Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics explained

Event:	Athletics
Games:	1936 Summer
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

100 metres		10.3		10.4		10.5
200 metres		20.7		21.1		21.3
400 metres		46.5		46.7		46.8
800 metres		1:52.9		1:53.3		1:53.6
1500 metres		3:47.8		3:48.4		3:49.2
5000 metres		14:22.2		14:25.8		14:29.0
10,000 metres		30:15.4		30:15.6		30:20.2
110 metres hurdles		14.2		14.4		14.4
400 metres hurdles		52.4		52.7		52.8
3000 metres steeplechase		9:03.8		9:06.8		9:07.2
4 × 100 metres relay	Jesse Owens Ralph Metcalfe Foy Draper Frank Wykoff	39.8	Orazio Mariani Gianni Caldana Elio Ragni Tullio Gonnelli	41.1	Wilhelm Leichum Erich Borchmeyer Erwin Gillmeister Gerd Hornberger	41.2
4 × 400 metres relay	Freddie Wolff Godfrey Rampling Bill Roberts Godfrey Brown	3:09.0	Harold Cagle Robert Young Edward O’Brien Al Fitch	3:11.0	Helmut Hamann Friedrich Von Stülpnagel Harry Voigt Rudolf Harbig	3:11.8
Marathon	^[1]	2:29:19.2		2:31:23.2		2:31:42.0
50 kilometres walk		4:30:41.4		4:32:09.2		4:32:42.2
High jump		2.03 m		2.00 m		2.00 m
Pole vault		4.35 m		4.25 m		4.25 m
Long jump		8.06 m		7.87 m		7.74 m
Triple jump		16.00 m		15.66 m		15.50 m
Shot put		16.20 m		16.12 m		15.66 m
Discus throw		50.48 m		49.36 m		49.23 m
Hammer throw		56.49 m		55.04 m		54.83 m
Javelin throw		71.84 m		70.77 m		70.72 m
Decathlon		7900		7601		7275

Women

100 metres		11.5		11.7		11.9
80 metres hurdles		11.7		11.7		11.7
4 × 100 metres relay	Harriet Bland Annette Rogers Betty Robinson Helen Stephens	46.9	Eileen Hiscock Violet Olney Audrey Brown Barbara Burke	47.6	Dorothy Brookshaw Mildred Dolson Hilda Cameron Aileen Meagher	47.8
High jump		1.60 m		1.60 m		1.60 m
Discus throw		47.63 m		46.22 m		39.80 m
Javelin throw		45.18 m		43.29 m		41.80 m

Records broken

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

Men's Olympic and world records

Event	Date	Round	Name	Result	OR	WR
align=left	200 metres	5 August	Final		20.7	OR
align=left	1500 meters	6 August	Final		3:47.8	OR	WR
align=left	5000 metres	7 August	Final		14:22.2	OR
align=left	110 metres hurdles	6 August	Semi-final		14.1	OR	WR
align=left	3000 metres steeplechase	8 August	Final		9:03.8	OR	^[2]
align=left	4 × 100 metres relay	9 August	Final	align=left		39.8	OR	WR
align=left	Marathon	9 August	Final		2:29:19.2	OR
align=left	50 kilometres walk	5 August	Final		4:30:41.4	OR
align=left	Long jump	4 August	Final		8.06 m	OR^[3]
align=left	Triple jump	6 August	Final		16.00 m	OR	WR
align=left	High jump	2 August	Final		2.03 m	OR
align=left	Pole vault	5 August	Final		4.35 m	OR
align=left	Shot put	2 August	Final		16.20 m	OR
align=left	Discus throw	5 August	Final		50.48 m	OR
align=left	Hammer throw	3 August	Final		56.49 m	OR
align=left	Decathlon	8 August	Final		7900	OR	WR

Women's Olympic and world records

Event	Date	Round	Name	Result	WR
align=left	80 metres hurdles	5 August	Semi-final	align=left	11.6	OR
align=left	4 × 100 metres relay	8 August	Heats	align=left	46.4	OR	WR
align=left	Discus throw	4 August	Final	align=left	47.63 m	OR
align=left	Javelin throw	2 August	Final	align=left	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

52.5147°N 13.2394°W

Notes and 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 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.