Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics

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No. of events	29
Competitors	386 from 34 nations
	← 1928 1936 →

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


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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
11	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

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 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

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

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

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

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
80 metres hurdles	4 August	Final	Evelyne Hall	United States	11.7
4 × 100 metres relay	7 August	Final	Mary Carew Evelyn Furtsch Annette Rogers Wilhelmina von Bremen	United States	47.0
4 × 100 metres relay	7 August	Final	Mary Frizzel Mildred Fizzell Lillian Palmer Hilda Strike	Canada	47.0
High jump	7 August	Final	Jean Shiley	United States	1.65 m
High jump	7 August	Final	Babe Didrikson	United States	1.65 m

References

^ "Olympedia – Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics".
^ 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

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

[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.

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