Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics

At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, there were 29 athletics events. 23 of these were for men. 6 of these were for women. These events were the same in the 1932 games. There were 776 athletes. These athletes were from 43 different nations.

### 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||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

There were 20 new Olympic records. There were also 6 new world records that were broken.

### Men's Olympic and world records

|Event|Date|Round|Name|Nationality|Result|OR|WR||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|200 metres|5 August|Final|Jesse Owens||20.7|OR||
|align=left|1500 meters|6 August|Final|Jack Lovelock||3:47.8|OR|WR|
|align=left|5000 metres|7 August|Final|Gunnar Höckert||14:22.2|OR||
|align=left|110 metres hurdles|6 August|Semi-final|Forrest Towns||14.1|OR|WR|
|align=left|3000 metres steeplechase|8 August|Final|Volmari Iso-Hollo||9:03.8|OR||
|align=left|4 × 100 metres relay|9 August|Final|Jesse Owens Ralph Metcalfe Foy Draper Frank Wykoff || align=left |  || 39.8 || OR || WR|||||
|align=left|Marathon|9 August|Final|Son Kitei||2:29:19.2|OR||
|align=left|50 kilometres walk|5 August|Final|Harold Whitlock||4:30:41.4|OR||
|align=left|Long jump|4 August|Final|Jesse Owens||8.06 m|OR||
|align=left|Triple jump|6 August|Final|Naoto Tajima||16.00 m|OR|WR|
|align=left|High jump|2 August|Final|Cornelius Johnson||2.03 m|OR||
|align=left|Pole vault|5 August|Final|Earle Meadows||4.35 m|OR||
|align=left|Shot put|2 August|Final|Hans Woellke||16.20 m|OR||
|align=left|Discus throw|5 August|Final|Ken Carpenter||50.48 m|OR||
|align=left|Hammer throw|3 August|Final|Karl Hein||56.49 m|OR||
|align=left|Decathlon|8 August|Final|Glenn Morris||7900|OR|WR|

### Women's Olympic and world records

|Event|Date|Round|Name|Nationality|Result|OR|WR||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|80 metres hurdles|5 August|Semi-final|Trebisonda Valla||11.6|OR||
|align=left|4 × 100 metres relay|8 August|Heats|Emmy Albus Käthe Krauß Marie Dollinger Ilse Dörffeldt || align=left |  || 46.4 || OR || WR|||||
|align=left|Discus throw|4 August|Final|Gisela Mauermayer||47.63 m|OR||
|align=left|Javelin throw|2 August|Final|Tilly Fleischer||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

## Infobox (olympic event)

- **event**: Athletics
- **games**: 1936 Summer
- **image**: Athletics pictogram.svg
- **image size**: 80px
- **num events**: 29
- **nations**: 43
- **competitors**: 776
- **prev**: Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics, 1932
- **next**: Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics, 1948