Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

Men's marathon at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Venue	Start and finish at Olympiastadion
Dates	August 9
Competitors	56 from 27 nations
Winning time	2:29:19.2
Medalists
Son Kitei Japan   Ernest Harper Great Britain   Nan Shoryu Japan

Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeple		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's marathon event at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games took place August 9. The final was won by Son Kitei.

During the time of the competition, Korea was a colony of Japan, therefore Korean sportsmen competed as members of Japanese team and were using their Japanese names. Korean names of Son Kitei and Nan Shōryū are Sohn Kee-chung and Nam Sung-yong respectively. After Sohn's victory, he bowed his head during the Japanese anthem at his medal ceremony and remarked that he was ashamed to compete for Japan, an occupying power, rather than an independent Korea.^[1]

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Son Kitei	Japan	2:29:19.2	OR
	Ernest Harper	Great Britain	2:31:23.2
	Nan Shoryu	Japan	2:31:42.0
4	Erkki Tamila	Finland	2:32:45.0
5	Väinö Muinonen	Finland	2:33:46.0
6	Johannes Coleman	South Africa	2:36:17.0
7	Donald Robertson	Great Britain	2:37:06.2
8	Jackie Gibson	South Africa	2:38:04.0
9	Mauno Tarkiainen	Finland	2:39:33.0
10	Thore Enochsson	Sweden	2:43:12.0
11	Stylianos Kyriakides	Greece	2:43:20.0
12	Nouba Khaled	France	2:45:34.0
13	Henry Palmé	Sweden	2:46:08.4
14	Franz Tuschek	Austria	2:46:29.0
15	Jimmy Bartlett	Canada	2:48:21.4
16	Émile Duval	France	2:48:39.8
17	Manuel Dias	Portugal	2:49:00.0
18	Johnny Kelley	United States	2:49:32.4
19	Miloslav Luňák	Czechoslovakia	2:50:26.0
20	Felix Meskens	Belgium	2:51:19.0
21	Ján Takáč	Czechoslovakia	2:51:20.0
22	Rudolf Wöber	Austria	2:51:28.0
23	Ludovic Gal	Romania	2:55:02.0
24	Robert Nevens	Belgium	2:55:51.0
25	Anders Hartington Andersen	Denmark	2:56:31.0
26	Gabriel Mendoza	Peru	2:57:17.8
27	Tommy Lalande	South Africa	2:57:20.0
28	Artūrs Motmillers	Latvia	2:58:02.0
29	Eduard Braesecke	Germany	2:59:33.4
30	Percy Wyer	Canada	3:00:11.0
31	Fernand Le Heurteur	France	3:01:11.0
32	Wilhelm Rothmayer	Austria	3:02:32.0
33	Bronisław Gancarz	Poland	3:03:11.0
34	Max Beer	Switzerland	3:06:26.0
35	Guillermo Suárez	Peru	3:08:18.0
36	Boris Kharalampiev	Bulgaria	3:08:53.8
37	Arul Swami	India	3:10:44.0
38	Josef Šulc	Czechoslovakia	3:11:47.4
39	Franz Eha	Switzerland	3:18:17.0
40	Wang Zhenglin	China	3:25:36.4
41	Stane Šporn	Yugoslavia	3:30:47.0
42	José Farías	Peru	3:33:24.0
	Juan Acosta	Chile		DNF
	Franz Barsicke	Germany		DNF
	Tarzan Brown	United States		DNF
	Giannino Bulzoni	Italy		DNF
	Paul de Bruyn	Germany		DNF
	Kazimierz Fiałka	Poland		DNF
	Aurelio Genghini	Italy		DNF
	Billy McMahon	United States		DNF
	Jaime Mendes	Portugal		DNF
	Bert Norris	Great Britain		DNF
	Luis Oliva	Argentina		DNF
	Tamao Shiwaku	Japan		DNF
	Harold Webster	Canada		DNF
	Juan Carlos Zabala	Argentina		DNF

Key: DNF = Did not finish, OR = Olympic record

References

1. 1936 Summer Olympics results: Men's marathon, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-05-01.

• 1936 Summer Olympics results: Men's marathon, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-05-01.