World speed skating all-around championship 1932

All- around world champion Ivar Ballangrud (r.) From Norway (picture from 1936)

The 33rd all- around world championship was held on February 19 and 20, 1932 in the Olympic Stadium in Lake Placid , USA . There were only men's races. The Norwegian Ivar Ballangrud won the world title for the second time .

Participating Nations

The field of participants consisted of 27 athletes from 7 nations.

• 12 starters: United States 
• 6 starters: Norway 
• 4 starters: Japan 
• 2 starters: Canada 
• 1 starter: Finland , United Kingdom , Sweden   

Overall, the field was five participants larger than in 1931 . Most of the World Cup starters had already taken part in the Olympic competitions two weeks earlier, including all athletes from the Norwegian and Japanese teams.

competition

The all- around world championship took place two weeks after the Olympic speed skating races in Lake Placid on the same track and thus for the first time in its history in North America. The Olympic competitions were held in a mass start , while the athletes at the World Championship (as in all other major speed skating events) ran in pairs against the clock. The mass start mode widespread in America had caused resentment among the European participants, and last year's world champion Clas Thunberg had not traveled to the United States for this reason. At the Olympics, the US athletes Jack Shea and Irving Jaffee had each won two competitions. Only two of the twelve medals awarded went to the European participants: one silver each to Bernt Evensen and Ivar Ballangrud , who also took second and third place behind Thunberg at the last World Cup. Ballangrud had become all-around world champion in 1926 , Evensen in 1927 .

At the world championship, which took place in the mode more familiar to the Europeans, neither Shea nor Jaffee competed. Ivar Ballangrud was disappointed about this in his autobiography published in 1949: It was "hardly fair of them" (in the original: "vel neppe fair av dem"). In the absence of the two most successful US starters, the Norwegians - as the only European team represented with several athletes - shaped the world championship: Håkon Pedersen won on the 500-meter course, Ivar Ballangrud on the three longer distances. Ballangrud was sometimes significantly faster than the Olympic champions Shea and Jaffee over 1500, 5000 and 10,000 meters and each set track records. With Michael Staksrud and Bernt Evensen, two other Norwegians took second and third place . In fourth place, Herbert Taylor was the best American.

rank	Surname	500 meters	Pt.	5,000 meters	Pt.	1,500 meters	Pt.	10,000 meters	Pt.	Total pts.
1	Ivar Ballangrud	45.3 (7)	45,300	8: 37.6 (1)	51.760	2: 24.8 (1)	48.267	17: 58.0 (1)	53,900	199.227
2	Michael Staksrud	45.2 (5)	45,200	8: 43.0 (3)	52,300	2: 25.8 (2)	48,600	18: 07.5 (4)	54.375	200.475
3	Bernt Evensen	44.5 (2)	44,500	8: 49.6 (5)	52.960	2: 29.8 (5)	49.933	18: 05.4 (2)	54.270	201.663
4th	Herbert Taylor	45.5 (10)	45,500	8: 59.0 (7)	53,900	2: 26.4 (3)	48,800	18: 05.4 (2)	54.270	202.470
5	Ossi Blomqvist	45.8 (15)	45,800	8: 48.8 (4)	52.880	2: 26.5 (4)	48.833	18: 20.4 (5)	55.020	202.533
6th	Edward Schroeder	46.4 (22)	46,400	8: 41.9 (2)	52.190	2: 33.8 (14)	51.267	18: 23.2 (6)	55.160	205.017
7th	Valentine Bialas	47.2 (25)	47,200	8: 53.3 (6)	53.330	2: 31.9 (8)	50.633	18: 34.9 (7)	55.745	206.908
8th	Carl Springer	45.5 (10)	45,500	9: 00.8 (8)	54.080	2: 31.3 (6)	50.433	19: 04.6 (9)	57.230	207.243
9	Ingvar Lindberg	46.1 (16)	46.100	9: 04.2 (9)	54,420	2: 32.2 (10)	50.733	19: 11.0 (10)	57.550	208.803
10	Edward Wedge	46.3 (19)	46,300	9: 06.0 (10)	54,600	2: 35.9 (18)	51.967	18: 51.5 (8)	56.575	209,442
11	Hans Engnestangen	44.8 (3)	44,800	9: 11.7 (12)	55.170	2: 31.7 (7)	50.567	19: 40.2 (13)	59.010	209,547
12	Lloyd Guenther	45.3 (7)	45,300	9: 15.6 (14)	55.560	2: 35.9 (18)	51.967	20: 04.3 (17)	60.215	213,042
13	Raymond Murray	45.6 (13)	45,600	9: 29.4 (20)	56,940	2: 36.8 (20)	52.267	19: 31.9 (11)	58.595	213,402
14th	John O'Neil Farrell	45.5 (10)	45,500	9: 30.0 (21)	57,000	2: 33.8 (14)	51.267	20: 00.9 (16)	60.045	213,812
15th	Yasuo Kawamura	46.9 (24)	46,900	9: 22.6 (17)	56.260	2: 33.1 (12)	51.033	19: 55.4 (14)	59.770	213,963
16	Edward Murphy	46.1 (16)	46.100	9: 36.8 (23)	57.680	2: 31.9 (8)	50.633	20: 06.2 (18)	60.310	214.723
17th	Tokuo Kitani	47.4 (26)	47,400	9: 23.3 (19)	56,330	2: 38.4 (21)	52,800	19: 36.5 (12)	58.825	215.355
18th	Allan W. Potts	44.8 (3)	44,800	9: 50.6 (26)	59.060	2: 33.2 (13)	51.066	20: 26.8 (19)	61,340	216.267
19th	Shouzo Ishihara	46.2 (18)	46,200	9: 40.7 (24)	58.070	2: 38.9 (23)	52.967	20: 30.2 (20)	61.510	218.747
20th	Tomejo Uruma	49.0 (27)	49,000	9: 22.7 (18)	56.270	2: 42.0 (25)	54,000	19: 57.2 (15)	59.860	219.130
-	Alexander Hurd	45.7 (14)	45,700	9: 10.3 (11)	55.030	2: 32.4 (11)	50,800	DNS		-
-	Håkon Pedersen	44.4 (1)	44,400	9: 19.1 (16)	55.910	2: 34.8 (16)	51,600	DNS		-
-	Erling Lindboe	45.4 (9)	45,400	9: 17.3 (15)	55.730	2: 35.1 (17)	51,700	DNS		-
-	Carl Harry Smith	46.7 (23)	46,700	9: 15.1 (13)	55.510	2: 38.5 (22)	52.833	DNS		-
-	Walter Rutter	45.2 (5)	45,200	9: 48.7 (25)	58.870	2: 40.0 (24)	53.333	DNS		-
-	Melvin Johnson	46.3 (19)	46,300	9: 31.1 (22)	57.110	2: 44.4 (27)	54,800	DNS		-
-	Charles Delpier	46.3 (19)	46,300	10: 10.7 (27)	61.070	2: 43.7 (26)	54.567	DNS		-

Web link

• Results of the all- around world championship 1932 on speedskatingnews.info

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ture Widlund : Olympic Speed ​​Skating Lake Placid 1932. In: International Society of Olympic Historians (ed.): Journal of Olympic History. Issue 11/1, January 2003. Pages 44–54. Available as PDF .
2. ^ Ivar Ballangrud: Veien opp til gullstolen. Aschehoug, Oslo 1949. page 67.