1936 Summer Olympics / Participant (Australia)

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Australia took part in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with a delegation of 33 athletes. 32 of them took part in the competitions. There were four female athletes in attendance for the country. The standard bearer was the track cyclist Dunc Gray .

Australia was one of the few participants in the Winter Games to have been represented at all of the Olympic Games since Athens in 1896 . Up to the 1936 Winter Olympics, the Australian team had 14 Olympic victories. In swimming (7), athletics (3), rowing (2), cycling (1) and rugby (1).

Medals

• Jack Metcalfe , bronze medal in the triple jump

Athletes by sport

29 male participants from Australia
sport	athlete	discipline	space	comment
Boxing	Henry Cooper	Flyweight	-	First fight: knockout loss against Subkowiak ( POL ) in the second round
	Rusty Cook	Welterweight	-	First fight: Pisarski (POL) beaten on points, Second fight: against Suvio (FIN) lost on points
	Leslie Harley	Light heavyweight	-	First fight: vs. Bueren (SWI) won on points, second fight: vs. Havelka (CZ) lost on points
athletics	Gerald Backhouse	800 meter run	-
	Jack Metcalfe	Triple jump		15.50 m (to Tajima (JAP) (16.00 m) and Harada (JAP) (15.66 m))
		high jump	-	eliminated in the semi-finals with 1.85 m
	Alf Watson	110 meter hurdles	-	eliminated in the sixth heat (dnf)
		400 meter hurdles	-	Eliminated as third in the third run with 54.5 s
	Basil Dickinson	Triple jump	-	Eliminated in the semifinals with 14.48 m
	NN		-	not started
Cycling	Dunc Gray	Time trial 1000 m track, sprint (scratch)	-	First run lost to Collard (BEL), hope run won to Clayton (South Africa), second run won to Hicks (GB), third run lost to van Vliet (NL)
	Tassy Johnson	1000 m time trial	11.	1: 15.8 min
		100 km road race, individual competition	16.	2: 33: 08.0 h
	Chris Wheeler	100 km road race, individual competition	-	Time not measured, arrival in the field
Wrestling	John O'Hara	Freestyle, welterweight (up to 72 kg)	-	First round against pair (GER) lost 1: 2, second round against Sames (CZ) won 2: 1, third round against T. Andersson (SWE) lost 0: 3 after 1:53 min
	Eddie Scarf	Freestyle, light heavyweight (up to 87 kg)	6th	First round against Beke (BEL) won 3: 0 by throwing, second round against Prokop (CZ) lost 1: 2, third round against Siebert (GER) lost 3: 0
	Dick Garrard	Freestyle, lightweight	-	First round lost to Romagnoli (ITA) 1: 3, second round lost to Karpati (HUN) after 2:45 min by throwing, eliminated with more than five minus points
rowing	William Dixon	Double scull	6th	Fourth in the first run with 6: 55.6 min, first in the hope run with 7: 58.8 min, sixth in the final with 7: 45.1 min
	Herbert Turner	Double scull	6th
	Cecil Pearce	One 2000 m	-	Fourth in the second run with 7: 27.0 min, second in the fourth hope run with 7: 33.2 min
	Len Einsaar	Eighth	-	Fourth in the third run with 6: 21.9 min, eliminated as second in the hope run with 6: 55.1 min
	Joe Gould	Eighth	-
	Mervyn Wood	Eighth	-
	Walter Jordan	Eighth	-
	William Cross	Eighth	-
	George Elias	Eighth	-
	Whale mackney	Eighth	-
	Don Ferguson	Eighth	-
	Norman Ella	Aft (helmsman)	-
swim	Percy Oliver	100 m back	7th	Second in the fifth prelim with 1: 10.2 min, third in the first semi-final with 1: 09.4 min, seventh in the final with 1: 10.7 min
	Bill Kendall	100 m freestyle	-	Third in the second run with 1: 01.0 min, fifth in the second semi-final with 59.9 s
	Ron Masters	Diving , 3 m board	14th	with 115.72 points
		Diving, 10 m board	15th	with 86.95 points
Female participants from Australia
sport	athlete	discipline	space	comment
athletics	Doris Carter	high jump	6th	1.55 m together with Rogers (USA) and Koen (NL)
swim	Pat Norton	100 m back	-	Fourth in the second preliminary run with 1: 22.3 min, sixth in the second semi-final with 1: 21.9 min
	Evelyn de Lacy	100 m freestyle	-	Second in the second preliminary run with 1: 08.5 min, fifth in the second semi-final with 1: 10.0 min
		400 m freestyle	-	Fifth in the third forerun with 5: 51.9 min
	Kitty Mackay	100 m freestyle	-	Fifth in the fourth forerun with 1: 13.8 min
		100 m back	-	Fifth in the first run with 1: 24.6 min

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• List of overall results on la84foundation.org (PDF) (74.19 MB)
• Official Olympic Reports
• Australian Olympic Team 1936 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )