Swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
Breaststroke
200 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 m		women
4 × 200 m	men
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At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, eleven swimming events were contested, six for men and five for women.^[1] The competitions were held from Saturday August 8, 1936 to Saturday August 15, 1936. There was a total of 248 participants from 29 countries competing.^[2]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	4	2	5	11
2	Netherlands (NED)	4	1	0	5
3	United States (USA)	2	3	3	8
4	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	1	2
5	Germany (GER)	0	3	1	4
6	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	1	2
7	Argentina (ARG)	0	1	0	1
Totals (7 entries)		11	11	11	33

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Ferenc Csik  Hungary	Masanori Yusa  Japan	Shigeo Arai  Japan
400 m freestyle details	Jack Medica  United States	Shunpei Uto  Japan	Shozo Makino  Japan
1500 m freestyle details	Noboru Terada  Japan	Jack Medica  United States	Shunpei Uto  Japan
100 m backstroke details	Adolph Kiefer  United States	Al Vande Weghe  United States	Masaji Kiyokawa  Japan
200 m breaststroke details	Tetsuo Hamuro  Japan	Erwin Sietas  Germany	Reizo Koike  Japan
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	Japan (JPN) Shigeo Arai Shigeo Sugiura Masaharu Taguchi Masanori Yusa	United States (USA) Ralph Flanagan John Macionis Jack Medica Paul Wolf	Hungary (HUN) Oszkár Abay-Nemes Ferenc Csik Ödön Gróf Árpád Lengyel

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Rie Mastenbroek  Netherlands	Jeannette Campbell  Argentina	Gisela Arendt  Germany
400 m freestyle details	Rie Mastenbroek  Netherlands	Ragnhild Hveger  Denmark	Lenore Wingard  United States
100 m backstroke details	Nida Senff  Netherlands	Rie Mastenbroek  Netherlands	Alice Bridges  United States
200 m breaststroke details	Hideko Maehata  Japan	Martha Genenger  Germany	Inge Sørensen  Denmark
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	Netherlands (NED) Rie Mastenbroek Willy den Ouden Jopie Selbach Tini Wagner	Germany (GER) Gisela Arendt Ruth Halbsguth Leni Lohmar Ingeborg Schmitz	United States (USA) Mavis Freeman Bernice Lapp Olive McKean Katherine Rawls

248 swimmers from 29 nations competed.^[2]

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 30 January 2007.