1936 Winter Olympics medal table

1936 Winter Olympics medals
Ivar Ballangrud wearing a coat in front of pine trees
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.
LocationGarmisch-Partenkirchen,  Germany
Highlights
Most gold medals Norway (7)
Most total medals Norway (15)
Medalling NOCs11
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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 Committees (NOCs) participated, 11 NOCs more than the last Winter Games in Lake Placid, United States. The games featured 17 events in 4 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 after from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin.[1][2][3][a]

Overall, athletes representing 11 NOCs won at least one medal, and 8 NOCs won at least one gold medal. Norway won the most gold medals and the most overall medals, with 7 and 15 respectively.[6] Germany's team obtained their first Winter Olympic gold medal, with alpine skier Christl Cranz winning the women's combined event.[7][b] Norway and Sweden both achieved podium sweeps at the games, with the former in the 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 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.[10][11]

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 in Paris, France, to attain the greatest Olympic performance by an individual.[12]

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