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III Olympic Winter Games

Host city	Lake Placid, United States
Nations	17
Athletes	252 (231 men, 21 women)
Events	14 in 4 sports (7 disciplines)
Opening	February 4
Closing	February 15
Opened by	Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt
Stadium	Olympic Stadium Lake Placid
Winter
← St. Moritz 1928 Garmisch 1936 →
Summer
← Amsterdam 1928 Los Angeles 1932 →

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.

The games were awarded to Lake Placid in part by the efforts of Godfrey Dewey, head of the Lake Placid Club and son of Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal System.^[1] California also had a bid for the 1932 Winter Games. William May Garland, president of the California X Olympiad Association, wanted the games to take place in Wrightwood and Big Pines, California. The world's largest ski jump at the time was constructed in Big Pines for the event,^[2] but the games were ultimately awarded to Lake Placid.

Highlights

• The Games were opened by Franklin D. Roosevelt, then the Governor of New York. He would be elected President of the United States nine months later.


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  Sonja Henie won the second of three consecutive Olympic gold medals in figure skating. She also won gold in 1928 and 1936.^[3]


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  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.


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  Eddie Eagan became the only Olympian to win gold medals at both the summer and winter games in different sports. He won gold in boxing in the 1920 Antwerp summer games and gold in bobsleigh at Lake Placid. The bobsleigh race was held two days after the games' closing ceremonies due to unseasonably warm weather in the region the week prior.^[4]


• The USA won the medal tally with a total of 12 medals (6 gold, 4 silver, and 2 bronze).


• Seventeen countries participated.

Events

A WPA poster,
advertising the bobsled run

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

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  Bobsleigh (2) (details)


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  Ice hockey (1) (details)


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  Skating
  
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    Figure skating (3) (details)
  
  
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    Speed skating (4) (details)
  
  


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  Nordic skiing (details)
  
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    Cross-country skiing (2) (details)
  
  
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    Nordic combined (1) (details)
  
  
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    Ski jumping (1) (details)
  
  

Demonstration sports

The Games also included events in three demonstration sports.

• Curling


• Sled dog race


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  Speed skating (women)

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

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.

Number of athletes by National Olympic Committees

IOC	Country	Athletes
AUT	Austria	7
USA	United States	64
CAN	Canada	42
GER	Germany	20
NOR	Norway	19
JPN	Japan	16
POL	Poland	15
ITA	Italy	12
SWE	Sweden	12
FRA	France	8
FIN	Finland	7
SUI	Switzerland	7
TCH	Czechoslovakia	6
GBR	Great Britain	4
HUN	Hungary	4
ROM	Romania	4
BEL	Belgium	5
Total	252

Medal count

III Olympic Winter Games U.S. commemorative stamp (1932)

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
Totals (10 nations)		14	14	14	42

See also

• 1932 Summer Olympics


• Olympic Games celebrated in the United States
  
  • 
    1904 Summer Olympics – St. Louis
    
  
  
  • 
    1932 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles
    
  
  
  • 
    1932 Winter Olympics – Lake Placid
    
  
  
  • 
    1960 Winter Olympics – Squaw Valley
    
  
  
  • 
    1980 Winter Olympics – Lake Placid
    
  
  
  • 
    1984 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles
    
  
  
  • 
    1996 Summer Olympics – Atlanta
    
  
  
  • 
    2002 Winter Olympics – Salt Lake City
    
  
  
  • 
    2028 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles
    
  
  

• Winter Olympic Games


• Olympic Games


• International Olympic Committee


• List of IOC country codes

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1932 Winter Olympics.

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  "Lake Placid 1932". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee.
  


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  "Results and Medalists — 1932 Winter Olympics". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee.
  


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  III Olympic Winter Games Lake Placid 1932, 1932 The official report.


• Lake Placid Olympic Authority


• The program of the 1932 Lake Placid Winter Olympics

Coordinates: 44°17′06″N 73°59′06″W / 44.285°N 73.985°W / 44.285; -73.985