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Olympic Games 1936 - Berlin

The men's marathon event at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games took place on August 9. Fiftysix athletes from 27 nations competed in the race. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The race was won by Son Kitei, a Korean athlete competing for Japan whose real name was Sohn Kee-chung; Sohn refused to acknowledge the Japanese anthem at the victory ceremony. Sohn was the first Korean athlete to win an Olympic gold medal, though the medal remains credited as Japan's first victory in the Olympic marathon.

Results
1°	Kitei	Son	South Korea	2:29:19.2
2°	Ernest	Harper	Great Britain	2:31:23.2
3°	Nan	Shoryu	Japan	2:31:42.0
4°	Erkki	Tamila	Finland	2:32:45.0
5°	Väinö	Muinonen	Finland	2:33:46.0
6°	Johannes	Coleman	South Africa	2:36:17.0
7°	Donald	Robertson	Great Britain	2:37:06.2
8°	Jackie	Gibson	South Africa	2:38:04.0
9°	Mauno	Tarkiainen	Finland	2:39:33.0
10°	Thore	Enochsson	Sweden	2:43:12.0
11°	Stylianos	Kyriakidis	Greece	2:43:20.0
12°	Nouba	Khaled	France	2:45:34.0
13°	Henry	Palmé	Sweden	2:46:08.4
14°	Franz	Tuschek	Austria	2:46:29.0
15°	Jimmy	Bartlett	Canada	2:48:21.4
16°	Émile	Duval	France	2:48:39.8
17°	Manuel	Dias	Portugal	2:49:00.0
18°	Johnny A.	Kelley	United States of America	2:49:32.4
19°	Miloslav	Lunák	Czechoslovakia	2:50:26.0
20°	Felix	Meskens	Belgium	2:51:19.0
21°	Ján	Takác	Czechoslovakia	2:51:20.0
22°	Rudolf	Wöber	Austria	2:51:28.0
23°	Ludovic	Gal	Romania	2:55:02.0
24°	Robert	Nevens	Belgium	2:55:51.0
25°	Anders	Hartington-Andersen	Denmark	2:56:31.0
26°	Gabriel	Mendoza	Peru	2:57:17.8
27°	Tommy	Lalande	South Africa	2:57:20.0
28°	Arturs	Motmillers	Latvia	2:58:02.0
29°	Eduardo	Braesecke	Germany	2:59:33.4
30°	Percy	Wyer	Canada	3:00:11.0
31°	Fernand	Le Heurteur	France	3:01:11.0
32°	Wilhelm	Rothmayer	Austria	3:02:32.0
33°	Bronislaw	Gancarz	Poland	3:03:11.0
34°	Max	Beer	Switzerland	3:06:26.0
35°	Guillermo	Suárez	Peru	3:08:18.0
36°	Boris	Kharalampiev	Bulgaria	3:08:53.8
37°	Arul	Swami	India	3:10:44.0
38°	Josef	Šulc	Czechoslovakia	3:11:47.4
39°	Franz	Eha	Switzerland	3:18:17.0
40°	Wang	Zhenglin	China	3:25:36.4
41°	Stane	Šporn	Yugoslavia	3:30:47.0
42°	José	Farías	Peru	3:33:24.0
Did not finish
DNF	Luis	Oliva	Argentina
DNF	Juan Carlos	Zabala	Argentina
DNF	Harold	Webster	Canada
DNF	Juan	Acosta	Chile
DNF	Franz	Barsicke	Germany
DNF	Paul	de Bruyn	Germany
DNF	Bert	Norris	Great Britain
DNF	Giannino	Bulzone	Italy
DNF	Aurelio	Genghini	Italy
DNF	Tamao	Shiwaku	Japan
DNF	Kazimierz	Fialka	Poland
DNF	Jaime	Mendes	Portugal
DNF	Tarzan	Brown	United States of America
DNF	Billy	McMahon	United States of America
Did not start
Disqualified

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Results 1936

MEN MARATHON
2:29:19.2
Kitei Son
(South Korea)

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