| Gymnastics at the Games of the XI Olympiad | |
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| Venue | Dietrich Eckart Open-Air Theatre |
| Dates | 10–12 August 1936 |
| Gymnastics at the 1936 Summer Olympics | ||
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| List of gymnasts Qualification | ||
Artistic | ||
| Team all-around | men | women |
| Individual all-around | men | |
| Vault | men | |
| Floor | men | |
| Pommel horse | men | |
| Rings | men | |
| Parallel bars | men | |
| Horizontal bar | men | |
At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, nine events in gymnastics were contested. The competitions were held from 10 August 1936 to 12 August 1936. [1]
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 |  Germany (GER) | 6 | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 2 |  Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 6 | 2 | 9 |
| 3 |  Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 |  Finland (FIN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 |  Yugoslavia (YUG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 |  Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (6 entries) | 9 | 9 | 10 | 28 | |
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team all-around | Germany (GER) Anita Bärwirth Erna Bürger Isolde Frölian Friedl Iby Trudi Meyer Paula Pöhlsen Julie Schmitt Käthe Sohnemann | Czechoslovakia (TCH) Jaroslava Bajerová Vlasta Děkanová Božena Dobešová Vlasta Foltová Anna Hřebřinová Matylda Pálfyová Zdeňka Veřmiřovská Marie Větrovská | Hungary (HUN) Margit Csillik Margit Kalocsai Ilona Madary Gabriella Mészáros Margit Nagy Olga Törös Judit Tóth Eszter Voit |
| Individual all-around† | Trudi Meyer  Germany | Erna Bürger Germany | Käthe Sohnemann Germany |
| Vault† | Anita Bärwirth Germany | Käthe Sohnemann Germany | Erna Bürger Germany |
| Uneven or Parallel Bars†, †† | Trudi Meyer Germany | Käthe Sohnemann Germany | Margit Nagy  Hungary |
| Balance Beam† | Gabriella Mészáros Hungary | Zdeňka Veřmiřovská  Czechoslovakia | Erna Bürger Germany Consetta Caruccio-Lenz  United States |
† Within the sport of artistic gymnastics, although men were recognized with individual medals at the time, the women weren’t. The individuals named within individual events are the individuals who garnered a top-three placement in the team competition on the respective apparatus (or all 3 combined, in the case of the all-around) and who would have been awarded a medal with the rules that commenced with the 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympic Games and that would change periodically at future Olympic Games with respect to the debut of: 1) the individual finals competitions at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics and 2) the New Life rules that made their Olympic debut at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics.
†† At this Olympics, some women competed on the Uneven Bars while some others competed on Parallel Bars.
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