| Date | 11 August 1936 — 15:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Regattabahn, Grünau, Berlin | |
| Format | Winner of each heat advanced to the final. | |
| Pos | Lane | Competitors | NOC | Time | 1,000 m | 1,000-2,000 m | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Netherlands |  NED | 6:59.0 | 3:24.9 (2) | 3:34.1 (1) | |||||
| Mak Schoorl • Hotse Bartlema • Flip Regout • Simon de Wit • Gerard Hallie | |||||||||||
| 2 | 5 | Brazil |  BRA | 7:01.3 | 3:24.1 (1) | 3:37.2 (2) | |||||
| Nelson Ribeiro • Álvaro de Sá Freire • José de Campos • Wilson de Freitas • Henrique Camargo | |||||||||||
| 3 | 3 | Japan |  JPN | 7:03.2 | 3:25.7 (3) | 3:37.5 (4) | |||||
| Chikara Shirasaka • Taichi Yamada • Takashi Hatakeyama • Yoichi Endo • Taro Teshima | |||||||||||
| 4 | 2 | Denmark |  DEN | 7:04.5 | 3:26.6 (4) | 3:37.9 (5) | |||||
| Hans Mikkelsen • Gunnar Ibsen Sørensen • Flemming Jensen • Svend Aage Holm Sørensen • Aage Jensen | |||||||||||
| 5 | 1 | Czechoslovakia |  TCH | 7:04.7 | 3:27.4 (5) | 3:37.3 (3) | |||||
| František Maloň • Alfred Lerbletier • Jan Matoušek • Jaroslav Mysliveček • Josef Jabor | |||||||||||
| 6 | 6 | Sweden |  SWE | 7:21.5 | 3:33.7 (6) | 3:47.8 (6) | |||||
| 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 | Germany |  GER | 6:41.1 | 3:15.4 (1) | 3:25.7 (1) | Q OB | ||||
| Hans Maier • Walter Volle • Ernst Gaber • Paul Söllner • Fritz Bauer | |||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | France |  FRA | 6:45.0 | 3:16.6 (2) | 3:28.4 (3) | |||||
| Fernand Vandernotte • Marcel Vandernotte • Jean Cosmat • Marcel Chauvigné • Noël Vandernotte | |||||||||||
| 3 | 3 | Yugoslavia |  YUG | 6:50.2 | 3:23.6 (5) | 3:26.6 (2) | |||||
| Stipe Krnčević • Rade Sunara • Vice Jurišić • Ćiril Ban • Pavao Ljubičić | |||||||||||
| 4 | 2 | United States |  USA | 6:50.5 | 3:21.8 (4) | 3:28.7 (4) | |||||
| Paul Austin • Roger Cutler • William Haskins • Bob Cutler • Edward Bennett | |||||||||||
| 5 | 5 | Poland |  POL | 6:50.5 | 3:19.0 (3) | 3:31.5 (5) | |||||
| Władysław Zawadzki • Bronisław Karwecki • Stanisław Kuryłłowicz • Witalis Leporowski • Jerzy Skolimowski | |||||||||||
| Pos | Lane | Competitors | NOC | Time | 1,000 m | 1,000-2,000 m | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | Switzerland |  SUI | 6:41.9 | 3:13.3 (1) | 3:28.6 (1) | |||||
| Hermann Betschart • Hans Homberger • Alex Homberger • Karl Schmid • Rolf Spring | |||||||||||
| 2 | 3 | Italy |  ITA | 6:50.2 | 3:16.5 (2) | 3:33.7 (2) | |||||
| Valerio Perentin • Giliante D'Este • Nicolò Vittori • Umberto Vittori • Renato Petronio | |||||||||||
| 3 | 4 | Hungary |  HUN | 6:58.8 | 3:24.9 (4) | 3:33.9 (3) | |||||
| Miklós Mihó • Vilmos Éden • Ákos Inotay • Alajos Szilassy • László Molnár | |||||||||||
| 4 | 2 | Uruguay |  URU | 6:59.8 | 3:24.3 (3) | 3:35.5 (4) | |||||
| León Sánchez • Juan Andrés Dutra • Julio Flebbe • Francisco Sunara • Isidoro Alonso | |||||||||||
| 5 | 1 | Belgium |  BEL | 7:08.5 | 3:28.7 (5) | 3:39.8 (5) | |||||
| René Vingerhoet • Paul Siebels • Willy Collet • Jean De Rode • Harry Peeters | |||||||||||
