1936 Winter Olympics / Ice Hockey

Ice hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Competition venue	Olympic Ice Sports Center Rießersee
Teams	15th
Nations	15th
Athletes	173 (173 )
date	February 6-16, 1936
decisions	1
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Ice Hockey World Championship
◄ previous	1936	next ►
Winner: Great Britain

European ice hockey championship
◄ previous	1936	next ►
Winner: Great Britain

The Olympic ice hockey tournament of the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Germany , was also the 10th ice hockey world championship and the 21st European ice hockey championship . The tournament took place from February 6 to 16, 1936. 15 teams took part. The venue for the Games was the newly built Olympic Ice Sports Center . There were also games on the frozen Riessersee .

The tournament started in four preliminary round groups; the first two in each group reached the intermediate round. There, the final round participants were determined in two groups with four teams each. The first two of each group entered the final round, taking their direct comparisons with them. For the first time, Canada was not the Olympic champion, but Great Britain brought the defending champion their first Olympic defeat and won the gold medal, the world championship and, in a European comparison, the European championship with mostly British-born players who emigrated to Canada at an early age.

Preliminary round

Group A

February 6, 1936 2:30 p.m.

Canada Bill Thomson (0:30) Bill Thomson (2:00) Kenneth Farmer (5:10) Walter Kitchen (12:30) Bill Thomson (14:51) Kenneth Farmer (27:03) Dave Neville (29:00) Bill Thomson (38:01)

8: 1 (5: 0, 2: 1, 1: 0) game report

Poland Adam Kowalski (23:03)

Riessersee, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 7, 1936 9:00 a.m.

Canada Ralph Saint Germain (8:00) Ralph Saint Germain (12:00) Hugh Farquharson (15:20) Hugh Farquharson (19:20) Jim Haggarty (20:00) Hugh Farquharson (30:18) Dave Neville (35: 42) Dave Neville (38:04) Ralph Saint Germain (41:15) Hugh Farquharson (43:58) Jim Haggarty (44:25)

11: 0 (2: 0, 3: 0, 6: 0) game report

Latvia

Olympic artificial ice stadium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 7, 1936 2:30 p.m.

Austria Fritz Demmer (31st) Oskar Nowak (37th)

2: 1 (0: 0, 0: 0, 2: 1) game report

Poland Adam Kowalski (35.)

Olympic artificial ice stadium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen spectators: 4,000

February 8, 1936

Poland I. Adam Kowalski II. Andrzej Wołkowski (2) II. Witalis Ludwiczak (2) III. Mieczysław Kasprzycki III. Edmund Zieliński III. Czesław Marchewczyk III. Andrzej Wołkowski

9: 2 (1: 0, 4: 0, 4: 2) match report

Latvia III. Arvīds Petersons III. Jānis Bebris

Olympic artificial ice stadium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 8, 1936

Canada I. Bill Thomson I. Hugh Farquharson I. Herman Murray I. Horn II. Alex Sinclair

5: 2 (4: 0, 1: 2, 0: 0) game report

Austria II. Franz Csöngei

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 9, 1936

Austria Hans Tatzer (4th) Fritz Demmer (10th, 13th) Hans Tatzer (14th) Franz Csöngei (42nd) III. Franz Csöngei III. Fritz Demmer

7: 1 (4: 0, 0: 0, 3: 1) game report

Latvia III. Reinis Bluķis

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	Canada	3	3	0	0	24: 3	+21	6-0
2	Austria	3	2	0	1	11: 7	+4	4: 2
3	Poland	3	1	0	2	11:12	−1	2: 4
4th	Latvia	3	0	0	3	03:27	−24	0: 6

Group B

February 6, 1936

German Empire

0: 1 (0: 1, 0: 0, 0: 0) game report

USA Gordon Smith (14.)

Garmisch-Partenkirchen spectators: 10,000

February 7, 1936 10:15 a.m.

USA Frank Spain (13th) Elbridge Ross Frank Spain

3: 0 (0: 0, 3: 0, 0: 0) game report

Switzerland

Olympic artificial ice stadium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 7, 1936 9:00 p.m.

