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Basketball at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Gold Silver Bronze
United States (USA) Sam Balter Canada (CAN) Gordon Aitchison Mexico (MEX) Carlos Borja
Ralph Bishop Ian Allison Víctor Borja
Joe Fortenberry Art Chapman Rodolfo Choperena
Tex Gibbons Chuck Chapman Luis de la Vega
Francis Johnson Edward Dawson Raúl Fernández
Carl Knowles Irving Meretsky Andrés Gómez
Frank Lubin Doug Peden Silvio Hernández
Art Mollner James Stewart Francisco Martínez
Donald Piper Malcolm Wiseman Jesús Olmos
Jack Ragland Stanley Nantais José Pamplona
Willard Schmidt Greer Skousen
Carl Shy
Duane Swanson
Bill Wheatley
1st Basketball Olympic Tournament
Berlin 1936
Medallists
Note: The International Olympic Committee medal data-
Tournament details
base shows only these players as medalists. They all
Olympics 1936 Summer Olympics played at least one match during the tournament. The re-
serve players are not listed as medalists.
Host nation Nazi Germany
City Berlin Results
Duration August 7 - August 14
Men’s teams 23
Brackets
Men’s medals: Third round onwards
United States
Third round Fourth round Semifinals Fina
Gold medalists
Silver medalists Canada
Unit- 56
Bronze medalists Mexico ed States
Philip- 39 23
Basketball at the 1936 Summer Olympics was the first ap- pines Philippines
pearance of the sport as an official medal event. The tour- 22 25
Estonia
nament was played between 7 August and 14 August 1936 United
in Berlin, Germany. 23 nations entered the competition, States
making basketball the largest tournament of the team
Italy 27 10
sports.
Mexico
The International Basketball Federation, which is the
governing body of international basketball, used the 1936 Chile 19 Italy 17
tournament to experiment with outdoor basketball. Mexico 28 Mexi- 34
Lawn tennis courts were used for the competition. This co
caused problems when the weather was adverse, espe- 22
Japan
cially during the final game.
Uni
The medals were awarded by James Naismith,
Stat
State
founder of basketball. All went to North American teams.
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Canada 27 Hungary, forfeit
• Canada def. 8
• Germany def. Spain, forfeit
Canada
9 Cana- 41 • Poland, BYE
Switzer-
da
land Second round
Uruguay 28 21 Winners advanced to the third round. Losers competed
Uruguay in the second consolation round for another chance to
Czecho- 19 move on.
42 Bronze
slovakia Canada • Philippines def. Mexico, 32-30
medal
• Japan def. Poland, 43-31
match
Poland 33 15 • Uruguay def. Egypt, 36-23
Poland • Peru def. China, 29-21
• United States def. Estonia, 52-28
Brazil 25 2 26
• Italy def. Germany, 58-16
Poland Mexico
• Switzerland def. Czechoslovakia, 25-12
(w/o) • Chile def. Brazil, 23-18
Peru 0 • Canada def. 12
Latvia, 34-23
Poland
Second consolation round
• Poland def. Latvia, 28-23
Fifth-place classification • Brazil def. China, 32-14
Preliminary round 5th place game • Mexico def. Egypt, 32-10
• Czechoslovakia def. Germany, 20-0
• Estonia, BYE
Philippines 32
Italy 14 Third round
Philippines 32 The third round was the first to cause automatic elimi-
Uruguay 23 nation for losers, with no consolation round. Winners ad-
vanced to the fourth round.
Uruguay (w/o) 2 • Philippines def. Estonia, 39-22
Peru 0 • Italy def. Chile, 27-19
• Mexico def. Japan, 28-22
First round • Canada def. Switzerland, 27-9
Winners advanced to the second round. Losers competed • Uruguay def. Czechoslovakia, 28-19
in the first consolation round for another chance to move • Poland def. Brazil, 33-25
on. • United States, BYE
• Estonia def. France, 34-29 • Peru, BYE
• Chile def. Turkey, 30-16
• Switzerland def. Germany, 25-18 Fourth round
• Italy def. Poland, 44-28 Winners of the fourth round advanced to the medals
• Peru def. Egypt, 35-22 round, with losers playing in classification matches.
