The men's eight competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics took place at Grünau Regatta Course in Berlin, Germany. The event was held from 12 to 14 August, and was won by a United States crew from the University of Washington. This event is chronicled in The Boys in the Boat written by Daniel James Brown.[1] There were 14 boats (126 competitors) from 14 nations, with each nation limited to a single boat in the event. The victory was the fifth consecutive gold medal in the event for the United States and seventh overall; the Americans had won every time they competed (missing 1908 and 1912). Italy repeated as silver medalists. Germany earned its first medal in the men's eight since 1912 with its bronze. Canada's three-Games podium streak ended.
This was the ninth appearance of the event. Rowing had been on the programme in 1896 but was cancelled due to bad weather. The men's eight has been held every time that rowing has been contested, beginning in 1900.[2]
The United States was the dominant nation in the event, with the nation winning the previous four Olympic men's eight competitions (as well as the other two competitions which the United States had entered). The American squad this year came from the University of Washington, which had won the 1936 Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta. Switzerland had won the 1936 Grand Challenge Cup. Hungary had won the 1933, 1934, and 1935 European championships.[2] The Australian crew was all police crew from the New South Wales Policeman's Rowing Club in Sydney who had dominated at state titles for the previous two years.[3] They were selected in toto with their attendance funded by the NSW Police Federation. [4]
Yugoslavia made its debut in the event. Canada, Great Britain, and the United States each made their seventh appearance, tied for most among nations to that point.
Competition format
The "eight" event featured nine-person boats, with eight rowers and a coxswain. It was a sweep rowing event, with the rowers each having one oar (and thus each rowing on one side). The course used the 2000 metres distance that became the Olympic standard in 1912.[5]
The 1936 competition had a six-boat final for the first time. The competition continued to use the three-round format used in 1932, with two main rounds (semifinals and a final) and a repechage.
The semifinals placed the 14 boats in 3 heats, with 4 or 5 boats per heat. The winner of each heat (3 boats total) advanced directly to the final, while the other boats (11 total) went to the repechage.
The repechage had 11 boats. They were placed in 3 heats, with 3 or 4 boats each. The winner of each repechage heat (3 boats) rejoined the semifinal winners in the final, with the other boats (8 total) eliminated.
The final round consisted of a single final for the medals and 4th through 6th place.
Schedule
Date
Time
Round
Wednesday, 12 August 1936
17:15
Semifinals
Thursday, 13 August 1936
18:15
Repechage
Friday, 14 August 1936
18:00
Final
Results
Semifinals
12 August. The first boat in each heat advanced directly to final. The other boats competed again in the repechage for remaining spots in the final.
^"Why Do We Race 2000m? The History Behind the Distance". World Rowing. 1 May 2017. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
External links
The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the Games of the XI Olympiad Berlin 1936(PDF) (PDF). pp. 1017–1018.
January 07, 2023
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The men s eight competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics took place at Grunau Regatta Course in Berlin Germany The event was held from 12 to 14 August and was won by a United States crew from the University of Washington This event is chronicled in The Boys in the Boat written by Daniel James Brown 1 There were 14 boats 126 competitors from 14 nations with each nation limited to a single boat in the event The victory was the fifth consecutive gold medal in the event for the United States and seventh overall the Americans had won every time they competed missing 1908 and 1912 Italy repeated as silver medalists Germany earned its first medal in the men s eight since 1912 with its bronze Canada s three Games podium streak ended Men s eightat the Games of the XI OlympiadRowing pictogramVenueGrunau Regatta CourseDates12 14 AugustCompetitors126 