Canoeing at the 1936 Summer Olympics

Canoeing
at the Games of the XI Olympiad

Sprint pictogram

Venue Langer See, Grünau
Dates 7–8 August
Competitors 119 from 19 nations

Canoeing was an official Olympic sport for the first time at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. It had been a demonstration sport twelve years earlier at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. A total of nine events were contested at the 1936 Games, all in canoe sprint for men.

The competitions were held on Friday, August 7, 1936, and Saturday, August 8, 1936. They were held on a regatta course at Grünau on the Langer See.

Medal summary

Event Gold Silver Bronze
C-1 1000 metres
  Frank Amyot (CAN)  Bohuslav Karlík (TCH)  Erich Koschik (GER)
C-2 1000 metres
  Jan Brzák-Felix
and Vladimír Syrovátka (TCH)		  Rupert Weinstabl
and Karl Proisl (AUT)[1]		  Frank Saker
and Harvey Charters (CAN)
C-2 10000 metres
  Václav Mottl
and Zdeněk Škrland (TCH)		  Frank Saker
and Harvey Charters (CAN)		  Rupert Weinstabl
and Karl Proisl (AUT)
K-1 1000 metres
 Gregor Hradetzky
 Austria		 Helmut Cämmerer
 Germany		 Jaap Kraaier
 Netherlands
K-1 10000 metres
 Ernst Krebs
 Germany		 Fritz Landertinger
 Austria		 Ernest Riedel
 United States
K-1 10000 metres folding
 Gregor Hradetzky
 Austria		 Henri Eberhardt
 France		 Xaver Hörmann
 Germany
K-2 1000 metres
  Adolf Kainz
and Alfons Dorfner (AUT)		  Ewald Tilker
and Fritz Bondroit (GER)		  Nicolaas Tates
and Wim van der Kroft (NED)
K-2 10000 metres
  Paul Wevers
and Ludwig Landen (GER)		  Viktor Kalisch
and Karl Steinhuber (AUT)		  Tage Fahlborg
and Helge Larsson (SWE)
K-2 10000 metres folding
  Erik Bladström
and Sven Johansson (SWE)		  Erich Hanisch
and Willi Horn (GER)		  Piet Wijdekop
and Kees Wijdekop (NED)

Participating nations

A total of 119 canoers from 19 nations competed at the Berlin Games:

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Austria (AUT)3317
2 Germany (GER)2327
3 Czechoslovakia (TCH)2103
4 Canada (CAN)1113
5 Sweden (SWE)1012
6 France (FRA)0101
7 Netherlands (NED)0033
8 United States (USA)0011
Totals (8 nations)99927

Notes

  1. ↑ The 1936 official Olympic Report has the silver medalists listed as Josef Kampfl and Alois Edeltitsch, but information from Olympisch Enzyklopaedie (in German), the Austrian Olympic Committee, and from Volker Kluge's Olympia Chronik (in German) all confirm that the actual silver medalists were Weinstabl and Proisl.

References

  • 1936 Summer Olympics Official Report Volume 2. pp. 1020–9.
  • "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-12-05.
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