1932 Winter Olympics / Figure Skating

Figure skating in the III. Winter Olympics
information
venue	Lake Placid
Competition venue	Olympic arena
Nations	13
Athletes	39 (21 women, 18 men)
date	8-12 February 1932
decisions	3
← St. Moritz 1928 Garmisch 1936 →

With the III. At the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , three competitions were held in figure skating . The venue was the Olympic Arena .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Austria	1	1	-	2
2	France	1	-	-	1
	Norway	1	-	-	1
4th	United States	-	1	1	2
5	Sweden	-	1	-	1
6th	Canada	-	-	1	1
	Hungary	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Men's	Karl Schäfer	Gillis Grafström	Montgomery Wilson
Ladies	Sonja Henie	Fritzi Burger	Maribel Vinson
Couples	Andrée Brunet / Pierre Brunet	Beatrix Loughran / Sherwin Badger	Emília Rotter / László Szollás

Results

Sonja Henie and Karl Schäfer, the Olympic champions in the individual competitions

• K = freestyle
• P = compulsory
• Pz = place number
• Pts = points

Men's

space	country	athlete	P	K	Pz	Pt.
1	AUT	Karl Schäfer	01	01	09	2602.0
2	SWE	Gillis Grafström	02	02	13	2514.5
3	CAN	Montgomery Wilson	03	03	24	2448.3
4th	FIN	Marcus Nikkanen	04th	04th	28	2420.1
5	GER	Ernst Baier	06th	05	35	2334.8
6th	United States	Roger Turner	05	06th	40	2297.6
7th	United States	James Lester Madden	08th	07th	52	2049.6
8th	United States	Gail Borden	07th	08th	54	2110.8
9	JPN	Kazuyoshi Oimatsu	10	08th	67	1978.6
10	TCH	Walter Langer	09	11	70	1964.3
11	United States	William Nagle	12	10	77	1884.8
12	JPN	Ryuichi Obitani	11	12	79	1856.7

Date: February 8 and 9, 1932

The competition consisted of compulsory and a five-minute freestyle. The performances were judged by seven judges.

Karl Schäfer won his first Olympic gold. After winning the silver medal after winning three gold medals at the Olympic Games, Gillis Grafström became the most successful figure skater at the Olympic Games . With the Canadian Montgomery Wilson for the first time a non-European won a medal in the men's singles at the Olympic Games.

Ladies

space	country	sportswoman	P	K	Pz	Pt.
1	NOR	Sonja Henie	01	01	007th	2302.5
2	AUT	Fritzi Burger	02	02	018th	2167.1
3	United States	Maribel Vinson	03	03	023	2158.8
4th	CAN	Constance Wilson-Samuel	04th	05	028	2129.5
5	SWE	Vivi-Anne Hultén	05	05	029	2129.5
6th	BEL	Yvonne de Ligne	06th	06th	045	1942.5
7th	GBR	Megan Taylor	07th	07th	055	1911.8
8th	GBR	Cecilia Colledge	08th	10	064	1851.6
9	GBR	Mollie Phillips	09	09	063	1864.7
10	GBR	Joan Dix	11	11	075	1833.6
11	United States	Margaret Bennett	12	08th	075	1826.8
12	United States	Suzanne Davis	10	14th	083	1780.4
13	CAN	Elizabeth Fisher	13	12	082	1801.0
14th	United States	Louise Weigel	14th	13	092	1769.4
15th	CAN	Mary Littlejohn	15th	15th	101	1711.6

Date: February 9-10, 1932

The competition consisted of compulsory and a four-minute freestyle. The performances were judged by seven judges.

Sonja Henie won her second Olympic title in a row with a unanimous judge's judgment. As four years before, Fritzi Burger had to be content with silver. The American Maribel Vinson won bronze. Brit Cecilia Colledge was 11 years and 74 days old when she took part, making her the youngest participant in the Winter Olympics to this day. Her compatriot Mollie Phillips was the first woman to carry the flag of a participating nation at the opening ceremony.

Couples

space	country	Pair	Pz	Pt.
1	FRA	Andrée Brunet / Pierre Brunet	12	76.7
2	United States	Beatrix Loughran / Sherwin Badger	16	77.5
3	HUN	Emília Rotter / László Szollás	20th	76.4
4th	HUN	Olga Orgonista / Sándor Szalay	28	72.2
5	CAN	Constance Wilson-Samuel / Montgomery Wilson	35	69.6
6th	CAN	Frances Claudet / Chauncy Bangs	36	68.9
7th	United States	Gertrude Meredith / Joseph Savage	49	59.8

Date: February 12, 1932

The competition consisted of a five-minute freestyle. The performances were judged by seven judges.

The now married French Andrée Brunet and Pierre Brunet defended their Olympic title from 1928 . It was the first Olympic title defense in pair skating. The French win the title was less clear than expected. The Americans Beatrix Loughran and Sherwin Badger showed the idea of ​​their life and won the silver medal. Two judges, one of whom was Walter Jakobsson , placed her first. Loughran had already won two medals in the Olympic Games in 1924 and 1928 . By winning her third medal, she is still the only American figure skater who managed to win three Olympic medals. The Hungarians Emília Rotter and László Szollás , who were placed first by a judge, won the first medal for their country at the Winter Olympics with bronze.

Web links

• Figure skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )