| Date | 13 August 1936 — 14:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Regattabahn, Grünau, Berlin | |
| Format | Winner of each heat advanced to the final round. | |
| Pos | Lane | Competitors | NOC | Time | 1,000 m | 1,000-2,000 m | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | Denmark |  DEN | 8:09.1 | 3:59.9 (1) | 4:09.2 (1) | |||||
| Hans Mikkelsen • Gunnar Ibsen Sørensen • Flemming Jensen • Svend Aage Holm Sørensen • Aage Jensen | |||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | Japan |  JPN | 8:14.4 | 4:02.2 (2) | 4:12.2 (2) | |||||
| Chikara Shirasaka • Taichi Yamada • Takashi Hatakeyama • Yoichi Endo • Taro Teshima | |||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | Czechoslovakia |  TCH | 8:20.9 | 4:05.0 (4) | 4:15.9 (3) | |||||
| František Maloň • Alfred Lerbletier • Jan Matoušek • Jaroslav Mysliveček • Josef Jabor | |||||||||||
| 4 | 4 | Brazil |  BRA | 8:26.0 | 4:04.3 (3) | 4:21.7 (4) | |||||
| Nelson Ribeiro • Álvaro de Sá Freire • José de Campos • Wilson de Freitas • Henrique Camargo | |||||||||||
| 5 | 5 | Sweden |  SWE | 8:34.4 | 4:10.0 (5) | 4:24.4 (5) | |||||
| Erik Johansson • Carl Sjöblom • Lars Larsson • Harry Sköld • Sven Tisell | |||||||||||
| Pos | Lane | Competitors | NOC | Time | 1,000 m | 1,000-2,000 m | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Hungary |  HUN | 8:08.4 | 4:02.0 (3) | 4:06.4 (1) | |||||
| Miklós Mihó • Vilmos Éden • Ákos Inotay • Alajos Szilassy • László Molnár | |||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | Poland |  POL | 8:12.2 | 3:58.9 (1) | 4:13.3 (2) | |||||
| Władysław Zawadzki • Bronisław Karwecki • Stanisław Kuryłłowicz • Witalis Leporowski • Jerzy Skolimowski | |||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | Italy |  ITA | 8:15.4 | 3:59.7 (2) | 4:15.7 (3) | |||||
| Valerio Perentin • Giliante D'Este • Nicolò Vittori • Umberto Vittori • Renato Petronio | |||||||||||
| 4 | 3 | Yugoslavia |  YUG | 8:25.1 | 4:04.9 (4) | 4:20.2 (4) | |||||
| Stipe Krnčević • Rade Sunara • Vice Jurišić • Ćiril Ban • Pavao Ljubičić | |||||||||||
| Pos | Lane | Competitors | NOC | Time | 1,000 m | 1,000-2,000 m | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | France |  FRA | 8:00.6 | 3:55.2 (1) | 4:05.4 (1) | |||||
| Fernand Vandernotte • Marcel Vandernotte • Jean Cosmat • Marcel Chauvigné • Noël Vandernotte | |||||||||||
| 2 | 3 | United States |  USA | 8:06.4 | 3:57.1 (3) | 4:09.3 (2) | |||||
| Paul Austin • Roger Cutler • William Haskins • Bob Cutler • Edward Bennett | |||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | Uruguay |  URU | 8:08.3 | 3:56.4 (2) | 4:11.9 (3) | |||||
| León Sánchez • Juan Andrés Dutra • Julio Flebbe • Francisco Sunara • Isidoro Alonso | |||||||||||
| 4 | 1 | Belgium |  BEL | 8:27.4 | 4:03.3 (4) | 4:24.1 (4) | |||||
| René Vingerhoet • Paul Siebels • Willy Collet • Jean De Rode • Harry Peeters | |||||||||||
