rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics

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{{Infobox Olympic event

| event = Rowing

| games = 1936 Summer

| image = Rowing pictogram.svg

| image_size = 150px

| caption =

| venue = Langer See

| dates = 11–14 August 1936

| competitors = 313

| nations = 24

| prev = 1932

| next = 1948

}}

{{Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics}}

Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics featured seven events. The competitions were held from 11 to 14 August on a regatta course at Grünau on the Langer See.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1936/ROW/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417041918/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1936/ROW/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Rowing at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games |work=Sports Reference |access-date=29 July 2018}}

The competition was dominated by the hosts, Germany, who medaled in every event and took five of the seven gold medals. The final race, men's eights, was won by a working-class United States team from the University of Washington who, in what had become their trademark, started slow and outsprinted the competition to an exceedingly close finish, with only one second separating the top three finishers at the end of a six-and-a-half minute race.Michael J. Socolow, [http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/fivering_circus/2012/07/_1936_olympics_rowing_the_greatest_underdog_nazi_defeating_american_olympic_victory_you_ve_never_heard_of_.single.html Six Minutes in Berlin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120723133240/http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/fivering_circus/2012/07/_1936_olympics_rowing_the_greatest_underdog_nazi_defeating_american_olympic_victory_you_ve_never_heard_of_.single.html |date=23 July 2012 }}, Slate.com. Published 23 July 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012.{{Cite web|url=http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2013/07/04/berlin-olympics-rowing|title=The Rowing Team That Stunned the World|date=4 July 2013|website=hereandnow|access-date=17 May 2016|archive-date=5 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505225522/http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2013/07/04/berlin-olympics-rowing|url-status=live}} This event is chronicled in The Boys in the Boat written by Daniel James Brown.