Cleave Books 1936 (Berlin) Olympic Games - some results Track Events - MEN Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time 100 metres Jesse Owens USA 10.3s Ralph Metcalfe USA 10.4s Martinus Osendarp Netherlands 10.5s 200 metres Jesse Owens USA 20.7s Matthew Robinson USA 21.1s Martinus Osendarp Netherlands 21.3s 400 metres Archie Williams USA 46.5s Arthur Brown GB 46.7s James LuValle USA 46.8s 800 metres John Woodruff USA 1m 52.9s Mario Lanzi Italy 1m 53.3s Philip Edwards Canada 1m 53.6s 1500 metres Jack Lovelock New Zealand 3m 47.8s Jack Cunningham USA 3m 48.4s Luigi Beccali Italy 3m 49.2s 5000 metres Gunnar Hockert Finland 14m 22.2s Lauri Lehtinen Finland 14m 25.8s Henry Jonsson Sweden 14m 29.0s 10000 metres Ilmari Salminen Finland 30m 15.4s Arvo Askola Finland 30m 15.6s Volmari Iso-Hollo Finland 30m 20.2s Marathon (42,195 metres) Sohn Kee-chung Korea 2h 29m 19s Ernest Harper GB 2h 31m 23s Nam Seung-yong Korea 2h 31m 42s Steeplechase (3000 metres) Volmari Iso-Hollo Finland 9m 3.8s Kaarlo Tuominen Finland 9m 6.8s Alfred Dompert Germany 9m 7.2s Field Events - MEN Ht/Dist Ht/Dist Ht/Dist High Jump Cornelius Johnson USA 2.03 m David Albritton USA 2.00 m Delos Thurber USA 2.00 m Long Jump Jesse Owens USA 8.06 m Lutz Long Germany 7.87 m Naoto Tajima Japan 7.74 m Pole Vault Earle Meadows USA 4.35 m Shuhei Nishida Japan 4.25 m Sueo Oe Japan 4.25 m Shot Hans Woellke Germany 16.20 m Sulo Barlund Finland 16.12 m Gerhard Stock Germany 15.66 m Discus Kenneth Carpenter USA 50.48 m Gordon Dunn USA 49.36 m Giorgio Oberweger Italy 49.23 m Javelin Gerard Stock Germany 71.84 m Yrjo Nikkanen Finland 70.77 m Kallervo Toivonen Finland 70.72 m Track Events - WOMEN Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time 100 metres Helen Stephens USA 11.5s Stanislawa Walasiewicz Poland 11.7s Kathe Krauss Germany 11.9s 800 metres Was NOT held in these games Field Events - WOMEN Ht/Dist Ht/Dist Ht/Dist High Jump Ibolya Csak Hungary 1.60 m Dorothy Odam GB 1.60 m Elfriede Kaun Germany 1.60 m Discus Gisela Mauermayer Germany 47.63 m Jadwiga Wajsowna Poland 46.22 m Paula Mollenhauer Germany 39.80 m Javelin Tilly Fleischer Germany 45.18 m Luise Kruger Germany 43.29 m Marja Kwasniewska Poland 41.80 m This was the first of the Olympic Games in which the record-keeping seems not to have given later writers any cause for confusion, except for the occasional variation in the anglicising of some foreign names. Go to the top PREVIOUS Olympics NEXT Olympics Olympics Index