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 | |
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| Venue | Langer See |
| Dates | 11–14 August 1936 |
| Competitors | 313 from 24 nations |
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
editParticipating nations
editA total of 313 rowers from 24 nations competed at the Berlin Games:
Argentina (3)
Australia (12)
Austria (9)
Belgium (7)
Brazil (21)
Canada (10)
Czechoslovakia (17)
Denmark (16)
Estonia (1)
France (19)
Germany (26)
Great Britain (18)
Hungary (23)
Italy (22)
Japan (16)
Netherlands (11)
Norway (1)
Poland (11)
South Africa (1)
Sweden (5)
Switzerland (16)
United States (26)
Uruguay (8)
Yugoslavia (14)
Medal table
edit| 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 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 | |
References
edit- ^ "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 Archived 23 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Slate.com. Published 23 July 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
- ^ "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
edit- Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics by Michael J. Socolow, 2016, University of Illinois Press