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{{Infobox award
| name             = 1936 Winter Olympics medals
| image            = Ivar Ballangrud 1936.jpg
| image_caption    = [[Ivar Ballangrud]] of Norway won the most gold medals and overall medals for an individual at the 1936 Winter Olympics, winning three and four respectively in men's speed skating.
| alt              = Ivar Ballangrud wearing a coat in front of pine trees
| location         = [[Garmisch-Partenkirchen]], {{flagIOC|GER|1936 Winter}}
| award2_type      = Most total medals
| award2_winner    = {{flagIOC|NOR|1936 Winter|15}}
| award1_type      = Most gold medals
| award1_winner    = {{flagIOC|NOR|1936 Winter|7}}
| award3_type      = Medalling NOCs
| award3_winner    = 11
| previous         = [[1932 Winter Olympics medal table|1932]]
| main             = [[All-time Olympic Games medal table|Olympics medal tables]]
| next             = [[1948 Winter Olympics medal table|1948]]
}}
The [[1936 Winter Olympics]], officially known as the IV Olympic Winter Games, were an international multi-sport event held in [[ Garmisch-Partenkirchen]], Germany, from 6 to 16 February 1936. A total of 646 athletes representing 28 [[National Olympic Committee]]s (NOCs) participated, 11 NOCs more than the [[1932 Winter Olympics|last Winter Games]] in [[Lake Placid, New York|Lake Placid]], United States. NOCs as first-time entrants at the Winter Games included [[Australia at the 1936 Winter Olympics|Australia]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympics.com.au/games/garmisch-1936/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241217221100/https://www.olympics.com.au/games/garmisch-1936/ |archive-date=17 December 2024 |title=Garmisch 1936 |work=[[Australian Olympic Committee]] |url-status=live |access-date=11 February 2025 }}</ref> [[Bulgaria at the 1936 Winter Olympics|Bulgaria]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/countries/BUL/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250207163050/https://www.olympedia.org/countries/BUL |archive-date=7 February 2025 |access-date=11 February 2025 |work=[[Olympedia]] |title=Bulgaria Overview |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Greece at the 1936 Winter Olympics|Greece]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/countries/GRE/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250209152134/https://www.olympedia.org/countries/GRE/ |archive-date=9 February 2025 |access-date=11 February 2025 |work=[[Olympedia]] |title=Greece Overview |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Liechtenstein at the 1936 Winter Olympics|Liechtenstein]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/sports/olympics/baron-olympics-hitler-liechtenstein.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230807025441/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/sports/olympics/baron-olympics-hitler-liechtenstein.html |archive-date=7 August 2023 |date=12 October 2017 |access-date=11 February 2025 |work=[[The New York Times]] |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |last1=Longman |first1=Jeré |title=A Seat Near Hitler, and Other Olympic Tales From the Baron, 105 }}</ref> [[Spain at the 1936 Winter Olympics|Spain]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/countries/ESP/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241008062346/https://www.olympedia.org/countries/ESP |archive-date=8 October 2024 |access-date=11 February 2025 |work=[[Olympedia]] |title=Spain Overview |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Turkey at the 1936 Winter Olympics|Turkey]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/countries/TUR/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241008062428/https://www.olympedia.org/countries/TUR |archive-date=8 October 2024 |access-date=11 February 2025 |work=[[Olympedia]] |title=Türkiye Overview |url-status=live }}</ref> The games featured 17 events in 4 [[Winter Olympic sports|sports]] across 8 disciplines. These games were the last time that the same country hosted the [[Summer Olympics]] and [[Winter Olympics]] in the same year, with the [[1936 Summer Olympics]] being held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in [[Berlin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Factsheets/The-Olympic-Winter-Games.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130171949/https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Factsheets/The-Olympic-Winter-Games.pdf |archive-date=30 November 2022 |date=October 14, 2021 |page=1 |title=Factsheet: The Winter Olympic Games |work=[[International Olympic Committee]] |access-date=July 22, 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|page=2|url=https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Factsheets/The-Games-of-the-Olympiad.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240911134901/https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Factsheets/The-Games-of-the-Olympiad.pdf |archive-date=11 September 2024 |title=Factsheet The Games of the Olympiad |work=[[International Olympic Committee]] |access-date=1 January 2025 |date=20 June 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Organizing Committee for the IV Olympic Winter Games|1936|pp=437–438}}{{efn|The [[1940 Winter Olympics]] and [[1940 Summer Olympics]] were both planned to be held in Japan, with [[Sapporo]] hosting the Winter Games and [[Tokyo]] hosting the Summer Games, but both were cancelled due to [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/03/24/1940-tokyo-olympics-postponed-coronavirus/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240627133037/https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/03/24/1940-tokyo-olympics-postponed-coronavirus/ |archive-date=27 June 2024 |date=24 March 2020 |access-date=2 February 2025 |title=This isn't the first time Olympics in Japan have been disrupted |work=[[The Washington Post]] |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |last1=Brockell |first1=Gillian }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fei.org/history/olympic-games/1940-cancelled |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230114205618/https://www.fei.org/history/olympic-games/1940-cancelled |archive-date=14 January 2023 |title=Games of the XII Olympiad Cancelled 1940 |work=[[International Federation for Equestrian Sports]] |url-status=live }}</ref>}}

