Track Events - MEN |
Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
100 metres | Jesse Owens USA | 10.3s |
Ralph Metcalfe USA | 10.4s | Martinus Osendarp Netherlands | 10.5s |
200 metres | Jesse Owens USA | 20.7s | Matthew Robinson USA | 21.1s | Martinus Osendarp Netherlands | 21.3s |
400 metres | Archie Williams USA | 46.5s | Arthur Brown GB | 46.7s | James LuValle USA | 46.8s |
800 metres | John Woodruff USA | 1m 52.9s | Mario Lanzi Italy | 1m 53.3s | Philip Edwards Canada | 1m 53.6s |
1500 metres | Jack Lovelock New Zealand | 3m 47.8s | Jack Cunningham USA | 3m 48.4s | Luigi Beccali Italy | 3m 49.2s |
5000 metres | Gunnar Hockert Finland | 14m 22.2s | Lauri Lehtinen Finland | 14m 25.8s | Henry Jonsson Sweden | 14m 29.0s |
10000 metres | Ilmari Salminen Finland | 30m 15.4s | Arvo Askola Finland | 30m 15.6s | Volmari Iso-Hollo Finland | 30m 20.2s |
Marathon (42,195 metres) | Sohn Kee-chung Korea | 2h 29m 19s | Ernest Harper GB | 2h 31m 23s | Nam Seung-yong Korea | 2h 31m 42s |
Steeplechase (3000 metres) | Volmari Iso-Hollo Finland | 9m 3.8s | Kaarlo Tuominen Finland | 9m 6.8s | Alfred Dompert Germany | 9m 7.2s |
Field Events - MEN |
| | Ht/Dist | | Ht/Dist | | Ht/Dist |
High Jump | Cornelius Johnson USA | 2.03 m | David Albritton USA | 2.00 m | Delos Thurber USA | 2.00 m |
Long Jump | Jesse Owens USA | 8.06 m | Lutz Long Germany | 7.87 m | Naoto Tajima Japan | 7.74 m |
Pole Vault | Earle Meadows USA | 4.35 m | Shuhei Nishida Japan | 4.25 m | Sueo Oe Japan | 4.25 m |
Shot | Hans Woellke Germany | 16.20 m | Sulo Barlund Finland | 16.12 m | Gerhard Stock Germany | 15.66 m |
Discus | Kenneth Carpenter USA | 50.48 m | Gordon Dunn USA | 49.36 m | Giorgio Oberweger Italy | 49.23 m |
Javelin | Gerard Stock Germany | 71.84 m | Yrjo Nikkanen Finland | 70.77 m | Kallervo Toivonen Finland | 70.72 m |
Track Events - WOMEN |
Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
100 metres | Helen Stephens USA | 11.5s |
Stanislawa Walasiewicz Poland | 11.7s | Kathe Krauss Germany | 11.9s |
800 metres | Was NOT held in these games |
Field Events - WOMEN |
| | Ht/Dist | | Ht/Dist | | Ht/Dist |
High Jump | Ibolya Csak Hungary | 1.60 m | Dorothy Odam GB | 1.60 m | Elfriede Kaun Germany | 1.60 m |
Discus | Gisela Mauermayer Germany | 47.63 m | Jadwiga Wajsowna Poland | 46.22 m | Paula Mollenhauer Germany | 39.80 m |
Javelin | Tilly Fleischer Germany | 45.18 m | Luise Kruger Germany | 43.29 m | Marja Kwasniewska Poland | 41.80 m |
This was the first of the Olympic Games in which the record-keeping seems not to have given later writers any cause for confusion, except for the occasional variation in the anglicising of some foreign names. |