Swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics

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At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, 11 swimming events were contested, six for men and five for women.

Contents 1 Medal summary 1.1 Men's events 1.2 Women's events 2 Medal table 3 References

[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Ferenc Csík Hungary (HUN)	57.6	Masanori Yusa Japan (JPN)	57.9	Shigeo Arai Japan (JPN)	58.0
400 m freestyle	Jack Medica United States (USA)	4:44.5	Shunpei Uto Japan (JPN)	4:45.6	Shozo Makino Japan (JPN)	4:48.1
1500 m freestyle	Noboru Terada Japan (JPN)	19:13.7	Jack Medica United States (USA)	19:34.0	Shunpei Uto Japan (JPN)	19:34.5
100 m backstroke	Adolph Kiefer United States (USA)	1:05.9	Albert van de Weghe United States (USA)	1:07.7	Masaji Kiyokawa Japan (JPN)	1:08.4
200 m breaststroke	Tetsuo Hamuro Japan (JPN)	2:42.5	Erwin Sietas Germany (GER)	2:42.9	Reizo Koike Japan (JPN)	2:44.2
4×200 m freestyle relay	Japan (JPN) Masanori Yusa Shigeo Sugiura Masaharu Taguchi Shigeo Arai	8:51.5	United States (USA) Ralph Flanagan John Macionis Paul Wolf Jack Medica	9:03.0	Hungary (HUN) Árpad Lengyel Oszkár Abay-Nemes Ödön Gróf Ferenc Csík	9:12.3

[edit] Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Rie Mastenbroek Netherlands (NED)	1:05.9	Jeanette Campbell Argentina (ARG)	1:06.4	Gisela Arendt Germany (GER)	1:06.6
400 m freestyle	Rie Mastenbroek Netherlands (NED)	5:26.4	Ragnhild Hveger Denmark (DEN)	5:27.5	Lenore Wingard United States (USA)	—
100 m backstroke	Nida Senff Netherlands (NED)	1:18.9	Rie Mastenbroek Netherlands (NED)	1:19.2	Alice Bridges United States (USA)	1:19.4
200 m breaststroke	Hideko Maehata Japan (JPN)	3:03.6	Martha Genenger Germany (GER)	3:04.2	Inge Sørensen Denmark (DEN)	3:07.8
4×100 m freestyle relay	Netherlands (NED) Jopie Selbach Tini Wagner Willy den Ouden Rie Mastenbroek	4:36.0	Germany (GER) Ruth Halbsguth Leni Lohmar Ingeborg Schmitz Gisela Arendt	4:36.8	United States (USA) Katherine Rawls Bernice Lapp Mavis Freeman Olive McKean	4:40.2

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	4	2	5	11
2	Netherlands (NED)	4	1	0	5
3	United States (USA)	2	3	3	8
4	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	1	2
5	Germany (GER)	0	3	1	4
6	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	1	2
7	Argentina (ARG)	0	1	0	1

[edit] References

• Olympic Medal Winners. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on 2007-01-30.

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