1932 Summer Olympics / Athletics
Athletics at the 1932 Olympics |
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venue | Memorial Coliseum |
Competition venue | los Angeles |
date | July 31 to August 7, 1932 |
decisions | 29 (23 , 6 ) |
← Amsterdam 1928 |
At the X. Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1932 , 29 competitions were held in athletics .
Olympic Games 1932 (athletics medal table) |
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space | team | Total | |||
1 | United States | 16 | 13 | 6th | 35 |
2 | Finland | 3 | 4th | 4th | 11 |
3 | Great Britain | 2 | 4th | 2 | 8th |
4th | Poland | 2 | - | 1 | 3 |
5 | Irish Free State | 2 | - | - | 2 |
6th | Canada | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 |
7th | Japan | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4th |
8th | Italy | 1 | - | 2 | 3 |
9 | Argentina | 1 | - | - | 1 |
10 | German Empire | - | 2 | 3 | 5 |
11 | Latvia | - | 1 | - | 1 |
Sweden | - | 1 | - | 1 | |
13 | France | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Philippines | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
South African Union | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
Czechoslovakia | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Stadion
The Memorial Coliseum , built in 1921 and opened in 1923, served and serves v. a. hosting American football games. It holds more than 90,000 spectators and has a 400-meter circular track, which offers the athletes optimal conditions. In 1932 it was a cinder track, which was later replaced by a plastic track for the Olympic Games in 1984 . All facilities for athletics offered the athletes optimal conditions, which then led to a real explosion in performance.
Competitions
Walking (sport) has been resumed in the competition for men . The route length was now fifty kilometers for the first time. Compared to today, the only thing missing from the Olympic program was the 20 km walk . For women, the only middle distance , the 800-meter run, was canceled because the route was supposedly too long and not suitable for women. The 80-meter hurdles and the javelin were new to the program . With the 100 meters , the 80 meter hurdles and the 4 x 100 meter relay there were three running disciplines, with the high jump a jumping competition and the discus throw and javelin throw two throwing disciplines. With now six competitions, the number of women was still very reduced compared to that of men. It then grew slowly and successively in the decades to come, until it was the same as that of men, apart from small differences.
Sporting successes
These games went down as record-breaking games in athletics. There were a total of seventeen world records in thirteen disciplines . Fourteen Olympic records were set in another thirteen disciplines . The previous Olympic records remained in place in just three competitions.
The overwhelming nation was the host country USA with sixteen gold medals alone. The gap to Finland , which was able to get closer in the two previous games, was now huge, with the Finns taking three Olympic victories. There were still three nations with two gold medals each: Great Britain , Poland and Ireland . As four years ago, the athletes did not have the outstanding athletes that we had seen at previous games. In many disciplines, outstanding performances were achieved for the conditions at the time, but the medals were distributed among the individual athletes. The most successful men were:
- Eddie Tolan , USA - 2 gold medals: 100 meters , 200 meters
- Bill Carr , USA - 2 times gold: 400 meters , 4 times 400 meters relay
- Chūhei Nambu , Japan - 1 time gold: triple jump / 1 time bronze: long jump .
The most successful women were:
- Mildred Didrikson , USA - 2 times gold: 80 meter hurdles , javelin throw / 1 time silver: high jump
- Wilhelmina von Bremen , USA - 1 gold: 4 x 100 meter relay / 1 bronze: 100 meters .
The successful combination of such different disciplines as hurdles , javelin and high jump would no longer exist today in the world class - except in all-around competitions. But Mildred Didrikson was so versatile that she was able to achieve medals and victories with it in the early years of women's athletics. After these games she turned her back on athletics and became a very successful golfer after her marriage under the name Zaharias.
