1936 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Decathlon (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Decathlon
gender	Men
Attendees	28 athletes from 17 countries
Competition location	Olympiastadion Berlin
Competition phase	7th / 8th August 1936
Medalist Glenn Morris ( USA ) Bob Clark ( USA ) Jack Parker ( USA )
← 1932 1948 →

The men's decathlon at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin was held on August 7th and 8th, 1936 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. 28 athletes took part, 17 were able to finish the decathlon. The points in the individual disciplines were determined using a point table newly developed in 1934.

The US team celebrated a triple triumph. Glenn Morris won the gold medal ahead of fellow compatriots Bob Clark and Jack Parker .

Existing records

• World record : 7824 P, 1934 rating - Hans-Heinrich Sievert ( Germany ), Hamburg , 7./8. July 1935
• Olympic record : 8462.235P , 1920 rating - James Bausch ( USA ), Los Angeles , 5th / 6th August 1932

Conducting the competition

The decathlon was carried out according to the same rules as today. The ten disciplines took place over two days. On August 7th there was the 100-meter run , the long jump , the shot put , the high jump and the 400-meter run . On August 8th, the 110-meter hurdles followed , the discus throw , the pole vault , the javelin throw and the final 1500-meter run . The underlying table of points was from 1934.

Attendees

28 athletes from 17 countries took part in the Olympic competition:

Surname	nation
Péter Bácsalmási	Hungary
Olle Bexell	Sweden
Emile Binet	Belgium
Helmut Bonnet	German Empire
Maurice Boulanger	Belgium
Reinds brasser	Netherlands
Willy Buehrer	Switzerland
Bob Clark	United States
Zoltán Csanyi	Hungary
Leif Dahlgren	Sweden
Fritz Dällenbach	Switzerland
Jānis Dimza	Latvia
Lyuben Doychev	Bulgaria
Armin Guhl	Switzerland
Erwin Huber	German Empire
Akilles Jarvinen	Finland
Josef Klein	Czechoslovakia
Glenn Morris	United States
Edvard Natvig	Norway
Jack Parker	United States
Jerzy Pławczyk	Poland
Erwin Reimer	Chile
Aulis Reinikka	Finland
Chang Singchow	China
Franz Sterzl	Austria
Martti Tolamo	Finland
Karl Vilmundarson	Iceland
Oswaldo Wenzel	Chile

Disciplines

100 meter run

August 7, 1936, 10.00 am
Weather conditions: clear to cloudy, 20–22 ° C, wind speeds 1.5–1.6 m / s.
The discipline was carried out in ten runs.
With 10.9 s, Bob Clark (USA) ran the best time ever in an Olympic decathlon over 100 meters .

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Clark 10.9 s 872 02 Morris 11.1 s 814 03 Guhl 11.3 s 760 04th Binet 11.4 s 735 04th Järvinen 11.4 s 735 04th Parker 11.4 s 735 07th Doychev 11.5 s 710 07th Huber 11.5 s 710 07th Tolamo 11.5 s 710 10 Bexell 11.6 s 686 10 Bonnet 11.6 s 686 10 Brasser 11.6 s 686 10 Csanyi 11.6 s 686 10 Dahlgren 11.6 s 686 10 Small 11.6 s 686 10 Pławczyk 11.6 s 686 17th Sterzl 11.7 s 662 18th Buehrer 11.8 s 640 19th Dallenbach 11.9 s 618 19th Dimza 11.9 s 618 21st Reimer 12.0 s 597 22nd Bácsalmási 12.1 s 576 22nd Natvig 12.1 s 576 22nd Reinikka 12.1 s 576 25th Singchow 12.2 s 556 25th Wenceslaus 12.2 s 556 27 Boulanger 12.4 s 517 28 Vilmundarson 12.6 s 481

Long jump

August 7, 1936, 11.30 a.m.
Weather conditions: clear to cloudy, 20–22 ° C, wind speeds 1.5–1.6 m / s.
With 7.62 m, Bob Clark (USA) jumped the best distance ever achieved in an Olympic decathlon in the long jump .

