1932 Winter Olympics medal table

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1932 Winter Olympics medals
Jack Shea 1929.jpg
Jack Shea of the United States tied for most gold medals won at the 1932 Winter Olympics, winning two in men's speed skating.
Location Lake Placid, US flag 48 stars.svg  United States
Highlights
Most gold medalsUS flag 48 stars.svg  United States  (6)
Most total medalsUS flag 48 stars.svg  United States  (12)
Medalling NOCs10
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The 1932 Winter Olympics, officially known as the III Olympic Winter Games, were an international multi-sport event held in Lake Placid, United States, from February 4 to 15, 1932. A total of 252 athletes representing 17 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated, 8 NOCs [a] fewer than the last Winter Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The games featured 14 events in 4 sports across 7 disciplines. These Winter Games were the first held outside of Europe, with prior editions held in Chamonix, France, and St. Moritz, Switzerland. [3] [4]

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Overall, athletes representing 10 NOCs won at least one medal, and 7 NOCs won at least one gold medal. Host nation United States won the most gold medals and the most overall medals, with 6 and 12 respectively. [5] Hungary's team obtained their first Winter Olympic medal, with figure skaters Emília Rotter and László Szollás winning bronze in the pair skating event. [6] Norway achieved two podium sweeps at the games, in the individual nordic combined event with Johan Grøttumsbråten winning the gold, Ole Stenen winning the silver, and Hans Vinjarengen winning the bronze, and in the individual ski jump event with Birger Ruud winning the gold, Hans Beck winning the silver, and Kaare Wahlberg winning the bronze. [7] [8]

Speed skaters Irving Jaffee and Jack Shea, both from the United States, tied for the most gold medals won for an individual at the games, with two. Shea became the first American athlete to win multiple gold medals at the same Olympic Winter Games. [9] Alongside Jaffee and Shea, cross-country skier Veli Saarinen of Finland and speed skaters Alexander Hurd and Willy Logan of Canada tied for the most total medals won with two each. [5] Bobsledder Eddie Eagan of the United States became the first and only person to win a gold medal in different events at the Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics, [b] after winning the gold medal in the four-man event at these games and in the men's light heavyweight event in boxing at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. [11]

Medals

Speed skater Irving Jaffee tied for most gold medals won at these games, winning two gold medals alongside Shea. Irving Jaffee.jpg
Speed skater Irving Jaffee tied for most gold medals won at these games, winning two gold medals alongside Shea.
Figure skaters Emilia Rotter and Laszlo Szollas, the first Winter Olympic medalists for Hungary. Emilie Rotter & Laszlo Szollas 1934 Euros.jpg
Figure skaters Emília Rotter and László Szollás, the first Winter Olympic medalists for Hungary.

The medals used for the 1932 Winter Olympics were minted by the Robbins Company. The obverse of the medals featured a design of a goddess holding a laurel wreath behind the Adirondack Mountains. It also featured the host city's landscape with a stadium and a ski jumping hill. The reverse of the medals featured the Olympic rings, the official name of the games, and a laurel wreath. The medal itself had curved ridges that were said to represent ancient Greek columns. [12]

For the first time in Olympic history, medals awarded to athletes were given out on podiums. The podiums were based on the medal awarding of the athletics events at the 1930 British Empire Games in Hamilton, Canada, where winning athletes stood on top of a podium while the second- and third-placed athletes stood on their sides, one step below. Then-president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Henri de Baillet-Latour, saw the practice and developed his own version. Instructions to use De Baillet-Latour's version of the practice were sent out by the IOC to the organizing committees of the 1932 Summer Olympics and 1932 Winter Olympics. Shea became the first Olympic champion to be awarded a medal on top of a podium after winning the gold medal at the men's 500 metres event in speed skating. [13] [14]

Medal table

The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. [15] [16] If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code. [17]

  *   Host nation (United States)

1932 Winter Olympics medal table [18]
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1US flag 48 stars.svg  United States*64212
2Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 34310
3Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1203
4Flag of Canada (1921-1957).svg  Canada 1157
5Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 1113
6Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1102
7Flag of France.svg  France 1001
8Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 0101
9Flag of Germany (3-2 aspect ratio).svg  Germany 0022
10Flag of Hungary (1915-1918, 1919-1946; 3-2 aspect ratio).svg  Hungary 0011
Totals (10 entries)14141442

Notes

  1. ↑ Argentina, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Yugoslavia did not send athletes to these games. [1] [2]
  2. ↑ Gillis Grafström also won gold in both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games but in the same event: figure skating, which had been contested in the 1920 Summer Olympics. [10]

References

Citations

  1. ↑ "NOCs at the 1928 Winter Olympics". Olympedia . Archived from the original on April 29, 2024. Retrieved February 1, 2025.
  2. ↑ III Olympic Winter Games Committee 1932, p. 72.
  3. ↑ "Factsheet: The Winter Olympic Games" (PDF). International Olympic Committee . October 14, 2021. p. 1. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 30, 2022. Retrieved July 22, 2024.
  4. ↑ III Olympic Winter Games Committee 1932, p. 270.
  5. 1 2 Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "1932 Lake Placid Winter Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 2, 2010. Retrieved August 13, 2010.
  6. ↑ "Pairs, Mixed". Olympedia . Archived from the original on December 2, 2024. Retrieved February 1, 2025.
  7. ↑ "Olympics at a glance". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . Associated Press. February 12, 1932. p. 17. Retrieved February 1, 2025– via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ Ward, Wallace H. (February 13, 1932). "Birger Ruud Wins Ski Jumping Title By Narrow Margin". The Gazette . The Canadian Press. p. 17. Retrieved February 1, 2025– via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Lake Placid 1932 Olympic Winter Games". United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum . Archived from the original on January 8, 2025. Retrieved February 1, 2025.
  10. ↑ "Gillis Grafström". Olympedia . Archived from the original on December 2, 2024. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
  11. ↑ "This Day in Sports: Eddie Eagan Wins His "Other" Olympic Gold". ESPN . February 15, 2010. Archived from the original on June 5, 2023. Retrieved February 1, 2025.
  12. ↑ "Lake Placid 1932 Olympic Medals - Design, History & Photos". International Olympic Committee . Archived from the original on September 11, 2024. Retrieved February 1, 2025.
  13. ↑ "1932: The podium makes its Olympic debut". International Olympic Committee . October 20, 2017. Archived from the original on August 4, 2020. Retrieved February 1, 2025.
  14. ↑ Martin & Gynn 2000, p. 146.
  15. ↑ Ostlere, Lawrence (August 11, 2024). "Olympic medal table: USA beat China to top spot at Paris 2024". The Independent . Archived from the original on August 12, 2024. Retrieved August 12, 2024.
  16. ↑ Araton, Harvey (August 18, 2008). "A Medal Count That Adds Up To Little" . The New York Times . Archived from the original on March 21, 2023. Retrieved July 25, 2024.
  17. ↑ Cons, Roddy (August 10, 2024). "What happens if two countries are tied in the Olympic medal table? Tiebreaker rules explained". Diario AS . Archived from the original on August 11, 2024. Retrieved August 11, 2024.
  18. ↑ "Lake Placid 1932 Olympic Medal Table - Gold, Silver & Bronze". International Olympic Committee . Archived from the original on September 11, 2024. Retrieved February 1, 2025.

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