German Empire

3: 0 (1: 0, 1: 0, 1: 0)

Italy

Olympic artificial ice stadium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 8, 1936

German Empire

2: 0 (0: 0, 1: 0, 1: 0)

Switzerland

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 8, 1936

USA John Garrison

1: 2 a.d. (0: 0, 0: 0, 1: 1, 0: 0, 0: 1) game report

Italy Mario Zucchini Giovanni Scotti

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 9, 1936

Switzerland

1: 0 (0: 0, 1: 0, 0: 0)

Italy

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	German Empire	3	2	0	1	5: 1	+4	4: 2
2	United States	3	2	0	1	5: 2	+3	4: 2
3	Italy	3	1	0	2	2: 5	−3	2: 4
4th	Switzerland	3	1	0	2	1: 5	−4	2: 4

Group C

February 6, 1936 4:45 p.m.

Hungary I. Sándor Miklós II. Béla Háray II. Sándor Miklós III. Sándor Miklós III. Béla Háray III. László Róna III. Sándor Miklós III. Béla Háray III. Sándor Magyar III. Béla Háray III. Sándor Miklós

11: 2 (1: 1, 2: 0, 8: 1) game report

Belgium I. Pierre Van Reyschoot III. Georges Pootmans

Olympic artificial ice stadium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 7, 1936 10:00 a.m.

Czechoslovakia II. Oldřich Kučera (3) II. Josef Maleček III. Zdeněk Jirotka

5: 0 (0: 0, 4: 0, 1: 0)

Belgium

Riessersee, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 7, 1936 2:30 p.m.

Hungary II. Sándor Miklós (10th) III. Sándor Miklós III. Sándor Magyar

3: 0 (0: 0, 1: 0, 2: 0) game report

France

Riessersee, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 8, 1936 2:30 p.m.

Czechoslovakia I. Oldřich Kučera II. Zdeněk Jirotka III. Josef Maleček

3: 0 (1: 0, 1: 0, 1: 0)

Hungary

Olympic artificial ice stadium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 8, 1936 2:30 p.m.

France I. Albert Hassler V1. Marcel Couttet V2. Michel Delesalle V2. Jean-Pierre Hagnauer

4: 2 n.V. (1: 0, 0: 1, 0: 0, 1: 1, 2: 0)

Belgium II. Georges Pootmans V1. Pierre Van Reyschoot

Riessersee, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 9, 1936 10:00 a.m.

Czechoslovakia II. Oldřich Kučera III. Zdeněk Jirotka

2: 0 (0: 0, 1: 0, 1: 0)

France

Olympic artificial ice stadium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	Czechoslovakia	3	3	0	0	10-0	+10	6-0
2	Hungary	3	2	0	1	14: 5	+9	4: 2
3	France	3	1	0	2	04: 7	−3	2: 4
4th	Belgium	3	0	0	3	04:20	−16	0: 6

Group D

February 6, 1936 9:00 p.m.

Sweden I. Holger Engberg II. Yngve Liljeberg

2: 0 (1: 0, 1: 0, 0: 0)

Japan

Olympic artificial ice stadium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 7, 1936 4:15 p.m.

Great Britain Gordon Dailley

1: 0 (1: 0, 0: 0, 0: 0) game report

Sweden

Olympic artificial ice stadium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 8, 1936 10:00 a.m.

Great Britain I. Edgar Brenchley I. Alexander Archer III. James Borland

3: 0 (2: 0, 0: 0, 1: 0)

Japan

Riessersee, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	Great Britain	2	2	0	0	4-0	+4	4-0
2	Sweden	2	1	0	1	2: 1	+1	2: 2
3	Japan	2	0	0	2	0: 5	−5	0: 4

Intermediate round

Group A

February 11, 1936 8:00 p.m.

