Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The table is pre-sorted by the name of each Olympic Committee, but can be displayed as sorted by any other column, such as the total number of gold medals or total number of overall medals. To sort by gold, silver, and then bronze, sort first by the bronze column, then the silver, and then the gold. The table does not count revoked medals (e.g ...
1936 Summer Olympics; IOC code: BEL: NOC: Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee: Website: www.olympic.be (in Dutch and French) in Berlin; Competitors: 150 (145 men and 5 women) in 15 sports: Flag bearer: Édouard Écuyer de le Court [1] Medals Ranked 28th: Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 2 Total 2: Summer Olympics appearances
Medals are awarded to the athletes or teams who place first, second, and third in each event. The winners receive gold medals, which were solid gold until 1912, later made of gilded silver, and now gold-plated silver. Every gold medal must contain at least six grams of pure gold. [280]
The last series of Olympic medals to be made of solid gold were awarded at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. Olympic gold medals are required to be made from at least 92.5% silver, and must contain a minimum of 6 grams of gold. [6] All Olympic medals must be at least 70mm in diameter and 3mm thick. [7] Minting the medals is the ...
Garrard won the gold medal at the 1934, 1938 and 1950 games, and a bronze at the 1954 games (where he was flag-bearer for the Australian team at the opening ceremony). [2] He also competed in three Olympic Games : 1936 in Berlin , 1948 in London (where he won the silver medal in the welterweight division), and 1952 in Helsinki .
Ewry's eight Olympic gold medals in individual events (i.e. non-relay), although now second to Michael Phelps's 13, was the record, all alone, for 100 years and 23 days—from July 23, 1908, until Phelps won his eighth on August 15, 2008 (followed by his ninth on August 16).
In the 1936 Berlin Olympics, he won the gold medal in the 10 meter platform competition as well as the silver medal in the 3 meter springboard event. He angered Adolf Hitler as his favorite diver, Hermann Stork was predicted to win. A heated discussion between the German dictator and Wayne ensued, and was recounted by several family members.
The men's sprint cycling event at the 1936 Summer Olympics took place on 6 and 7 August and was one of six events at the 1936 Olympics. [1] There were 20 competitors from 20 nations, with each nation limited to one cyclist. [2] [3] The event was won, in a disputed final, by Toni Merkens of Germany, the nation's first medal in the men's sprint.