Results men
100 m
space | athlete | country | Time (s) |
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1 | Eddie Tolan | United States | 10.3 WRe |
2 | Ralph Metcalfe | United States | 10.3 WRe |
3 | Arthur Jonath | GER | 10.4 |
4th | George Simpson | United States | 10.5 |
5 | Daniel Joubert | RSA | 10.6 |
6th | Takayoshi Yoshioka | JPN | 10.7 |
Final: August 1st
Olympic champion was Eddie Tolan, the 'Midnight Express', as his nickname was. Whether Tolan was really ahead of Ralph Metcalfe at the finish, at least not even from the finish photo. The times resulting from the electronic time measurement were also 10.38 s for both sprinters . The judges chose Tolan without realizing why. And this is the official result to this day: gold for Tolan, silver for the Metcalfe at the same time, both with 10.3 s, which meant a new Olympic record and at the same time the world record was set . The bronze medal was won by the German champion Arthur Jonath with 10.4 seconds.
200 m
space | athlete | country | Time (s) |
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1 | Eddie Tolan | United States | 21.2 OR |
2 | George Simpson | United States | 21.4 |
3 | Ralph Metcalfe | United States | 21.5 |
4th | Arthur Jonath | GER | 21.5 |
5 | Carlos Bianchi | ARG | 21.6 |
6th | William Walters | RSA | 21.9 |
Final: August 3rd
As in the 100-meter run , it was not exactly happy for Ralph Metcalfe over the 200 meters . After the race it turned out that he had been assigned the wrong expiry mark, so that his route was about 1.5 meters longer than that of the other runners. Eddie Tolan also won this competition after the 100 meters and became a double Olympic champion in the sprint . Metcalfe decided not to repeat the run. He said he could have been more careful and accepted the result with bronze for him and silver for George Simpson. The US-Americans won all three medals, the German Arthur Jonath came fourth after his third place in the 100 m.
400 m
space | athlete | country | Time (s) |
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1 | Bill Carr | United States | 46.2 WR |
2 | Ben Eastman | United States | 46.4 |
3 | Alex Wilson | CAN | 47.4 |
4th | William Walters | RSA | 48.2 |
5 | James Gordon | United States | 48.2 |
6th | George Golding | OUT | 48.8 |
Final: August 5th
The two Americans Bill Carr and Ben Eastman fought for the gold medal among themselves. By early July was Eastman, who's with 46.4 over 440 yards the pre-existing 400-meters - a world record s had significantly undercut by 47.0, the clear favorite. But on July 2, 1932, he was beaten by the hitherto little known Bill Carr and so the outcome of this race was open again. After 300 meters Eastman was ahead by a tenth of a second. In the end, Carr had the better reserves and won the gold medal with a two-tenths advantage with a new world record. Third was Canadian Alex Wilson, who had already won silver over 800 meters three days earlier, one second behind Eastman .
800 m
space | athlete | country | Time (min) |
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1 | Tommy Hampson | GBR | 1: 49.7 WR |
2 | Alex Wilson | CAN | 1: 49.9 |
3 | Phil Edwards | CAN | 1: 51.5 |
4th | Edwin Genung | United States | 1: 51.7 |
5 | Edwin Turner | United States | 1: 52.5 |
6th | Charles Hornbostel | United States | 1: 52.7 |
7th | John Powell | GBR | 1: 53.1 |
8th | Séra Martin | FRA | 1: 53.6 |
Final: August 2nd
The 800-meter run became a race with historic dimensions. For the first time the limit of 1:50 min was undercut. The Canadian Phil Edwards, who won the Olympic Games in 1928 , ran from the front at high speed using his usual tactics and was even able to pull away from the field with a 400 meter run time of 52.4 s. But he had to pay tribute to this hellish pace and at that moment the Briton Thomas Hampson accelerated. Edward's compatriot Alex Wilson followed in Hampson's slipstream and the two of them easily passed Edwards. Hampson won the sprint on the home straight and became Olympic champion with a new world record time of 1: 49.7 minutes ahead of Wilson, who with 1: 49.9 minutes also remained below the 1: 50-minute mark. The IAAF recognized world record improvements at that time only in the fifth of a second range and so Hampson's world record was officially 1: 49.8 min.
