| Rowing at the Games of the XI Olympiad | |
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| Venue | Langer See |
| Dates | 11–14 August |
| Competitors | 313 from 24 nations |
Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics featured seven events, for men only. The competitions were held from 11 to 14 August on a regatta course at Grünau on the Langer See.[1]
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 | .svg.png){kind=small} Gustav Schäfer (GER) |  Josef Hasenöhrl (AUT) | .svg.png){kind=small} Dan Barrow (USA) |
| Double sculls |  Jack Beresfordand Dick Southwood (GBR) | Willi Kaidel and Joachim Pirsch (GER) | .svg.png){kind=small} Roger Vereyand Jerzy Ustupski (POL) |
| Coxless pairs | Willi Eichhorn and Hugo Strauß (GER) |  Harry Larsenand Richard Olsen (DEN) |  Horacio Podestáand Julio Curatella (ARG) |
| Coxed pair | Germany (GER) Gerhard Gustmann Herbert Adamski Dieter Arend | .svg.png){kind=small} Italy (ITA)Almiro Bergamo Guido Santin Luciano Negrini |  France (FRA)Marceau Fourcade Georges Tapie Noël Vandernotte |
| Coxless four | 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 | 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 | 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
A total of 313 rowers from 24 nations competed at the Berlin Games:
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany (GER) | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 2 | Great Britain (GBR) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | United States (USA) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 8 | France (FRA) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | Argentina (ARG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (10 nations) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 | |
References
- ^ "Rowing at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
- ^ Michael J. Socolow, Six Minutes in Berlin, Slate.com. Published 23 July 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
- ^ "The Rowing Team That Stunned the World". hereandnow. 4 July 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
Further reading
- Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics by Michael J. Socolow, 2016, University of Illinois Press