Admission ticket (athletics)

Category: Printed matter

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Year of prod.: 1952

Object number: 0:480:016

Manuf. and place of prod.: Banknote printing house of the Bank of Finland

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Method of prod.: printed

Material: banknote paper

Measurements: height 8.8 cm; width 11.1 cm

Description: Grey. The text: XV OLYMPIA HELSINKI 1952. Date: 26 VII 1952. Section: F 43. Number 1467. IV lk. [IV class] Picture: discus thrower.

Other information: Ticket to the track and field competitions in the Olympic Stadium on 26 July (on standing bleachers). There were four finals in the program of the day: men’s 1,500 metres (won by Joseph Barthel of Luxembourg), the decathlon (Bob Mathias, USA), women’s 200 metres (Marjorie Jackson, Australia) and women’s shot put (Galina Zybina, USSR).

A total of 1,376,512 admission tickets were sold for the Helsinki Olympic Games.