Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics

Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics featured seven events. The competitions were held from 11 to 14 August on a regatta course at Grünau on the Langer See.[1]

Rowing
at the Games of the XI Olympiad
VenueLanger See
Dates11–14 August 1936
Competitors313 from 24 nations
← 1932
1948 →

The competition was dominated by the hosts, Germany, who medaled in every event and took five of the seven gold medals. The final race, men's eights, was won by a working-class United States team from the University of Washington who, in what had become their trademark, started slow and outsprinted the competition to an exceedingly close finish, with only one second separating the top three finishers at the end of a six-and-a-half minute race.[2][3] This event is chronicled in The Boys in the Boat written by Daniel James Brown.

Medal summary

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Single sculls
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  Gustav Schäfer (GER)   Josef Hasenöhrl (AUT)   Dan Barrow (USA)
Double sculls
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  Jack Beresford
and Dick Southwood (GBR)
  Willi Kaidel
and Joachim Pirsch (GER)
  Roger Verey
and Jerzy Ustupski (POL)
Coxless pairs
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  Willi Eichhorn
and Hugo Strauß (GER)
  Harry Larsen
and Richard Olsen (DEN)
  Horacio Podestá
and Julio Curatella (ARG)
Coxed pair
details
  Germany (GER)
Gerhard Gustmann
Herbert Adamski
Dieter Arend
  Italy (ITA)
Almiro Bergamo
Guido Santin
Luciano Negrini
  France (FRA)
Marceau Fourcade
Georges Tapie
Noël Vandernotte
Coxless four
details
  Germany (GER)
Rudolf Eckstein
Anton Rom
Martin Karl
Wilhelm Menne
  Great Britain (GBR)
Martin Bristow
Alan Barrett
Peter Jackson
John Sturrock
  Switzerland (SUI)
Hermann Betschart
Hans Homberger
Alex Homberger
Karl Schmid
Coxed four
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  Germany (GER)
Hans Maier
Walter Volle
Ernst Gaber
Paul Söllner
Fritz Bauer
  Switzerland (SUI)
Hermann Betschart
Hans Homberger
Alex Homberger
Karl Schmid
Rolf Spring
  France (FRA)
Fernand Vandernotte
Marcel Vandernotte
Jean Cosmat
Marcel Chauvigné
Noël Vandernotte
Eight
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  United States (USA)
Herbert Morris
Charles Day
Gordon Adam
John White
James McMillin
George Hunt
Joe Rantz
Donald Hume
Robert Moch
  Italy (ITA)
Guglielmo Del Bimbo
Dino Barsotti
Oreste Grossi
Enzo Bartolini
Mario Checcacci
Dante Secchi
Ottorino Quaglierini
Enrico Garzelli
Cesare Milani
  Germany (GER)
Alfred Rieck
Helmut Radach
Hans Kuschke
Heinz Kaufmann
Gerd Völs
Werner Loeckle
Hans-Joachim Hannemann
Herbert Schmidt
Wilhelm Mahlow

Participating nations

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A total of 313 rowers from 24 nations competed at the Berlin Games:

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Germany (GER)5117
2  Great Britain (GBR)1102
3  United States (USA)1012
4  Italy (ITA)0202
5  Switzerland (SUI)0112
6  Austria (AUT)0101
  Denmark (DEN)0101
8  France (FRA)0022
9  Argentina (ARG)0011
  Poland (POL)0011
Totals (10 entries)77721

References

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  1. ^ "Rowing at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  2. ^ Michael J. Socolow, Six Minutes in Berlin Archived 23 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Slate.com. Published 23 July 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  3. ^ "The Rowing Team That Stunned the World". hereandnow. 4 July 2013. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.

Further reading

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  • Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics by Michael J. Socolow, 2016, University of Illinois Press