1936 in sports

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Years in sports: 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939
Centuries: 19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years: 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939

1936 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

Alpine skiing[]

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 6th FIS Alpine World Ski Championships are held at Innsbruck, Austria. The events are a downhill, a slalom and a combined race in both the men's and women's categories. The winners are:

American football[]

Association football[]

England

Spain

Germany

Italy

Portugal

France

Ukraine

Australian rules football[]

Baseball[]

  • Japanese Baseball League, as predecessor for Japan Central League and Pacific League of Japan, a first officially game held on February 9.[citation needed]
  • Plans are announced for a Baseball Hall of Fame to be established in 1939, the game's supposed centennial, in Cooperstown, New York. In the first elections to select 15 initial inductees (5 from the 19th century and 10 from the 20th), Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson are selected from the 20th century; the election for 19th century players is plagued by problems and results in no selections. See: Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1936
  • World Series – New York Yankees defeat the New York Giants, 4–2.
  • Nagoya Baseball Club, as predecessor for Chunichi Dragons, officially founded in Japan on January 15.[3]

Basketball[]

  • The first season for Argentine Basketball Club Championship League was held, Huracan de Rosario has first season's champion.[citation needed]

Boxing[]

Events

  • 19 June – in one of boxing’s biggest-ever upsets, Max Schmeling knocks out Joe Louis at 2:29 of round 12 at New York's Yankee Stadium

Lineal world champions[4]

  • World Heavyweight Championship – James J. Braddock
  • World Light Heavyweight Championship – John Henry Lewis
  • World Middleweight Championship – vacant
  • World Welterweight Championship – Barney Ross
  • World Lightweight Championship – Tony Canzoneri → Lou Ambers
  • World Featherweight Championship – vacant
  • World Bantamweight Championship – Sixto Escobar → Tony Marino → Sixto Escobar
  • World Flyweight Championship – vacant → Benny Lynch

Cricket[]

Events

  • Australia tours South Africa, winning the five-test series three tests to nil.

England

  • County Championship – Derbyshire
  • Minor Counties Championship – Hertfordshire
  • Most runs – Patsy Hendren 2,654 @ 47.39 (HS 202)
  • Most wickets – Hedley Verity 216 @ 13.18 (BB 9–12)
  • India play a three-Test series of England, losing two and drawing one
  • Wisden Cricketers of the Year – Charlie Barnett, Bill Copson, Alf Gover, Vijay Merchant, Stan Worthington

Australia

India

New Zealand

South Africa

  • Currie Cup – not contested

West Indies

  • Inter-Colonial Tournament – British Guiana

Cycling[]

Tour de France

Giro d'Italia

  • Gino Bartali of Legnano wins the 24th Giro d'Italia

Field Hockey[]

  • Olympic Games (Men's Competition) in Berlin won by India

Figure skating[]

Golf[]

Men's professional

Men's amateur

Women's professional

Horse racing[]

  • May 8 – jockey Ralph Neves was involved in a racing accident at Bay Meadows Racetrack in San Mateo, California and mistakenly pronounced dead. A while later, he woke up in the morgue and promptly returned to the racetrack but was not allowed to compete in any of the remaining races because of his "death".

Steeplechases

Flat races

Ice hockey[]

  • The Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup Championship 3 games to 1 over the Toronto Maple Leafs
    • Combining this with the Detroit Tigers World Series win and the Detroit Lions NFL Championship, in 1935, Detroit played home to the Championship teams in the MLB, NFL, and NHL in one 12-month period. This feat has yet to be duplicated by any other city.[6]
  • The first season of Czechoslovak Extraliga was held, which separated into Czech Extraliga and Tipsport Ice-hockey Liga of Slovakia from this league on 1993.[citation needed]

Motorsport[]

Main articles: 1936 in motorsport and List of 1936 motorsport champions

Olympic Games[]

  • The infamous 1936 Summer Olympics take place in Berlin
    • Germany wins the most medals (89) and the most gold medals (33)
    • Jesse Owens wins four athletics gold medals
    • The first torch relay takes place from Olympia, Greece
  • 1936 Winter Olympics takes place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
    • Norway wins the most medals (15) and the most gold medals (7)

Rowing[]

The Boat Race

  • 4 April — Cambridge wins the 88th Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

Rugby league[]

Rugby union[]

Snooker[]

Speed skating[]

Events

Speed Skating World Championships

1936 Winter Olympics (Men)

1936 Winter Olympics (Women)

  • not contested

Tennis[]

Australia

England

France

USA

Davis Cup

Awards[]

  • Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year – Jesse Owens, Track and field
  • Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year – Helen Stephens, Track and field

References[]

  1. ^ Chadwick, Simon; Chanavat, Nicolas; Desbordes, Michel (22 December 2015). Routledge Handbook of Sports Marketing. Routledge. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-317-58492-6.
  2. ^ Cornwall, Peter and Wood, John; Pride of the Bay: The Story of the Glenelg Football Club; p. 72 ISBN 0646378171
  3. ^ ja:中日ドラゴンズ#球団の歴史#１リーグ時代’’’(Japanese)’’’ Retrieved January 6, 2017
  4. ^ Cyber Boxing Zone
  5. ^ "Cycling-Tour de France list of winners". Eurosport UK. 26 August 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  6. ^ Champions day
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