{{Short description|Outdoor track and field competition}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Use British English|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox Athletics Championships |Name = 1936 AAA Championships |Host city = London, England |Dates = 10–11 July 1936 |Stadium = White City Stadium |Level = Senior |Type = Outdoor |Events = 25 |Previous = 1935 |Next = 1937 |Games = AAA Championships }}
The '''1936 AAA Championships''' was the 1936 edition of the annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA). It was held from 10 to 11 July 1936 at White City Stadium in London, England.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000104/19360711/173/0006 |title=AAA Championships begin |work=Western Mail |date=11 July 1936 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=13 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003214/19360713/473/0017 |title=Wooderson wins again |work=Daily Herald |date=13 July 1936 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=13 July 2024}}</ref>
The Championships consisted of 25 events and covered two days of competition.
{{clear}} == Results == <ref>{{cite web|url=https://nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=13 July 2024}}</ref> thumb|right|150px|Sydney Wooderson retained his 1 mile title thumb|right|150px|Australian Jack Metcalfe won two events
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left" |- !width=100|Event !colspan="2" width="280" style="background:gold;|Gold !colspan="2" width="280" style="background:silver;|Silver !colspan="2" width="280" style="background:#CD7F32;|Bronze |- |100 yards | {{flagicon|NED}} Tinus Osendarp ||9.8 | Arthur Sweeney ||9.8 | Cyril Holmes ||9.9 |- |220 yards | Arthur Sweeney ||21.9 |Cyril Holmes ||22.1 |{{flagicon|NED}} Wil van Beveren || 22.2 |- |440 yards | Godfrey Brown|| 48.6 |Godfrey Rampling ||49.1 |Bill Roberts ||inches |- |880 yards | Jack Powell ||1:54.7 |Frank Handley ||1:54.9 |{{flagicon|POL}} Kazimierz Kucharski ||1:54.9 |- |1 mile | Sydney Wooderson ||4:15.0 | {{flagicon|NZL}} Jack Lovelock ||4:15.2 | {{flagicon|SCO}} Robert Graham ||4:16.5 |- |3 miles | Peter Ward ||14:15.8 NR | Frank Close ||14:20.2 | Aubrey Reeve ||14:22.3 |- |6 miles |{{flagicon|POL}} Józef Noji ||29:43.4 |Alec Burns ||29:45.0 NR |John Potts ||29:47.0 |- |10 miles | William Eaton|| 50:30.8 NR | Alec Burns ||51:11.8 | Charles Carter ||52:40.2 |- |marathon | {{flagicon|SCO}} Donald Robertson ||2:35:02.4 | Ernest Harper ||2:35:03.6 | Francis O'Sullivan ||2:38:17.8 |- |steeplechase | Thomas Evenson ||10:24.8 | James Ginty ||10:25.2 | {{flagicon|SCO}} William Wylie ||10:29.0 |- |120y hurdles | Don Finlay|| 14.6 | John Thornton|| 3 yd | Ashleigh Pilbrow|| 15.0 |- |440y hurdles | John Sheffield ||55.6 | {{flagicon|AUS}} Alf Watson ||1-2½ yd | Ralph Kilner Brown||½ yd |- |2 miles walk | Bert Cooper ||13:50.0 | {{flagicon|LAT}} Paul Bernhard || 14:01.4 | Harry Churcher ||14:02.8 |- |7 miles walk | Vic Stone ||52:21.2 | Alf Pope ||52:40.0 | Fred Redman ||53:04.4 |- |high jump | {{flagicon|AUS}} Jack Metcalfe ||1.854 | {{flagicon|NED}} Jan Brasser ||1.829 | Stanley West ||1.778 |- |pole vault | Dick Webster ||3.88 NR | {{flagicon|AUS}} Frederick Woodhouse ||3.81 | Albert Leach ||3.58 |- |long jump | George Traynor ||7.07 | William Breach ||6.92 | Sandy Duncan||6.88 |- |triple jump | {{flagicon|AUS}} Jack Metcalfe ||15.07 | {{flagicon|AUS}} Basil Dickinson ||14.62 | {{flagicon|NIR|1924}} Edward Boyce ||13.74 |- |shot put |{{flagicon|NED}} Aad de Bruyn || 14.08 |Robert Howland|| 13.71 |Alfred Carver ||12.69 |- |discus throw |{{flagicon|JAM|1906}} Bernarr Prendergast ||43.10 |Laurence Reavell-Carter ||43.09 |Douglas Bell ||41.02 |- |hammer throw | Norman Drake|| 46.26 |{{flagicon|SCO}} Sandy Smith ||43.38 | Tom McAnallen ||43.15 |- |javelin throw | {{flagicon|NED}} Jaap van der Poll || 57.66 |Stanley Wilson|| 54.98 |Robert Turner ||48.72 |- |decathlon | Ronald Walker|| 5291 NR |John Cotter ||5129 |Norman Burges ||4423 |- |440 yards relay | ATC Snelvoeters|| | Blackheath Harriers|| | Polytechnic Harriers|| |- |Tug of war |Royal Army Service Corps Feltham|| |B Div Metropolitan Polices|| ||| |}
== See also == *1936 WAAA Championships
== References == {{reflist}}
{{British championships in athletics}}
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