1931 Summer Deaflympics

The 1931 Summer Deaflympics (German: Sommer-Deaflympics 1931) officially known as the 3rd Summer Deaflympics (German: 3. Sommer Deaflympics) (3rd International Silent Games) (German: (3. Internationale Stille Spiele)) was an international multi-sport event that was held from 19 August 1931 to 23 August 1931. It was hosted by Nürnberg, Germany.

3rd Summer Deaflympics

Host city	Nürnberg,  Germany
Nations	14 countries
Athletes	316 athletes
Events	43 (7 disciplines)
Opening	19 August 1931
Closing	23 August 1931
Opened by	Paul von Hindenburg
Summer
← Amsterdam 1928 London 1935 →

The 3rd Summer Deaflympics Games were originally scheduled to be held from 31 August to 11 September 1932 in Los Angeles, but was decided to host it in 1931 due to the schedule of 1932 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Participating countries

The countries who participated in the games were:^[2]

• Austria
• Belgium
• Czechoslovakia
• Denmark
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Great Britain
• Hungary
• Italy
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Sweden
• Switzerland

Poland were not allowed to participate at the Games due to Germany's conflict with Poland during the Nazi rule at that time as the Games held in Germany.^[3]

Sports

The following events were included in the 1931 Deaflympics:

Individual sports

• Athletics ^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]}
• Road cycling^[26]
• Diving^[27]
• Shooting^[28]
• Swimming^{[29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]}
• Tennis^{[40][41][42][43]}

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Team sports

• Football^[45]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Germany)

1931 Summer Deaflympics medal table

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)*	14	12	7	33
2	Denmark (DEN)	10	2	4	16
3	France (FRA)	5	8	7	20
4	Sweden (SWE)	4	3	0	7
5	Belgium (BEL)	3	1	3	7
6	Finland (FIN)	2	5	2	9
7	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	0	3
8	Norway (NOR)	1	1	2	4
9	Italy (ITA)	1	1	0	2
10	Austria (AUT)	0	4	4	8
11	Great Britain (GBR)	0	2	7	9
12	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	2	1	3
13	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	0	0
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	0	0
Totals (14 entries)		42	42	37	121

Results

Athletics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men 100m[4]	Louis Fruerlund  Denmark	Paul Reinmund  France	Cyril Reynolds  Great Britain
Women 100m[5]	Aina Kjellin  Sweden	Lotze Grete  Germany	Elisabeth Salzmann  Germany
Men 200m[6]	Louis Fruerlund  Denmark	Paul Reinmund  France	Cyril Reynolds  Great Britain
Men 400m[7]	Louis Fruerlund  Denmark	Gerhard Dammann  Germany	Matti Kattainen  Finland
Men 800m[8]	Tage Christensen  Denmark	Paavo Valtari  Finland	Robert Bouscarat  France
Men 1500m[34]	Tage Christensen  Denmark	Robert Bouscarat  France	Karl Rohrig  Germany
Men 5000m[9]	Niels Jeul Knudsen  Denmark	Matti Mölsä  Finland	Toivo Ala-Kilpoinen  Finland
Men 10000m[10]	Matti Mölsä  Finland	Östen Ericksson  Sweden	Niels Jeul Knudsen  Denmark
Men 110m Hurdles[11]	Fritz Kraemer  Germany	Rudolf Taubert  Germany	Adrien Ruelland  France
Men 400m Hurdles[12]	Fritz Kraemer  Germany	Adrien Ruelland  France	Charles Hudson  Great Britain
Men 4 × 100 m Relay[22]	Denmark (DEN) Tage Christensen Louis Fruerlund Gunnar Madsen Hans Nissen [a]
Women 4x100 Relay[23]	Germany (GER) Minna Jung Grete Lobinger Grete Lotze Elisabeth Salzmann	Austria (AUT) Frida Horwath Rosa Jaffe Maria Pitamitz Elisabeth Schlemmer[b]
Men 4 × 400 m Relay[24]	Denmark (DEN) Tage Christensen Louis Fruerlund Gunnar Madsen Hans Erik Tvilum	Finland (FIN) Toivo Ala-Kilpoinen Matti Kattainen Valentin Kaurela Herman Wikberg	France (FRA) Raymond Pagny Charles Rainerie Adrien Ruelland Marcel Vincent
Men Olympic Relay [25]	Denmark (DEN) Tage Christensen Louis Fruerlund Gunnar Madsen Hans Nissen	France (FRA) Robert Bouscarat Leon Pertsowsky Paul Reinmund Marcel Vincent	Finland (FIN) Toivo Ala-Kilpoinen Matti Kattainen Valentin Kaurela Herman Wikberg
Men High Jump[13]	Hans Nissen  Denmark	Valentin Kaurela  Finland	Hans Erik Tvilum  Denmark
Women High Jump[14]	Grete Lotze  Germany	Mina Jung  Germany	Frida Horwath  Austria
Men Pole Vault[15]	Arvid Rǿstad  Norway	Gunnar Madsen  Denmark	Hans Nissen  Denmark
Men Long Jump[16]	Paul Reinmund  France	Hans Nissen  Denmark	Arvid Rǿstad  Norway
Women Long Jump[17]	Rosalie Plomann  Germany	Mina Jung  Germany	Mathilde Horky  Austria
Men Shot Put[18]	Valentin Kaurela  Finland	Nils Rahmn  Sweden	Louis Stephan  France
Women Shot Put[19]	Aina Kjellin  Sweden	Elisabeth Schlemmer  Austria	Ida Stadler  Austria
Men Discus Throw[20]	Nils Rahmn  Sweden	Wilhelm Westling  Sweden	Hans Nissen  Denmark
Men Javelin Throw[21]	Wilhelm Westling  Sweden	Herman Wikberg  Finland	Carl O. Hansen  Denmark

