Bobsleigh at the 1936 Winter Olympics

Bobsleigh at the IV Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Dates	6-16 February
Competitors	115 from 14 nations

At the 1936 Winter Olympics, two bobsleigh events were contested. The competitions were held from February 11, 1936, to February 15, 1936.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Two-man	United States (USA) USA I Ivan Brown Alan Washbond	Switzerland (SUI) Switzerland II Fritz Feierabend Joseph Beerli	United States (USA) USA II Gilbert Colgate Richard Lawrence
Four-man	Switzerland (SUI) Switzerland II Pierre Musy Arnold Gartmann Charles Bouvier Joseph Beerli	Switzerland (SUI) Switzerland I Reto Capadrutt Hans Aichele Fritz Feierabend Hans Bütikofer	Great Britain (GBR) Great Britain I Frederick McEvoy James Cardno Guy Dugdale Charles Green

Participating nations

Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands only competed in the two-man event. Twenty-three bobsledders competed in both events.

A total of 95 bobsledders from 13 nations competed at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Games:

•  Austria (12)
•  Belgium (8)
•  Czechoslovakia (8)
•  France (10)
•  Germany (10)
•  Great Britain (4)
•  Italy (10)
•  Liechtenstein (2)
•  Luxembourg (4)
•  Netherlands (2)
•  Romania (9)
•  Switzerland (9)
•  United States (11)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Switzerland	1	2	0	3
2	United States	1	0	1	2
3	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		2	2	2	6

External links

• 1936 bobsleigh two-man results
• 1936 bobsleigh four-man results
• 1936 Olympic Winter Games official report.(in German) - pp. 408–19.