Argentina at the 1936 Summer Olympics

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Argentina at the 1936 Summer Olympics
IOC code	ARG
NOC	Argentine Olympic Committee
Website	www.coarg.org.ar (in Spanish)
in Berlin
Competitors	51 (50 men and 1 woman) in 8 sports
Flag bearer	Juan Carlos Zabala
Medals Ranked 13th	Gold 2 Silver 2 Bronze 3 Total 7
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Argentina at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany was the nation's seventh appearance out of ten editions of the Summer Olympic Games. Argentina sent to the 1936 Summer Olympics its fourth national team, under the auspices of the Argentine Olympic Committee (Comité Olímpico Argentino) of 51 athletes (50 men and the first woman), who competed in 31 events in 8 sports.^[1] The flag bearer was Juan Carlos Zabala, the gold medalist in the immediately previous Summer Olympic Games marathon.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Oscar Casanovas	Boxing	Men's Featherweight
Gold	Andrés Gazzotti Manuel Andrada Roberto Cavanagh Luis Duggan	Polo	Men's Team Competition
Silver	Guillermo Lovell	Boxing	Men's Heavyweight
Silver	Jeannette Campbell	Swimming	Women's 100m Freestyle
Bronze	Raúl Villarreal	Boxing	Men's Middleweight
Bronze	Francisco Risiglione	Boxing	Men's Light Heavyweight
Bronze	Julio Curatella Horacio Podestá	Rowing	Men's coxless pair

Men

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Tomás Beswick	100 m	10.9	3	did not advance
	200 m	22.1	2 Q	NT	6	did not advance
Juan Carlos Anderson	400 m	49.4	2 Q	48.7	2 Q	48.5	5	did not advance
	800 m	1:55.1	1 Q	—		1:54.8	3 Q	NT	7
Juan Carlos Zabala	10000 m	—						31:22.0	6
	Marathon	—						DNF
Antonio Fondevilla	100 m	11.0	3	did not advance
	200 m	NT	6	did not advance
Carlos Hofmeister	200 m	22.3	3 Q	NT	6	did not advance
Juan Lavenás	110 m hurdles	15.1	2 Q	—		15.6	6	did not advance
	400 m hurdles	54.5	2 Q	—		54.5	5	did not advance
Luis Oliva	Marathon	—						DNF
Antonio Sande	100 m	11.2	4	did not advance
Antonio Sande Tomás Beswick Antonio Fondevilla Carlos Hofmeister	4 × 100 m relay	41.9	6 Q	—				42.2	4

Eleven fencers, all men, represented Argentina in 1936.

Men's foil

• Roberto Larraz
• Ángel Gorordo
• Rodolfo Valenzuela

Men's team foil

• Roberto Larraz
• Héctor Lucchetti
• Ángel Gorordo
• Luis Lucchetti
• Rodolfo Valenzuela
• Manuel Torrente

Men's épée

• Antonio Villamil
• Raúl Saucedo

Men's team épée

• Raúl Saucedo
• Luis Lucchetti
• Antonio Villamil
• Roberto Larraz
• Héctor Lucchetti

Men's sabre

• Vicente Krause
• José Manuel Brunet
• Carmelo Merlo

Roster

Argentina

First round

Gold medal match

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Antonio Giorgio	Single sculls	7:33.00	3 R	7:38.70	1 Q	8:18.40	3 Q	8:57.50	6
Horacio Podestá Julio Curatella	Coxless pair	7:20.00	2 q	BYE		9:11.40	1 Q	8:23.00

Open

Athlete	Event	Race														Final rank
		1		2		3		4		5		6		7
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Julio Sieburger Claudio Bincaz Germán Frers Edelf Hosmann Jorge Linck	6 Metre	5	8	8	5	2	11	8	5	4	9	5	8	7	6	52	4
Rufino Rodríguez de la Torre Mario Ortiz Sauze Luis Domingo Aguirre Hipolito Ezequiel Gil Elizalde Rafael Ernesto Iglesias Guillermo Peralta Ramos	8 Metre	8	3	7	4	7	4	9	2	8	3	6	5	7	4	25	7

Five shooters represented Argentina in 1936.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Shoot off	Final
		Score	Score	Score	Score	Score	Score	Rank
Lorenzo Amaya	25 m rapid fire pistol	18	1	did not advance			19	28
Carlos Balestrini		18	5	did not advance			23	19
Guillermo Canciani	50 metre rifle prone	—					288	44
Miguel Lonegro	50 m pistol	—					513	27
Juan Rostagno		—					519	18

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jeannette Campbell	100 metre freestyle	1:06.8	1 Q	1:06.6	1 Q	1:06.4