Swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke
Women's 200 metre breaststroke at the Games of the XI Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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![]() Victory ceremony | |||||||||||||
Venue | Olympiapark Schwimmstadion Berlin | ||||||||||||
Date | 8 August (heats) 9 August (semifinals) 11 August (final) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 23 from 12 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 3:03.6 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics | ||
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Freestyle | ||
100 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
1500 m | men | |
Backstroke | ||
100 m | men | women |
Breaststroke | ||
200 m | men | women |
Freestyle relay | ||
4 × 100 m | women | |
4 × 200 m | men | |
The women's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1936 Summer Olympics, took place from 8 to 11 August, at the (50 m) Olympiapark Schwimmstadion Berlin. It was the fourth appearance of the event, which first appeared at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. A total of 23 competitors from 12 nations participated in the event.[1]
The world record holder at the time, Japanese Hideko Maehata, won the event four years after losing the gold medal to Australian Clare Dennis by one tenth of a second. Twenty four-year-old German silver medalist Martha Genenger broke the Olympic record in her heat on 8 August, but Maebata broke it again in the next heat with a time of 3:01.9 seconds.[1] Danish Inge Sørensen won the bronze medal, becoming the youngest ever female Olympic medalist (12 years, 24 days).[2] Sørensen's compatriot Valborg Christensen was favoured to win a medal in this event, but she was eliminated after finishing fifth in her semifinal.[3]
Records
[edit]Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were:
World record | ![]() | 3:00.4 min | Tokyo, Japan | 30 September 1933 | [4][5] |
Olympic record | ![]() | 3:06.3 min | Los Angeles, United States | 9 August 1932 | [5][6] |
The following records were established during the competition:
Date | Round | Name | Nationality | Time | OR | WR |
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8 August | Heat 2 | Martha Genenger | ![]() | 3:02.9 | OR | |
8 August | Heat 3 | Hideko Maehata | ![]() | 3:01.9 | OR |
Results
[edit]Heats
[edit]The three fastest swimmers of each heat and the next two fastest swimmers overall (Hanni Hölzner and Dorothy Schiller) advanced to the semifinals on 9 August.[7]
Heat 1
[edit]Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Inge Sørensen | ![]() | 3:06.7 | Q |
2 | Kerstin Isberg | ![]() | 3:08.7 | Q |
3 | Jopie Waalberg | ![]() | 3:10.4 | Q |
4 | Hanni Hölzner | ![]() | 3:11.0 | q |
5 | Dorothy Schiller | ![]() | 3:17.4 | q |
6 | Vera Kingston | ![]() | 3:21.7 | |
7 | Joan Langdon | ![]() | 3:24.3 |
Heat 2
[edit]Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Martha Genenger | ![]() | 3:02.9 | Q, OR |
2 | Jenny Kastein | ![]() | 3:07.8 | Q |
3 | Unoko Tsuboi | ![]() | 3:15.0 | Q |
4 | Anja Lappalainen | ![]() | 3:19.1 | |
5 | Ann Govednik | ![]() | 3:25.3 |
Heat 3
[edit]Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Hideko Maehata | ![]() | 3:01.9 | Q, OR |
2 | Valborg Christensen | ![]() | 3:07.8 | Q |
3 | Margaret Gomm | ![]() | 3:15.7 | Q |
4 | Iris Cummings | ![]() | 3:21.9 | |
5 | Eliška Boubelová | ![]() | 3:25.8 | |
6 | Tenny Wyss | ![]() | 3:31.3 |
Heat 4
[edit]Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Trude Wollschläger | ![]() | 3:08.5 | Q |
2 | Doris Storey | ![]() | 3:10.8 | Q |
3 | Maria Lenk | ![]() | 3:17.2 | Q |
4 | Edel Nielsen | ![]() | 3:21.3 | |
5 | Jo Stroomberg | ![]() | 3:22.5 |
Semifinals
[edit]The three fastest swimmers of both semifinals and the best fourth-place finisher advanced to the final on 11 August.[7]
Semifinal 1
[edit]Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Hideko Maehata | ![]() | 3:03.1 | Q |
2 | Inge Sørensen | ![]() | 3:06.0 | Q |
3 | Hanni Hölzner | ![]() | 3:08.8 | Q |
4 | Jopie Waalberg | ![]() | 3:09.7 | Q |
5 | Trude Wollschläger | ![]() | 3:10.3 | |
6 | Margaret Gomm | ![]() | 3:15.8 | |
7 | Maria Lenk | ![]() | 3:17.7 |
Semifinal 2
[edit]Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Martha Genenger | ![]() | 3:02.8 | Q |
2 | Jenny Kastein | ![]() | 3:09.2 | Q |
3 | Doris Storey | ![]() | 3:09.8 | Q |
4 | Kerstin Isberg | ![]() | 3:11.4 | |
5 | Valborg Christensen | ![]() | 3:14.1 | |
6 | Unoko Tsuboi | ![]() | 3:18.4 | |
7 | Dorothy Schiller | ![]() | 3:18.5 |
Final
[edit]Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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![]() | Hideko Maehata | ![]() | 3:03.6 | |
![]() | Martha Genenger | ![]() | 3:04.2 | |
![]() | Inge Sørensen | ![]() | 3:07.8 | |
4 | Hanni Hölzner | ![]() | 3:09.5 | |
Jopie Waalberg | ![]() | 3:09.5 | ||
6 | Doris Storey | ![]() | 3:09.7 | |
7 | Jenny Kastein | ![]() | 3:12.8 |
References
[edit]General
[edit]- "Official Report of the Organising Committee of the Games of the XI Olympiad Berlin" (PDF). The Official Report: Volume 2. Wilhelm Limpert. 1937. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 July 2007. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
Specific
[edit]- ^ a b "Swimming at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games: Women's 200 metres Breaststroke". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference, LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
- ^ Sherwani, Sabey (24 August 2008). "Who is the youngest Olympic gold medallist?". The Times of India. The Times Group. Archived from the original on 1 September 2013. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
- ^ Vinson, Maribel Y. (19 July 1936). "Women in Sports". The New York Times. Arthur Hays Sulzberger. p. S2.
- ^ "Japanese Natators Broke 11 Records". The Washington Post. Eugene Meyer. 24 December 1936. p. 16.
- ^ a b Limpert 1937, p. 971.
- ^ "Olympic Records Yesterday; Swimming". The New York Times. Arthur Hays Sulzberger. 9 August 1936. p. S1.
- ^ a b Limpert 1937, p. 972.