1500 m
space | athlete | country | Time (min) |
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1 | Luigi Beccali | ITA | 3: 51.2 OR |
2 | Jerry Cornes | GBR | 3: 52.6 |
3 | Phil Edwards | CAN | 3: 52.8 |
4th | Glenn Cunningham | United States | 3: 53.4 |
5 | Eric Ny | SWE | 3: 54.6 |
6th | Norwood Hallowell | United States | 3: 55.0 |
7th | Jack Lovelock | NZL | 3: 57.8 |
8th | Frank Crowley | United States | 3: 58.1 |
Final: August 4th
There were several favorites for this race. Above all, the New Zealander Jack Lovelock, the American Glenn Cunningham and the world's best of the year Luigi Beccali from Italy awaited the experts at the front. The first round was led by Lovelock and the second by Cunningham. But even before the 800-meter mark, it was too slow for the Canadian 800-meter Olympic third party Phil Edwards. He now set the pace with split times of 2: 04.5 min for 800 meters and 3: 07.0 min for 1200 meters. Only Cunningham followed. At the beginning of the last lap, the two had worked out a lead of about twenty meters over Beccali and the Briton Jerry Cornes, everyone else was even further behind. On the exit of the last corner, Edwards was still ahead of Cunningham, but Beccali and Cornes had caught up. At the start of the home stretch, Beccali easily passed the exhausted Edwards and Cunningham and became Olympic champion with a new Olympic record . Cornes finished second, not far behind Edwards won his second bronze medal. The time of Cunningham - here in fourth place - and Lovelock - here seventh - should come four years later in Berlin .
5000 m
space | athlete | country | Time (min) |
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1 | Lauri Lehtinen | FIN | 14: 30.0 OR |
2 | Ralph Hill | United States | 14: 30.0 OR |
3 | Lauri Virtanen | FIN | 14: 44.0 |
4th | John Savidan | NZL | 14: 49.6 |
5 | Jean-Gunnar Lindgren | SWE | 14: 54.7 |
6th | Max Syring | GER | 14: 59.0 |
7th | Alec Burns | GBR | 15: 04.4 |
8th | Daniel Dean | United States | 15: 08.5 |
Final: August 5th
This race left the winner Lauri Lehtinen a little lacking in sportiness and Olympic spirit. Together with his Finnish compatriot Lauri Virtanen, he was seen as a favorite for this competition. As expected, the two Finns set the pace right from the start, runner after runner from the rest of the field gradually fell behind. Halfway through the course, only John Savidan, Jean-Gunnar Lindgren and Ralph Hill could follow. After Savidan and Lindgren lost touch, it was surprisingly too fast for Virtanen too. Only the American could not be shaken off and was cheered on loudly by the audience. On the home straight, Hill tried to overtake twice. At first he wanted to pass to the left, but Lehtinen at the same time pulled to the left and blocked his way. Then the same scene played out on the right. Both runners reached the finish line with an Olympic record at the same time , but Lehtinen had a tiny lead. He was booed by the audience for his unfair behavior. But the announcer was able to calm the situation down again. The referees discussed the question of disqualification of the Finn for a long time. Despite his clearly illegal behavior, he was awarded the gold medal.
The award ceremony did not take place until the following day. Obviously the Finnish team management had given their runner instructions, because Lehtinen wanted to take Hill with him to the top step of the podium. This, however, refused, pointing out that he saw the displacement as unintentional. Lehtinen then stuck the Finnish team pin on his opponent and Hill reciprocated with the same gesture. The audience cheered at this reconciling sportiness.
