The first European Maccabi Games, a regional sports festival affiliated with the world-wide Maccabian games that are held every four years in Israel, opened here today. About 300 men and women are to participate in the games, in addition to a guest group from Israel.
Represented among the European sports groups here are Jewish sports clubs from Belgium, Great Britain, Finland, France, Holland, Eire, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria and Denmark. Among the events scheduled to be run in all the leading stadia in this area will be competitions in track, lawn tennis, football, hand ball, weight-lifting, and wrestling. Competitions will be held also in swimming and water polo.
The games were organized by the Copenhagen Bar Kochba Club, a Jewish organization, with the help of other leading sports organizations in this country. Sports authorities here consider the games the largest sports festival ever held in Copenhagen.
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