| Event: | Swimming |
| Games: | 1936 Summer |
| Venue: | Olympiapark Schwimmstadion Berlin |
| Dates: | 8–15 August 1936 |
| Num Events: | 11 |
| Competitors: | 248 |
| Nations: | 29 |
| Prev: | 1932 |
| Next: | 1948 |
At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, eleven swimming events were contested, six for men and five for women.[1] The competitions were held from Saturday August 8, 1936 to Saturday August 15, 1936. There was a total of 248 participants from 29 countries competing.[2]
| 100 m freestyle | ||||
| 400 m freestyle | ||||
| 1500 m freestyle | ||||
| 100 m backstroke | ||||
| 200 m breaststroke | ||||
| 4 × 200 m freestyle relay | Shigeo Arai Shigeo Sugiura Masaharu Taguchi Masanori Yusa | Ralph Flanagan John Macionis Jack Medica Paul Wolf | Oszkár Abay-Nemes Ferenc Csik Ödön Gróf Árpád Lengyel |
| 100 m freestyle | ||||
| 400 m freestyle | ||||
| 100 m backstroke | ||||
| 200 m breaststroke | ||||
| 4 × 100 m freestyle relay | Rie Mastenbroek Willy den Ouden Jopie Selbach Tini Wagner | Gisela Arendt Ruth Halbsguth Leni Lohmar Ingeborg Schmitz | Mavis Freeman Bernice Lapp Olive McKean Katherine Rawls |
248 swimmers from 29 nations competed.[2]
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