Aeronautics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
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An Olympic gold medal for aeronautics was awarded in conjunction with the 1936 Summer Olympics for the greatest aeronautic achievement in the preceding four years.
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| Date | 1936 | ||||
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The winner was Swiss pilot Hermann Schreiber,[1] who won for becoming the first person to fly over the Alps in a glider.[2] Most sources report his flight taking place in 1935,[3][4][5][6] though Thomas Lippert of the Journal of Sports Philately stated it was on August 4, 1933.[2] Schreiber received his medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics closing ceremony.[7]
A prize for aeronautics had been considered by the International Olympic Committee as early as the 1920s,[7][8] though it remained unused until 1936. The aeronautics prize was not awarded again and was officially discontinued in 1946, along with the prize for alpinism.[2]