Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics

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.

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.Michael J. Socolow, Six Minutes in Berlin , Slate.com. Published 23 July 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012. This event is chronicled in The Boys in the Boat written by Daniel James Brown.

Medal summary Single sculls Double sculls Coxless pairs Coxed pairGerhard GustmannHerbert AdamskiDieter ArendAlmiro BergamoGuido SantinLuciano NegriniMarceau FourcadeGeorges TapieNoël Vandernotte Coxless fourRudolf EcksteinAnton RomMartin KarlWilhelm MenneMartin BristowAlan BarrettPeter JacksonJohn SturrockHermann BetschartHans HombergerAlex HombergerKarl Schmid Coxed fourHans MaierWalter VolleErnst GaberPaul SöllnerFritz BauerHermann BetschartHans HombergerAlex HombergerKarl SchmidRolf SpringFernand VandernotteMarcel VandernotteJean CosmatMarcel ChauvignéNoël Vandernotte EightHerbert MorrisCharles DayGordon AdamJohn WhiteJames McMillinGeorge HuntJoe RantzDonald HumeRobert MochGuglielmo Del BimboDino BarsottiOreste GrossiEnzo BartoliniMario CheccacciDante SecchiOttorino QuaglieriniEnrico GarzelliCesare MilaniAlfred RieckHelmut RadachHans KuschkeHeinz KaufmannGerd VölsWerner LoeckleHans-Joachim HannemannHerbert SchmidtWilhelm Mahlow

Participating nations A total of 313 rowers from 24 nations competed at the Berlin Games:

Medal table

References

Further reading Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics by Michael J. Socolow, 2016, University of Illinois Press