Contents
- Background
- Competition format
- Schedule
- Results
- Semifinals
- Repechage
- Final
- References
- Further reading
| Men's eight at the Games of the XI Olympiad | ||||||||||
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 Rowing pictogram | ||||||||||
| Venue | Grünau Regatta Course | |||||||||
| Dates | 12–14 August 1936 | |||||||||
| Competitors | 126 from 14 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 6:25.4 | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics | |
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| Single sculls | men |
| Double sculls | men |
| Coxless pair | men |
| Coxed pair | men |
| Coxless four | men |
| Coxed four | men |
| Eight | men |
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. [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.
Rowing events were dominated by the hosts, Germany, who medaled in every event and took five of the seven gold medals. The final race, men's eights, was won by a working-class United States team from the University of Washington who, in what had become their trademark, started slow and outsprinted the competition to an exceedingly close finish, with only one second separating the top three finishers at the end of a six-and-a-half minute race. [2] [3] This event is chronicled in The Boys in the Boat written by Daniel James Brown, which later became a film of the same name.
