Canada at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Canada participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with a delegation of 95 athletes participate. Overall, Canada was able to win nine medals during his ninth participation in the Olympic Summer Games, it is therefore at position 17 of the medal table. The result was then the previously third-best performance of the Canadian team, together with Antwerp ( 1920) and London (16x ) and Amsterdam and Los Angeles ( each 15x).
- 2.1 Basketball
- 2.2 boxes
- 2.3 fencing
- 2.4 canoe
- 2.5 Art Competitions
- 2.6 Athletics
- 2.7 Cycling
- 2.8 rings
- 2.9 Rowing
- 2:10 Sailing
- 2:11 Swimming
- 2:12 Diving
Medalist
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Participants per sport
Basketball
Men - Silver:
- Gordon Aitchison
- Ian Allison
- Arthur Chapman
- Chuck Chapman
- Edward Dawson
- Irving Meretsky
- Stanley Nantais
- James Stewart
- Malcolm Wiseman
- Doug Peden
Boxing
Men:
- Oliver Shanks (light heavyweight)
- Billy Marquart ( featherweight )
- Harvey Lacelle ( bantamweight )
- Maurice Camyré ( welterweight )
Fencing
Men:
- George Tully ( foil team team epee team and individual, saber and individual)
- Charles Otis ( team team foil and single, single sword, sword and individual)
- Ernest Dalton ( team and individual foil, epee team and individual, team saber )
- Don Collinge ( team team foil and single, single sword, sword and individual)
- Bertrand Boissonnault ( foil team epee Single)
Women:
- Aileen Thomas ( Foil Single)
- Kathleen Hughes - Hallett ( Foil Single)
- Nancy Archibald ( Foil Single)
Canoe
Men:
- Frank Willis ( 1000 m double kayak, double kayak ( folding boat ) 10,000 m)
- Bill Williamson ( One kayak 1000 m )
- Stanley Potter ( double kayak ( folding boat ) 10,000 m)
- Gordon Potter ( double kayak 10,000 m)
- Edward Deir ( 1000 m double kayak, double kayak 10,000 m)
- Frank Amyot ( one kayak 1000 m, 1000 m One - Canadians - Gold)
- Warren Saker (two Canadians 1000 m - bronze, two's Canadian 10,000 m - silver)
- Harvey Charters (two Canadians 1000 m - bronze, two's Canadian 10,000 m - silver)
Art competitions
Men:
- Tait McKenzie ( sculpture )
Athletics
Men:
- Percy Wyer (Marathon )
- Jim Worrall ( 110m hurdles, 400m hurdles )
- Harold Webster (Marathon )
- Milton Wallace ( 5000 m, 10,000 m)
- Hugh Thompson (1500 m)
- Sam Richardson (4 x 100 m relay, long jump, triple jump)
- Scotty Rankine ( 5000 m, 10,000 m)
- Lee Orr (100m, 200m, 4 x 100 m relay )
- Larry O'Connor ( 110m hurdles )
- Howie McPhee (100m, 200m, 4 x 100 m relay )
- Marshall Limon (400 m, 4 x 400 m relay )
- Jack Liddle ( 800 m, 1500 m )
- Bruce Humber (100m, 200m, 4 x 100 m relay )
- Joe Haley ( high jump )
- Bill Fritz ( 400 m, 4 x 400 m relay )
- Jim Courtright ( javelin )
- From Conway ( 800 m)
- Jimmy Bartlett (Marathon )
- Syl Apps ( pole vault )
- Phil Edwards ( 800 m - Bronze, 1500 m, 4 x 400 m relay )
- John Loaring (400 m, 400 m hurdles - silver, 4 x 400 m relay )
Women:
- Margaret Bell ( high jump )
- Roxy Atkins ( 80m hurdles )
- Betty Taylor (80 m hurdles - Bronze)
- Aileen Meagher (100 m, 4 x 100 m relay - Bronze)
- Jeanette Dolson (100 m, 4 x 100 m relay - Bronze)
- Hilda Cameron ( 100 m, 4 x 100 m relay - Bronze)
- Dot Brookshaw (4 x 100 m relay - Bronze)
Cycling
- George Turner ( road race team and individual, 4,000 m team pursuit )
- Rusty Peden ( road race individual and team)
- Doug Peace ( Sprint)
- Bob McLeod (1000 m time trial, 4000m Team Pursuit )
- George Crompton ( road race team and individual, 4,000 m team pursuit )
- Lionel Coleman ( road race team and individual, 4,000 m team pursuit )
Wrestling
Men:
- Howie Thomas ( freestyle lightweight )
- Vern Pettigrew ( Freestyle Featherweight )
- Terry Evans ( freestyle, middleweight)
- George Chiga ( Freestyle, heavyweight)
- Joseph Schleimer ( Freestyle Welterweight - Bronze)
Rowing
Men:
- Ben Sharpe ( eighth)
- Sandy Saunders ( eighth)
- Grey McLeish ( eighth)
- Charles Matteson ( eighth)
- Les MacDonald ( eighth)
- Cedric Liddell ( eighth)
- Joe Harris (back )
- Harry Fry ( eighth)
- Jack Cunningham ( eighth)
- Charles Campbell ( One )
Sailing
Men:
- Reg Dixon (O- Jolle )
Swimming
- Bill Puddy (200 m breaststroke )
- Bob Pirie ( 400m freestyle, 1500m freestyle, 4 x 200 m freestyle relay )
- George Larson ( 100 m freestyle )
- Gordon Kerr ( 100m backstroke )
- Robert Hooper ( 400m freestyle, 1500m freestyle, 4 x 200 m freestyle relay )
- Bob Hamerton ( 100m freestyle, 400m freestyle, 1500m freestyle, 4 x 200 m freestyle relay )
- Gerald Clawson (200 m breaststroke )
- Munroe Bourne ( 100 m freestyle, 4 x 200 m freestyle, 100 m backstroke )
- Margaret Stone ( 100 m freestyle, 4 x 100 m freestyle relay )
- Irene Pirie Milton (100 m freestyle, 4 x 100 m freestyle relay )
- Noel Oxenbury ( 100m backstroke )
- Mary McConkey (4 x 100 m freestyle relay, 100m back)
- Joan Langdon (200 m breaststroke )
- Phyllis Dewar (100 m freestyle, 4 x 100 m freestyle relay )
Diving
Men:
- George Athans ( diving )
Women:
- Thelma Boughner ( diving, diving )
- Lynda Adams ( diving, diving )