Overall, athletes representing 11 NOCs won at least one medal, and 8 NOCs won at least one gold medal. [[Norway at the 1936 Winter Olympics|Norway]] won the most gold medals and the most overall medals, with 7 and 15 respectively.<ref>{{cite Sports-Reference|url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1936/|title=1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games|access-date=2 February 2025 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327232324/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1936/|archive-date=27 March 2010 }}</ref> [[Germany at the 1936 Winter Olympics|Germany]]'s team obtained their first Winter Olympic gold medal, with alpine skier [[Christl Cranz]] winning the [[Alpine skiing at the 1936 Winter Olympics – Women's combined|women's combined event]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-citizen-olympics-ski-title/165205771/ |date=8 February 1936 |title=Olympics Ski Title Goes to German Girl |agency=[[United Press]] |work=[[Brooklyn Citizen]] |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |page=6 }}</ref>{{efn|Germany also won two other gold medals during the games, though Cranz's event was held before the other two, therefore making her Germany's first Winter Olympic gold medalist.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/results/1166 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250120042757/https://www.olympedia.org/results/1166 |archive-date=20 January 2025 |access-date=2 February 2025 |title=Combined, Men |work=[[Olympedia]] |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/results/12816 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241215134916/https://www.olympedia.org/results/12816 |archive-date=December 15, 2024 |access-date=2 February 2025 |work=[[Olympedia]] |url-status=live |title=Pairs, Mixed}}</ref>}} Norway and [[Sweden at the 1936 Winter Olympics|Sweden]] both achieved [[podium sweep]]s at the games, with the former in the [[Nordic combined at the 1936 Winter Olympics|individual nordic combined event]] with [[Oddbjørn Hagen]] winning the gold, [[Olaf Hoffsbakken]] winning the silver, and [[Sverre Brodahl]] winning the bronze, and the latter in the [[Cross-country skiing at the 1936 Winter Olympics – Men's 50 kilometre|men's 50 kilometre cross-country skiing event]] with [[Elis Wiklund]] winning the gold, [[Axel Wikström]] winning the silver, and [[Nils-Joel Englund]] winning the bronze.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ottawa-citizen-canada-must-tie-germa/165205819/ |date=13 February 1936 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |title=Canada Must Tie Germany In Game Tonight To Gain Finals |work=[[Ottawa Citizen]] |agency=[[The Canadian Press]] |page=12 |access-date=2 February 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-toronto-star-winter-olympic-cross-co/165205835/ |work=[[Toronto Star]] |title=Winter Olympic Cross-country Sweeps |date=24 February 2014 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |page=49 |access-date=2 February 2025}}</ref>

