USA Decathlon Team Olympic Medal Ceremony Color Photocard from the 1936 Summer Olympic Games held in Berlin, Germany. This is one of a series of rare color 1936 Olympic sports photos and photocards now listed. Great condition for 70 year old photos. A description of the photo and the famous series it comes from in on the back of each photo in German. Please see the scan for the actual photo on auction. The USA Team swept the medals with Glen Morris-Gold, Robert Clark-Silver, and John Parker-Bronze.

• Olympic Edition: 1936 Berlin
• Sport: Athletics-Decathlon
• Type: Photocard
• Size: 2 3/4" (70mm) X 4 1/8" (105mm)
• Subject: Medal Ceremony
• Manufacturer: The Heinrich Frank Company-Berlin
• Color/B&W: Color
• Rarity: Rare
• Condition Note: These were part of a photo album. As in almost all photo albums from this period, the cards were attached to the paper pages in curved slots by each corner. The slight impression of the mounting slots are in each corner. This does not detract from the photocard and would not be seen at all if framed.

1936 Berlin-The 1936 Olympics, held in Berlin, are best remembered for Adolf Hitler’s failed attempt to use them to prove his theories of Aryan racial superiority. As it turned out, the most popular hero of the Games, was the African-American sprinter and long jumper Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals. During the long jump competition, Owens’ German rival, Luz Long, publicly befriended him in front of the Nazis. 1936 saw the introduction of the torch relay, in which a lighted torch is carried from Olympia to the site of the current Games. The 1936 Olympics were also the first to be broadcast on a form of television. Twenty-five large screens were set up throughout Berlin, allowing the local people to see the Games for free. Basketball, canoeing and team handball made their first appearances, while polo was included in the Olympic program for the last time. Thirteen-year-old Marjorie Gestring of the United States won the gold medal in springboard diving. She remains the youngest female gold medalist in the history of the Summer Olympics. Inge Sorensen of Denmark earned a bronze medal in the 200m breaststroke at the age of 12, making her the youngest medalist ever in an individual event. Hungarian water polo player Olivier Halassy won his third medal despite the fact that one of his legs had been amputated below the knee following a streetcar accident. Rower Jack Beresford of Great Britain won a gold medal in the double sculls event, marking the fifth Olympics at which he earned a medal. Kristjan Palusalu of Estonia won the heavyweight division in both freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling.

Athletics (Track and Field)-Athletics is, in many ways, the embodiment of the Olympic motto, "Citius, Altius, Fortius", meaning faster, higher, stronger. Athletics (or track and field) is about running faster, jumping higher and throwing further than your competitors. The ancient Games at Olympia began simply with foot races, only occasionally complicated by dressing the runners in infantry armor or making them carry soldiers' shields. Today, athletics remains one of the most popular Olympic sports. From the 100m dash to the 42.195km marathon, from the hammer throw to the high jump, it contains many of the Olympic Games' blue-ribbon events and many of the highest-profile competitors.

Decathlon-The Decathlon is a grueling 2-day event combining  hurdles, sprint, and middle distance events from track and power/technique events from field. The Olympic or World Championships winner of this 10 event contest is aptly crowned the world's greatest athlete for that year.

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