Good Morning America! 2023 ISOH General Assembly in Colorado Springs
Beautiful autumnal sunshine accompanied the ISOH General Assembly in Colorado Springs over the weekend of 6 to 8 October. It was the first time in our history that a full, stand-alone General Assembly (GA) […]
ISOH founder member Peter Matthews passes away
We are saddened to announce the passing of ISOH founder member Peter Matthews, who has died aged 78. He was one of the most respected historians of athletics and Olympic sport. Best known for his work in chronicling athletics, […]
Prof. Dr. Ingomar Weiler Wins 2023 ISOH Lifetime Award
The International Society of Olympic Historians proudly announces the recipient of the ISOH Lifetime Award for 2023: Prof. Dr. Ingomar Weiler. This prestigious award recognizes Mr. Weiler’s exceptional contributions to the Olympic […]
ISOH member wins best book prize 2023 at inaugural Olympic & Sports Literature Festival
ISOH Secretary General Markus Osterwalder’s two-volume history, Olympic Games – The Design, has won first prize as the best book in the inaugural AICO Festival of Olympic and Sports Literature. The competition was held during […]
New Translations of De Coubertin Memoirs
This week, new translations of de Coubertin’s Olympic memoirs are being published in Swahili and Hindi by the International Pierre de Coubertin Committee (IPCC). This was a group founded in January 1975 to “perpetuate the entire intellectual work of Pierre de Coubertin and “spread his […]
Olympic Museum in Lausanne Celebrates 30 Years
The Olympic Museum in Lausanne has celebrated the 30th anniversary of its opening with a special exhibition and other events held in the museum precincts. Visitors were invited to hit an anniversary piñata in the presence of Olympians, […]
Olympic Day is Celebrated
Olympic Day has been celebrated for the 75th year. It was in 1948 that the International Olympic Committee decided to formally adopt a “World Olympic Day at their session in St Moritz. It was decided that it should take place as close as possible to June 23, the day on which Baron Pierre de Coubertin proposed the revival […]
Ben Helfgott Obituary
On 16 June 2023, Ben Helfgott, a two-time Olympic weightlifter. died at the age of 93. Jewish, he was born in Poland 22 November 1929. Between 1942, when Ben was 12 years old, and 1945, Germans and Poles killed 24 of 28 members of his extended family, including both his parents and one of his two sisters. […]
Much Wenlock remembers Harold Langley
The Wenlock Olympian Society (WOS) is to honour Harold Langley who won the pentathlon at the 1923 Wenlock Games and finished fourth in the triple jump at the Paris 1924 Olympics. The medals presented to competitors at the Games this year are replicas of those awarded in 1923 when […]
The Journal of Olympic History is now accessible to all
For more than 30 years, the Journal of Olympic History (JOH) has been publishing insights into Olympic history, curiosities about Olympic sport, its athletes, and organisers. Counting on the contribution of our valued members and Olympic historians from all corners […]