Rowing at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Venue	Langer See
Dates	11–14 August 1936
Competitors	313 from 24 nations

Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Single sculls	men
Double sculls	men
Coxless pair	men
Coxed pair	men
Coxless four	men
Coxed four	men
Eight	men

Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics featured seven events, for men only. The competitions were held from 11 to 14 August on a regatta course at Grünau on the Langer See.^[1]

The competition was dominated by the hosts, Germany, who medaled in every event and took five of the seven gold medals. The final race, men's eights, was won by a working-class United States team from the University of Washington who, in what had become their trademark, started slow and outsprinted the competition to an exceedingly close finish, with only one second separating the top three finishers at the end of a six-and-a-half minute race.^[2][3] This event is chronicled in The Boys in the Boat written by Daniel James Brown.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls	Gustav Schäfer (GER)	Josef Hasenöhrl (AUT)	Dan Barrow (USA)
Double sculls	Jack Beresford and Dick Southwood (GBR)	Willi Kaidel and Joachim Pirsch (GER)	Roger Verey and Jerzy Ustupski (POL)
Coxless pairs	Willi Eichhorn and Hugo Strauß (GER)	Harry Larsen and Richard Olsen (DEN)	Horacio Podestá and Julio Curatella (ARG)
Coxed pair	Germany (GER) Gerhard Gustmann Herbert Adamski Dieter Arend	Italy (ITA) Almiro Bergamo Guido Santin Luciano Negrini	France (FRA) Marceau Fourcade Georges Tapie Noël Vandernotte
Coxless four	Germany (GER) Rudolf Eckstein Anton Rom Martin Karl Wilhelm Menne	Great Britain (GBR) Martin Bristow Alan Barrett Peter Jackson John Sturrock	Switzerland (SUI) Hermann Betschart Hans Homberger Alex Homberger Karl Schmid
Coxed four	Germany (GER) Hans Maier Walter Volle Ernst Gaber Paul Söllner Fritz Bauer	Switzerland (SUI) Hermann Betschart Hans Homberger Alex Homberger Karl Schmid Rolf Spring	France (FRA) Fernand Vandernotte Marcel Vandernotte Jean Cosmat Marcel Chauvigné Noël Vandernotte
Eight	United States (USA) Herbert Morris Charles Day Gordon Adam John White James McMillin George Hunt Joe Rantz Donald Hume Robert Moch	Italy (ITA) Guglielmo Del Bimbo Dino Barsotti Oreste Grossi Enzo Bartolini Mario Checcacci Dante Secchi Ottorino Quaglierini Enrico Garzelli Cesare Milani	Germany (GER) Alfred Rieck Helmut Radach Hans Kuschke Heinz Kaufmann Gerd Völs Werner Loeckle Hans-Joachim Hannemann Herbert Schmidt Wilhelm Mahlow

Participating nations

A total of 313 rowers from 24 nations competed at the Berlin Games:

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	5	1	1	7
2	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	0	2
3	United States (USA)	1	0	1	2
4	Italy (ITA)	0	2	0	2
5	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	1	2
6	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
8	France (FRA)	0	0	2	2
9	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		7	7	7	21

References

Further reading

• Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics by Michael J. Socolow, 2016, University of Illinois Press