German Empire II. Joachim Albrecht von Bethmann-Hollweg III. Gustav Jaenecke

2: 1 (0: 0, 1: 0, 1: 1)

Hungary III. Sándor Miklós

Olympic artificial ice stadium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 11, 1936 9:45 p.m.

Great Britain I. Gerry Davey III. Edgar Brenchley

2: 1 (1: 1, 0: 0, 1: 0)

Canada I. Ralph St. Germain

Olympic artificial ice stadium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 12, 1936 2:30 p.m.

Canada I. Herman Murray I. William Thomson I. David Neville II. Herman Murray II. Alexander Sinclair II. David Neville II. Kenneth Farmer II. Hugh Farquharson II. Own goal of Hungarians II. Herman Murray II. Alexander Sinclair (2) III . William Thomson III. Kenneth Farmer III. Hugh Farquharson

15: 0 (3: 0, 9: 0, 3: 0)

Hungary

Olympic artificial ice stadium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 12, 1936 8:00 p.m.

German Empire III. Herbert Schibukat

1: 1 n.V. (0: 0, 0: 1, 1: 0, 0: 0 1 )

Great Britain II. Gerry Davey

Olympic artificial ice stadium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

¹ Ten minutes of extra time were played three times.

February 13, 1936 9:00 a.m.

Great Britain I. Edgar Brenchley II. James Chappell II. Gerry Davey (2) III. Alexander Archer

5: 1 (1: 0, 3: 1, 1: 0)

Hungary Zoltán Jeney

Olympic artificial ice stadium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 13, 1936 8 p.m.

German Empire II. Toni Wiedemann III. Georg Strobl

2: 6 (0: 1, 1: 3, 1: 2)

Canada I. Hugh Farquharson II. Hugh Farquharson II. David Neville II. Kenneth Farmer III. Ralph Saint-Germain David Neville

Olympic artificial ice stadium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	Great Britain	3	2	1	0	8: 3	+5	5: 1
2	Canada	3	2	0	1	22: 4	+18	4: 2
3	German Empire	3	1	1	1	5: 8	−3	3: 3
4th	Hungary	3	0	0	3	2:22	−20	0: 6

Group B

February 11, 1936 2:30 p.m.

USA Francis Spain John Garrison

2: 0 (0: 0, 2: 0, 0: 0)

Czechoslovakia

Riessersee, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 11, 1936 2:30 p.m.

Sweden Yngve Liljeberg

1: 0 (1: 0, 0: 0, 0: 0)

Austria

Riessersee, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 12, 1936 4:20 p.m.

Czechoslovakia II. Jiří Tožička II. Drahomír Jirotka III. Josef Maleček III. Oldřich Kučera

4: 1 (0: 1, 2: 0, 2: 0)

Sweden I. Bertil Norberg

Olympic artificial ice stadium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 12, 1936 10:15 p.m.

USA John Garrison

1: 0 (0: 0, 1: 0, 0: 0)

Austria

Olympic artificial ice stadium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 13, 1936 10:50 a.m.

Czechoslovakia II Drahomír Jirotka (2)

2: 1 (0: 0, 2: 1, 0: 0)

Austria II. Franz Csöngei

Olympic artificial ice stadium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 13, 1936 10:00 p.m.

USA II. Paul Rowe III. Paul Rowe

2: 1 (0: 0, 1: 1, 1: 0)

Sweden II. Ruben Carlsson

Olympic artificial ice stadium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	United States	3	3	0	0	5: 1	+4	6-0
2	Czechoslovakia	3	2	0	1	6: 4	+2	4: 2
3	Sweden	3	1	0	2	3: 6	−3	2: 4
4th	Austria	3	0	0	3	1: 4	−3	0: 6

Final round

The results of the direct comparisons from the intermediate round have been adopted.

February 14, 1936 9:00 p.m.

Great Britain Gerry Davey (10th) James Chappell (14th) Gerry Davey (23rd) Edgar Brenchley (25th) Gerry Davey (25th)

5: 0 (2: 0, 3: 0, 0: 0)

Czechoslovakia

Olympic artificial ice stadium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 15, 1936 10:00 a.m.

