Gymnastics at the 1936 Summer Olympics

At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, nine events in gymnastics were contested. The competitions were held from 10 August 1936 to 12 August 1936.^[1]

Gymnastics at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Venue	Dietrich Eckart Open-Air Theatre
Dates	10–12 August 1936
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Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	6	1	6	13
2	Switzerland (SUI)	1	6	2	9
3	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	1	0	2
4	Finland (FIN)	1	0	1	2
5	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	1	0	1
6	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		9	9	10	28

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around details	Alfred Schwarzmann  Germany	Eugen Mack  Switzerland	Konrad Frey  Germany
Team all-around details	Germany (GER) Franz Beckert Konrad Frey Alfred Schwarzmann Willi Stadel Inno Stangl Walter Steffens Matthias Volz Ernst Winter	Switzerland (SUI) Walter Bach Albert Bachmann Walter Beck Eugen Mack Georges Miez Michael Reusch Eduard Steinemann Josef Walter	Finland (FIN) Mauri Nyberg-Noroma Veikko Pakarinen Aleksanteri Saarvala Heikki Savolainen Esa Seeste Einari Teräsvirta Eino Tukiainen Martti Uosikkinen
Floor exercise details	Georges Miez  Switzerland	Josef Walter  Switzerland	Konrad Frey  Germany Eugen Mack  Switzerland
Horizontal bar details	Aleksanteri Saarvala  Finland	Konrad Frey  Germany	Alfred Schwarzmann  Germany
Parallel bars details	Konrad Frey  Germany	Michael Reusch  Switzerland	Alfred Schwarzmann  Germany
Pommel horse details	Konrad Frey  Germany	Eugen Mack  Switzerland	Albert Bachmann  Switzerland
Rings details	Alois Hudec  Czechoslovakia	Leon Štukelj  Yugoslavia	Matthias Volz  Germany
Vault details	Alfred Schwarzmann  Germany	Eugen Mack  Switzerland	Matthias Volz  Germany

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team all-around details	Germany (GER) Anita Bärwirth Erna Bürger Isolde Frölian Friedl Iby Trudi Meyer Paula Pöhlsen Julie Schmitt Käthe Sohnemann	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Jaroslava Bajerová Vlasta Děkanová Božena Dobešová Vlasta Foltová Anna Hřebřinová Matylda Pálfyová Zdeňka Veřmiřovská Marie Větrovská	Hungary (HUN) Margit Csillik Margit Kalocsai Ilona Madary Gabriella Mészáros Margit Nagy Olga Törös Judit Tóth Eszter Voit
Individual all-around† details	Trudi Meyer  Germany	Erna Bürger  Germany	Käthe Sohnemann  Germany
Vault† details	Anita Bärwirth  Germany	Käthe Sohnemann  Germany	Erna Bürger  Germany
Uneven or Parallel Bars†, †† details	Trudi Meyer  Germany	Käthe Sohnemann  Germany	Margit Nagy  Hungary
Balance Beam† details	Gabriella Mészáros  Hungary	Zdeňka Veřmiřovská  Czechoslovakia	Erna Bürger  Germany Consetta Caruccio-Lenz  United States

† Within the sport of artistic gymnastics, although men were recognized with individual medals at the time, the women weren’t. The individuals named within individual events are the individuals who garnered a top-three placement in the team competition on the respective apparatus (or all 3 combined, in the case of the all-around) and who would have been awarded a medal with the rules that commenced with the 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympic Games and that would change periodically at future Olympic Games with respect to the debut of: 1) the individual finals competitions at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics and 2) the New Life rules that made their Olympic debut at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics.

†† At this Olympics, some women competed on the Uneven Bars while some others competed on Parallel Bars.

Participating nations

A total of 175 gymnasts from 16 nations competed at the Berlin Games:

•  Austria (8)
•  Bulgaria (7)
•  Czechoslovakia (16)
•  Finland (8)
•  France (8)
•  Germany (16)
•  Great Britain (8)
•  Hungary (16)
•  Italy (16)
•  Japan (8)
•  Luxembourg (8)
•  Poland (8)
•  Romania (8)
•  Switzerland (8)
•  United States (16)
•  Yugoslavia (16)

Demonstrations

In the Official Report of the Games, gymnastics demonstrations from seven countries are listed on the schedule.^[2] These countries were Denmark, Norway, Finland, Hungary, Sweden and Germany, as well as China, which performed a wushu (Chinese boxing) demonstration.^[2]