10,000 m
space | athlete | country | Time (min) |
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1 | Janusz Kusociński | POLE | 30: 11.4 OR |
2 | Volmari Iso-Hollo | FIN | 30: 12.6 |
3 | Lauri Virtanen | FIN | 30: 35.0 |
4th | John Savidan | NZL | 31: 09.0 |
5 | Max Syring | GER | 31: 35.0 |
6th | Jean-Gunnar Lindgren | SWE | 31: 37.0 |
7th | Juan Morales | MEX | 32: 03.0 |
8th | Clifford Bricker | CAN | k. A. |
Date: July 31
In June of the Olympic year, the Pole Janusz Kusociński had improved Paavo Nurmi's world record over 3000 meters with 8: 18.8 minutes , making himself one of the favorites for the long distances of these games. For many years there had been a great dominance of runners from Finland at these distances, which was now in danger. Pretty soon after the start, the two Finns Volmari Iso-Hollo and Lauri Virtanen, together with Kusociński, pulled away from the rest of the field at high speed. Like later over 5000 meters , Virtanen had to tear down before the actual final phase, but had no problems securing the bronze medal. In the finish curve, Kusociński decided the race for himself with a determined start and improved Nurmi's Olympic record by more than seven seconds with 30: 11.4 minutes .
marathon
space | athlete | country | Time (h) |
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1 | Juan Carlos Zabala | ARG | 2:31:36 OR |
2 | Sam Ferris | GBR | 2:31:55 |
3 | Armas Toivonen | FIN | 2:32:12 |
4th | Dunky Wright | GBR | 2:32:41 |
5 | Seiichiro Tsuda | JPN | 2:35:42 |
6th | Onbai Kin (Kim Un-bae) | JPN | 2:37:28 |
7th | Albert Michelsen | United States | 2:39:38 |
8th | Oskar Hekš | TCH | 2:41:35 |
Date: August 7th
As early as 1931, the then 19-year-old Argentine Juan Carlos Zabala made people sit up and take notice with a time of 2:33:19 h in his first marathon . However, the top favorite was the Brit Sam Ferris, who had the experience of two Olympic participations and also had very successful appearances in recent years. Halfway through the course, Zabala, who always ran in the lead group from the start, was ahead of the two Finns Armas Toivonen and Lauri Virtanen . Virtanen had won bronze over 5000 meters and 10,000 meters respectively. At thirty kilometers, Virtanen, who was completely inexperienced in marathon matters, passed Zabala. But a few kilometers further the Finn was at the end of his strength and had to give up. In the meantime the runners behind Zabala had made up a lot of time. Especially Ferris came closer and closer at the end. But the Argentine was able to save a nineteen seconds lead at the finish and became Olympic champion at the age of twenty. Behind Ferris, Toivonen ran for the bronze medal ahead of the British Dunky Wright and the Japanese Seiichiro Tsuda.
110 m hurdles
space | athlete | country | Time (s) |
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1 | George Saling | United States | 14.6 |
2 | Percy Beard | United States | 14.7 |
3 | Don Finlay | GBR | 14.8 |
4th | Jack Keller | United States | 14.8 |
5 | Lord Burghley | GBR | 14.8 |
Willi Welscher | GER | DSQ |
Final: August 3rd
This competition was short and exciting. After a very good start, Jack Keller took the lead, which he lost to Percy Beard at hurdle five. This collided with the sixth hurdle, George Saling passed him and became Olympic champion. The three US flags were hoisted at the award ceremony, and Keller was initially seen in third place. The exact evaluation of the target photo then showed that the Briton Donald Finlay was in front of Keller. The result was officially corrected accordingly and Finlay received the bronze medal.
