Sweden
Tug-of-war (Dragkamp) is known in Sweden from ancient history. It was also a favorite of the public in Sweden, during the Summer Olympic Games 1912 in Stockholm, where the Swedish team won the first Olympic old Medal for Sweden in a team sport.
Tug-of-war in those early days was part of the athletic sports, after the tug-of-war sport was taken away from the Olympic program in 1920; the national athletic sport organizations neglected the tug-of-war of war sport.
The initiative to form the Svenska Dragkampförbundet was taken on 13th June 1933 in Stockholm and was the association was formed on 27th September. Its first task was to decide on uniform regulations for competitions. At that time the pullers in Sweden remained standing in their, previous made, holes during the pull. Result was determined according to a points system. In those days the teams were mostly from clubs of companies and factories in Sweden. In 1958 Swedish Tug-of-war Association affiliated to the Swedish Confederation of Sports, which assisted the association in their further growth and development.