Classification space Surname Expanse Points 01 Clark 7.62 m 977 02 Parker 7.35 m 899 03 Pławczyk 7.12 m 836 04th Guhl 7.04 m 815 05 Morris 6.97 m 796 06th Huber 6.89 m 775 07th Tolamo 6.84 m 762 08th Bácsalmási 6.78 m 746 09 Brasser 6.69 m 723 09 Järvinen 6.69 m 723 11 Bexell 6.68 m 721 12 Bonnet 6.66 m 716 13 Dahlgren 6.65 m 713 14th Binet 6.55 m 688 14th Natvig 6.55 m 688 16 Sterzl 6.52 m 681 17th Buehrer 6.48 m 671 18th Csanyi 6.42 m 656 19th Dallenbach 6.36 m 641 19th Dimza 6.36 m 641 21st Doychev 6.35 m 639 22nd Reinikka 6.32 m 632 23 Singchow 6.28 m 622 24 Wenceslaus 6.25 m 615 25th Small 6.22 m 608 26th Reimer 5.92 m 538 27 Boulanger 5.85 m 522 28 Vilmundarson 5.62 m 472

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Clark 1849 02 Parker 1634 03 Morris 1610 04th Guhl 1575 05 Pławczyk 1522 06th Huber 1485 07th Tolamo 1472 08th Järvinen 1458 09 Binet 1423 10 Brasser 1409 11 Bexell 1407 12 Bonnet 1402 13 Dahlgren 1399 14th Doychev 1349 15th Sterzl 1343 16 Csanyi 1342 17th Bácsalmási 1322 18th Buehrer 1311 19th Small 1294 20th Natvig 1264 21st Dallenbach 1259 21st Dimza 1259 23 Reinikka 1208 24 Singchow 1178 25th Wenceslaus 1171 26th Reimer 1135 27 Boulanger 1135 28 Vilmundarson 953

Shot put

August 7, 1936, 3 p.m.
Weather conditions: overcast, 20–21 ° C, wind speeds 0.9–1.2 m / s.
The Austrian Erwin Reimer, the Chinese Chang Singchow and the Icelandic Karl Vilmundarson did not compete in the third discipline, the shot put .

Classification space Surname Expanse Points 01 Morris 14.10 m 826 02 Csanyi 14.00 m 816 03 Dimza 13.66 m 781 04th Bexell 13.54 m 769 05 Järvinen 13.53 m 768 06th Parker 13.52 m 767 07th Bonnet 13.50 m 765 08th Brasser 13.49 m 764 09 Buehrer 13.25 m 740 10 Natvig 12.89 m 705 11 Reinikka 12.74 m 690 12 Huber 12.70 m 687 13 Clark 12.68 m 685 13 Tolamo 12.68 m 685 15th Dahlgren 12.63 m 680 16 Wenceslaus 12.43 m 661 17th Guhl 12.30 m 649 18th Doychev 12.26 m 645 19th Pławczyk 11.94 m 615 20th Bácsalmási 11.77 m 600 21st Dallenbach 11.59 m 584 22nd Small 10.99 m 530 23 Sterzl 10.98 m 530 24 Boulanger 9.92 m 440 25th Binet 8.26 m 311

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Clark 2534 02 Morris 2436 03 Parker 2401 04th Järvinen 2226 05 Guhl 2224 06th Bexell 2176 07th Brasser 2173 08th Huber 2172 09 Bonnet 2167 10 Csanyi 2158 11 Tolamo 2157 12 Pławczyk 2137 13 Dahlgren 2079 14th Buehrer 2051 15th Dimza 2040 16 Doychev 1994 17th Natvig 1969 18th Bácsalmási 1922 19th Reinikka 1898 20th Sterzl 1873 21st Dallenbach 1843 22nd Wenceslaus 1832 23 Small 1824 24 Binet 1734 25th Boulanger 1479

high jump

August 7, 1936, 4:00 p.m.
Weather conditions: overcast, 20–21 ° C, wind speeds 0.9–1.2 m / s.

Classification space Surname height Points 01 Brasser 1.90 m 909 02 Morris 1.85 m 846 02 Natvig 1.85 m 846 02 Pławczyk 1.85 m 846 05 Clark 1.80 m 786 05 Guhl 1.80 m 786 05 Parker 1.80 m 786 08th Bácsalmási 1.75 m 727 08th Bexell 1.75 m 727 08th Bonnet 1.75 m 727 08th Buehrer 1.75 m 727 08th Dahlgren 1.75 m 727 08th Järvinen 1.75 m 727 08th Sterzl 1.75 m 727 08th Tolamo 1.75 m 727 16 Dallenbach 1.70 m 671 16 Dimza 1.70 m 671 16 Doychev 1.70 m 671 16 Huber 1.70 m 671 16 Reinikka 1.70 m 671 21st Binet 1.65 m 616 21st Wenceslaus 1.65 m 616 23 Boulanger 1.60 m 563 23 Csanyi 1.60 m 563 25th Small 1.55 m 512

