| 1936 Summer Olympics medals | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location | Berlin, Germany | |||
| Highlights | ||||
| Most gold medals | Germany (38) | |||
| Most total medals | Germany (101) | |||
| Medalling NOCs | 32 | |||
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The1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, was an internationalmulti-sport event held inBerlin,Germany, from 1 August to 16 August.[1]
Berlin had previously been chosen to host the1916 Summer Olympics, which were subsequently cancelled due to theFirst World War.[2] The 1936 Games had 3,963 athletes from 49National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participating in a total of 129 events in 19 sports. This was the highest number of nations represented at any Games to date.[3] Athletes from 32 NOCs won medals, of which 21 secured at least one gold medal, and 17 NOCs won no medals. The host NOC,Germany, received a total of 101 medals (38 of them gold),[4] the most of any nation and a record for a united German team, althoughEast Germany broke that record in1976,1980 and1988.[5]
A boycott by the United States was suggested due to Germany'sNational Socialist regime, but it was not implemented.[2] The other NOCs which threatened to boycott the Games for the same reason were the United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Czechoslovakia and the Netherlands.[3] An alternativePeople's Olympiad was planned to take place inBarcelona, Spain, but was cancelled at the last moment following the outbreak of theSpanish Civil War after the athletes had already begun to arrive.[3] The civil war also meant that Spain's NOC did not compete at the 1936 Games.[2] While no NOCs ended up boycotting the Games on anti-Nazi grounds, a multinational Jewish-led boycott of the Games took place, with individual athletes refusing to take part.[6] Also, theIAAFs' refusal to allow athletes fromNorthern Ireland to compete for theIrish Olympic Council inathletics events led theIrish Free State to boycott.[7][8]
Marjorie Gestring became the youngest Olympic champion ever at the age of 13,[nb 1] winning a gold medal in thewomen's 3 meter springboard.[2] AsKorea was under Japanese rule, Korean athletes who hoped to compete in the Games were required to qualify for theJapanese team.Sohn Kee-chung, competing as Kitei Son, won gold in themarathon, which made him Japan's first gold medalist at these Games and the first Korean ever to win a medal.[11] His fellow countrymanNam Sung-yong won the bronze medal in the same event.[12][2]
The medal table is based on information provided by theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC convention in its published medal tables. The table uses theOlympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where 'nation' is an entity represented by aNational Olympic Committee (NOC). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next, and then the number of bronze medals.[13][14] If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by theirIOC country code.[15]
A dead heat in the lightweight section of theweightlifting competition resulted in gold medals being awarded to bothAustria'sRobert Fein andEgypt's Anwar Mesbah, and resulted in a silver medal not being awarded for that event. A dead heat for third place in the floor competition of thegymnastic events resulted in bronze medals going to bothGermany'sKonrad Frey andEugen Mack ofSwitzerland. This resulted in 130 gold and bronze medals being awarded, but only 128 silver medals.[16]
* Host nation (Germany)
| Rank | NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany* | 38 | 31 | 32 | 101 |
| 2 |  United States | 24 | 21 | 12 | 57 |
| 3 |  Hungary | 10 | 1 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 |  Italy | 9 | 13 | 5 | 27 |
| 5 |  Finland | 8 | 6 | 6 | 20 |
| 6 |  France | 7 | 6 | 6 | 19 |
| 7 |  Sweden | 6 | 5 | 10 | 21 |
| 8 |  Japan | 6 | 4 | 10 | 20 |
| 9 |  Netherlands | 6 | 4 | 7 | 17 |
| 10 |  Austria | 5 | 7 | 5 | 17 |
| 11 |  Switzerland | 4 | 9 | 5 | 18 |
| 12 |  Great Britain | 4 | 7 | 3 | 14 |
| 13 |  Czechoslovakia | 3 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
| 14 |  Argentina | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
 Estonia | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
| 16 |  Egypt | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 17 |  Canada | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 |
| 18 |  Norway | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 19 |  Turkey | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 20 |  India | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 New Zealand | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 22 |  Poland | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 23 |  Denmark | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 24 |  Latvia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 25 |  Romania | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 South Africa | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Yugoslavia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 28 |  Belgium | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
 Mexico | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
| 30 |  Australia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Philippines | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Portugal | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (32 entries) | 141 | 140 | 141 | 422 | |
