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The 1936 Games had 3,963 athletes from 49 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participating in a total of 129 events in 19 sports. This was the highest number of nations represented at any Games to date. [ 3 ]
The 1936 Summer Olympics were held in Berlin, Nazi Germany, from 1 to 15 August 1936. Athletics Medal table ... List of 1936 Summer Olympics medal winners.
The United States competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. The Americans finished second in the medal table behind the hosts. 359 competitors, 313 men and 46 women, took part in 127 events in 21 sports.
The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: Olympische Sommerspiele 1936), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: Spiele der XI. Olympiade ) and officially branded as Berlin 1936 , was an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin , then part of Nazi Germany .
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 3, 1936. In the midst of the Great Depression, incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican governor Alf Landon of Kansas in a landslide victory.
The all-time medal table for all Olympic Games from 1896 to 2024, including Summer Olympic Games, Winter Olympic Games, and a combined total of both, is tabulated below. These Olympic medal counts do not include the 1906 Intercalated Games which are no longer recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as official Games. The IOC ...
Pages in category "Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 825 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
August 1 – The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin, Germany, and mark the first live television coverage of an international sports event in world history (John Logie Baird had broadcast the Derby horse race in Britain in 1931). August 3 – 1936 Summer Olympics: African-American athlete Jesse Owens wins the 100-meter dash.