1936 in sports
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- 2.1 January
- 2.2 in February
- 2.3 March
- 2.4 April
- 2.5 May
- 2.6 in June
- 2.7 in July
- 2.8 August
- 2.9 September
- 2:10 October
- 2:11 November
- 2.12 December
- 2:13 Accurate birth unknown
Events
Olympic games
- 6 to 16 February: Winter Olympic Games 1936
- 1 to 16 August: Olympic Summer Games 1936
- Chess Olympics 1936
- The People's Olympics in Barcelona has to be canceled due to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
Badminton
- All England 1936
- Dutch Open 1936
Football
International Football Events
- European Cup Football Teams 1936-1938
- December 27: The 1937 Campeonato Sudamericano begins with the opening match between Brazil and Peru.
National Football Championships
- German football championship in 1935/36
- Austrian Football Championship in 1935/36
Athletics
World Records
Sprint
- FEBRUARY 20: Jesse Owens, USA, running the 100 meters in the men's 10,2 s
- 20 June: Jesse Owens, USA, running the 100 meters in the men's 10,2 s
- JULY 19: Archie Williams, USA, running the 400 meters in the men's 46.1 s
- September 4: Jesse Owens, USA, running the 200 meters in the men's 20.7 s
Middle distance running
- JULY 30: Evdokiya Wasiljewa, Russia, running the 1500 meters of the ladies 4:47,2 min.
- September 5: Jack Lovelock, New Zealand, running the 1500 meters of the men in 3:47,8 min.
- September 12: Glenn Cunningham, USA, running the 800 meters of the men in 1:49,7 min.
Hurdles
Walking
- FEBRUARY 28: Edgar Bruun, Norway, 50,000 meters of walking gentlemen goes in 4:26:41 h
- July 7: Fritz White Lead, Germany, the 20,000 meters walking the men goes in 1:33:25 h
Jumping events
- JULY 4: George Varoff, USA, jumps in the pole vault of 4.43 m men.
- July 12: Cornelius Johnson, USA, jump in the high jump of 2.07 m men.
- August 4: George Varoff, USA, achieved in the pole vault of 4.43 m men.
- August 6: Naoto Tajima, Japan, jump in the triple jump men of 16 meters.
- August 12: Dave Albritton, United States, reached the men's high jump 2.07m.
- August 12: Cornelius Johnson, USA, reached the men's high jump 2.07m.
- September 5: Naoto Tajima, Japan, reached the men's triple jump 16.00 m.
- Harold Osborn, USA, jumps in the state high jump 1.68 meters, a record unbroken to this day, because this discipline is then no longer officially discharged.
Throwing events
More fight
- September 7: Glenn Morris, USA, achieved in the decathlon of the Lords 7900 points.
Motorsport
Motorcycle Championship
- When discharged on the Badberg Quadrangle in Hohenstein- Ernstthal in Germany Motorcycle Championship no title is awarded in the 175 cc class, since none of the starter reaches the destination.
- In the quarter-liter class, the Irishman Henry Tyrell -Smith wins at Excelsior before the two locals Ewald Kluge ( DKW ) and Bernhard port ( Rudge ).
- The 350ern the British Norton factory rider Freddie Frith wins ahead of the two German NSU pilots Oskar Steinbach and Heiner Fleischmann.
- In the half-liter class, the Briton wins Jimmie Guthrie on Norton before the locals Hermann Paul Müller ( DKW ) and his compatriot John White ( also Norton ).
