List of 1936 Winter Olympics medal winners

Matti Lähde, a member of Finland's gold medal-winning team in the cross-country 4 × 10 km relay

The 1936 Winter Olympics, officially known by the International Olympic Committee as the IV Olympic Winter Games,^[1] were a multi-sport event held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, from February 6 through February 16, 1936. A total of 646 athletes representing 28 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated at the Games in 17 events across 8 disciplines.^[2]

The Olympic programme was changed from that of the 1932 Lake Placid Olympics, with the addition of alpine skiing for both men and women. Two demonstration sports were held—eisschiessen and military patrol.^[2] Later added to the regular programme as biathlon, military patrol made its third appearance as a demonstration sport in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Games.^[3] Both men and women participated at these Games, with the women's alpine skiing event being the first medal event women contested at the Winter Olympics outside of figure skating. Two figure skating events for women—ladies' singles and pairs—had been part of the programme since the first Winter Olympics.^[4][5][6]

A total of 95 athletes won medals at the Games.^[7] Norway topped the medal count with fifteen medals, seven of which were gold. Sweden had the second most number of medals with seven, but had one less gold medal than host nation Germany, who had three golds and six overall medals. Austria, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States won medals in more than one event. Athletes from 11 of the 28 participating NOCs won at least a bronze medal; athletes from eight countries won at least one gold.^[8][9] Great Britain's unexpected win in ice hockey remains their only Olympic gold medal in the sport to date.^[2][10]

Sonja Henie of Norway won her third straight gold medal in the ladies' singles figure skating event, her last Olympic medal as she turned professional shortly after the Games.^[2] Karl Schäfer of Austria also successfully defended his men's singles figure skating title from Lake Placid.^[9][11] Sweden swept the medals in the cross-country 50 km, as did Norway in the Nordic combined.^[9] Norway's Ivar Ballangrud was the most successful athlete, winning three golds and a silver in speed skating^[9] and taking his career total to seven Olympic medals.^[2] Other multiple medal winners were Oddbjørn Hagen of Norway (one gold, two silvers), Ernst Baier of Germany (one gold, one silver), Joseph Beerli of Switzerland (one gold, one silver), Erik August Larsson of Sweden (one gold, one bronze), Birger Wasenius of Finland (two silvers, one bronze), Olaf Hoffsbakken of Norway (two silvers), Fritz Feierabend of Switzerland (two silvers) and Sverre Brodahl of Norway (one silver, one bronze).^[9]

Alpine skiing

Norwegian Laila Schou Nilsen, the women's combined bronze medallist in alpine skiing

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's combined[12]	Franz Pfnür Germany (GER)	Gustav Lantschner Germany (GER)	Émile Allais France (FRA)
Women's combined[13]	Christl Cranz Germany (GER)	Käthe Grasegger Germany (GER)	Laila Schou Nilsen Norway (NOR)

Bobsleigh

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Two-man	United States (USA)[14] USA I Ivan Brown Alan Washbond	Switzerland (SUI)[15] Switzerland II Fritz Feierabend Joseph Beerli	United States (USA)[14] USA II Gilbert Colgate Richard Lawrence
Four-man	Switzerland (SUI)[15] Switzerland II Pierre Musy Arnold Gartmann Charles Bouvier Joseph Beerli	Switzerland (SUI)[15] Switzerland I Reto Capadrutt Hans Aichele Fritz Feierabend Hans Bütikofer	Great Britain (GBR)[16] Great Britain I Frederick McEvoy James Cardno Guy Dugdale Charles Green

Cross-country skiing

Elis Wiklund, the Swedish gold medallist in the 50 km cross-country skiing race

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
18 km[17]	Erik August Larsson Sweden (SWE)	Oddbjørn Hagen Norway (NOR)	Pekka Niemi Finland (FIN)
50 km[18]	Elis Wiklund Sweden (SWE)	Axel Wikström Sweden (SWE)	Nils-Joel Englund Sweden (SWE)
4×10 km relay	Finland (FIN)[19] Kalle Jalkanen Klaes Karppinen Matti Lähde Sulo Nurmela	Norway (NOR)[20] Sverre Brodahl Oddbjørn Hagen Olaf Hoffsbakken Bjarne Iversen	Sweden (SWE)[21] John Berger Arthur Häggblad Erik August Larsson Martin Matsbo