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Clark 3320 02 Morris 3282 03 Parker 3187 04th Brasser 3082 05 Guhl 3010 06th Pławczyk 2983 07th Järvinen 2953 08th Bexell 2903 09 Bonnet 2894 10 Tolamo 2884 11 Huber 2843 12 Natvig 2815 13 Dahlgren 2806 14th Buehrer 2778 15th Csanyi 2721 16 Dimza 2711 17th Doychev 2665 18th Bácsalmási 2649 19th Sterzl 2600 20th Reinikka 2569 21st Dallenbach 2514 22nd Wenceslaus 2448 23 Binet 2350 24 Small 2336 25th Boulanger 2042

400 meter run

August 7, 1936, 5.45 p.m.
Weather conditions: overcast, 20–21 ° C, wind speeds 0.9–1.2 m / s.
The discipline was carried out in five runs.
The Latvian Jānis Dimza did not take part in the fifth discipline, the 400-meter run .

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Morris 49.4 s 910 02 Clark 50.0 s 874 03 Järvinen 50.7 s 834 04th Dahlgren 51.2 s 807 04th Tolamo 51.2 s 807 06th Brasser 51.5 s 791 07th Binet 52.2 s 755 08th Guhl 52.3 s 750 08th Huber 52.3 s 750 10 Reinikka 52.5 s 740 11 Bácsalmási 53.1 s 711 12 Small 53.3 s 701 12 Parker 53.3 s 701 12 Sterzl 53.3 s 701 15th Dallenbach 53.6 s 687 16 Bonnet 53.7 s 683 17th Csanyi 54.0 s 669 17th Pławczyk 54.0 s 669 19th Doychev 54.1 s 665 20th Buehrer 54.5 s 647 21st Bexell 54.9 s 630 22nd Boulanger 55.1 s 622 23 Wenceslaus 55.3 s 614 24 Natvig 56.3 s 574

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Clark 4194 02 Morris 4192 03 Parker 3888 04th Brasser 3873 05 Järvinen 3787 06th Guhl 3760 07th Tolamo 3691 08th Pławczyk 3652 09 Dahlgren 3613 10 Huber 3593 11 Bonnet 3577 12 Bexell 3533 13 Buehrer 3425 14th Csanyi 3390 15th Natvig 3389 16 Bácsalmási 3360 17th Doychev 3330 18th Reinikka 3309 19th Sterzl 3301 20th Dallenbach 3201 21st Binet 3105 22nd Wenceslaus 3062 23 Small 3037 24 Boulanger 2664

110 meter hurdles

August 8, 1936, 10.00 a.m.
Weather conditions: overcast, 17-18 ° C, wind speeds 1.3-1.6 m / s.

The discipline was carried out in eight runs.
The Finn Akilles Järvinen Järvinen, Olympic runner-up in 1928 and 1932 , did not take part in the sixth discipline, the 110-meter hurdles .

Glenn Morris achieved the fastest time ever in an Olympic decathlon with 14.9 seconds.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Morris 14.9 s 946 02 Parker 15.0 s 929 03 Guhl 15.6 s 833 04th Clark 15.7 s 818 05 Huber 15.8 s 804 06th Bexell 16.0 s 776 06th Binet 16.0 s 776 06th Dahlgren 16.0 s 776 09 Natvig 16.1 s 762 10 Bonnet 16.2 s 749 10 Brasser 16.2 s 749 12 Dallenbach 16.3 s 736 12 Doychev 16.3 s 736 14th Pławczyk 16.4 s 723 15th Reinikka 16.5 s 710 15th Sterzl 16.5 s 710 17th Buehrer 16.6 s 698 17th Tolamo 16.6 s 698 19th Csanyi 17.0 s 651 20th Small 17.3 s 618 21st Wenceslaus 18.2 s 529 22nd Bácsalmási 18.4 s 511 23 Boulanger 19.2 s 444

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Morris 5138 02 Clark 5012 03 Parker 4817 04th Brasser 4622 05 Guhl 4593 06th Huber 4397 07th Dahlgren 4389 07th Tolamo 4389 09 Pławczyk 4375 10 Bonnet 4326 11 Bexell 4309 12 Natvig 4151 13 Buehrer 4123 14th Doychev 4066 15th Csanyi 4041 16 Reinikka 4019 17th Sterzl 4011 18th Dallenbach 3937 19th Binet 3881 20th Bácsalmási 3871 21st Small 3655 22nd Wenceslaus 3591 23 Boulanger 3108

Discus throw

August 8, 1936, 11.00 a.m.
Weather conditions: overcast, 17–18 ° C, wind speeds 1.3–1.6 m / s.

