Canoeing at the 1936 Summer Olympics

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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 flatwater racing for men.

[edit] Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 1000 metres	Frank Amyot Canada (CAN)	Bohuslav Karlik Czechoslovakia (TCH)	Erich Koschik Germany (GER)
C-2 1000 metres	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Vladimir Syrovatka Jan Brzak-Felix	Austria (AUT) Joseph Kampfl A. Edletitsch	Canada (CAN) Frank Saker Harvey Charters
C-2 10000 metres	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Vaclav Mottl Zdenek Skrlant	Canada (CAN) Frank Saker Harvey Charters	Austria (AUT) Rupert Weinstabl Karl Proisl
K-1 1000 metres	Gregor Hradetzky Austria (AUT)	Helmut Cämmerer Germany (GER)	Jacobus Kraaier Netherlands (NED)
K-1 10000 metres	Ernst Krebs Germany (GER)	Fritz Landertinger Austria (AUT)	Ernest Riedel United States (USA)
K-2 1000 metres	Austria (AUT) Adolf Kainz Alfons Dorfner	Germany (GER) Ewald Tilker Fritz Bondroit	Netherlands (NED) Nicolaas Tates Willem van der Kroft
K-2 10000 metres	Germany (GER) Paul Wevers Ludwig Landen	Austria (AUT) Viktor Kalisch Karl Steinhuber	Sweden (SWE) Tage Fahlborg Helge Larsson
Folding K-1 10000 metres	Gregor Hradetzky Austria (AUT)	Henri Eberhart France (FRA)	Xaver Hörmann Germany (GER)
Folding K-2 10000 metres	Sweden (SWE) Sven Johansson Erik Bladström	Germany (GER) Willy Horn Erich Hanisch	Netherlands (NED) Pieter Wijdekop Cornelis Wijdekop

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Austria (AUT)	3	3	1	7
2	Germany (GER)	2	3	2	7
3	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	2	1	0	3
4	Canada (CAN)	1	1	1	3
5	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	1	2
6	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
7	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	3	3
8	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1

[edit] Reference

• Olympic Medal Winners. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on 2006-12-05.

Events at the 1936 Summer Olympics (Berlin)
Athletics • Baseball (demonstration) • Basketball • Boxing • Canoeing • Cycling • Diving • Equestrian • Fencing • Football • Gliding (demonstration) • Gymnastics • Handball • Hockey • Modern pentathlon • Polo • Rowing • Sailing • Shooting • Swimming • Water polo • Weightlifting • Wrestling

Canoeing at the Summer Olympics
1924 (demonstration) • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008 See also: List of Olympic medalists in canoeing (men) and List of Olympic medalists in canoeing (women)