The Olympic Games of summer of 1920 , Plays of VIIe Olympiad of the modern era, were celebrated with Antwerp, in Belgium.

Organization

• Cities candidates: Amsterdam (Netherlands), Lyon (France), Atlanta, Cleveland, Philadelphia (the United States), Budapest (Hungary) and Havana (Cuba).
• Construction of the Stage of Beerschot, 35.000 spectators.
• the track of athletics is the work of Charles Perry, the first large world specialist in the tracks of athletics.

Striking facts

• Against the opinion of Pierre de Coubertin, the Germany, the Austria, the Hungary, the Turkey and the Bulgaria is excluded by the Steering Committee.

• First use of the Olympic flag, drawn in 1913 by Pierre de Coubertin.
• First Olympic oath pronounced by Victor Boin.
• the American Edward Eagan gains a gold medal in boxing. It will gain a gold medal in bobsleigh with four with the Winter Olympics of 1932. It is the only one to have made a success of this exploit.
• the distance from the steeple is definitively fixed at 3.000 Mr.

Hero of the plays

• the swimmer hawaïen Duke Kahanamoku gains the gold medals of the 100 meters freestyle (world records) and of the relay 4 X 200 meters (world records).

• the Frenchwoman Suzanne Lenglen, tennis, gains the gold medals into simple and double mixed, the bronze medal in female double.
• the Italian fencer Nedo Nadi gains the individual tests of foil and saber, the three tests by teams.
• American John Kelly gains, the same day, the gold medals of the skiff and the double-scullers.

Sports and disciplines

• Athletics, to see detailed results
• Oar, to see detailed results
• Boxing, to see detailed results
• Cycling, to see detailed results
• Horsemanship, to see detailed results
• Fencing, to see detailed results
• Football seeing detailed results
• Gymnastic, to see detailed results
• Haltérophilie, to see detailed results
• Field hockey, to see detailed results
• Hockey, to see detailed results
• Fight, to see detailed results
• Fight with the cord, to see detailed results
• Swimming, to see detailed results
• Figure skating, to see detailed results
• modern Pentathlon, to see detailed results
• Sports shirt, to see detailed results
• Rugby seeing detailed results
• Tennis, to see detailed results
• Shooting, to see detailed results
• Shooting with the cord, to see detailed results
• Shooting with the arc, to see detailed results
• Veil, to see detailed results
• Toilets sports shirt, to see detailed results

Participating delegations

29 delegations take part in the Plays of Antwerp, that is to say one moreover than in 1912. Consequence of the First World War, the Germany, the Austria, the Hungary, the Bulgaria and the Turkey are not invited. The Russians, become Soviet, refuse to take part in the “Plays of the small middle-class men”.

Among the new European states, only the Estonia while the Yugoslavia replaces Serbia and the Czechoslovakia replaces the Bohemian one. Moreover, it is the first participation for the Brésil, Monaco and the New Zealand (whose athletes aligned themselves until there with Australia).

Table of the medals

See too

• Olympic Games

• Olympic Games of summer

External bond

• the page of the Olympic Games of Antwerp on the official site of the CIO.

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Simple: 1920 Summer Olympics

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