1940 Summer Olympics

Olympic Games

The 1940 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XII Olympiad, were planned as an international multi-sport event. They were initially scheduled for Tokyo, Japan, then rescheduled for Helsinki, Finland after the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. The Games were ultimately cancelled because of World War II, alongside the 1940 Winter Olympics in Sapporo.

Official name: Games of the XII Olympiad
Initial host city: Tokyo City, Japan
Outcome: Cancelled because of World War II

Sources and credits

Article: 1940 Summer Olympics (English Wikipedia)
Wikidata: Q8368
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Illustration: By Sanzō Wada. Public domain · File page on Wikimedia Commons
Sanzō Wada, The Organizing Committee of the XIIth Olympiad, Report of the Organizing Committee on its Work for the XIIth Olympic Games of 1940 in Tokyo until the Relinquishment, Tokio 1940, p. 114.
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