Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics

Athletics

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No. of events| 29
Competitors| 386 from 34 nations

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Athletics at the
1932 Summer Olympics

Track events
100 m| men| women
200 m| men|
400 m| men|
800 m| men|
1500 m| men|
5000 m| men|
10,000 m| men|
Sprint hurdles (110m/80w)| men| women
400 m hurdles| men|
3000 m steeple| men|
4 × 100 m relay| men| women
4 × 400 m relay| men|
Road events
Marathon| men|
50 km walk| men|
Field events
Long jump| men|
Triple jump| men|
High jump| men| women
Pole vault| men|
Shot put| men|
Discus throw| men| women
Javelin throw| men| women
Hammer throw| men|
Combined events
Decathlon| men|

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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. There was a total of 386 participants from 34 countries competing.[1]

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

## Medal summary

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  United States (USA)| 16| 13| 6| 35
2|  Finland (FIN)| 3| 4| 4| 11
3|  Great Britain (GBR)| 2| 4| 2| 8
4|  Poland (POL)| 2| 0| 1| 3
5|  Ireland (IRL)| 2| 0| 0| 2
6|  Canada (CAN)| 1| 3| 5| 9
7|  Japan (JPN)| 1| 1| 2| 4
8|  Italy (ITA)| 1| 0| 2| 3
9|  Argentina (ARG)| 1| 0| 0| 1
10|  Germany (GER)| 0| 2| 3| 5
11|  Latvia (LAT)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Sweden (SWE)| 0| 1| 0| 1
13|  Czechoslovakia (TCH)| 0| 0| 1| 1
France (FRA)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Philippines (PHI)| 0| 0| 1| 1
South Africa (RSA)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (16 entries)| 29| 29| 29| 87

### Men

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 metres
details | Eddie Tolan
United States | 10.3  | Ralph Metcalfe
United States | 10.3  | Arthur Jonath
Germany | 10.4
200 metres
details | 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
details | Tommy Hampson
Great Britain | 1:49.7  | 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
details | 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
details | Chuhei Nambu
Japan | 15.72 m  | Erik Svensson
Sweden | 15.32 m  | Kenkichi Oshima
Japan | 15.12 m
Shot put
details | 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
details | 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

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Games  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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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

## Participating Nations

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* Argentina (11)
* Australia (4)
* Austria (4)
* Brazil (21)
* Canada (29)
* Republic of China (1)
* Colombia (1)
* Cuba (3)
* Czechoslovakia (3)
* Denmark (2)
* Estonia (1)
* Finland (21)
* France (12)
* Germany (27)
* Great Britain (25)
* Greece (9)
* Haiti (2)
* Hungary (6)
* India (4)
* Ireland (4)
* Italy (21)
* Japan (34)
* Latvia (2)
* Mexico (27)
* Netherlands (7)
* New Zealand (6)
* Norway (3)
* Philippines (1)
* Poland (7)
* Portugal (1)
* South Africa (4)
* Sweden (9)
* Switzerland (3)
* United States (79)
* Yugoslavia (1)

## Records broken

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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

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Event | Date | Round | Name | Nationality | Result

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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

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Event | Date | Round | Name | Nationality | Result

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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

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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

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* International Olympic Committee results database
* 1932 Summer Olympics results: athletics, from https://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-03-09.
* Official report

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