.

History

The idea of Nordic Games was (, 1850-1909 since 1891 owner of the first chair of ophthalmology in Sweden) proposed in 1899 by the ophthalmologist Erik Johan Widmark and 1900, founded in 1897, " The Swedish Confederation for the promotion of sport" ( Sveriges Centralförening promote Idrottens främjande, SCFIF ) announced led by Victor Balck. After 1901, the Stockholm SCFIF planned the next Games in 1903 in Kristiana, now Oslo, which still belonged to Sweden at that time. Since the Norwegians, however, showed no interest, they agreed on the implementation of a Nordic winter sports week ( Nordisk Vinteridroesuge ) - By the independence of Norway in 1905 it remained a single execution of the winter sports week.

End of the Nordic Games

The end of the Nordic Games has several reasons, their respective influence is difficult to separate.

• Three months after the seventh Nordic Games 1926 has been declared International Semaine des sports d' hiver 1924 retrospectively to the first Olympic Winter Games on 6 May 1926.
• 1928 died at Viktor Balck the driving force behind the games
• In 1930 a reorganization of the Swedish sports system: The control of active sports (and therefore the Nordic games) went to the Sveriges Riksidrottsförbund, the SCFIF remained only the passive role of the conveyor.
• The eighth Nordic Games of 1930 had to be canceled at short notice due to acute lack of snow (even in Östersund ).

1933, decided to prepare for 1934 no games, because in the same year already the FIS competitions should be held in Sollefteå. After the request of a group of Swedish athletes to Sixtus Jansson, Bo Ekelund and Ernst Breberg to revive the Games in 1942, was rejected by the Swedish government, there were no further efforts to a new edition of the Games.