1936 Summer Olympics medal table
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The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Berlin, Germany, from 1 August to 16 August.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
Berlin had previously been chosen to host the 1916 Summer Olympics, which were subsequently cancelled due to the First World War.<ref name=eurosportberlin1936>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref name=holocaustmuseumboycott/> Athletes from 32 NOCs won medals, of which 21 secured at least one gold medal, and 17 NOCs won no medals. The host NOC, Germany, received a total of 101 medals (38 of them gold),<ref name=MedalTable>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the most of any nation and a record for a united German team, although East Germany broke that record in 1976, 1980 and 1988.<ref name=medaltable>Template:Cite news</ref>
A boycott by the United States was suggested due to Germany's National Socialist regime, but it was not implemented.<ref name=eurosportberlin1936 /> The other NOCs which threatened to boycott the Games for the same reason were the United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Czechoslovakia and the Netherlands.<ref name=holocaustmuseumboycott>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> An alternative People's Olympiad was planned to take place in Barcelona, Spain, but was cancelled at the last moment following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War after the athletes had already begun to arrive.<ref name=holocaustmuseumboycott/> The civil war also meant that Spain's NOC did not compete at the 1936 Games.<ref name=eurosportberlin1936 /> While no NOCs ended up boycotting the Games on anti-Nazi grounds, a multinational Jewish-led boycott of the Games took place, with individual athletes refusing to take part.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Also, the IAAFs' refusal to allow athletes from Northern Ireland to compete for the Irish Olympic Council in athletics events led the Irish Free State to boycott.<ref name="sullivan">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Marjorie Gestring became the youngest Olympic champion ever at the age of 13,<ref group="nb" name="brockmann">In the 1900 men's coxed pair rowing, an unidentified boy aged 12 or less coxed the winning pair in the final; however, only semifinal cox Hermanus Brockmann is listed by the IOC.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Winners received silver medals at the 1900 games.<ref name="Mallon">Template:Cite book</ref></ref> winning a gold medal in the women's 3 meter springboard.<ref name=eurosportberlin1936 /> As Korea was under Japanese rule, Korean athletes who hoped to compete in the Games were required to qualify for the Japanese team. Sohn Kee-chung, competing as Kitei Son, won gold in the marathon, which made him Japan's first gold medalist at these Games and the first Korean ever to win a medal.<ref name=kitei>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His fellow countryman Nam Sung-yong won the bronze medal in the same event.<ref name=obitsohnguardian>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=eurosportberlin1936 />
Medal tableEdit
The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC convention in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where 'nation' is an entity represented by a National Olympic Committee (NOC). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next, and then the number of bronze medals.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
A dead heat in the lightweight section of the weightlifting competition resulted in gold medals being awarded to both Austria's Robert Fein and Egypt's Anwar Mesbah, and resulted in a silver medal not being awarded for that event. A dead heat for third place in the floor competition of the gymnastic events resulted in bronze medals going to both Germany's Konrad Frey and Eugen Mack of Switzerland. This resulted in 130 gold and bronze medals being awarded, but only 128 silver medals.<ref name="official report">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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