Cycling
- Giro d' Italia 1936
- Tour de France 1936
- Vuelta a España 1936
- UCI Track World Championships 1936
Sailing
- Ocean Race Bermuda Cuxhaven 1936
Table tennis
- Table Tennis World Cup 1936
Winter sports
- Alpine Ski World 1936
- Hockey World Cup 1936
- World Figure Skating Championships 1936
- European Figure Skating Championships 1936
- Olympic Winter Games
Born
January
- January 6: Darlene Hard, American tennis player
- January 16: Tinus Bosselaar, Dutch footballer
- January 18: Hugh Anderson, New Zealand motorcycle racer
- January 27: Henri Grandsire, French race car driver and actor
- January 27: Manfred Molzberger, German athlete († 2003)
February
- February 5: Norma Thrower, Australian track and field athlete and Olympian
- FEBRUARY 17: Jim Brown, American football player
- FEBRUARY 24: Mohamed Maouche, Algerian- French football player and coach
- FEBRUARY 27: John Kaiser, German athlete († 1996)
- FEBRUARY 29: Henri Richard, Canadian hockey player
March
April
- April 4: Hans Grodotzki, German track and field athlete
- April 5: Ronnie Bucknum, American race car driver († 1992)
- April 15: Petre Ivănescu, Romanian handball player and coach
- April 15: Raymond Poulidor, French cyclist
- April 26: Heinz Vollmar, German footballer († 1987)
May
- May 7: Tony O'Reilly, Irish rugby player and entrepreneur
- MAY 24: Werner von Moltke, German track and field athlete
- MAY 31: Héctor Demarco, Uruguayan football player
June
- June 2: Volodymyr Holubnytschyj, Ukrainian mountaineers and Olympic champion
- June 3: Enric Gensana, Spanish footballer († 2005)
- JUNE 10: Eugenio Bersellini, Italian footballer and coach
- June 14: Wolfgang Behrendt, German Boxer
- JUNE 26: Hal Greer, American basketball player
July
August
- August 4: Claude Ballot -Lena, French race car driver († 1999)
- August 12: Iosif Bükössy, Romanian football player and coach († 2006)
- August 12: Rachid Mekhloufi, French - Algerian football player and coach
- August 15: Lothar Buchmann, German football player and coach
- AUGUST 20: Bernhard Wessel, German football player
- AUGUST 21: Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player († 1999)
- AUGUST 28: Bert Schneider, an Austrian motorcycle racer († 2009)
September
October
- OCTOBER 21: Mahi Khennane, Algerian- French football player and coach
- OCTOBER 27: Dave Charlton, South African racing driver
- OCTOBER 28: Juan Carlos Harriott, Argentine polo player
- October 30: Polina Astachowa, Ukrainian gymnast († 2005)
November
- November 3: Roy Emerson, Australian tennis player
- NOVEMBER 5: Klaus Enderlein, German motorcycle racer († 1995)
- NOVEMBER 5: Uwe Seeler, German football player and manager
- NOV 7: Al Attles, American basketball player and coach
- November 9: Conny Freundorfer, German table tennis player († 1988)
- November 9: Mikhail Tal, Latvian - Soviet chess player († 1992)
- NOVEMBER 10: Claudio Barrientos, Chilean boxer († 1984)
- November 14: Héctor Rubén Sosa, Argentine footballer († 2008)
- November 16: Skip Barber, American race car driver
December
- December 6: Heinz Hergert, football national player of the GDR
- December 11: Erich Hagen, German cyclists ( † 1978)
- December 12: Iolanda Balas, Romanian high jumper
- DECEMBER 12: Hans Fischer, German motorcycle racer († 2008)
- December 19: Remy A. Presas, Filipino Martial Arts Trainer ( † 2001)
- DECEMBER 23: Willie Wood, U.S. American football player
- 26th December: Trevor Taylor, British racing driver († 2010)
- DECEMBER 29: Ray Nitschke, U.S. American football player († 1998)
Exact date of birth unknown
- Herbert Demetz, Italian racing driver († 1965)
Died
- FEBRUARY 4: Rudolf Heydel, German race car driver (* 1911)
- APRIL 30: Oran Pape, U.S. American football player (* 1904)
- JUNE 27: Bernard Rubin, British racing car driver (* 1896)
- JULY 19: Hans Winkler, German motorcycle racer († 1898)
- AUGUST 30: Albert Schneider, German motorcycle racer (* 1899 or 1900 )
- October 6: Rodney Heath, Australian tennis player (* 1884)