Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics

Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics featured 7 events, for men only.

The competitions were held from August 11, 1936 to August 14, 1936. They were held on a regatta course at Grünau on the Langer See.

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.^[1]

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
single sculls	Gustav Schäfer (GER)	Josef Hasenöhrl (AUT)	Daniel Barrow (USA)
double sculls	Jack Beresford and Dick Southwood (GBR)	Willi Kaidel and Joachim Pirsch (GER)	Roger Verey and Jerzy Ustupski (POL)
coxless pairs	Willi Eichhorn and Hugo Strauß (GER)	Harry Larsen and Peter Olsen (DEN)	Horacio Podestá and Julio Curatella (ARG)
coxed pairs	Germany (GER) Gerhard Gustmann Herbert Adamski Dieter Arend	Italy (ITA) Almiro Bergamo Guido Santin Luciano Negrini	France (FRA) Marceau Fourcade Georges Tapie Noël Vandernotte
coxless fours	Germany (GER) Rudolf Eckstein Anton Rom Martin Karl Wilhelm Menne	Great Britain (GBR) Thomas Bristow Alan Barrett Peter Jackson John Sturrock	Switzerland (SUI) Hermann Betschart Hans Homberger Alex Homberger Karl Schmid
coxed fours	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 Marcel Cosmat Marcel Chauvigné Noël Vandernotte
eights	United States (USA) Herbert Morris Charles Day Gordon Adam John White James McMillin George Hunt Joseph 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:

• 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

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	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
8	France (FRA)	0	0	2	2
9	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1

References

1. Michael J. Socolow, Six Minutes in Berlin, Slate.com. Published 23 July 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012.

• International Olympic Committee medal database