During the 1936 Berlin Games, two Japanese pole-vaulters tied for second place.
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Instead of competing again, they cut the silver and bronze medals in half and fused the two different halves together so that each of them had a half-silver and half-bronze medal.
Their names were Shuhei Nishida and Sueo Oe, the friends who wouldn’t be divided by their medals.
