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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] Athletes from 32 NOCs won medals, of which 21 secured at least one gold medal.
Host nation Japan won 27 gold medals, surpassing its gold medal tally of 16 at both the 1964 and 2004 summer editions. [9] Athletes from that nation also won 58 medals overall, which eclipsed its record of 41 overall medals won at the previous Summer Olympics .
Thirteen-year-old Marjorie Gestring of the U.S. won the gold medal in springboard diving. She remains the youngest female gold medallist in the history of the Summer Olympic Games. Twelve-year-old Inge Sorensen of Denmark earned a bronze medal in the 200m breaststroke, making her the youngest medallist ever in an individual event. Debuts and Firsts
9 paź 2019 · This document traces the evolution of the Olympic Summer Games medals, from the first Games in Athens in 1896 to those in Rio in 2016. Each medal is presented with a photo of its
17 paź 2024 · Germany has hosted the Summer Olympic Games twice; the 1936 Games in Berlin, and the 1972 Games in Munich. 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.
Official medal table of the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin. Find an alphabetical list of medals and celebrate the achievements of 1936's finest athletes.
The sprinter/long jumper won four gold medals, in the 100 metres, 200 metres, 4x100 metre relay, and long jump. It would be 48 years before anyone would equal Owens’ feat in athletics, when Carl Lewis won the same events at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
