Nordic Games

Nordic Games
Nordic Games
	First Nordic Games poster featuring telemark, 9–17 February 1901
Status	Cancelled
Genre	Sports event
Date(s)	Varying
Frequency	Biannual, every fourth year
Country	Sweden, Norway, Finland
Years active	1901–1926
Organised by	Swedish Central Association for the Promotion of Athletics

The Nordic Games were the first international multi-sport event that focused primarily on winter sports, and were held at varying intervals between 1901 and 1926. It was organized by Sweden's Swedish Central Association for the Promotion of Athletics,^[1] and more specifically by Viktor Balck, a member of that association and one of the five original members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It was, in many ways, a precursor to the modern Winter Olympic Games,^[2] whose success was a contributing factor (along with the social and economic turmoil following World War I) to the Nordic Games's discontinuation in the 1920s.^[1]

^ ^a ^b SCIF: "Nordiska spelen" Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine (in Swedish), retrieved 1 February 2015
^ Swedensport: " The Nordic Games " Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 1 February 2015