Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics

Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics featured 7 events, for men only.

The competitions were held from August 11, 1936 to August 14, 1936. They were held on a regatta course at Grünau on the Langer See.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's single sculls details	Gustav Schäfer Germany (GER)	Josef Hasenöhrl Austria (AUT)	Daniel Barrow United States (USA)
Men's double sculls details	Great Britain (GBR) Jack Beresford Dick Southwood	Germany (GER) Willi Kaidel Joachim Pirsch	Poland (POL) Roger Verey Jerzy Ustupski
Men's coxless pairs details	Germany (GER) Willi Eichhorn Hugo Strauß	Denmark (DEN) Harry Larsen Peter Olsen	Argentina (ARG) Horacio Podestá Julio Curatella
Men's coxed pairs details	Germany (GER) Gerhard Gustmann Herbert Adamski Dieter Arend	Italy (ITA) Almiro Bergamo Guido Santin Luciano Negrini	France (FRA) Marceau Fourcade Georges Tapie Noël Vandernotte
Men's coxless fours details	Germany (GER) Rudolf Eckstein Anton Rom Martin Karl Wilhelm Menne	Great Britain (GBR) Thomas Bristow Alan Barrett Peter Jackson John Sturrock	Switzerland (SUI) Hermann Betschart Hans Homberger Alex Homberger Karl Schmid
Men's coxed fours details	Germany (GER) Hans Maier Walter Volle Ernst Gaber Paul Söllner Fritz Bauer	Switzerland (SUI) Hermann Betschart Hans Homberger Alex Homberger Karl Schmid Rolf Spring	France (FRA) Fernand Vandernotte Marcel Vandernotte Marcel Cosmat Marcel Chauvigné Noël Vandernotte
Men's eights details	United States (USA) Herbert Morris Charles Day Gordon Adam John White James McMillin George Hunt Joseph Rantz Donald Hume Robert Moch	Italy (ITA) Guglielmo Del Bimbo Dino Barsotti Oreste Grossi Enzo Bartolini Mario Checcacci Dante Secchi Ottorino Quaglierini Enrico Garzelli Cesare Milani	Germany (GER) Alfred Rieck Helmut Radach Hans Kuschke Heinz Kaufmann Gerd Völs Werner Loeckle Hans-Joachim Hannemann Herbert Schmidt Wilhelm Mahlow

Participating nations

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)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	5	1	1	7
2	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	0	2
3	United States (USA)	1	0	1	2
4	Italy (ITA)	0	2	0	2
5	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	1	2
6	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
8	France (FRA)	0	0	2	2
9	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1

References

• International Olympic Committee medal database

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