Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics

At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, 29 athletics events were contested. It was the first time the 50 kilometres race walk appeared in the athletic program at the Games. This was the second time women's events in athletics were included in the Olympic Games program and the first time that women competed in the javelin throw and 80m hurdles at the Olympics.A total of 386 participants from 34 countries took part in the competition.[1]

Athletics
at the Games of the X Olympiad
No. of events29
Competitors386 from 34 nations
← 1928
1936 →

The athletics events took place at Los Angeles Olympic Stadium, now the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Medal summary edit

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  United States (USA)1613635
2  Finland (FIN)34411
3  Great Britain (GBR)2428
4  Poland (POL)2013
5  Ireland (IRL)2002
6  Canada (CAN)1359
7  Japan (JPN)1124
8  Italy (ITA)1023
9  Argentina (ARG)1001
10  Germany (GER)0235
11  Latvia (LAT)0101
  Sweden (SWE)0101
13  Czechoslovakia (TCH)0011
  France (FRA)0011
  Philippines (PHI)0011
  South Africa (RSA)0011
Totals (16 entries)29292987

Men edit

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details
Eddie Tolan
  United States
10.3 Ralph Metcalfe
  United States
10.3 Arthur Jonath
  Germany
10.4
200 metres
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Eddie Tolan
  United States
21.2 George Simpson
  United States
21.4 Ralph Metcalfe
  United States
21.5
400 metres
details
Bill Carr
  United States
46.2 Ben Eastman
  United States
46.4 Alex Wilson
  Canada
47.4
800 metres
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Tommy Hampson
  Great Britain
1:49.8 Alex Wilson
  Canada
1:49.9 Phil Edwards
  Canada
1:51.5
1500 metres
details
Luigi Beccali
  Italy
3:51.2 Jerry Cornes
  Great Britain
3:52.6 Phil Edwards
  Canada
3:52.8
5000 metres
details
Lauri Lehtinen
  Finland
14:30.0 Ralph Hill
  United States
14:30.0 Lauri Virtanen
  Finland
14:44.0
10,000 metres
details
Janusz Kusociński
  Poland
30:11.4 Volmari Iso-Hollo
  Finland
30:12.6 Lauri Virtanen
  Finland
30:35.0
110 metres hurdles
details
George Saling
  United States
14.6 Percy Beard
  United States
14.7 Donald Finlay
  Great Britain
14.8
400 metres hurdles
details
Bob Tisdall
  Ireland
51.8 Glenn Hardin
  United States
51.9 Morgan Taylor
  United States
52.0
3000 metres steeplechase
details[2]
Volmari Iso-Hollo
  Finland
10:33.4 Thomas Evenson
  Great Britain
10:46.0 Joe McCluskey
  United States
10:46.2
4 × 100 metres relay
details
  United States (USA)
Bob Kiesel
Hector Dyer
Emmett Toppino
Frank Wykoff
40.0   Germany (GER)
Friedrich Hendrix
Erich Borchmeyer
Arthur Jonath
Helmut Körnig
40.9   Italy (ITA)
Giuseppe Castelli
Gabriele Salviati
Ruggero Maregatti
Edgardo Toetti
41.2
4 × 400 metres relay
details
  United States (USA)
Ivan Fuqua
Ed Ablowich
Karl Warner
Bill Carr
3:08.2   Great Britain (GBR)
Crew Stoneley
Tommy Hampson
David Burghley
Godfrey Rampling
3:11.2   Canada (CAN)
James Ball
Ray Lewis
Phil Edwards
Alex Wilson
3:12.8
Marathon
details
Juan Carlos Zabala
  Argentina
2:31:36 Sam Ferris
  Great Britain
2:31:55 Armas Toivonen
  Finland
2:32:12
50 kilometres walk
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Tommy Green
  Great Britain
4:50:10 Jānis Daliņš
  Latvia
4:57:20 Ugo Frigerio
  Italy
4:59:06
High jump
details
Duncan McNaughton
  Canada
1.97 m Bob Van Osdel
  United States
1.97 m Simeon Toribio
  Philippines
1.97 m
Pole vault
details
Bill Miller
  United States
4.315 m Shuhei Nishida
  Japan
4.30 m George Jefferson
  United States
4.20 m
Long jump
details
Ed Gordon
  United States
7.64 m Lambert Redd
  United States
7.60 m Chuhei Nambu
  Japan
7.45 m
Triple jump
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Chuhei Nambu
  Japan
15.72 m Erik Svensson
  Sweden
15.32 m Kenkichi Oshima
  Japan
15.12 m
Shot put
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Leo Sexton
  United States
16.00 m Harlow Rothert
  United States
15.67 m František Douda
  Czechoslovakia
15.61 m
Discus throw
details
John Anderson
  United States
49.49 m Henri LaBorde
  United States
48.47 m Paul Winter
  France
47.85 m
Hammer throw
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Pat O'Callaghan
  Ireland
53.92 m Ville Pörhölä
  Finland
52.27 m Peter Zaremba
  United States
50.33 m
Javelin throw
details
Matti Järvinen
  Finland
72.71 m Matti Sippala
  Finland
69.80 m Eino Penttilä
  Finland
68.70 m
Decathlon
details
James Bausch
  United States
8462.23 Akilles Järvinen
  Finland
8292.48 Wolrad Eberle
  Germany
8030.80

