Latvia at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Appearance
Latvia at the 1936 Summer Olympics | |
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IOC code | LAT |
NOC | Latvian Olympic Committee |
Website | www |
in Berlin | |
Competitors | 29 in 6 sports |
Flag bearer | Haralds Marvē[1] |
Medals Ranked 24th |
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Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Other related appearances | |
Russian Empire (1908–1912) Soviet Union (1952–1988) |
Latvia competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. 29 competitors, all men, took part in 16 events in 6 sports.[2] It would be the last time that Latvia would compete at the Summer Games as an independent nation until the 1992 Summer Olympics. After the nation was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940, Latvian athletes were forced to compete at the Olympic Games as part of the USSR delegations.
Medalists
[edit]Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
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Silver | Edvīns Bietags | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman -87 kg |
Bronze | Adalberts Bubenko | Athletics | Men's 50 km Walk |
Athletics
[edit]- Men
- Track & road events
Athlete | Event | Heat | Final | ||
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Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
Adalberts Bubenko | 50 km walk | — | 4:32:42.2 | ||
Jānis Daliņš | — | DNF | |||
Arnolds Krūkliņš | — | DNF | |||
Artūrs Motmillers | Marathon | — | 2:58:02.0 | 28 | |
Voldemārs Vītols | 3000 m steeplechase | 9:28.8 | 3 Q | 9:18.8 | 7 |
- Field events
Athlete | Event | Heat | Final | ||
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Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
Oto Jurģis | Javelin throw | 61.9 | 11 q | 60.71 | 13 |
- Combined events – Decathlon
Athlete | Event | 100 | LJ | SP | HJ | 400 m | 100H | JT | PV | JT | 1500 m | Final | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jānis Dimza | Result | 11.9 | 6.36 | 13.66 | 1.70 | DNS | DNF | ||||||
Points | 624 | 666 | 708 | 544 | DNF | DNF |
Basketball
[edit]Second round
[edit]Winners advanced to the third round. Losers competed in the second consolation round for another chance to move on.
Second consolation round
[edit]Winners returned to the main competition for the third round. Losers were out of the tournament.
Cycling
[edit]Four male cyclists represented Latvia in 1936
Road
[edit]Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
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Arvīds Immermanis | Men's road race | 2:52:08.0 | AC |
Aleksejs Jurjevs | 2:52:08.0 | AC | |
Mārtiņš Mazūrs | 2:37:08.0 | AC | |
Jānis Vītols | 2:52:08.0 | AC | |
Mārtiņš Mazūrs Arvīds Immermanis Aleksejs Jurjevs Jānis Vītols |
Team time trial | 8:21:24.0 ET | AC |
Shooting
[edit]Three shooters represented Latvia in 1936.
- Men
Athlete | Event | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Shoot off | Final | |
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Score | Score | Score | Score | Score | Score | Rank | ||
Rūdolfs Baumanis | 50 metre rifle prone | — | 291 | 32 | ||||
Kārlis Kļava | 25 m rapid fire pistol | 18 | 4 | Did not advance | 22 | 23 | ||
Haralds Marvē | 18 | 6 | 5 | 3 | - | 29 | 8 |
Wrestling
[edit]- Men's Greco-Roman
Athlete | Event | Elimination Pool | Final round | |||||||
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Round 1 Result |
Round 2 Result |
Round 3 Result |
Round 4 Result |
Round 5 Result |
Round 6 Result |
Rank | Final round Result |
Rank | ||
Krisjānis Kundziņš | −66 kg | August Scherpenisse (BEL) W F 8.10 |
Valentino Borgia (ITA) L 0–3 |
Nikolaos Biris (GRE) W F 14:11 |
BYE | Yaşar Erkan (TUR) L 0–3 |
— | 5 | did not advance | |
Edvīns Bietags | −87 kg | Werner Seelenbinder (GER) L F 10.00 |
Gyula Bóbis (HUN) W F 3.46 |
Mustafa Avcioglu (TUR) W F 11.36 |
BYE | August Neo (EST) W 2–1 |
BYE | 2 | Axel Cadier (SWE) L 0–3 |
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Alberts Zvejnieks | +87 kg | Josef Klapuch (TCH) L F 3.05 |
Stevan Nagy (YUG) W F 15.44 |
Kurt Hornfischer (GER) L 0–3 |
did not advance | 7 | did not advance |
Art competitions
[edit]Athlete | Event | Category | Title | Rank |
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Augusts Annuss | Painting | Paintings | Struggle and Goal | NM |
Rūdolfs Mazūrs | Painting | Prints, Watercolors and drawings, Paintings | Vier Aquarelle | NM |
Vilfrīds Karls Štriks-Štrikfelds | Literature | Lyrics works | Olympische Briefe | NM |
Konstantīns Visotskis | Painting | Paintings | Weg ist er! | NM |
Voldemārs Vimba | Painting | Paintings | Finish! | NM |
References
[edit]- ^ "Haralds Marvē". olympedia.org. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
- ^ "Latvia at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2015.