Latvia at the 1936 Summer Olympics
IOC code	LAT
NOC	Latvian Olympic Committee
Website	www.olimpiade.lv (in Latvian and English)
in Berlin
Competitors	29 in 6 sports
Flag bearer	Haralds Marvē[1]
Medals Ranked 24th	Gold 0 Silver 1 Bronze 1 Total 2
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Other related appearances
Russian Empire (1908–1912)  Soviet Union (1952–1988)

Latvia competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. 29 competitors, all men, took part in 16 events in 6 sports.^[2] It would be the last time that Latvia would compete at the Summer Games as an independent nation until the 1992 Summer Olympics. After the nation was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940, Latvian athletes were forced to compete at the Olympic Games as part of the USSR delegations.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Silver	Edvīns Bietags	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman -87 kg
Bronze	Adalberts Bubenko	Athletics	Men's 50 km Walk

Men

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Adalberts Bubenko	50 km walk	—		4:32:42.2
Jānis Daliņš		—		DNF
Arnolds Krūkliņš		—		DNF
Artūrs Motmillers	Marathon	—		2:58:02.0	28
Voldemārs Vītols	3000 m steeplechase	9:28.8	3 Q	9:18.8	7

Field events

Combined events – Decathlon

Winners advanced to the third round. Losers competed in the second consolation round for another chance to move on.

Canada  v  Latvia

9 August 1936 (1936-08-09)	Canada	34–23	Latvia	Berlin, Germany
	Scoring by half:  ?–?, ? ?

Winners returned to the main competition for the third round. Losers were out of the tournament.

Poland  v  Latvia

10 August 1936 (1936-08-10)	Poland	28–23	Latvia	Berlin, Germany
	Scoring by half:  ?–?, ? ?

Four male cyclists represented Latvia in 1936

Three shooters represented Latvia in 1936.

Men

Men's Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Elimination Pool							Final round
		Round 1 Result	Round 2 Result	Round 3 Result	Round 4 Result	Round 5 Result	Round 6 Result	Rank	Final round Result	Rank
Krisjānis Kundziņš	−66 kg	August Scherpenisse (BEL) W F 8.10	Valentino Borgia (ITA) L 0–3	Nikolaos Biris (GRE) W F 14:11	BYE	Yaşar Erkan (TUR) L 0–3	—	5	did not advance
Edvīns Bietags	−87 kg	Werner Seelenbinder (GER) L F 10.00	Gyula Bóbis (HUN) W F 3.46	Mustafa Avcioglu (TUR) W F 11.36	BYE	August Neo (EST) W 2–1	BYE	2	Axel Cadier (SWE) L 0–3
Alberts Zvejnieks	+87 kg	Josef Klapuch (TCH) L F 3.05	Stevan Nagy (YUG) W F 15.44	Kurt Hornfischer (GER) L 0–3	did not advance			7	did not advance