1936 AAA Championships

{{Short description|Outdoor track and field competition}}

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{{Infobox Athletics Championships

|Name = 1936 AAA Championships

|Host city = London, England

|Dates = 10–11 July 1936

|Stadium = White City Stadium

|Level = Senior

|Type = Outdoor

|Events = 25

|Previous = 1935

|Next = 1937

|Games = AAA Championships

}}

The 1936 AAA Championships was the 1936 edition of the annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA). It was held from 10 to 11 July 1936 at White City Stadium in London, England.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000104/19360711/173/0006 |title=AAA Championships begin |work=Western Mail |date=11 July 1936 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=13 July 2024}}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003214/19360713/473/0017 |title=Wooderson wins again |work=Daily Herald |date=13 July 1936 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=13 July 2024}}

The Championships consisted of 25 events and covered two days of competition.

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Results

{{cite web|url=https://nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=13 July 2024}}

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width=100|Event

!colspan="2" width="280" style="background:gold;|Gold

!colspan="2" width="280" style="background:silver;|Silver

!colspan="2" width="280" style="background:#CD7F32;|Bronze

100 yards

| {{flagicon|NED}} Tinus Osendarp

9.8

| Arthur Sweeney

9.8

| Cyril Holmes

9.9
220 yards

| Arthur Sweeney

21.9

|Cyril Holmes

22.1

|{{flagicon|NED}} Wil van Beveren

22.2
440 yards

| Godfrey Brown

48.6

|Godfrey Rampling

49.1

|Bill Roberts

inches
880 yards

| Jack Powell

1:54.7

|Frank Handley

1:54.9

|{{flagicon|POL}} Kazimierz Kucharski

1:54.9
1 mile

| Sydney Wooderson

4:15.0

| {{flagicon|NZL}} Jack Lovelock

4:15.2

| {{flagicon|SCO}} Robert Graham

4:16.5
3 miles

| Peter Ward

14:15.8 NR

| Frank Close

14:20.2

| Aubrey Reeve

14:22.3
6 miles

|{{flagicon|POL}} Józef Noji

29:43.4

|Alec Burns

29:45.0 NR

|John Potts

29:47.0
10 miles

| William Eaton

50:30.8 NR

| Alec Burns

51:11.8

| Charles Carter

52:40.2
marathon

| {{flagicon|SCO}} Donald Robertson

2:35:02.4

| Ernest Harper

2:35:03.6

| Francis O'Sullivan

2:38:17.8
steeplechase

| Thomas Evenson

10:24.8

| James Ginty

10:25.2

| {{flagicon|SCO}} William Wylie

10:29.0
120y hurdles

| Don Finlay

14.6

| John Thornton

3 yd

| Ashleigh Pilbrow

15.0
440y hurdles

| John Sheffield

55.6

| {{flagicon|AUS}} Alf Watson

1-2½ yd

| Ralph Kilner Brown

½ yd
2 miles walk

| Bert Cooper

13:50.0

| {{flagicon|LAT}} Paul Bernhard

14:01.4

| Harry Churcher

14:02.8
7 miles walk

| Vic Stone

52:21.2

| Alf Pope

52:40.0

| Fred Redman

53:04.4
high jump

| {{flagicon|AUS}} Jack Metcalfe

1.854

| {{flagicon|NED}} Jan Brasser

1.829

| Stanley West

1.778
pole vault

| Dick Webster

3.88 NR

| {{flagicon|AUS}} Frederick Woodhouse

3.81

| Albert Leach

3.58
long jump

| George Traynor

7.07

| William Breach

6.92

| Sandy Duncan

6.88
triple jump

| {{flagicon|AUS}} Jack Metcalfe

15.07

| {{flagicon|AUS}} Basil Dickinson

14.62

| {{flagicon|NIR|1924}} Edward Boyce

13.74
shot put

|{{flagicon|NED}} Aad de Bruyn

14.08

|Robert Howland

13.71

|Alfred Carver

12.69
discus throw

|{{flagicon|JAM|1906}} Bernarr Prendergast

43.10

|Laurence Reavell-Carter

43.09

|Douglas Bell

41.02
hammer throw

| Norman Drake

46.26

|{{flagicon|SCO}} Sandy Smith

43.38

| Tom McAnallen

43.15
javelin throw

| {{flagicon|NED}} Jaap van der Poll

57.66

|Stanley Wilson

54.98

|Robert Turner

48.72
decathlon

| Ronald Walker

5291 NR

|John Cotter

5129

|Norman Burges

4423
440 yards relay

| ATC Snelvoeters

| Blackheath Harriers| Polytechnic Harriers
Tug of war

|Royal Army Service Corps Feltham

|B Div Metropolitan Polices|

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