Swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics

Swimming
at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Swimming; at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Venue	Olympiapark Schwimmstadion Berlin
Dates	8–15 August 1936
No. of events	11
Competitors	248 from 29 nations
	← 1932 1948 →

At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, eleven swimming events were contested, six for men and five for women.^[1] The competitions were held from Saturday August 8, 1936 to Saturday August 15, 1936. There was a total of 248 participants from 29 countries competing.^[2]

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	4	2	5	11
2	Netherlands (NED)	4	1	0	5
3	United States (USA)	2	3	3	8
4	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	1	2
5	Germany (GER)	0	3	1	4
6	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	1	2
7	Argentina (ARG)	0	1	0	1
Totals (7 entries)		11	11	11	33

Medal summary

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Ferenc Csik Hungary	Masanori Yusa Japan	Shigeo Arai Japan
400 m freestyle details	Jack Medica United States	Shunpei Uto Japan	Shozo Makino Japan
1500 m freestyle details	Noboru Terada Japan	Jack Medica United States	Shunpei Uto Japan
100 m backstroke details	Adolph Kiefer United States	Al Vande Weghe United States	Masaji Kiyokawa Japan
200 m breaststroke details	Tetsuo Hamuro Japan	Erwin Sietas Germany	Reizo Koike Japan
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	Japan (JPN) Shigeo Arai Shigeo Sugiura Masaharu Taguchi Masanori Yusa	United States (USA) Ralph Flanagan John Macionis Jack Medica Paul Wolf	Hungary (HUN) Oszkár Abay-Nemes Ferenc Csik Ödön Gróf Árpád Lengyel

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Rie Mastenbroek Netherlands	Jeannette Campbell Argentina	Gisela Arendt Germany
400 m freestyle details	Rie Mastenbroek Netherlands	Ragnhild Hveger Denmark	Lenore Wingard United States
100 m backstroke details	Nida Senff Netherlands	Rie Mastenbroek Netherlands	Alice Bridges United States
200 m breaststroke details	Hideko Maehata Japan	Martha Genenger Germany	Inge Sørensen Denmark
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	Netherlands (NED) Rie Mastenbroek Willy den Ouden Jopie Selbach Tini Wagner	Germany (GER) Gisela Arendt Ruth Halbsguth Leni Lohmar Ingeborg Schmitz	United States (USA) Mavis Freeman Bernice Lapp Olive McKean Katherine Rawls

Participating nations

248 swimmers from 29 nations competed.^[2]

Argentina (1)
Australia (5)
Austria (8)
Bermuda (5)
Bolivia (1)
Brazil (16)
Canada (14)
Chile (4)
Republic of China (2)
Czechoslovakia (3)

Denmark (18)
Egypt (5)
Estonia (2)
Finland (2)
France (8)
Germany (24)
Great Britain (20)
Greece (5)
Hungary (13)
Japan (21)

References

^ "Olympedia – Swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Swimming at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2016.

External links

"Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 30 January 2007.

[1] "Olympedia – Swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 16 December 2023.

[SportsRef-2] "Swimming at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2016.

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