Canada Walter Kitchen (1st) William Thomson (13th) David Neville (13th) II. Kenneth Farmer II. David Neville II. Herman Murray Hugh Farquharson (35th)

7: 0 (3: 0, 3: 0, 1: 0)

Czechoslovakia

Olympic artificial ice stadium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, spectators: 6,000

February 15, 1936 9:00 p.m.

Great Britain

0: 0 n.V. (0: 0, 0: 0, 0: 0, 0: 0, 0: 0, 0: 0)

United States

Olympic artificial ice stadium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

February 16, 1936 2:30 p.m.

Canada David Neville (2:35)

1: 0 (1: 0, 0: 0, 0: 0)

United States

Olympic artificial ice stadium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	Great Britain	3	2	1	0	7: 1	+6	5: 1
2	Canada	3	2	0	1	9: 2	+7	4: 2
3	United States	3	1	1	1	2: 1	+1	3: 3
4th	Czechoslovakia	3	0	0	3	0:14	−14	0: 6

Final placement and medals

The US national ice hockey team .

The Canadian national ice hockey team .

placement	team	player
	Great Britain	Alexander Archer , James Borland , Edgar Brenchley , James Chappell , John Coward , Gordon Dailley , Gerry Davey , Carl Erhardt , Jimmy Foster , Jack Kilpatrick , Archibald Stinchcombe , Robert Wyman
	Canada	Maxwell Deacon , Hugh Farquharson , James Haggarty , Walter Kitchen , Raymond Milton , Dinty Moore , Herman Murray , Arthur Nash , David Neville , Kenneth Farmer , Ralph Saint-Germain , Alexander Sinclair , William Thomson
	United States	John Garrison , August Kammer , Philip LaBatte , John Lax , Thomas Moon , Eldridge Ross , Paul Rowe , Francis Shaughnessy , Gordon Smith , Francis Spain , Frank Stubbs
4th	Czechoslovakia	Josef Boháč , Alois Cetkovský , Karel Hromádka , Drahomír Jirotka , Zdeněk Jirotka , Jan Košek , Oldřich Kučera , Josef Maleček , Jan Peka , Jaroslav Pušbauer , Jiří Tožička , Ladislav Troják , Walter Ulrich
5	German Empire	Wilhelm Egginger , Joachim Albrecht von Bethmann-Hollweg , Gustav Jaenecke , Philipp Schenk , Rudi Ball , Karl Kögel , Toni Wiedemann , Herbert Schibukat , Alois Kuhn , Werner George , Georg Strobl , Paul Trautmann
6th	Sweden	Herman Carlsson , Sven Bergquist , Bertil Lundell , Holger Engberg , Torsten Jöhncke , Yngve Liljeberg , Bertil Norberg , Wilhelm Petersén , Åke Ericson , Stig Andersson , Lennart Hellman , Wilhelm Larsson , Ruben Carlsson
7th	Austria	Hermann Weiß , Hans Trauttenberg , Rudolf Vojta , Oskar Nowak , Fritz Demmer , Franz Csöngei , Hans Tatzer , Willibald Stanek , Lambert Neumaier , Franz Schüßler , Emil Seidler , Josef Göbl
8th	Hungary	Ferenc Monostori , István Csák , Miklós Barcza , László Róna , Frigyes Helmeczi , Sándor Magyar , András Gergely , László Gergely , Béla Háray , Zoltán Jeney , Sándor Miklós , Ferenc Szamosi , Mátyás Farkas
9	Poland	Józef Stogowski , Henryk Przeździecki , Witalis Ludwiczak , Kazimierz Sokołowski , Czesław Marchewczyk , Adam Kowalski , Andrzej Wołkowski , Edmund Zieliński , Władysław Król , Mieczysław Kasprzycki , Roman Stupnicki
10	France	Michel Paccard , Jacques Morisson , Jacques Lacarrière , Pierre Claret , Pierre Lorin , Marcel Couttet , Albert Hassler , Guy-Pierre Volpert , Jean-Pierre Hagnauer , Michel Delesalle , Philippe Boyard
11	Italy	Augusto Gerosa , Franco Rossi , Gianmario Baroni , Decio Trovati , Camillo Mussi , Giovanni Scotti , Ignazio Dionisi , Mario Zucchini , Mario Maiocchi , Luigi Zucchini
12	Japan	Teiji Honma , Masahiro Hayama , Tatsuo Ichikawa , Shinkichi Kamei , Toshihiko Shoji , Susumu Hirano , Masatatsu Kitazawa , Kenichi Furuya , Kozue Kinoshita
13	Switzerland	Albert Künzler , Arnold Hirtz , Oskar Schmidt , Ernst Hug , Adolf Martignoni , Hans Cattini , Bibi Torriani , Ferdinand Cattini , Herbert Kessler , Otto Heller , Charles Kessler , Thomas Pleisch
14th	Belgium	Robert Baudinne , Roger Bureau , Joseph Lekens , Georges Pootmans , Pierre Van Reyschoot , Willy Kreitz , Carlos Van den Driessche , Walter Bastenie , Fernand Carez , Louis De Ridder
15th	Latvia	Aleksejs Auziņš , Reinis Bluķis , Arvīds Jurgens , Herberts Kušķis , Roberts Lapainis , Kārlis Paegle , Arvīds Petersons , Ādolfs Petrovskis , Jānis Rozītis , Leonīds Vedējs , Jānis Bebris