Women edit

Games Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details
Stanisława Walasiewicz
  Poland
Hilda Strike
  Canada
Wilhelmina von Bremen
  United States
80 metres hurdles
details
Babe Didrikson
  United States
Evelyne Hall
  United States
Marjorie Clark
  South Africa
4 × 100 metres relay
details
  United States (USA)
Mary Carew
Evelyn Furtsch
Annette Rogers
Wilhelmina von Bremen
  Canada (CAN)
Mary Frizzel
Mildred Fizzell
Lillian Palmer
Hilda Strike
  Great Britain (GBR)
Nellie Halstead
Eileen Hiscock
Gwendoline Porter
Violet Webb
High jump
details
Jean Shiley
  United States
Babe Didrikson
  United States
Eva Dawes
  Canada
Discus throw
details
Lillian Copeland
  United States
Ruth Osburn
  United States
Jadwiga Wajs
  Poland
Javelin throw
details
Babe Didrikson
  United States
Ellen Braumüller
  Germany
Tilly Fleischer
  Germany

Records broken edit

Of the 29 events competed new Olympic records were set in all but three: men's long jump, high jump and hammer throw. World records were set in 10 events.

Men's world records edit

Event Date Round Name Nationality Result
400 metres 5 August Final Bill Carr   United States 46.2
800 metres 2 August Final Tommy Hampson   Great Britain 1:49.8
4 × 100 metres relay 7 August Final Bob Kiesel
Hector Dyer
Emmett Toppino
Frank Wykoff
  United States 40.0
4 × 400 metres relay 7 August Final Ivan Fuqua
Ed Ablowich
Karl Warner
Bill Carr
  United States 3:08.2
Triple jump 4 August Final Chuhei Nambu   Japan 15.72 m
Decathlon 6 August Final James Bausch   United States 8462.235

Women's world records edit

Event Date Round Name Nationality Result
100 metres 1 August Heats Stanisława Walasiewicz   Poland 11.9
80 metres hurdles 4 August Final Babe Didrikson   United States 11.7
Evelyne Hall   United States
4 × 100 metres relay 7 August Final Mary Carew
Evelyn Furtsch
Annette Rogers
Wilhelmina von Bremen
  United States 47.0
Mary Frizzel
Mildred Fizzell
Lillian Palmer
Hilda Strike
  Canada
High jump 7 August Final Jean Shiley   United States 1.65 m
Babe Didrikson   United States

References edit

  1. ^ "Olympedia – Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics".
  2. ^ The Men's 3000 Metres Steeplechase event at the 1932 Summer Olympics was 3460 metres due to an error in lap counting – the runners did an extra lap of the track.

External links edit