Japan at the 1936 Summer Olympics
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| At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | ||||||||||||
| Medals Rank: 8 |
Gold 6 |
Silver 4 |
Bronze 8 |
Total 18 |
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Japan competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany.
[edit] Medalists
| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
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 Gold |
Naoto Tajima | Athletics | Men's Triple Jump |
| Gold |
Son Kitei | Athletics | Men's Marathon[1][2] |
| Gold |
Shigeo Arai, Shigeo Sugiura, Masaharu Taguchi, and Masanori Yusa | Swimming | Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay |
| Gold |
Noboru Terada | Swimming | Men's 1500m Freestyle |
| Gold |
Tetsuo Hamuro | Swimming | Men's 200m Breaststroke |
| Gold |
Hideko Maehata | Swimming | Women's 200m Breaststroke |
 Silver |
Shuhei Nishida | Athletics | Men's Pole Vault |
| Silver |
Masao Harada | Athletics | Men's Triple Jump |
| Silver |
Masanori Yusa | Swimming | Men's 100m Freestyle |
| Silver |
Shumpei Uto | Swimming | Men's 400m Freestyle |
 Bronze |
Naoto Tajima | Athletics | Men's Long Jump |
| Bronze |
Sueo Ōe | Athletics | Men's Pole Vault |
| Bronze |
Nan Shoryu | Athletics | Men's Marathon[1] |
| Bronze |
Masaji Kiyokawa | Swimming | Men's 100m Backstroke |
| Bronze |
Reizo Koike | Swimming | Men's 200m Breaststroke |
| Bronze |
Shigeo Arai | Swimming | Men's 100m Freestyle |
| Bronze |
Shozo Makino | Swimming | Men's 400m Freestyle |
| Bronze |
Shumpei Uto | Swimming | Men's 1500m Freestyle |
[edit] References
- ^ a b Both Sohn Kee-chung (Son Kitei) and Nam Sung-yong (Nan Shoryu) were Koreans, but since Korea was a Japanese colony at the time, they were required by Japan to use the Japanese pronunciations of their names and are recorded under the Japanese spellings in the Olympic records
- ^ IOC biography of Son Kitei
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