From the history of world sports (1905-1936)

The start of a race in France in the first decade of the 20th century, cyclists ride next to runners.

The winner finishes.

The winner is awarded and honored.

Steeplechase.

Pole vault.

Race walking competition.

The winner after the finish with his coach.

Boxing competition in an open ring.

Roller skating in a skating ring.

Members of a cycling club ride around a flowerbed, one of them falls.

Participants of the Tour de France cycling race on the track in 1903, a car with judges drives by.

Ceremonial meeting of the winner of the race Maurice Garin.

A girl does gymnastics.

French runners on the stadium track.

Women's tennis competition.

View of the tennis court during the men's tennis competition.

Episodes of football matches.

View of the stadium during a rugby match (top).

Fragments of hockey matches.

A baseball game in the USA, faces of the players and fans.

View of one of the stadium stands (top).

Running competitions, runners on the tracks.

A weightlifter presses the barbell.

Participants of the 1923 Tour de France cycling race finish.

The face of the winner of the cycling race Henri Pelissier.

Faces of the participants of the race who took second and third places.

View of the Tour de France track in 1934, fans on both sides of the track welcome the participants.

Antonin Manet starts.

Faces of the starting participants of the cycling race.

The winner of the 1938 cycling race Gino Bartali on the track.

Participants of the cycling race on various sections of the track, in populated areas and in the mountains.

Fans at the finish line welcome the winner from the stands.

Bartali with a bouquet of flowers makes a lap of honor around the stadium.

Boxing competitions.

Faces of French boxers.

The beginning of another round, episodes of the fight.

A knocked out boxer is unable to get up, his opponent helps him.

Participants in a mass swim jump into the water.

American swimmer Johnny Weissmuller during training.

The face of African American runner Jesse Owens.

Owens wins another race during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

Slalom skiers on the track.

Fragments of a friendly football match between the teams of Berlin and Kharkov in the 1920s.

The German goalkeeper catches balls, misses one.

The Berlin goalkeeper gets the ball out of the net.

A pair of figure skaters on the ice.

Winter swimming in an ice hole.

Football players of Moscow Spartak on the field before the start of the match of the USSR championship of 1936. The face of the team captain A.P. Starostin greets the referee and the captain of the Moscow Dynamo team.

View of a part of the stands of the Dynamo stadium.

Fragments of the match.

A goal against Dynamo.

Fans in the stands.

The football players pass the ball, the goalkeeper catches it.

A goal against Dynamo.

Tug-of-war competitions, pole vaulting.

Performing mass gymnastics exercises at the stadium.

Start of the running competition.

Faces of the fans.

High jump.

Finish of the running competition, fans in the stands applauding.

Balloonists in the gondola of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper balloon before takeoff in December 1928. View of the balloon.

Balloonists in the gondola of the balloon.