• Latvia def. Uruguay, 20-17 • United States def. Philippines, 56-23
• Brazil def. Canada, 24-17 • Mexico def. Italy, 34-17
• Japan def. China, 35-19 • Canada def. Uruguay, 41-21
• Mexico def. Belgium, 32-9 • Poland def. Peru, forfeit
• United States def. Spain, forfeit The National Olympic Team from Peru abandoned the
• Czechoslovakia def. Hungary, forfeit Olympic games in protest to the actions of German au-
• Philippines, BYE thorities in the football tournament.
First consolation round Classification 5-8
Winners returned to the main competition for the second
round. Losers were out of the tournament. Preliminary matches
• Uruguay def. Belgium, BYE • Philippines def. Italy, 32-14
• China def. France, 45-38 • Uruguay def. Peru, forfeit
• Egypt def. Turkey, 33-23 Peru forfeit: See above.
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Fifth place match (*) NOTE: There are only players counted, which participated in one game at
• Philippines def. Uruguay, 33-23 least.
Not all reserve players are known.
Medals round
Semifinals
Summary
• United States def. Mexico, 25-10 Note: Hungary and Spain withdrew before competition
• Canada def. Poland, 42-15 started
Bronze medal match
• Mexico def. Poland, 26-12
References
[1] (Italian) - Un viaggio all’interno di questi Ottanta anni.
Final FIP.it.
The finals were played 14 August under abysmal condi-
tions. The contest was played outdoors, on a dirt court in
a driving rain. Due to the quagmire, the teams could not
dribble and the score was held to a minimum. High scor-
er in the game was Joe Fortenberry for the United States
with 7 points. In addition, there were no seats for spec-
tators and the nearly 1,000 in attendance had to stand in
the rain throughout the entire game.
• United States def. Canada, 19-8
Participating nations
For the team rosters see: Basketball at the 1936 Summer
Olympics - Men’s team squads.
Each country was allowed to enter one team of 14
players and they all were eligible for participation.
A total of 199(*) basketball players from 21 nations
competed at the Berlin Games:
• Belgium (8 - from a squad of 14)
• Brazil (8 - from a squad of 10)
• Canada (9 - from a squad of 14)
• Chile (7 - from a squad of 11)
• Republic of China (13 - from a squad of 14)
• Czechoslovakia (12 - from a squad of 12)
• Egypt (7 - from a squad of 10)
• Estonia (8 - from a squad of 11)
• France (11 - from a squad of 14)
• Germany (10 - from a squad of 14)
• Italy (13 - from a squad of 14)
• Japan (8 - from a squad of 11)
• Latvia (7 - from a squad of 11)
• Mexico (11 - from a squad of 11)
• Peru (9 - from a squad of 13)
• Philippines (9 - from a squad of 12)
• Poland (10 - from a squad of 14)
• Switzerland (8 - from a squad of 13)
• Turkey (8 - from a squad of 10)
• United States (14)
• Uruguay (9 - from a squad of 13)
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Place Nation
1 United States (USA)
Coach: James Needles (Universal Pictures (CA))
Sam Balter (Universal Pictures (UCLA))
Ralph Bishop (University of Washington)
Joe Fortenberry (Globe Oilers (West Texas State))
Tex Gibbons (Globe Oilers (Southwestern))
Francis Johnson (Globe Oilers (West Texas State))
Carl Knowles (Universal Pictures (UCLA))
C
Frank Lubin (C) (Universal Pictures (UCLA))
Art Mollner (Universal Pictures (L.A. J.C.))
