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Athletics At The 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's Triple Jump
The men's triple jump event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1936 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on August 6, 1936. Thirty-one athletes from 19 nations competed. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The final was won by Naoto Tajima of Japan with a world-record jump. It was Japan's third consecutive gold medal in the men's triple jump; as of the 2016 Games, it is the last gold medal Japan has won in the event. Masao Harada's silver medal made it the second Games in which Japan put two men on the podium in the event. Jack Metcalfe of Australia (whose record Tajima broke) earned bronze, Australia's first medal in the event since 1924. Background This was the 10th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. Returning jumpers from the 1932 Games were bronze medalist Kenkichi Oshima of Japan, eighth-place finisher Rolland Romero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympiastadion (Berlin)
The Olympiastadion (; en, Olympic Stadium) is a sports stadium at Olympiapark Berlin in Berlin, Germany. It was originally built by Werner March for the 1936 Summer Olympics. During the Olympics, the record attendance was thought to be over 100,000. Today the stadium is part of the Olympiapark Berlin. Since renovations in 2004, the Olympiastadion has a permanent capacity of 74,475 seats and is the largest stadium in Germany for international football matches. The Olympiastadion is a UEFA category four stadium. Besides its use as an athletics stadium, the arena has built a footballing tradition. Since 1963, it has been the home of the Hertha BSC. It hosted three matches in the 1974 FIFA World Cup. It was renovated for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, when it hosted six matches, including the final. The DFB-Pokal final match is held each year at the venue. The Olympiastadion Berlin served as a host for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup as well as the 2015 UEFA Champions League Final. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinz Wöllner
Heinz Wöllner (25 July 1913 – 10 April 1945) was a German athlete. He competed in the men's triple jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was killed in action during World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin .... References External links * 1913 births 1945 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics German male triple jumpers Olympic athletes for Germany German military personnel killed in World War II {{Germany-triplejump-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Richardson (athlete)
Samuel Cromwell Richardson (17 November 1917 – 8 October 1988) was a Canadian athlete who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was born in Toronto. In 1936 he was a member of the Canadian relay team which finished fifth in the Olympic 4x100 metre event. In the long jump competition he finished 14th and in the triple jump contest he finished 20th. At the 1934 British Empire Games he won the gold medal in the long jump event and the silver medal in the triple jump competition. Richardson was of African American descent and the son of a World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ... veteran. There is some dispute about Richardson's date of birth, with various sources indicating that he may have been born in 1919 or even 1921. References Exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lennart Andersson (athlete)
Agne Lennart Andersson (later ''Agnred'', 17 January 1914 – 18 December 1997) was a Swedish triple jumper. He competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics and 1938 European Athletics Championships The 2nd European Athletics Championships was a continental athletics competition for European athletes which was held in two places in 1938. The men's event took place in Paris, France between 3–5 September while the women's events were in Vien ... and finished in 19th and 6th place, respectively. Andersson held national titles in the triple jump in 1937–38 and in the standing high jump in 1937. References 1914 births 1997 deaths Swedish male triple jumpers Olympic athletes of Sweden Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Lund {{Sweden-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Ljungberg
Bo Alexander Ljungberg (21 November 1911 – 19 March 1984) was a Swedish athlete. He won two silver medals in the pole vault at the European Championships and competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics as both a pole vaulter and a triple jumper. Career Bo Ljungberg won gold in the pole vault at the 1933 International University Games in Turin, clearing 3.90 m. At the following year's European Championships, also in Turin, he jumped 4.00 m and won silver behind Germany's Gustav Wegner; he also competed in the triple jump, placing 8th with 14.01 m. He also took part in both events at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin; in the triple jump he managed 14.35 m and placed eighteenth, while in the pole vault he again cleared 4.00 m and shared sixth place with ten others. At the 1938 European Championships he repeated his silver medal from four years before, clearing 4.00 m once more. In 1939 This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Brown (athlete)
