Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's single sculls

Men's single sculls at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Venue	Grünau Regatta Course
Date	August 11 – August 14
Competitors	20 from 20 nations
Medalists
Gustav Schäfer  Germany Josef Hasenöhrl  Austria Dan Barrow  United States

Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Single sculls	men
Double sculls	men
Coxless pair	men
Coxed pair	men
Coxless four	men
Coxed four	men
Eight	men

The men's single sculls competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics took place at Grünau Regatta Course, near Berlin, Germany. The event was held from October 15 until October 19.^[1]

Heats

First rower in each heat advanced directly to semi-finals. The others must compete again in the repechage for remaining spots in the semi-finals.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Roger Verey	Poland (POL)	7:31.2	SF
2	Celestino de Palma	Brazil (BRA)	7:37.7
3	Elmar Korko	Estonia (EST)	7:40.4
4	Hans ten Houten	Netherlands (NED)	7:42.9
5	Davor Jelaska	Yugoslavia (YUG)	8:05.2

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Gustav Schäfer	Germany (GER)	7:17.1	SF
2	Josef Hasenöhrl	Austria (AUT)	7:24.0
3	Charles Campbell	Canada (CAN)	7:25.7
4	Cecil Pearce	Australia (AUS)	7:27.0
5	Dan Barrow	United States (USA)	7:30.5

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Ernst Rufli	Switzerland (SUI)	7:19.0	SF
2	Henri Banos	France (FRA)	7:39.9
3	Carl Christiansen	Norway (NOR)	7:42.9
4	László Kozma	Hungary (HUN)	7:47.0
5	Walter Youell	South Africa (RSA)	7:56.6

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Humphrey Warren	Great Britain (GBR)	7:27.0	SF
2	Riccardo Steinleitner	Italy (ITA)	7:30.6
3	Antonio Giorgio	Argentina (ARG)	7:33.0
4	Arquímedes Juanicó	Uruguay (URU)	7:39.6
5	Jiří Zavřel	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	7:43.0

Repechage

Winner of each race advanced to the semi-finals, the other rowers were eliminated.

Repechage 1

Rank	Athlete Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Josef Hasenöhrl	Germany (GER)	7:27.7	SF
2	Carl Christiansen	Norway (NOR)	7:32.8
3	Elmar Korko	Estonia (EST)	7:44.1
4	László Kozma	Hungary (HUN)	7:45.9

Repechage 2

Rank	Athlete Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Dan Barrow	United States (USA)	7:31.3	SF
2	Riccardo Steinleitner	Italy (ITA)	7:31.4
3	Hans ten Houten	Netherlands (NED)	7:48.6
4	Walter Youell	South Africa (RSA)	8:04.7

Repechage 3

Rank	Athlete Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Antonio Giorgio	Argentina (ARG)	7:38.7	SF
2	Jiří Zavřel	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	7:45.4
3	Henri Banos	France (FRA)	7:49.0
4	Davor Jelaska	Yugoslavia (YUG)		DNF

Repechage 4

Rank	Athlete Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Charles Campbell	Canada (CAN)	7:31.0	SF
2	Cecil Pearce	Australia (AUS)	7:33.2
3	Celestino de Palma	Brazil (BRA)	7:49.7
4	Arquímedes Juanicó	Uruguay (URU)	7:52.4

Semifinal

First three rowers in each heat advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Athlete Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Gustav Schäfer	Germany (GER)	8:04.0	SF
2	Dan Barrow	United States (USA)	8:17.9
3	Antonio Giorgio	Argentina (ARG)	8:18.4
4	Roger Verey	Poland (POL)		DNF

Semifinal 2

Rank	Athlete Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Ernst Rufli	Switzerland (SUI)	7:46.9	SF
2	Josef Hasenöhrl	Austria (AUT)	7:54.6
3	Charles Campbell	Canada (CAN)	8:02.2
4	Humphrey Warren	Great Britain (GBR)	8:08.8

Final

Rank	Athlete Name	Country	Time	Notes
	Gustav Schäfer	Germany (GER)	8:21.5
	Josef Hasenöhrl	Austria (AUT)	8:25.8
	Dan Barrow	United States (USA)	8:28.0
4	Charles Campbell	Canada (CAN)	8:35.0
5	Ernst Rufli	Switzerland (SUI)	8:38.9
6	Antonio Giorgio	Argentina (ARG)	8:57.5

References

External links

• The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the Games of the XI Olympiad Berlin 1936 (PDF) (PDF). pp. 1005–1006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-09.