Donald Piper (Universal Pictures (UCLA))
Jack Ragland (Globe Oilers (Wichita State))
Willard Schmidt (Globe Oilers (Creighton))
Carl Shy (Universal Pictures (UCLA))
Duane Swanson (Universal Pictures (USC))
Bill Wheatley (Globe Oilers (Kansas Wesleyan))
2 Canada (CAN)
Coach: Gordon Fuller (Windsor Ford V-8’s)
Ass. coach:Julius Goldman (Windsor Ford V-8’s)
Gordon Aitchison (Windsor Ford V-8’s)
Ian Allison (Windsor Ford V-8’s)
Art Chapman (Victoria Blue Ribbon)
Chuck Chapman (Victoria Blue Ribbon)
Edward Dawson (Windsor Ford V-8’s)
Irving Meretsky (Windsor Ford V-8’s)
Doug Peden (Victoria Blue Ribbon)
James Stewart (Windsor Ford V-8’s)
Malcolm Wiseman (Windsor Ford V-8’s) Norman Dawson (Windsor Ford V-8’s)
Don Gray (Windsor Ford V-8’s)
Stanley Nantais (Windsor Ford V-8’s)
Bob Osborne (University of British Columbia)
Tom Pendlebury (Windsor Ford V-8’s)
3 Mexico (MEX)
Carlos Borja
Víctor Borja
Rodolfo Choperena
Luis de la Vega
Raúl Fernández
Andrés Gómez
Silvio Hernández
Francisco Martínez
Jesús Olmos
José Pamplona
Greer Skousen
4 Poland (POL) Coach: Walenty Kłyszejko
Zdzisław Filipkiewicz
Florian Grzechowiak
Zdzisław Kasprzak
Jakub Kopf
Ewaryst Łój
Janusz Patrzykont
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Andrzej Pluciński
Zenon Różycki
Paweł Stok
Edward Szostak
5 Philippines (PHI) Coach: Dionisio Calvo
Charles Borck
Jacinto Ciria Cruz
Franco Marquicias
Primitivo Martínez
Jesús Marzan
Amador Obordo
Bibiano Ouano
Ambrosio Padilla
Fortunato Yambao Antonio Carillo
Miguel Pardo
John Worrell
6 Uruguay (URU) Coach: Juan A. Collazo
Gregorio Agós
Umberto Bernasconi Galvar
Rodolfo Braselli
Prudencio de Pena
Carlos Gabín
Leandro Gómez Harley
Alejandro González Roig
Víctor Latou Jaume
Tabaré Quintans Héctor González
Alberto Martí
Amílcar Mesa
7 Italy (ITA) Coaches: Decio Scuri-Guido Graziani[1]
Gino Basso
Ambrogio Bessi
Enrico Castelli
Galeazzo Dondi
Livio Franceschini
Emilio Giassetti
Giancarlo Marinelli
Adolfo Mazzini
Mario Novelli
Sergio Paganella
Michele Pelliccia
Remo Piana
Egidio Premiani
8 Peru (PER) Coach: Pedro Vera
Manuel Arce
Rolando Bacigalupo
Willy Dasso
Antuco Flecha
José Carlos Godoy
Miguel Godoy
Luis Jacob
Cañón Oré
Armando Rossi Koko Cárdenas
Roberto Rospigliosi
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Fernando Ruiz
Pedro Vera
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Place Nation
9-14 Brazil (BRA) Armando Albano
Baiano
Coroa
Carmino de Pilla
Nelson Monteiro de Souza
Miguel Pedro Martinez Lopes
Américo Montanarini
Pavão Cacau
José Oscar Zelaya Alonso
9-14 Chile (CHI) Luis Carrasco
Augusto Carvacho
José González
Eusebio Hernández
Luis Ibaseta
Eduardo Kapstein Suckel
Michel Mehech
9-14 Czechoslovakia (TCH) Jiří Čtyroký
Alois Dvořáček
Ludvík Dvořáček
František Hájek
Vítězslav Hloušek
Josef Klíma
Karel Kuhn
Josef Moc
František Picek
