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Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics

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Field	Value
event	Athletics
games	1936 Summer
image	Olympiastadion Berlin Sep-2015.jpg
image_size	200px
caption	The newly-built Olympiastadion (pictured in 2015) hosted the events
num_events	29
nations	43
competitors	776
prev	1932
next	1948

At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, 29 athletics events were contested, 23 for men and 6 for women. The program of events was unchanged from the previous Games. There was a total of 776 participants from 43 countries competing.

Medal summary

Men

Decathlon
Glenn Morris	7900	Bob Clark	7601	Jack Parker	7275

Women

Javelin throw
Tilly Fleischer	45.18 m	Luise Krüger	43.29 m	Maria Kwaśniewska	41.80 m

Participating Nations

Records broken

20 new Olympic records and 6 new world records were set in the athletics events.

Volmari Iso-Hollo, 3000 m steeplechase, 1936 Summer Olympics

Men's Olympic and world records

Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Result	OR	WR
200 metres	5 August	Final	Jesse Owens	USA	20.7	OR
1500 meters	6 August	Final	Jack Lovelock	NZL	3:47.8	OR	WR
5000 metres	7 August	Final	Gunnar Höckert	FIN	14:22.2	OR
110 metres hurdles	6 August	Semi-final	Forrest Towns	USA	14.1	OR	WR
3000 metres steeplechase	8 August	Final	Volmari Iso-Hollo	FIN	9:03.8	OR
4 × 100 metres relay	9 August	Final	Jesse Owens
Ralph Metcalfe
Foy Draper
Frank Wykoff	USA	39.8	OR	WR
Marathon	9 August	Final	Son Kitei	JPN	2:29:19.2	OR
50 kilometres walk	5 August	Final	Harold Whitlock	GBR	4:30:41.4	OR
Long jump	4 August	Final	Jesse Owens	USA	8.06 m	OR
Triple jump	6 August	Final	Naoto Tajima	JPN	16.00 m	OR	WR
High jump	2 August	Final	Cornelius Johnson	USA	2.03 m	OR
Pole vault	5 August	Final	Earle Meadows	USA	4.35 m	OR
Shot put	2 August	Final	Hans Woellke	GER	16.20 m	OR
Discus throw	5 August	Final	Ken Carpenter	USA	50.48 m	OR
Hammer throw	3 August	Final	Karl Hein	GER	56.49 m	OR
Decathlon	8 August	Final	Glenn Morris	USA	7900	OR	WR

Women's Olympic and world records

Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Result	OR
80 metres hurdles	5 August	Semi-final	Trebisonda Valla	ITA	11.6	OR
4 × 100 metres relay	8 August	Heats	Emmy Albus
Käthe Krauß
Marie Dollinger
Ilse Dörffeldt	GER	46.4	OR	WR
Discus throw	4 August	Final	Gisela Mauermayer	GER	47.63 m	OR
Javelin throw	2 August	Final	Tilly Fleischer	GER	45.18 m	OR

References

1936 Summer Olympics results: athletics, from https://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-04-05.
International Olympic Committee results database

Notes

References

Both Sohn Kee-chung (Son Kitei) and Nam Sung-yong (Nan Shoryu) were from Korea. The IOC credits both medals to Japan due to Korea being a [[Korea under Japanese rule. Japanese colony]] at the time. All Korean Olympians during the Japanese colonial rule could only participate in the Games as a representative of Japan and Japan required them to use the Japanese forms of their names. However, some sources still refer to Son Kitei as the first Korean to win an Olympic marathon.
Was a "world best" time as world records were not yet recognised for the event.
Wind-aided mark recognised as Olympic record.

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