400 m hurdles
space | athlete | country | Time (s) |
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1 | Bob Tisdall | IRL | 51.7 |
2 | Glenn Hardin | United States | 51.9 WR |
3 | Morgan Taylor | United States | 52.0 |
4th | Lord Burghley | GBR | 52.2 |
5 | Luigi Facelli | ITA | 53.0 |
6th | Kell Areskoug | SWE | 54.6 |
Final: August 1st
On this route there was a newcomer as an Olympic champion. Robert Tisdall had written to the President of the Irish Athletics Federation in April of the Olympic year to apply for participation in the Olympics, although he had never run in this discipline. For the fulfillment of his wish he was made the condition to become Irish champion and to achieve the time of 55.0 s. Irish champion was Tisdall with 56.2 s and reached the qualification edition in another race with 54.2 s.
In the final, the Irishman was ahead at high speed from the start. When he broke the last hurdle, Glenn Hardin came up dangerous again, but could no longer prevent Tisdall's Olympic victory. Morgan F. Taylor, 1924 Olympic Champion , won the bronze medal and Lord Burghley, 1928 Olympic Champion , finished fourth.
Since Tisdall had broken a hurdle, his time was not recognized as a world record according to the rules of the time . Curiously, the world record holder was silver medalist Glenn Hardin.
3000 m obstacle
space | athlete | country | Time (min) |
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1 | Volmari Iso-Hollo | FIN | 10: 33.4 |
2 | Tom Evenson | GBR | 10: 46.0 |
3 | Joe McCluskey | United States | 10: 46.2 |
4th | Martti Matilainen | FIN | 10: 52.4 |
5 | George Bailey | GBR | 10: 53.2 |
6th | Glen Dawson | United States | 10: 58.0 |
7th | Giuseppe Lippi | ITA | 11: 04.0 |
8th | Walter Pritchard | United States | 11: 04.5 |
Final: August 6th,
actual route length 3460 meters
In the first run, Tom Evenson improved the Olympic record to 9: 18.8 minutes. Volmari Iso-Hollo won the second run with 9: 14.6 minutes, and with Joe McCluskey, Glen Dawson and George Bailey, three other runners remained under the Evenson brand. In the final, Iso-Hollo took the lead in the second lap and steadily expanded his lead. Due to an error in the lap counter, the runners had to complete an additional 460 meters. Iso-Hollo had passed the regular 3000 meter mark in 9: 08.4 minutes. On the additional lap, Evenson overtook McCluskey, who was still silver after 3000 meters. McCluskey was offered a re-race, but he turned it down.
4 × 100 m relay
space | country | Athletes | Time (s) |
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1 | United States |
Bob Kiesel Emmett Toppino Hector Dyer Frank Wykoff |
40.0 WR |
2 | German Empire |
Helmut Körnig Friedrich Hendrix Erich Borchmeyer Arthur Jonath |
40.9 |
3 | Italy |
Giuseppe Castelli Ruggero Maregatti Gabriele Salviati Edgardo Toetti |
41.2 |
4th | Canada |
Percy Williams James Brown Harold Wright Birchall Pearson |
41.3 |
5 | Japan |
Takayoshi Yoshioka Chūhei Nambu Izuo Anno Itaro Nakajima |
41.3 |
6th | Great Britain |
Don Finlay Stanley Fuller Stanley Engelhart Ernest Page |
41.4 |
Final: August 7th
The US season could afford not to use three of their best sprinters this season. Missing were the double Olympic gold medalists over 100 and 200 meters, Eddie Tolan , Ralph Metcalfe , Olympic runner-up over 100 meters and Olympic knight over 200 meters , as well as George Simpson , Olympic medalist over 100 meters and bronze medalist over 200 meters . Nevertheless, the four runners from the USA won the race by almost a second and also set a new world record with 40.0 seconds . The seats behind it were much tighter. Germany took silver with 40.9 s ahead of Italy - 41.2 s, Canada - 41.3 s and Japan - 41.3 s.
