Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's discus throw

Men's discus throw at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Venue	Olympiastadion: Berlin, Germany
Dates	August 5
Competitors	31 from 17 nations
Medalists
Ken Carpenter United States   Gordon Dunn United States   Giorgio Oberweger Italy

Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeple		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's discus throw event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1936 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on August 5, 1936. The final was won by American Ken Carpenter.

Results

Qualifying

Athlete	Nationality	Distance	Notes
Ken Carpenter	United States		Q
Gordon Dunn	United States		Q
Giorgio Oberweger	Italy		Q
Reidar Sørlie	Norway		Q
Willy Schröder	Germany		Q
Nikolaos Syllas	Greece		Q
Gunnar Bergh	Sweden		Q
Åke Hedvall	Sweden		Q
Johann Wotapek	Austria		Q
Helge Sivertsen	Norway		Q
Hans Fritsch	Germany		Q
Jules Noël	France		Q
Walter Wood	United States		Q
Bernard Prendergast	Great Britain
Guo Jie	China	41.13
Emil Janausch	Austria
Endre Madarász	Hungary
Gerhard Hilbrecht	Germany
Harald Andersson	Sweden	38.50
Jean Wagner	Luxembourg
Kalevi Kotkas	Finland
Laurence Reavell-Carter	Great Britain
Ling Peigeng	China
Miroslav Vítek	Czechoslovakia
Nikola Kleut	Yugoslavia
Oskar Ospelt	Liechtenstein
Paul Winter	France
Petre Havaleţ	Romania
Ruggero Biancani	Italy
Valér Barač	Czechoslovakia
Veljko Narančić	Yugoslavia

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
	Ken Carpenter	United States	x	44.53	48.98	x	50.48	47.48	50.48	OR
	Gordon Dunn	United States	x	49.36	48.04	47.21	47.77	x	49.36
	Giorgio Oberweger	Italy	46.67	46.65	49.23	47.28	x	x	49.23
4	Reidar Sørlie	Norway	47.01	48.77	46.79	47.66	48.65	47.87	48.77
5	Willy Schröder	Germany	44.79	47.22	45.01	47.39	47.81	47.93	47.93
6	Nikolaos Syllas	Greece	47.75	44.58	47.07	45.34	47.59	47.67	47.75
7	Gunnar Bergh	Sweden	44.19	47.13	47.22				47.22
8	Åke Hedvall	Sweden	46.20	46.15	45.83				46.20
9	Johann Wotapek	Austria	45.65	44.34	46.05				46.05
10	Helge Sivertsen	Norway	x	45.82	45.89				45.89
11	Hans Fritsch	Germany	38.91	45.10	43.61				45.10
12	Jules Noël	France	44.56	x	43.70				44.56
13	Walter Wood	United States	43.83	x	43.32				43.83

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

• 1936 Summer Olympics results: Men's discus throw, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-05-08.