Canoeing at the 1936 Summer Olympics

Canoeing
at the Games of the XI Olympiad

Sprint pictogram

VenueLanger See, Grünau
Dates7–8 August
Competitors119 from 19 nations
Canoeing at the
1936 Summer Olympics
Sprint
C-1 1000 m
C-2 1000 m
C-2 10000 m
K-1 1000 m
K-1 10000 m
K-1 10000 m folding
K-2 1000 m
K-2 10000 m
K-2 10000 m folding

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 canoe sprint for men.

The competitions were held on Friday, August 7, 1936, and Saturday, August 8, 1936. They were held on a regatta course at Grünau on the Langer See.

Medal summary

Event Gold Silver Bronze
C-1 1000 metres
Frank Amyot
 Canada
Bohuslav Karlík
 Czechoslovakia
Erich Koschik
 Germany
C-2 1000 metres
Jan Brzák-Felix
and Vladimír Syrovátka
 Czechoslovakia
Rupert Weinstabl
and Karl Proisl
 Austria[1]
Frank Saker
and Harvey Charters
 Canada
C-2 10000 metres
Václav Mottl
and Zdeněk Škrland
 Czechoslovakia
Frank Saker
and Harvey Charters
 Canada
Rupert Weinstabl
and Karl Proisl
 Austria
K-1 1000 metres
Gregor Hradetzky
 Austria
Helmut Cämmerer
 Germany
Jaap Kraaier
 Netherlands
K-1 10000 metres
Ernst Krebs
 Germany
Fritz Landertinger
 Austria
Ernest Riedel
 United States
K-1 10000 metres folding
Gregor Hradetzky
 Austria
Henri Eberhardt
 France
Xaver Hörmann
 Germany
K-2 1000 metres
Adolf Kainz
and Alfons Dorfner
 Austria
Ewald Tilker
and Fritz Bondroit
 Germany
Nicolaas Tates
and Wim van der Kroft
 Netherlands
K-2 10000 metres
Paul Wevers
and Ludwig Landen
 Germany
Viktor Kalisch
and Karl Steinhuber
 Austria
Tage Fahlborg
and Helge Larsson
 Sweden
K-2 10000 metres folding
Erik Bladström
and Sven Johansson
 Sweden
Erich Hanisch
and Willi Horn
 Germany
Piet Wijdekop
and Kees Wijdekop
 Netherlands

Participating nations

A total of 119 canoers from 19 nations competed at the Berlin Games:

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
Total 9 9 9 27

Notes

  1. The 1936 official Olympic Report has the silver medalists listed as Josef Kampfl and Alois Edeltitsch, but information from Olympisch Enzyklopaedie (German), the Austrian Olympic Committee, and from Volker Kluge's Olympia Chronik (German) all confirm that the actual silver medalists were Weinstabl and Proisl.

References

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