Classification space Surname Expanse Points 01 Morris 43.02 m 803 02 Guhl 40.97 m 740 03 Bácsalmási 39.64 m 701 04th Natvig 39.60 m 699 05 Brasser 39.45 m 695 06th Clark 39.39 m 693 07th Bonnet 39.16 m 686 08th Parker 39.11 m 685 09 Bexell 38.83 m 677 10 Reinikka 38.61 m 670 11 Pławczyk 38.30 m 662 12 Doychev 38.25 m 660 13 Dahlgren 38.06 m 655 14th Wenceslaus 37.11 m 628 15th Buehrer 36.43 m 609 16 Small 35.88 m 593 17th Csanyi 35.86 m 593 18th Huber 35.46 m 582 19th Sterzl 35.33 m 578 20th Tolamo 34.36 m 552 21st Dallenbach 33.18 m 520 22nd Binet 26.87 m 363 23 Boulanger 25.20 m 324

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Morris 5941 02 Clark 5705 03 Parker 5502 04th Guhl 5333 05 Brasser 5317 06th Dahlgren 5044 07th Pławczyk 5037 08th Bonnet 5012 09 Bexell 4986 10 Huber 4979 11 Tolamo 4941 12 Natvig 4850 13 Buehrer 4732 14th Doychev 4726 15th Reinikka 4689 16 Csanyi 4634 17th Sterzl 4589 18th Bácsalmási 4572 19th Dallenbach 4457 20th Small 4248 21st Binet 4244 22nd Wenceslaus 4219 23 Boulanger 3432

Pole vault

August 8, 1936, 3:00 p.m.
Weather conditions: clear, 19–20 ° C, wind speeds 1.5–1.9 m / s.
The Belgian Émile Binet and the Finn Martti Tolamo no longer competed in the eighth discipline, the pole vault .

Classification space Surname height Points 01 Bácsalmási 3.90 m 862 01 Reinikka 3.90 m 862 03 Huber 3.80 m 818 04th Bexell 3.70 m 775 04th Clark 3.70 m 775 04th Csanyi 3.70 m 775 04th Doychev 3.70 m 775 04th Natvig 3.70 m 775 04th Pławczyk 3.70 m 775 10 Bonnet 3.60 m 733 10 Dallenbach 3.60 m 733 12 Morris 3.50 m 692 12 Parker 3.50 m 692 14th Brasser 3.40 m 652 15th Boulanger 3.30 m 613 15th Buehrer 3.30 m 613 15th Dahlgren 3.30 m 613 15th Guhl 3.30 m 613 19th Sterzl 3.20 m 575 19th Wenceslaus 3.20 m 575 21st Small 3.10 m 538

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Morris 6633 02 Clark 6480 03 Parker 6194 04th Brasser 5969 05 Guhl 5946 06th Pławczyk 5812 07th Huber 5797 08th Bexell 5761 09 Bonnet 5745 10 Dahlgren 5657 11 Natvig 5625 12 Reinikka 5551 13 Doychev 5501 14th Bácsalmási 5434 15th Csanyi 5409 16 Buehrer 5345 17th Dallenbach 5190 18th Sterzl 5164 19th Wenceslaus 4794 20th Small 4786 21st Boulanger 4045

Javelin throw

August 8, 1936, 4.30 p.m.
Weather conditions: clear, 19–20 ° C, wind speeds 1.5–1.9 m / s.
The Austrian Franz Sterzl did not take part in the ninth discipline, the javelin throw .

Classification space Surname Expanse Points 01 Natvig 58.36 m 748 02 Bonnet 58.15 m 744 03 Bexell 57.07 m 722 04th Parker 56.46 m 710 05 Huber 56.45 m 710 06th Bácsalmási 55.90 m 699 07th Brasser 55.75 m 696 08th Wenceslaus 54.93 m 680 09 Morris 54.52 m 672 10 Pławczyk 54.26 m 667 11 Dallenbach 52.39 m 632 12 Small 51.72 m 619 13 Clark 51.12 m 608 14th Guhl 51.02 m 606 15th Reinikka 50.80 m 602 16 Csanyi 48.70 m 564 17th Doychev 48.43 m 559 18th Dahlgren 47.74 m 546 19th Boulanger 43.43 m 471 20th Buehrer 43.10 m 466