F. Prokop
Ladislav Prokop
Ladislav Trpkoš
9-14 Estonia (EST) Coach: Herbert Niiler (Tartu NMKÜ)
Erich Altosaar (Tallinna Kalev)
Artur Amon (Tartu NMKÜ)
Aleksander Illi (Tartu NMKÜ)
Vladimir Kärk (Tartu NMKÜ)
Robert Keres (Tartu NMKÜ)
Evald Mahl (Tartu NMKÜ)
Aleksander Margiste (Tallinna Kalev)
Heino Veskila (Tartu NMKÜ) Bernhard Nooni (Tallinna Kalev)
Leonid Saar (Tallinna NMKÜ)
Georg Vinogradov (Tallinna Russ)
9-14 Japan (JPN) Richin Cho
Takehiko Kanakogi
Masayasu Maeda
Satoshi Matsui
Uichi Munakata
Takao Nakae
Seikyu Ri
Kenshichi Yokoyama
9-14 Switzerland (SUI) Fernand Bergmann
Pierre Carlier
René Laederach
Raymond Lambercy
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John Pallet
Jean Pare
Marcel Wuilleunier
15-18 Republic of China (ROC) Feng
Hsu
Li Shao-Tang
Liu Bao-Cheng
Liu Yun-Chang
Mou Tso-Yun
Shen Yi-Tung
Tsai Yen-Hung
Wang Hung-Pin
Wang Shi-Hsuan
Wang Yu-Tseng
Wong Nan-Chen
Yu Sai-Chang
15-18 Egypt (EGY) Abdel Moneim Wahib Hussein
Albert Fahmy Tadros
Edward Riskalla
Gamal el din Sabri
Goanni Nosseir
Kamal Riad
Mohamed Rashad Shafshak
15-18 Germany (GER) Coach: Hermann Niebuhr
Bernhard Cuiper (Heeressportschule Wünsdorf)
Robert Duis (DSC Berlin)
Karl Endres (Heeressportschule Wünsdorf)
Emil Göing (Heeressportschule Wünsdorf)
Otto Kuchenbecker (Luftwaffen-Sportschule Spandau)
Emil Lohbeck (Heeressportschule Wünsdorf)
Hans Niclaus (Heeressportschule Wünsdorf)
Kurt Oleska (Heeressportschule Wünsdorf)
Siegfried Reischieß (VfB Breslau)
Heinz Steinschulte (Luftwaffen-Sportschule Spandau) Willy Daume (TV Eintracht Dortmund)
Otto Gottwald (Post SV Bad Kreuznach)
Adolf Künzel (NSTV Breslau)
Jupp Schäfer (TV Kreuznach 1848)
15-18 Latvia (LAT) Coach: Rihards Dekšenieks
Eduards Andersons (US)
Voldemārs Elmūts (US)
Mārtiņš Grundmanis (ASK)
Rudolfs Jurciņš (US)
Maksis Kazaks (LJ)
Visvaldis Melderis (ASK)
Džems Raudziņš (US) Edgars Rūja (US)
Askolds Hermanovskis (LJ)
Aleksejs Anufrijevs (Starts)
J.Tiltiņš (US)
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Place Nation
19-21 Belgium (BEL) Robert Brouwer
Gustave Crabbe
René Demanck
Raymond Gerard
Émile Laermans
Guillaume Merckx
Pierre van Basselaere
Gustave Vereecken
19-21 France (FRA) Pierre Boel (Olympique Lillois)
Pierre Caque (Reims)
Georges Carrier (CS Plaisance)
Robert Cohu (Stade Français)
Jean Couturier (Reims)
Jacques Flouret (Paris UC)
Edmond Leclere (Charleville)
Étienne Onimus (CA Mulhouse)
Fernand Prud’homme (AS Hippolyte)
Étienne Roland (US Métro)
Lucien Theze (Romilly)
19-21 Turkey (TUR) Coach: Rupen Semerciyan
Şeref Alemdar (Galatasaray)
Hayri Arsebük (Galatasaray)
Nihat Riza Ertuğ (Galatasaray)
Jak Habib (Barkhoba)
Naili Moran (Galatasaray)
Hazdai Penso (Barkhoba)
Dionis Sakalak (Kurtulus)
Sadri Usluoğlu Kamil Ocak (Galatasaray)
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