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Anno 2016 Riga
Olympic Encyclopedia
Official presentation of the book took place
in Doha on November 16, 2016
during ANOC General Assembly.
Publishing Credits
Publisher:
Latvian Olympic Committee
Elizabetes str. 49
Riga, LV-1010, Latvia
Project Management:
Aldons Vrublevskis, Genadijs Maricevs
Compilator and editor: Genadijs Maricevs
Art Director: Rauls Liepins
Design: “Al secco”
Layout: Kaspars Podskocijs
Dust boxes: “Etnica”
Not for commercial use.
No any part of this book could be reproduced in any form
without written permission of the Latvian Olympic Committee
and Genadijs Maricevs.
© Genadijs Maricevs
© Aldons Vrublevskis
© The International Olympic Committee (Photo)
© The Latvian Olympic Committee (Photo)
2016
Latvian Olympic Committee
Izdevniecības Nams Medols
ISBN 978-9934-8616-0-4 (1st Volume)
ISBN 978-9934-8616-1-1 (2nd Volume)
It is my great privilege to present to the
Olympic Family here in Doha this unique
edition of “Olympic Encyclopedia”.
Since it’s creation in 1894 the International Olympic Committee is constantly
developing and Olympic Movement turned
into the most widespread, influential and
progressive movement on the globe in the
21st century.
During these 120 years Olympic Movement has saved up unique experience
and information.
All this deserves and has to be transferred by Olympic Encyclopaedia to the future generations.
Olympic Encyclopaedia I am presenting now has been created in Latvia by the
team led by Olympic Historian Mr. Genadijs
Maricevs. He is collecting and researching
facts and figures from all aspects of Olympic Movement for more than 50 years.
IOC Olympic Studies Centre, more than
120 NOCs, archives of Olympic cities,
Olympic historians and a vast number of
other persons and institutions assisted to
our efforts by providing necessary information.
As a result you can see the first ever
printed edition of Olympic Encyclopaedia
on such level, published in English by the
Latvian Olympic Committee in 2016.
The basis of creation of Olympic Encyclopaedia is the Olympic Charter - the
main document of the Olympic Movement.
Names of chapters of the Olympic Encyclopedia are the same as names of chapters of the Olympic Charter.
The sources of information published
therein are official documents only.
You can find included in the Olympic Encyclopedia full data on the Olympic Movement and Olympic Games, IOC Presidents,
Members and sessions, IFs, NOCs and
their presidents, Olympic Order holders
and other outstanding people within to the
Movement as well as biographies, photos
and the results of all more than 130’000
Olympic athletes etc.
Printed Olympic Encyclopaedia could
easily be adapted by modern technologies
for electronic access on the internet, making it available for everybody worldwide.
I am confident that the existence of such
a serious universal edition as Olympic Encyclopedia is also relevant for the prestige
of IOC.
Ladies and gentlemen!
It is my great honour now to present first
copies specially made for IOC and ANOC
Presidents.
Dear President Bach – your personal copy
of the Olympic Encyclopedia!
Dear President Sheikh Ahmad – your personal copy directly from Latvia!
Aldons Vrublevskis
President
Latvian Olympic Committee
Doha, 15.11.2016.
Presentation of the Olympic Encyclopedia
in Doha on November 16, 2016.
ANOC General Assembly.
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Content
1st volume: An Olympism, the Olympic Movement, the International Olympic
Committee, the International sports federations, National Olympic
Committees, the Olympic Games (more than 1,500 detailed articles),
already published in 2016. ISBN 978-9934-8616-0-4;
2nd volume: Persons of the Olympic Movement (more than 4,500 biographies of
members of the International Olympic Committee, possessors of the
Olympic Order, presidents of the International sports federations,
presidents of the National Olympic Committees, presidents of the
organizing committees, other persons who rendered services to
the Olympic Movement – architects of Olympic venues, authors of
the Olympic movies and songs, etc.), already published in 2016.
ISBN 978-9934-8616-1-1;
3rd volume: The Olympic Games of 1896-1948 (the recovered detailed results of the
Olympic Games), April 2016;
4th volume: The Olympic Games of 1948-1968 (the recovered detailed results of
the Olympic Games), October 2016;
5th volume: The Olympic Games of 1972-1996 (the recovered detailed results of
the Olympic Games);
6th volume: The Olympic Games of 2000-2018 (the recovered detailed results of
the Olympic Games);
7–12 volumes: Participants of the Olympic Games (the detailed Olympic biographies of
more than 120 thousand athletes participating in the Olympic Games
1896-2018).
“I would like to congratulate
you on your initiative for
the Olympic Encyclopedia”
Dr. Thomas Bach,
President of the International Olympic Committee
“Lovely and very useful book.
Titanic work”
H.E. Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah,
President of the Association
of National Olympic Committees
You can obtain 1st and 2nd volumes
of the “Olympic Encyclopedia”
Please, contact with Latvian Olympic Committee
by e-mail [email protected]
You can subscribe for all 12-volume edition
of the “Olympic Encyclopedia”.
Please, contact with Latvian Olympic Committee
by e-mail [email protected]
With creation of the Olympic Encyclopedia
the International Olympic Movement
has risen in a row
such the most prestigious edition
as Britannica
The Olympic encyclopedia isn’t the commercial edition.
Our task – to refund the expenses which are carried out
on its creation and the publication.