The 1937 Workers' Winter Olympiad was the fifth edition of

International Workers' Olympiads International Workers' Olympiads were an international sporting event arranged between 1925 and 1937 by Socialist Workers' Sport International (SASI). It was an organisation supported by social democratic parties and International Federation of Tra ...

. The games were held from February 18 to February 21 at the

Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca ...

n town of

Janské Lázně Janské Lázně (; ) is a spa town in Trutnov District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 700 inhabitants. It lies in the Giant Mountains and in addition to the spa, it is known as a centre of winter sports. Etymolo ...

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Sports

Alpine skiing Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel Ski binding, bindings, unlike other types of skiing (Cross-country skiing, cross-country, Telemark skiing, Telemark, or ski jumping) ...

Nordic skiing Nordic skiing encompasses the various types of skiing in which the toe of the ski boot is fixed to the binding in a manner that allows the heel to rise off the ski, unlike alpine skiing, where the boot is attached to the ski from toe to heel. Re ...

Figure skating Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, with its introduction occurring at the Figure skating at the 1908 Summer Olympi ...

Participating countries

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Nordic skiing

Men's 15 km cross-country skiing

Men's 30 km cross-country skiing

Men's patrol race

Women's 6 km cross-country skiing

Women's patrol race

Men's ski jumping

Men's Nordic combined

Alpine skiing

Men's downhill

Men's slalom

Women's downhill

Women's slalom

Speed skating

The races were cancelled due to mild weather in Trautenau (

Trutnov Trutnov (; ) is a town in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 30,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an urban monument zone. Administrative division Trutnov consists of 21 ...

), where the races should have been held.

Figure skating

References

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