26 German cig. cards 1936 Berlin Olympics & scenes of earlier games, issued 1936

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Offered here are 26 German cigarette cards of the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics and scenes/events from previous Olympic Games (1900, 1904, etc.). The pictures were issued in 1936 by Reemtsma Cigarette Co. for the two-volume album
Olympiade 1936
(The Olympic Games of 1936) and are from Group 54 of Album I. Pictured here are:
No. 172:
Avery Brundage, Head of the American Olympic Association.
No. 173:
J. Sigfrid Edström, Head of the Swedish Olympic Committee.
No. 174:
Stephan G. Tschapraschikov, Honorary President of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee.
No. 175:
M. Armand Massard, President of the French Olympic Committee.
No. 171:
Preparation for the Olympic Games in Participating Nations. Here we see a shooting competition with small-caliber rifles at a tournament in the Alexander Palace in London.
No. 154:
Toni Merkens of the city of Cologne is the best German bicyclist and world champion.
No. 153:
Mack (Switzerland), the multiple world champion in gymnastics is shown here in his classic position on the horse.
No. 152:
World Champion Ernst Winter, the excellent German gymnast, is shown here dismounting from the parallel bars.
No. 149:
Gottschalk, a German middleweight weight lifter from the city of Essen is a pupil of the Olympic Champion Rudolf Ismayr.
No. 144:
A scene from a polo match, the wonderful game played on horseback, was reinstated as a sport at the 1936 Olympics.
No. 138:
Indian field hockey players in the Olympic Village at the Los Angeles games in 1932.
No. 133:
Lovelock of New Zeland is among the best 1,500-meter runners in the world. He won the 1935 “Mile of the Century”.
No. 116:
The Greek Spyridon Loues, victor of the first marathon race in Athens in 1896, ran the final leg of the run to bring the Olympic torch to the games in 1936.
No. 108:
An advertising poster for the XI Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936.
No. 107:
A German advertising poster for the IV. Winter Olympic Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
No. 99:
The Olympic Village in Los Angeles was a model for future such Olympic villages. The Los Angeles village gave male competitors the opportunity to find refuge from the noise and crowds at the Games.
No. 98:
At the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1932 the Marathon Race had spectators lining the street in great numbers. Here we see the eventual winner, Zabala of Argentina, running past a group of Japanese youths.
No. 97:
The Amsterdam Olympic Games in 1928. The three long-distance giants, Ritola, Nurmi and Wide, are shown here in a tight 10,000-meter race. Only in the last turn did Nurmi pass Ritola for good.
No. 96:
At the Amsterdam Olympics in 1928 the Dutch soccer star Harry Denis takes the Olympic Oath at the flag of his country before representatives of the Olympic nations.
No. 95:
The Paris Olympics of 1924. Geo Andre takes the Olympic Oath surrounded by flags of participating nations.
No. 94:
The Antwerp Olympic Games of 1920. The participating nations march into the Olympic stadium with their nations’ flags.
No. 93:
The Stockholm Olympics of 1912. The entrance of the Swedish gymnasts before the Swedish Royal Family in the Olympic Stadium, constructed in the Gothic style with granite and brick.
No. 92:
The London Olympics of 1908. The Italian Dorando collapsed a short distance before the finish line during the marathon event. However, he was helped over the finish line by his supporters and was therefore later disqualified.
No. 91:
The magnificent Olympic Stadium in Athens, a gift of the Greek philanthropist Averof, cost some 1,000,000 Drachmas. It once again became the location of Olympic events in 1906.
No. 90:
The Olympic Games in St. Louis in 1904. The most successful non-American participant in these games was the German swimmer C. Rausch, who won the ½ mile and 1 mile events.
No. 89:
The Paris Olympics of 1900. The Olympic Games were carried out on the sports field of the Racing Club of France in a small forest in Boulogne, France. The 500-meter track was covered with sod; and the few spectators there had a difficult view of the track because of the many trees blocking their view.
Each card measures 4 and ¾ inches by 3 and 1/8 inches.
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