4 × 400 m relay
space | country | Athletes | Time (min) |
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1 | United States |
Ivan Fuqua Edgar Ablowich Karl Warner Bill Carr |
3: 08.2 WR |
2 | Great Britain |
Crew Stoneley Tommy Hampson Lord Burghley Godfrey Rampling |
3: 11.2 |
3 | Canada |
Ray Lewis James Ball Phil Edwards Alex Wilson |
3: 12.8 |
4th | German Empire |
Joachim Büchner Walter Nehb Adolf Metzner Otto Peltzer |
3: 14.4 |
5 | Japan |
Itaro Nakajima Iwao Masuda Seikan Oki Teiichi Nishi |
3: 14.6 |
6th | Italy |
Giacomo Carlini Giovanni Turba Mario De Negri Luigi Facelli |
3: 17.8 |
Final: August 7th
The United States did not start with the best line -up even over 4 x 400 meters . However, they 'only' did without the 400-meter Olympic runner-up Ben Eastman and, like over 4 x 100 meters, could not be conquered. With 3: 08.2 min they improved the world record that had existed up to these games by more than four seconds. The British relay took second place ahead of Canada, Germany came fourth.
50 km of walking
space | athlete | country | Time (h) |
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1 | Tommy Green | GBR | 4:50:10 OR |
2 | Jānis Daliņš | LAT | 4:57:20 |
3 | Ugo Frigerio | ITA | 4:59:06 |
4th | Karl Hähnel | GER | 5:06:06 |
5 | Ettore Rivolta | ITA | 5:07:39 |
6th | Paul Sievert | GER | 5:16:41 |
7th | Henri Quintric | FRA | 5:27:25 |
8th | Ernest Crosbie | United States | 5:28:02 |
Date: August 3
In the brooding midday heat, the walkers were sent to the new Olympic distance of fifty kilometers. Everyone suffered a lot from the hardships and many athletes had to give up. The 39-year-old Brit Thomas Green became Olympic champion. Jānis Daliņš reached the finish line a good seven minutes behind, thus winning the first ever medal for Latvia. Bronze went to Ugo Frigerio from Italy, who dominated the walking distances at the Olympic Games in 1920 and 1924 . In 1928 , walking was temporarily removed from the Olympic program.
high jump
space | athlete | country | Height (m) |
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1 | Duncan McNaughton | CAN | 1.97 |
2 | Bob Van Osdel | United States | 1.97 |
3 | Simeon Toribio | PHI | 1.97 |
4th | Cornelius Johnson | United States | 1.97 |
5 | Ilmari Reinikka | FIN | 1.94 |
6th | Kazuo Kimura | JPN | 1.94 |
7th | Misao Ono | JPN | 1.90 |
Jerzy Pławczyk | POLE | 1.90 |
Date: July 31
The fight for the medals in this competition was very exciting, which was also due to the fact that there were still no multiple or failed attempts. With Duncan McNaughton, Bob Van Osdel and Simeon Toribio, three jumpers had mastered 1.97 m and failed at the next jump height. So there was a jump-off that began, as usual, at the height that the jumpers involved in the jump-off had no longer managed. Even now none of the three succeeded. Now the jump-off was continued at 1.99 m. When no one could skip this height either, the failed attempt rule that was actually not yet valid was used. McNaughton, who was the first to cross the victory height of 1.97 m, was declared Olympic champion, Van Osdel received the silver and Toribio the bronze medal.
The high jump was one of the three competitions in which the Olympic record was not reached.