Cycling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Road Men Individual Road Race[26]	Cermesoni[c]  Italy	Mongiam[d]  Italy	Paul Boussin  France

Diving

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men Diving 3m springboard[27]	Otto Laubner  Germany	Kurt Sachsenweger  Germany	Karl Kaudel  Austria

Football

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men Football[45]	Germany (GER) Andreas Beck Johann Brinkmann Hans Eckert Otto Huppach Wilhelm Kohler Fritz Lochner Hermann Mittelmann Hans Philberth Paul Schneider Konrad Sonntag Hans Stachl Michael Strigl Fritz Truger Otto Wach	Austria (AUT) Rudolf Bauer Berthold Brecher Franz Figl Rudolf First Alois Gally Alfred Kafka Rudolf Kafka Elias Kestenbaum Samuel Kestenbaum Leopold Komenda Moritz Lindenheim Johann Maibock Eduard Marik Otto Merhaut Ignatz Nidetzky Paul Pauser Otto Weiss Fritz Wurmhoringer Hans Zinnauer	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Richard Crhan Bohumil (Bohuslav) Duhek Frantisek Eichler Ladislav Gmunt Frantisek Hornof Josef Janovsky Prokop Lukes Stanislav Mandelicek Leo Patejdl Eduard Pellant Karel Pucherna Jaroslav (Jaroslas) Slansky Jan Sorjka Karel Sommer Karel Svetlik Vaclav Tancibudek Jiri (Georg) Tichy Rudolf Umlauf Rostislav Vanek Josef Vokurka

Shooting

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men shooting small bore rifle 3 positions[28]	Fernand Chante  France	Hans Zerbst  Germany	Oscar Spiess  Germany

Swimming

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men 100m Freestyle[29]	Emile Talmone  France	Herbert Emil Reuschke  Germany	Kurt Weiss  Germany
Women 100m Freestyle[30]	Vilma-Rozsa Wilhelmine Krassner  Hungary	Gizella Unghvary  Hungary	Hannel Rolle  Germany
Men 400m Freestyle[31]	Kurt Weiss  Germany	Charles Grant  Great Britain	Reidar Munthe Iversen  Norway
Men 1500m Freestyle[32]	Kurt Weiss  Germany	Reidar Munthe Iversen  Norway	Charles Grant  Great Britain
Men 100m Backstroke[33]	Wilhelm Bruno Gustav Gehring  Germany	Rudolf Tauberg  Germany	Emile Talmone  France
Women 100m Backstroke[35]	Gizella Unghvary  Hungary	Vilma-Rozsa Wilhelmine Krassner  Hungary	Hannel Rolle  Germany
Men 100m Breastsroke[36]	Wilhelm Seitz  Germany	Erich Hermann Karl Salzmann  Germany	John Stuart Burge  Great Britain
Men 200m Breaststroke[46]	Erich Hermann Karl Salzmann  Germany	Wilhelm Seitz  Germany	John Stuart Burge  Great Britain
Women 200m Breaststroke[37]	Gizella Unghvary  Hungary	Anna Salzmann  Germany	Hannel Rolle  Germany
Men 4 × 100 m freestyle relay[38]	Germany (GER) Wilhelm Bruno Gustav Gehring Kurt Güldner Herbert Emil Reuschke Kurt Weiss [e]
Men 3x100m freestyle medley[39]	Germany (GER) Wilhelm Bruno Gustav Gehring Herbert Emil Reuschke Wilhelm Seitz [f]

Tennis

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men Tennis Singles[40]	Charles Boisselot  France	Pierre Rincheval  France	Antoine Dresse  Belgium
Women Tennis Singles[41]	Antonine Maere  Belgium	Germaine Hamy-Maere  Belgium	Helene Haardt  France
Men Tennis Doubles[42]	France (FRA) Andre Petry Pierre Rincheval	Great Britain (GBR) Owen Bevan Maxwell Arthur Norman Pett	Belgium (BEL) Antoine Dresse Raymond van Hoecke
Women Tennis Doubles[43]	Belgium (BEL) Germaine Hamy-Maere Antonine Maere	France (FRA) Helene Haardt Simone Kahn	Great Britain (GBR) Lenore Dawson Elsie May Mountain
Mixed Tennis Doubles[44]	Belgium (BEL) Antoine Dresse Antonine Maere	France (FRA) Charles Boisselot Helene Haardt	Belgium (BEL) Germaine Hamy-Maere Raymond van Hoecke

Notes

1. Denmark was the only country who participated in this event
2. Only Germany and Austria participated in this event.
3. The first name of this participant is not recorded.
4. The first name of this participant is not recorded.
5. Germany was the only country who participated in this event
6. Germany was the only country who participated in this event

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Preceded by 1928 II Amsterdam, Netherlands

1931 Summer Deaflympics III Nürnberg, Germany

Succeeded by 1935 XI London, England