BERLIN 1936
The Games of the XI Summer Olympiad. August 1-16, 1936. Berlin, Germany.
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MEN
100 m
Heat 12
1.Jesse Owens (USA) (qualified for Quarterfinals)
2.Kichizo Sasaki (Japan) (qualified for Quarterfinals)
3.Jose de Almeida (Brazil)
1.Jesse Owens (USA)
NQF (6 in Quarterfinal Heat 3).Kichizo Sasaki (Japan)
200 m
1.Jesse Owens (USA)
1500 m
1.Jack Lovelock (New Zealand)
5000 m
1.Gunnar Hockert (Finland)
4 x 100 m
1.USA (Jesse Owens)
3.Germany (Erich Borchmeyer)
4 x 400 m
3.Germany (Rudolf Harbig)
Marathon
1.Son Kitei (Japan)
Long jump
1.Jesse Owens (USA)
Pole vault
1.Earle
Meadows (USA)
Shot put
1.Hans Woellke (Germany)
3.Gerhard Stock (Germany)
Javelin throw
1.Gerhard Stock (Germany)
Decathlon
1.Glenn Morris (USA)
WOMEN
100 m
2.Stanislawa Walasiewicz (Poland)
4 x 100 m
1.USA (Betty Robinson)
Discus throw
1.Gisela Mauermayer (Germany)
1.USA
175 lb
1.Roger Michelot (France)
175+ lb
1.Herbert Runge (Germany)
ROAD
Individual road race
1.Robert Charpentier (France)
Team road race
1.France (Robert Charpentier)
TRACK
Team pursuit
1.France (Robert Charpentier)
WOMEN
3 m springboard
1.Marjorie Gestring (USA)
Team eventing
2.Poland
MEN
Individual foil
1.Guilio Gaudini (Italy)
Team foil
1.Italy (Guilio Gaudini)
Team epee
1.Italy (Edoardo Mangiarotti)
Individual sabre
3.Aladar Gerevich (Hungary)
Team sabre
1.Hungary (Pal Kovacs, Tibor Berczelly, Aladar Gerevich, Laszlo Rajcsanyi)
2.Italy (Guilio Gaudini)
WOMEN
Individual foil
2.Helene Mayer (Germany)
3.Ellen Muller-Preis (Austria)
1.India (Dhyan Chand)
Quarterfinal
Germany - Norway 0:2
(Henry Johansen, Nils Eriksen, Oivind Holmsen, Frithjof Ulleberg, Jorgen Juve, Rolf Holmberg, Odd Frantzen, Reidar Kvammen, Alf Martinsen, Magnar Isaksen, Arne Brustad (Norway))
1.Italy (Alfredo Foni, Pietro Rava, Ugo Locatelli)
3.Norway (Henry Johansen, Nils Eriksen, Oivind Holmsen, Frithjof Ulleberg, Jorgen Juve, Rolf Holmberg, Odd Frantzen, Reidar Kvammen, Alf Martinsen, Magnar Isaksen, Arne Brustad)
5-8.Germany
MEN
Team all-around
1.Germany (Matthias
Volz)
2.Switzerland (Georges Miez, Michael
Reusch)
3.Finland (Aleksanteri Saarvala)
Floor exercise
1.Georges Miez (Switzerland)
Horizontal bar
1.Aleksanteri Saarvala (Finland)
Parallel bars
2.Michael
Reusch (Switzerland)
Rings
1.Alois Hudec (Czechoslovakia)
2.Leon Stukelj (Yugoslavia)
3.Matthias Volz (Germany)
Vault
3.Matthias
Volz (Germany)
1.Argentina (Juan Nelson (reserve))
Double sculls
1.Jack Beresford / Dick Southwood (Great Britain)
8 Metre
2.Silja (Norway) (Jacob Thams)
MEN
100 m freestyle
2.Masanori Yusa (Japan)
3.Shigeo Arai (Japan)
4 x 200 m freestyle
1.Japan (Shigeo Arai, Masanori Yusa)
WOMEN
100 m freestyle
1.Rie Mastenbroek (Netherlands)
400 m freestyle: 1.Rie Mastenbroek (Netherlands)
100 m backstroke: 2.Rie Mastenbroek
(Netherlands)
4 x 100 m freestyle: 1.Rie Mastenbroek
(Netherlands)
60 kg
3.Ibrahim Shams (Egypt)
75 kg
1.Khadr El Touni (Egypt)
2.Rudolf Ismayr (Germany)
82.5 kg
1.Louis Hostin (France)
FREESTYLE
87+ kg
1.Kristjan Palusalu (Estonia)
GRECO-ROMAN
87+ kg
Final Round
Kristjan Palusalu (Estonia) - Kurt Hornfischer (Germany) 3:0
1.Kristjan Palusalu (Estonia)
3.Kurt Hornfischer (Germany)
1.GERMANY (33-26-30)
2.USA (24-20-12)
3.HUNGARY (10-1-5)
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