| Rowing at the Games of the XI Olympiad | |
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| Venue | Langer See |
| Dates | 11–14 August 1936 |
| Competitors | 313 from 24 nations |
| Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics | |
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| Single sculls | men |
| Double sculls | men |
| Coxless pair | men |
| Coxed pair | men |
| Coxless four | men |
| Coxed four | men |
| Eight | men |
Rowing at the1936 Summer Olympics featured seven events. The competitions were held from 11 to 14 August on a regatta course atGrünau on theLanger See.[1]
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 theUniversity 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.[2][3] This event is chronicled inThe Boys in the Boat written byDaniel James Brown.
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)| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Germany | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 2 | Great Britain | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | United States | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | Italy | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | Austria | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Denmark | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 8 | France | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | Argentina | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (10 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 | |
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