Competitors 119 from 19 nations | Dates 7–8 August | |
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Canoeing was an official Olympic sport for the first time at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. It had been a demonstration sport twelve years earlier at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. A total of nine events were contested at the 1936 Games, all in canoe sprint for men.
The competitions were held on Friday, August 7, 1936, and Saturday, August 8, 1936. They were held on a regatta course at Grünau on the Langer See.
Participating nations
A total of 119 canoers from 19 nations competed at the Berlin Games:
References
Canoeing at the 1936 Summer Olympics Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA