BERLIN 1936

The 1936 Olympics, held in Berlin, are best remembered for Adolf Hitler’s failed attempt to use them to prove his athletic gears theories of Aryan racial superiority. As it turned out, the most popular hero of the athletic gear Games, was the African-American sprinter and sports equipment suppliers ,long jump Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals. During the long jump competition, Owens’ German rival, Luz Long, publicly befriended him in front of the Nazis. 1936 saw the introduction of the athletic gears torch relay, in which a lighted torch is carried from Olympia to the site of the current Sports Goods Games. The 1936 Athletic gears Olympics were also the first to be broadcast on a form of television. Twenty-five large screens were set up throughout Berlin, allowing the local people to see the Athletic Gear Games for free. Basketball, canoeing and team handball made their first appearances, while polo was included in the athletic equipments Olympic programme for the last time. Thirteen-year-old Marjorie Gestring of the United States won the gold medal in springboard diving.

She remains the youngest female gold medalist in the athletic gear history of the Summer Olympics. Inge Sorensen of Denmark earned a bronze medal in the 200m breaststroke at the age of 12, making her the youngest sports gears medalist ever in an individual event. Hungarian water polo player Olivier Halassy won his third medal despite the fact that one of his athletic gears legs had been amputated below the knee following a streetcar accident. Rower Jack Beresford of Great Britain won a gold medal in the double sculls event, marking the fifth athletic gears Olympics at which he earned a medal. Kristjan Palusalu of Estonia won the heavyweight division in both freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling.

49 NOCs (Nations)

3,963 athletics (331 women, 3,632 men)

129 athletic gear events

CEREMONIES

Berlin 1936. Arrival of the Olympic Flame at the athletic gears Olympic Stadium.

Official opening of the Sports Goods Games by: Chancellor Adolf Hitler

Lighting the Olympic Flame by: Fritz Schilgen (athletic store)

Olympic Oath by: Rudolf Ismayr (weightlifting)

Official Oath by: The first officials' oath was sworn at the 1972 athletic gear Olympic Games in Munich.