William Tennant Brown (August 3, 1918 – December 29, 2002) was an American triple jumper, long jumper and sprinter. Between 1936 and 1943 he won six national outdoor championship titles in the triple jump and three in the long jump. He was the long jump world leader in 1941 and held the American record in the triple jump from 1941 to 1956. He competed in the triple jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics, placing 17th. Early life Brown was born in Baker, Louisiana on August 3, 1918. He studied at Baker High School and led the school's track and field team; additionally, he was a good scholastic basketball player. He set long-standing Louisiana state high school records in both the long jump (then known as the ''broad jump'') and the triple jump (then ''hop, step and jump''); his triple jump mark was a national high school record. Brown won his first national ( AAU) senior championship title in the triple jump as a high school junior in 1936; he jumped 49 ft 2 in (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marten Klasema
Marten Klasema (12 May 1912 – 1 November 1974) was a Dutch athlete. He competed in the men's long jump and the men's triple jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp .... References 1912 births 1974 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics Dutch male long jumpers Dutch male triple jumpers Olympic athletes for the Netherlands Place of birth missing 20th-century Dutch people {{Netherlands-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugen Haugland
Eugen Haugland (12 July 1912 – 21 October 1990) was a Norwegian triple jumper. He represented Haugesund IL. He was a brother of Jens Edv. Haugland, father of Terje Haugland and grandfather of Hanne Haugland. At the 1936 Summer Olympics he finished fourteenth in the triple jump final with a jump of 14.56 metres. He became Norwegian champion in 1931, 1933-1937 and 1948. His personal best jump was 15.23 metres, achieved in August 1938 in Haugesund Haugesund () is a municipality on the North Sea in Rogaland county, Norway. While the population is greater in the neighboring Karmøy municipality, the main commercial and economic centre of the Haugaland region in northern Rogaland and southern .... References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lajos Somló
Lajos Somló (19 August 1912 – 4 August 1990) was a Hungarian athlete. He competed in the men's triple jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp .... References External links * 1912 births 1990 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics Hungarian male triple jumpers Olympic athletes for Hungary {{Hungary-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Luckhaus
Edward Gustaw Adolf Luckhaus (31 August 1910 – 12 May 1975) was a Polish athlete of German ethnicity. He competed in the men's triple jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics. During World War II he volunteered to Wehrmacht, fought on the Eastern Front and was taken as prisoner of war, being incarcerated in the POW camp in Gomel. After being released in 1948, he moved to Bavaria, where he lived with his family in Pfaffenhofen near Munich. He worked as a physical education teacher initially in the Benedictine monastery in Scheyern Scheyern is a municipality in the district of Pfaffenhofen in Bavaria in Germany. The Scheyern Abbey Scheyern Abbey, formerly also Scheyern Priory (german: Kloster Scheyern), is a house of the Benedictine Order in Scheyern in Bavaria. First ..., later at the gymnasium in Pfaffenhofen. References 1910 births 1975 deaths People from Hlukhiv People from Glukhovsky Uyezd People from the Russian Empire of German descent Polish people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luz Long
Carl Ludwig "Luz" Long (27 April 1913 – 14 July 1943) was a German Olympic Games, Olympic long jumper, notable for winning the silver medal in the event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin and for his association with Jesse Owens, who went on to win the gold medal for the long jump. Luz Long won the German long jump championship six times in 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, and 1939. Long was killed while serving in the German Army (Wehrmacht), German Army during World War II. Early life Long studied law at the University of Leipzig, where in 1936 he joined the ''Leipziger Sport Club''.Luz-Long-Ufer – Dr. Luz Long (1913–1944). Mehrmaliger Deutscher Meister und Europarekordinhber bei den Olympischen Spielen 1936 in Berlin. Im zweiten Weltkrieg in Italien gefallen. After graduating, he practiced as a lawyer in Hamburg while continuing his interest in sport. 1936 Olympic Games The 21-year-old, 1.84-metre-tall (6'½") Long had finished third in the 1934 European Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