from 14 nationsWinning time6 25 4Medalists United States Herbert MorrisCharles DayGordon AdamJohn WhiteJames McMillinGeorge HuntJoe RantzDonald HumeRobert Moch cox Italy Guglielmo Del BimboDino BarsottiOreste GrossiEnzo BartoliniMario CheccacciDante SecchiOttorino QuaglieriniEnrico GarzelliCesare Milani cox Germany Alfred RieckHelmut RadachHans KuschkeHeinz KaufmannGerd VolsWerner LoeckleHans Joachim HannemannHerbert SchmidtWilhelm Mahlow cox 19321948 Contents 1 Background 2 Competition format 3 Schedule 4 Results 4 1 Semifinals 4 1 1 Semifinal 1 4 1 2 Semifinal 2 4 1 3 Semifinal 3 4 2 Repechage 4 2 1 Repechage heat 1 4 2 2 Repechage heat 2 4 2 3 Repechage heat 3 4 3 Final 5 References 6 External linksBackground EditThis was the ninth appearance of the event Rowing had been on the programme in 1896 but was cancelled due to bad weather The men s eight has been held every time that rowing has been contested beginning in 1900 2 The United States was the dominant nation in the event with the nation winning the previous four Olympic men s eight competitions as well as the other two competitions which the United States had entered The American squad this year came from the University of Washington which had won the 1936 Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta Switzerland had won the 1936 Grand Challenge Cup Hungary had won the 1933 1934 and 1935 European championships 2 The Australian crew was all police crew from the New South Wales Policeman s Rowing Club in Sydney who had dominated at state titles for the previous two years 3 They were selected in toto with their attendance funded by the NSW Police Federation 4 Yugoslavia made its debut in the event Canada Great Britain and the United States each made their seventh appearance tied for most among nations to that point Competition format EditThe eight event featured nine person boats with eight rowers and a coxswain It was a sweep rowing event with the rowers each having one oar and thus each rowing on one side The course used the 2000 metres distance that became the Olympic standard in 1912 5 The 1936 competition had a six boat final for the first time The competition continued to use the three round format used in 1932 with two main rounds semifinals and a final and a repechage The semifinals placed the 14 boats in 3 heats with 4 or 5 boats per heat The winner of each heat 3 boats total advanced directly to the final while the other boats 11 total went to the repechage The repechage had 11 boats They were placed in 3 heats with 3 or 4 boats each The winner of each repechage heat 3 boats rejoined the semifinal winners in the final with the other boats 8 total eliminated The final round consisted of a single final for the medals and 4th through 6th place Schedule EditDate Time RoundWednesday 12 August 1936 17 15 SemifinalsThursday 13 August 1936 18 15 RepechageFriday 14 August 1936 18 00 FinalResults EditSemifinals Edit 12 August The first boat in each heat advanced directly to final The other boats competed again in the repechage for remaining spots in the final Semifinal 1 Edit Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes1 Herbert MorrisCharles DayGordon AdamJohn WhiteJames McMillinGeorge HuntJoe RantzDonald Hume Robert Moch United States 6 00 8 Q2 Tom AskwithRan LaurieJohn CherryHugh MasonMcAllister LonnonAnnesley KingsfordDesmond KingsfordJohn Couchman Noel Duckworth Great Britain 6 02 1 R3 Emile LecuirotLouis DevillieHenri SouharceAlphonse BoutonCamille BecanneBernard BatillatJean CottezMarcel Charletoux Claude Lowenstein France 6 11 6 R4 Tadashi NegishiMasaru KashiwaharaShusui SekigawaIsamu MitaOsamu KitamuraHaruyoshi NakagawaTakeo HoriYoshiteru Suzuki Tadashi Shimijima Japan 6 12 3 R5 Karel BrandstatterPavel ParakJan HolobradekLadislav SmolikFrantisek SirFrantisek KobzikRudolf BaranekAntonin Hrstka Bedrich Prochazka Czechoslovakia 6 28 6 RSemifinal 2 Edit Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes1 Pal DomonkosSandor von KorompayHugo BallyaImre KapossyAntal SzendeyGabor AlapyFrigyes HollosiLaszlo Szabo Ervin Kereszthy Hungary 6 07 1 Q2 Guglielmo Del BimboDino BarsottiOreste GrossiEnzo BartoliniMario CheccacciDante SecchiOttorino QuaglieriniEnrico Garzelli Cesare Milani Italy 6 10 1 R3 Cedric LiddellGrey McLeishJoseph HarrisBen SharpeJack CunninghamCharles MattesonHarry FrySandy Saunders Les MacDonald Canada 6 14 3 R4 Len EinsaarJoe