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At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, 29 athletics events were contested, 23 for men and 6 for women. The program of events was unchanged from the previous Games. There was a total of 776 participants from 43 countries competing.
Records broken
20 new Olympic records and 6 new world records were set in the athletics events.
References
Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA