# Gymnastics at the 1936 Summer Olympics

At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, nine events in gymnastics were contested. The competitions were held from 10 August 1936 to 12 August 1936.

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Germany (GER) | 6 | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 2 | Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 6 | 2 | 9 |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (6 entries) | Totals (6 entries) | 9 | 9 | 10 | 28 |

### Men's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual all-around details | Alfred Schwarzmann Germany | Eugen Mack Switzerland | Konrad Frey Germany |
| Team all-around details | Germany (GER) Franz Beckert Konrad Frey Alfred Schwarzmann Willi Stadel Inno Stangl Walter Steffens Matthias Volz Ernst Winter | Switzerland (SUI) Walter Bach Albert Bachmann Walter Beck Eugen Mack Georges Miez Michael Reusch Eduard Steinemann Josef Walter | Finland (FIN) Mauri Nyberg-Noroma Veikko Pakarinen Aleksanteri Saarvala Heikki Savolainen Esa Seeste Einari Teräsvirta Eino Tukiainen Martti Uosikkinen |
| Floor exercise details | Georges Miez Switzerland | Josef Walter Switzerland | Konrad Frey Germany Eugen Mack Switzerland |
| Horizontal bar details | Aleksanteri Saarvala Finland | Konrad Frey Germany | Alfred Schwarzmann Germany |
| Parallel bars details | Konrad Frey Germany | Michael Reusch Switzerland | Alfred Schwarzmann Germany |
| Pommel horse details | Konrad Frey Germany | Eugen Mack Switzerland | Albert Bachmann Switzerland |
| Rings details | Alois Hudec Czechoslovakia | Leon Štukelj Yugoslavia | Matthias Volz Germany |
| Vault details | Alfred Schwarzmann Germany | Eugen Mack Switzerland | Matthias Volz Germany |

### Women's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Team all-around details | Germany (GER) Anita Bärwirth Erna Bürger Isolde Frölian Friedl Iby Trudi Meyer Paula Pöhlsen Julie Schmitt Käthe Sohnemann | Czechoslovakia (TCH) Jaroslava Bajerová Vlasta Děkanová Božena Dobešová Vlasta Foltová Anna Hřebřinová Matylda Pálfyová Zdeňka Veřmiřovská Marie Větrovská | Hungary (HUN) Margit Csillik Margit Kalocsai Ilona Madary Gabriella Mészáros Margit Nagy Olga Törös Judit Tóth Eszter Voit |
| Individual all-around† details | Trudi Meyer Germany | Erna Bürger Germany | Käthe Sohnemann Germany |
| Vault† details | Anita Bärwirth Germany | Käthe Sohnemann Germany | Erna Bürger Germany |
| Uneven or Parallel Bars†, †† details | Trudi Meyer Germany | Käthe Sohnemann Germany | Margit Nagy Hungary |
| Balance Beam† details | Gabriella Mészáros Hungary | Zdeňka Veřmiřovská Czechoslovakia | Erna Bürger Germany Consetta Caruccio-Lenz United States |
† Within the sport of artistic gymnastics, although men were recognized with individual medals at the time, the women weren’t. The individuals named within individual events are the individuals who garnered a top-three placement in the team competition on the respective apparatus (or all 3 combined, in the case of the all-around) and who would have been awarded a medal with the rules that commenced with the 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympic Games and that would change periodically at future Olympic Games with respect to the debut of: 1) the individual finals competitions at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics and 2) the New Life rules that made their Olympic debut at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics.
†† At this Olympics, some women competed on the Uneven Bars while some others competed on Parallel Bars.

## Participating nations

A total of 175 gymnasts from 16 nations competed at the Berlin Games:
* Austria (8)
* Bulgaria (7)
* Czechoslovakia (16)
* Finland (8)
* France (8)
* Germany (16)
* Great Britain (8)
* Hungary (16)
* Italy (16)
* Japan (8)
* Luxembourg (8)
* Poland (8)
* Romania (8)
* Switzerland (8)
* United States (16)
* Yugoslavia (16)

## Demonstrations

In the Official Report of the Games, gymnastics demonstrations from seven countries are listed on the schedule. These countries were Denmark, Norway, Finland, Hungary, Sweden and Germany, as well as China, which performed a wushu (Chinese boxing) demonstration.