Figure skating

Ladies' singles gold medallist Sonja Henie pictured in 1930. Henie won her third consecutive gold medal in 1936 and turned professional shortly after the Games.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles[22]	Karl Schäfer Austria (AUT)	Ernst Baier Germany (GER)	Felix Kaspar Austria (AUT)
Ladies' singles[23]	Sonja Henie Norway (NOR)	Cecilia Colledge Great Britain (GBR)	Vivi-Anne Hultén Sweden (SWE)
Pairs	Germany (GER)[24] Maxi Herber Ernst Baier	Austria (AUT)[25] Ilse Pausin Erik Pausin	Hungary (HUN)[26] Emília Rotter László Szollás

Ice hockey

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	Great Britain (GBR)[27] James Foster Carl Erhardt Gordon Dailley Archibald Stinchcombe Edgar Brenchley John Coward James Chappell Alexander Archer Gerry Davey James Borland Robert Wyman Jack Kilpatrick	Canada (CAN)[28] Francis Moore Arthur Nash Herman Murray Walter Kitchen Raymond Milton David Neville Kenneth Farmer Hugh Farquharson Maxwell Deacon Alexander Sinclair Bill Thomson James Haggarty Ralph St. Germain	United States (USA)[29] Thomas Moone Frank Shaughnessy, Jr. Philip LaBatte Frank Stubbs John Garrison Paul Rowe John Lax Gordon Smith Elbridge Ross Francis Spain August Kammer

Nordic combined

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual[30]	Oddbjørn Hagen Norway (NOR)	Olaf Hoffsbakken Norway (NOR)	Sverre Brodahl Norway (NOR)

Ski jumping

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual[31]	Birger Ruud Norway (NOR)	Sven Eriksson Sweden (SWE)	Reidar Andersen Norway (NOR)

Speed skating

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
500 metres[32]	Ivar Ballangrud Norway (NOR)	Georg Krog Norway (NOR)	Leo Freisinger United States (USA)
1500 metres[33]	Charles Mathiesen Norway (NOR)	Ivar Ballangrud Norway (NOR)	Birger Wasenius Finland (FIN)
5000 metres[34]	Ivar Ballangrud Norway (NOR)	Birger Wasenius Finland (FIN)	Antero Ojala Finland (FIN)
10000 metres[35]	Ivar Ballangrud Norway (NOR)	Birger Wasenius Finland (FIN)	Max Stiepl Austria (AUT)

Multiple medallists

Athletes who won multiple medals are listed below.^[9]

Athlete	Nation	Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Ballangrud, IvarIvar Ballangrud	Norway (NOR)	Speed skating	3	1	0	4
Hagen, OddbjørnOddbjørn Hagen	Norway (NOR)	Cross-country skiing Nordic combined	1	2	0	3
Baier, ErnstErnst Baier	Germany (GER)	Figure skating	1	1	0	2
Beerli, JosephJoseph Beerli	Switzerland (SUI)	Bobsleigh	1	1	0	2
Larsson, Erik AugustErik August Larsson	Sweden (SWE)	Cross-country skiing	1	0	1	2
Wasenius, BirgerBirger Wasenius	Finland (FIN)	Speed skating	0	2	1	3
Feierabend, FritzFritz Feierabend	Switzerland (SUI)	Bobsleigh	0	2	0	2
Hoffsbakken, OlafOlaf Hoffsbakken	Norway (NOR)	Cross-country skiing Nordic combined	0	2	0	2
Brodahl, SverreSverre Brodahl	Norway (NOR)	Cross-country skiing Nordic combined	0	1	1	2

See also

• 1936 Winter Olympics medal table

References

General

• "Results and Medalists". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee.
• Organisationskomitee für die IV. Olympischen Winterspiele (1936). IV. Olympische Winterspiele 1936 Amtlicher Bericht (PDF) (in German). München: Knorr & Hirth. Retrieved October 23, 2010.

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