Olympic Cup

The Olympic Cup (French: Coupe olympique) is an award given annually by the International Olympic Committee.

It was instituted by Pierre de Coubertin in 1906 and is awarded to an institution or association with a record of merit and integrity in actively developing the Olympic Movement.

Its recipients have included amateur sports clubs, schools, newspapers and national sporting administrations, though it is primarily awarded to groups connected with the organization of the Olympic Games.

Recipients of the Olympic Cup

1906 — Touring Club de France

1907 — Henley Royal Regatta

1908 — Swedish Central Association for the Promotion of Sports

1909 — German Gymnastics

1910 — The Sokol movement

1911 — Touring Club Italiano

1912 — Union of Gymnastics Societies of France

1913 — Hungarian Athletic Club

1914 — Amateur Athletic Union of America

1915 — Rugby School

1916 — Confrérie Saint-Michel de Gand

1917 — Dutch Football Association

1918 — Sports Teams of the Allied Front

1919 — Olympic Institute of Lausanne

1920 — Y.M.C.A. International College, Springfield

1921 — Danish Sports Federation

1922 — Amateur Athletic Union of Canada

1923 — Sports Association of Catalonia

1924 — Athletic and Gymnastic Federation of Finland

1925 — National Physical Education Committee of Uruguay

1926 — Norwegian Skiing Federation

1927 — Colonel Robert M. Thomson

1928 — Junta Nacional Mexicana

1929 — YMCA World Committee

1930 — Swiss Football and Athletic Association

1931 — National Playing Fields Association, Great Britain

1932 — German College of Physical Education

1933 — Swiss Federal Society of Gymnastics

1934 — Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro

1935 — National Recreation and Park Association

1936 — Hellenic Amateur Athletic Association

1937 — Austrian Skating Union

1938 — Royal Academy of Physical Education of Hungary

1939 — Strength through Joy

1940 — Swedish Gymnastics

1941 — Finnish Olympic Committee

1942 — William May Garland

1943 — Argentine Olympic Committee

1944 — City of Lausanne

1945 — Norwegian Athletics Association

1946 — Olympic Committee of Colombia

1947 — J. Sigfrid Edström, President of the IOC

1948 — Central Council of Physical Recreation

1949 — Fluminense Football Club

1950 — Belgian Olympic Committee

1950 — New Zealand Olympic and British Empire Games Association

1951 — Académie des Sports, Paris

1952 — City of Oslo

1953 — City of Helsinki

1954 — Federal School of Gymnastics and Sports of Switzerland

1955 — Organizing Committee of the 1954 Central American and Caribbean Games

1955 — Organizing Committee of the 1955 Pan American Games

1956 — No award

1957 — Silent Sports Federation of Italy

1958 — No award

1959 — Panathlon Italiano, Genoa

1960 — Italian University Sports Centre

1961 — Helms Hall Foundation, Los Angeles

1962 — Organizing Committee of the 1961 Bolivarian Games

1963 — Australian British Empire and Commonwealth Games Association

1964 — Southern Californian Committee for the Olympic Games, Los Angeles

1965 — City of Tokyo

1966 — International Committee of Silent Sports

1967 — Bolivarian Games

1968 — People of Mexico City

1969 — Polish Olympic Committee

1970 — Organizing Committee of the 1966 and 1970 Asian Games

1971 — Organizing Committee of the 1971 Pan American Games

1972 — Turkish Olympic Committee

1972 — City of Sapporo

1973 — People of Munich

1974 — Bulgarian Olympic Committee

1975 — Italian National Olympic Committee

1976 — Czechoslovakian Physical Culture and Sports Federation

1977 — Olympic Committee of Ivory Coast

1978 — Hellenic Olympic Committee