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Morris 7305 02 Clark 7088 03 Parker 6904 04th Brasser 6665 05 Guhl 6552 06th Huber 6507 07th Bonnet 6489 08th Bexell 6483 09 Pławczyk 6479 10 Natvig 6373 11 Dahlgren 6203 12 Reinikka 6153 13 Bácsalmási 6133 14th Doychev 6060 15th Csanyi 5973 16 Dallenbach 5822 17th Buehrer 5811 18th Wenceslaus 5474 19th Small 5405 20th Boulanger 4516

1500 meter run

August 8, 1936, 5.30 p.m.
Weather conditions: clear, 19–20 ° C, wind speeds 1.5–1.9 m / s.
The discipline was carried out in three runs.
The Swiss Willy Bührer, the Hungarian Zoltán Csányi and the Swede Leif Dahlgren did not take part in the last discipline, the 1,500 meter run .
Aulis Reinikka achieved the fastest time ever in an Olympic decathlon with 4: 32.4 minutes.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Reinikka 4: 32.4 min 602 02 Morris 4: 33.2 min 595 03 Wenceslaus 4: 34.6 min 584 04th Boulanger 4: 35.0 min 581 05 Huber 4: 35.2 min 580 06th Bexell 4: 40.4 min 541 07th Clark 4: 44.4 min 513 08th Dallenbach 4: 48.0 min 489 09 Guhl 4: 49.2 min 481 10 Small 4: 49.6 min 478 11 Bonnet 4: 54.0 min 450 12 Pławczyk 5: 04.0 min 392 13 Natvig 5: 05.0 min 386 14th Brasser 5: 06.0 min 381 15th Parker 5: 07.8 min 371 16 Bácsalmási 5: 30.6 min 262 17th Doychev 5: 34.2 min 247

Bottom line

space	Surname	nation	Points - official rating	Points - 1985 rating
1	Glenn Morris	United States	7900 WR	7254
2	Bob Clark	United States	7601	7063
3	Jack Parker	United States	7275	6761
4th	Erwin Huber	German Empire	7087	6654
5	Reinds brasser	Netherlands	7046	6570
6th	Armin Guhl	Switzerland	7033	6618
7th	Olle Bexell	Sweden	7024	6558
8th	Helmut Bonnet	German Empire	6939	6492
9	Jerzy Pławczyk	Poland	6871	6448
10	Edvard Natvig	Norway	6759	6298
11	Aulis Reinikka	Finland	6755	6342
12	Peter Bácsalmási	Hungary	6395	5979
13	Fritz Dällenbach	Switzerland	6311	6030
14th	Lyuben Doychev	Bulgaria	6307	5940
15th	Osvaldo Wenzel	Chile	6058	5798
16	Josef Klein	Czechoslovakia	5883	5718
17th	Maurice Boulanger	Belgium	5097	5020

Date: 7./8. August 1948

The world record holder Hans-Heinrich Sievert was even more unlucky than at the 1932 Games . Four years ago he was not in top form due to an injury, this year he was unable to compete because of another injury. So the Americans were unrivaled. The American champion Bob Clark was now the top favorite. After the first day, Clark led the rankings as expected. His compatriot Glenn Morris, who only completed his third decathlon , was only two points behind. But after the hurdles sprint , hurdles specialist Morris took the lead and expanded it to almost 300 points by the end. His performance on the second day was excellent and Morris became Olympic champion with a new world record number of points . Well behind were his compatriots Bob Clark and Jack Parker. The German Erwin Huber increased his best performance significantly and achieved an excellent fourth place. Morris never competed in a decathlon again after that.

The new evaluation table from 1934 was used to determine the points.

For a better classification of the performance, the points converted according to the current rating system from 1985 are also given. According to this table, which is valid today, the order in places five and six would have been different. But these comparisons are only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis. This is most noticeable in the pole vault , where people jumped with completely different poles than they do today.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede : The History of Olympic Athletics. Volume 1: 1896-1936. 2nd Edition. Verlag Bartels & Wernitz, Berlin 1970, DNB 368759857 , p. 300f.

Web links

• SportsReference Decathlon , accessed September 21, 2017
• Official report pp. 686–691 (PDF), accessed on September 21, 2017

Video

• 1936, Decathlon, Olympic Games, Berlin , published on August 12, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed on September 21, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official report p. 686, engl. (PDF)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Official report p. 688, engl. (PDF)
3. ↑ SportsReference decathlon (100 m) (Eng.)
4. ↑ SportsReference decathlon (long jump)
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Official report p. 689, engl. (PDF)
6. ↑ SportsReference (110 m hurdles)
7. ↑ SportsReference (1500 m)
8. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)