Speed skater [[Ivar Ballangrud]] of Norway won the most gold medals and overall medals for an individual at the games, with three and four respectively. Ballangrud became the first athlete since middle- and long-distance runner [[Paavo Nurmi]] of [[Finland at the 1924 Summer Olympics|Finland]] at the [[1924 Summer Olympics]] in [[Paris]], France, to attain the greatest Olympic performance by an individual.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-spokesman-review-olympic-crown-to-ba/165205860/ |date=15 February 1936 |access-date=2 February 2025 |title=Olympic Crown to Ballangrud |work=[[The Spokesman-Review]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |page=13 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] }}</ref>
==Medal table==
[[File:Christl Cranz 1936.jpg|thumb|[[Christl Cranz]], the first Winter Olympic gold medalist for Germany|alt=Christl Cranz skiing in front of a crowd]]
The medal table is based on information provided by the [[International Olympic Committee]] (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses the [[Olympic medal table]] sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals.<ref>{{cite web |title=Olympic medal table: USA beat China to top spot at Paris 2024 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/olympics-2024-medal-table-count-paris-b2580716.html |website=[[The Independent]] | date=11 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812015233/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/olympics-2024-medal-table-count-paris-b2594580.html |archive-date=12 August 2024 |url-status=live |last1=Ostlere |first1=Lawrence |access-date=12 August 2024 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=A Medal Count That Adds Up To Little |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/sports/olympics/19araton.html |website=[[The New York Times]] | date=18 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321004238/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/sports/olympics/19araton.html |archive-date=21 March 2023 |url-status=live |last1=Araton |first1=Harvey |url-access=subscription |access-date=25 July 2024 }}</ref> If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their [[List of IOC country codes|IOC country code]].<ref>{{cite web |title=What happens if two countries are tied in the Olympic medal table? Tiebreaker rules explained |url=https://en.as.com/olympic_games/what-happens-if-two-countries-are-tied-in-the-olympic-medal-table-tiebreaker-rules-explained-n/ |website=[[Diario AS]] | date=10 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240811152350/https://en.as.com/olympic_games/what-happens-if-two-countries-are-tied-in-the-olympic-medal-table-tiebreaker-rules-explained-n/ |archive-date=11 August 2024 |url-status=live |last1=Cons |first1=Roddy |access-date=11 August 2024 |language=en-us}}</ref>

{{Medals table
 | caption        = 1936 Winter Olympics medal table<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympics.com/en/olympic-games/garmisch-partenkirchen-1936/medals |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240911072133/https://www.olympics.com/en/olympic-games/garmisch-partenkirchen-1936/medals |archive-date=11 September 2024 |access-date=2 February 2025 |title=Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 Olympic Medal Table – Gold, Silver & Bronze |work=[[International Olympic Committee]] |url-status=live }}</ref>
 | host           = GER
 | flag_template  = flagIOC
 | event          = 1936 Winter
 | team           = 
 | gold_NOR = 7 | silver_NOR = 5 | bronze_NOR = 3
 | gold_GER = 3 | silver_GER = 3 | bronze_GER = 0 | host_GER = yes 
 | gold_SWE = 2 | silver_SWE = 2 | bronze_SWE = 3
 | gold_FIN = 1 | silver_FIN = 2 | bronze_FIN = 3
 | gold_SUI = 1 | silver_SUI = 2 | bronze_SUI = 0
 | gold_AUT = 1 | silver_AUT = 1 | bronze_AUT = 2
 | gold_GBR = 1 | silver_GBR = 1 | bronze_GBR = 1
 | gold_USA = 1 | silver_USA = 0 | bronze_USA = 3
 | gold_CAN = 0 | silver_CAN = 1 | bronze_CAN = 0
 | gold_FRA = 0 | silver_FRA = 0 | bronze_FRA = 1
 | gold_HUN = 0 | silver_HUN = 0 | bronze_HUN = 1
}}

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==References==
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===Bibliography===
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*{{cite report |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1936/1936win.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070809151326/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1936/1936win.pdf |archive-date=9 August 2007 |access-date=2 February 2025 |date=1936 |work=Organizing Committee for the IV Olympic Winter Games 1936 |lang=de |via=[[LA84 Foundation]] |url-status=dead |title=IV Olympische Winterspiele 1936 Amtlicher Bericht |trans-title=IV Olympic Winter Games 1936 Official Report|ref={{harvid|Organizing Committee for the IV Olympic Winter Games|1936}}}}
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==External links==
* {{IOC games|games=1936 Winter Olympics }}
* {{cite web |title=1936 Winter Olympics |publisher=Olympedia.com |url=http://www.olympedia.org/editions/32 |access-date=24 February 2021 }}

{{Olympic games medal table}}
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