1932 Winter Olympics

III Olympic Winter Games

Host city	Lake Placid, New York, United States
Nations participating	17
Athletes participating	252 (231 men, 21 women)
Events	14 in 4 sports (7 disciplines)
Opening ceremony	February 4
Closing ceremony	February 15
Officially opened by	Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Athlete's Oath	Jack Shea
Stadium	Lake Placid Speedskating Oval

Lake Placid

Location of Lake Placid in the United States

The 1932 Winter Olympics, officially known as the III Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event in the United States, held in Lake Placid, New York. The games opened on February 4 and closed on February 15. It was the first of four Winter Olympics held in the United States; Lake Placid hosted again in 1980.

Highlights 1
Events 2
- Demonstration sports 2.1
Venues 3
Participating nations 4
Medal count 5
See also 6
References 7
External links 8

Highlights

The Games were opened by Franklin D. Roosevelt, then the Governor of New York. He was elected President of the United States nine months later.
Irving Jaffee won the 5,000 m (3.1 mi) and the 10,000 m (6.2 mi) speedskating gold medals, beating previous champion and world record holder Ivar Ballangrud in the 10,000 m by 4.5 m (15 ft), mainly because the favourites were unaccustomed to the common start.
The USA won the medal tally with a total of 12 medals (6 gold, 4 silver, and 2 bronze).
Seventeen countries participated.

Events

A stylized image shows a four-man bobled running the bobsled track, with an observation tower and spectator viewing area on either side. At the top of the image are the flags of the United States, the Olympic movement, and France, and the bottom of the poster reads,

A WPA poster,
advertising the bobsled run

Medals were awarded in 14 events contested in 4 sports (7 disciplines).

Bobsleigh (2) ()
Ice hockey (1) ()
Skating
- Figure skating (3) ()
- Speed skating (4) ()
Nordic skiing ()
- Cross-country skiing (2) ()
- Nordic combined (1) ()
- Ski jumping (1) ()

Demonstration sports

The Games also included events in three demonstration sports.

These were the last Winter Olympics without alpine skiing, which was added in 1936. Alpine skiing held its 1932 World Championships during the Olympics, February 4–6 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

Venues

Venue	Sports	Capacity	Ref.
Intervales Ski-Hill	Nordic combined (ski jumping), Ski jumping	9,200	^[1]
Lake Placid	Cross-country skiing, Nordic combined (cross-country skiing)	Not listed.	^[2]
Mt. Van Hoevenberg Bob-Run	Bobsleigh	12,500	^[3]
Olympic Arena	Figure skating, Ice hockey (final)	3,360	^[4]
Olympic Stadium	Ice hockey, Speed skating	7,475	^[5]

Participating nations

The Olympic Bobsled run from the air

Athletes from 17 nations competed in these Games, down from 25 nations at the previous Games in 1928. Argentina, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Yugoslavia did not send athletes to Lake Placid.

Medal count

Host country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	6	4	2	12
2	Norway	3	4	3	10
3	Sweden	1	2	0	3
4	Canada	1	1	5	7
5	Finland	1	1	1	3
6	Austria	1	1	0	2
7	France	1	0	0	1
8	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
9	Germany	0	0	2	2
10	Hungary	0	0	1	1
Total		14	14	14	42

References

^ 1932 Winter Olympics official report. pp. 141-4. Accessed 12 October 2010.
^ 1932 Winter Olympics official report. pp. 145-6, 199. Accessed 12 October 2010.
^ 1932 Winter Olympic Games official report. pp. 30, 39-41, 50-1, 141, 157-66. Accessed 12 October 2010.
^ 1932 Winter Olympics official report. pp. 141, 150-57. Accessed 12 October 2010.
^ 1932 Winter Olympics official report. pp. 141, 147-50. Accessed 12 October 2010.

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External links

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The program of the 1932 Lake Placid Winter Olympics

Preceded by St. Moritz	Winter Olympics Lake Placid III Olympic Winter Games (1932)	Succeeded by Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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Events at the 1932 Winter Olympics (Lake Placid)

Bobsleigh Cross-country skiing Curling (demonstration) Figure skating Ice hockey Nordic combined Sled dog racing (demonstration) Ski jumping Speed skating

Venues of the 1932 Winter Olympics

Intervales Ski-Hill Lake Placid Mt. Van Hoevenberg Bob-Run Olympic Arena Olympic Stadium

1932 Winter Olympics