Final placement of the European Championship

To determine the final placement of the European Championship, the table of the Olympic ice hockey tournament was adjusted for the non-European teams.

RF	team
1	Great Britain
2	Czechoslovakia
3	German Empire
4th	Sweden
5	Austria
6th	Hungary
7th	Poland
8th	France
9	Italy
10	Switzerland
11	Belgium
12	Latvia

Short reports on the finals

At 7-0 Canada on the morning of February 15, the Czech Republic looked tired, weakened by the absence of Karel Hromádka and Jiří Tožička and offered little resistance. In the first two thirds the maple leaves played for a big win, because they still had a chance to win the title, but in the last third they were content with a demonstration of beautiful ice hockey.
In the penultimate tournament match England's tactics were more defensive, so that the USA, which were forced to win, always acted slightly superior, but they didn't risk everything either. With two chances, the English goalkeeper Jimmy Foster , who was one of the best keepers in the Olympic tournament, reacted superbly. Despite the three extensions of two five minutes, the final score was 0-0, which means that England was practically already an Olympic champion and was accordingly enthusiastically celebrated by the audience.
Only a 4-0 victory for the USA could have brought the Yankees gold in the ultimate final game in the warm sun and in front of 10,000 spectators. The ice had suffered a bit from the blow dryer for the past two days, and the game was slow from the start. The only hit came from a lucky shot from the post, from where the puck jumped into the box. The Canadians dominated their opponent, but they were not interested in a high victory. There were some heated scenes, but technically and in terms of combination trains, this overseas duel owed a lot.

Disappointment in Switzerland

Regarding the early retirement of the Swiss team, “Sport Zürich” stated in its no. 26 of February 21, 1936, page 2, that there was already disagreement with the selection, in which the players of the long-time champions Davos owed the majority had come, the spirit of genuine camaraderie was missing, the team leaders treated the actors like recruits and not as people. In addition, the preparation was inadequate.

Web links

Commons : Ice Hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jeux Olympiques de Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 at passionhockey.com
• Organizing committee for the IV. Olympic Winter Games 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen EV: IV. Olympic Winter Games 1936. (PDF, 29.6 MB) LA84 Foundation, July 28, 2011, p. 367 ff. , Accessed on June 13, 2013 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fascination of the Olympics: The British from Canada. In: hockeyweb.de. November 18, 2005, accessed April 3, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Sport-Tagblatt, page 3. Austrian National Library , accessed on June 13, 2013 . 
3. ^ "England first ice hockey world champion" in "Sport Zürich", No. 24 of February 17, 1936, page 4.