GouldMervyn WoodWalter JordanGeorge EliasWal MackneyWilliam CrossDon Ferguson Norman Ella Australia 6 21 9 R5 Arno FranzenMaximo FavaErnesto SauterAlfredo de BaerFrederico TadewaldHenrique KranenNilo FranzenLauro Franzen Rodolpho Rath Brazil 6 33 2 RSemifinal 3 Edit Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes1 Werner SchweizerFritz FeldmannRudolf HombergerOskar NeuenschwanderHermann BetschartHans HombergerAlex HombergerKarl Schmid Rolf Spring Switzerland 6 08 4 Q2 Alfred RieckHelmut RadachHans KuschkeHeinz KaufmannGerd VolsWerner LoeckleHans Joachim HannemannHerbert Schmidt Wilhelm Mahlow Germany 6 08 5 R3 Leonardo BujasRade SunaraVice JurisicMarjan ZaninovicAnte KrncevicSpiro GrubisicStipe KrncevicCiril Ban Pavao Ljubicic Yugoslavia 6 15 5 R4 Remond LarsenOlaf Klitgaard PoulsenPoul Byrge PoulsenKeld KariseBjorner DrogerCarl BernerKnud OlsenEmil Boje Jensen Harry Gregersen Denmark 6 18 0 RRepechage Edit 13 August The winner of each race advanced to the final the other boats were eliminated Repechage heat 1 Edit Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes1 Alfred RieckHelmut RadachHans KuschkeHeinz KaufmannGerd VolsWerner LoeckleHans Joachim HannemannHerbert Schmidt Wilhelm Mahlow Germany 6 44 9 Q2 Len EinsaarJoe GouldMervyn WoodWalter JordanGeorge EliasWal MackneyWilliam CrossDon Ferguson Norman Ella Australia 6 55 13 Karel BrandstatterPavel ParakJan HolobradekLadislav SmolikFrantisek SirFrantisek KobzikRudolf BaranekAntonin Hrstka Bedrich Prochazka Czechoslovakia 7 07 8 Remond LarsenOlaf Klitgaard PoulsenPoul Byrge PoulsenKeld KariseBjorner DrogerCarl BernerKnud OlsenEmil Boje Jensen Harry Gregersen Denmark DNSRepechage heat 2 Edit Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes1 Guglielmo Del BimboDino BarsottiOreste GrossiEnzo BartoliniMario CheccacciDante SecchiOttorino QuaglieriniEnrico Garzelli Cesare Milani Italy 6 35 6 Q2 Tadashi NegishiMasaru KashiwaharaShusui SekigawaIsamu MitaOsamu KitamuraHaruyoshi NakagawaTakeo HoriYoshiteru Suzuki Tadashi Shimijima Japan 6 42 33 Leonardo BujasRade SunaraVice JurisicMarjan ZaninovicAnte KrncevicSpiro GrubisicStipe KrncevicCiril Ban Pavao Ljubicic Yugoslavia 6 47 34 Arno FranzenMaximo FavaErnesto SauterAlfredo de BaerFrederico TadewaldHenrique KranenNilo FranzenLauro Franzen Rodolpho Rath Brazil 7 06 1Repechage heat 3 Edit 14 August Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes1 Tom AskwithRan LaurieJohn CherryHugh MasonMcAllister LonnonAnnesley KingsfordDesmond KingsfordJohn Couchman Noel Duckworth Great Britain 6 29 3 Q2 Cedric LiddellGrey McLeishJoseph HarrisBen SharpeJack CunninghamCharles MattesonHarry FrySandy Saunders Les MacDonald Canada 6 33 83 Emile LecuirotLouis DevillieHenri SouharceAlphonse BoutonCamille BecanneBernard BatillatJean CottezMarcel Charletoux Claude Lowenstein France 6 36 6Final Edit Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Herbert MorrisCharles DayGordon AdamJohn WhiteJames McMillinGeorge HuntJoe RantzDonald Hume Robert Moch United States 6 25 4 Guglielmo Del BimboDino BarsottiOreste GrossiEnzo BartoliniMario CheccacciDante SecchiOttorino QuaglieriniEnrico Garzelli Cesare Milani Italy 6 26 0 Alfred RieckHelmut RadachHans KuschkeHeinz KaufmannGerd VolsWerner LoeckleHans Joachim HannemannHerbert Schmidt Wilhelm Mahlow Germany 6 26 44 Tom AskwithRan LaurieJohn CherryHugh MasonMcAllister LonnonAnnesley KingsfordDesmond KingsfordJohn Couchman Noel Duckworth Great Britain 6 30 15 Pal DomonkosSandor von KorompayHugo BallyaImre KapossyAntal SzendeyGabor AlapyFrigyes HollosiLaszlo Szabo Ervin Kereszthy Hungary 6 30 36 Werner SchweizerFritz FeldmannRudolf HombergerOskar NeuenschwanderHermann BetschartHans HombergerAlex HombergerKarl Schmid Rolf Spring Switzerland 6 35 8References Edit Rowing at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games Men s Coxed Eights Sports Reference Archived from the original on 18 April 2020 Retrieved 1 August 2018 a b Eight Men Olympedia Retrieved 1 June 2021 Sydney Rows History 1936 Olympics Why Do We Race 2000m The History Behind the Distance World Rowing 1 May 2017 Retrieved 19 April 2021 External links EditThe Official Report of the Organising Committee for the Games of the XI Olympiad Berlin 1936 PDF PDF pp 1017 1018 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics Men 27s eight amp oldid 1066593539, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