Pole vault
space | athlete | country | Height (m) |
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1 | Bill Miller | United States | 4,315 OR |
2 | Shuhei Nishida | JPN | 4,300 |
3 | George Jefferson | United States | 4,200 |
4th | William Graber | United States | 4.150 |
5 | Shizuo Mochizuki | JPN | 4,000 |
6th | Lúcio de Castro | BRA | 3,900 |
7th | Petros Chlentzos | GRC | 3,750 |
Carlos Nelli | BRA | ogV |
Date: August 3
The only favorites for the pole vault were the US athletes, above all William Graber, who had won his country's Olympic qualification with the world record height of 4.37 m. Second there was William Miller with 4.31 m. But things didn't look too good for Graber, Miller, and George Jefferson, the third US jumper, as the competition progressed. At 4.15 m, Graber and Miller each needed three attempts, Graber was eliminated at the next height of 4.20 m, and Jefferson, who won bronze with this 4.20 m, finished at 4.25 m. The Japanese Shūhei Nishida increased significantly and became a great opponent for Miller in the fight for the gold medal. Both Nishida and Miller jumped the next four feet. Only at 4.32 m, which Miller mastered, the Japanese had to pass. At the world record height of 4.38 m, which Miller had now set up, he failed three times. His skipped 4.32 m turned out to be 4.315 m when measuring.
Long jump
space | athlete | country | Width (m) |
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1 | Ed Gordon | United States | 7.64 |
2 | Lambert Redd | United States | 7.60 |
3 | Chuhei Nambu | JPN | 7.45 |
4th | Eric Svensson | SWE | 7.41 |
5 | Dick Barber | United States | 7.39 |
6th | Naoto Tajima | JPN | 7.15 |
7th | Héctor Berra | ARG | 6.66 |
8th | Clóvis Raposo | BRA | 6.43 |
Date: August 2nd
In contrast to most other competitions, the long jump was a little lacking in class. The Japanese Chūhei Nambu held the world record with almost eight meters - exactly 7.98 m. But he had to be content with 7.45 m, which was enough for a bronze medal. Two US jumpers lay in front of him. Ed Gordon became Olympic champion with a rather meager 7,64 m. In second place came four centimeters behind Lambert Redd. Robert LeGendre's Olympic record , which he had set in 1924 as part of his pentathlon with 7.765 m, was not in danger.
Triple jump
space | athlete | country | Width (m) |
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1 | Chuhei Nambu | JPN | 15.72 WR |
2 | Eric Svensson | SWE | 15.32 |
3 | Kenkichi Ōshima | JPN | 15.12 |
4th | Eamonn Fitzgerald | IRL | 15.01 |
5 | Willem Peters | NED | 14.93 |
6th | Sol Furth | United States | 14.88 |
7th | Sidney Bowman | United States | 14.87 |
8th | Rolland Romero | United States | 14.85 |
Date: August 4th
In the triple jump , Chūhei Nambu, whom his weak long jump performance had taken off, made up for everything. His compatriot Mikio Oda , the world record holder and Olympic champion of 1928 , was the real favorite . But Oda was far below his means due to an injury. Nambu set a new world record with 15.72 m and thus became Olympic champion. Thirty centimeters behind, the Swede Eric Svensson took silver and with Kenkichi Ōshima another Japanese came third with 15.12 m.
Shot put
space | athlete | country | Width (m) |
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1 | Leo Sexton | United States | 16.005 OR |
2 | Harlow Rothert | United States | 15.675 |
3 | František Douda | TCH | 15.610 |
4th | Emil Hirschfeld | GER | 15,560 |
5 | Nelson Gray | United States | 15,460 |
6th | Hans-Heinrich Sievert | GER | 15.070 |
7th | Zygmunt Heljasz | POLE | 14,800 |
8th | József Darányi | HUN | 14,670 |
Date: July 31
The top of the world were very close together before these games. With the Poland Zygmunt Haljasz, world record holder with 16.05 m, František Douda, Czechoslovakia and Emil Hirschfeld, Germany, three Europeans with bests over sixteen meters were just ahead of the US-Americans who qualified for the Olympic competition. But in their homeland, the US shot putters presented themselves at their best, while the Europeans lagged behind their potential. Leo Sexton was the only one to exceed the 16-meter mark with 16.005 m. That meant an Olympic record and brought him the gold medal. Silver went to his compatriot Harlow Rothert, bronze went to František Douda. Emil Hirschfeld, bronze medalist from 1928 , came in a thankless fourth place five centimeters behind Douda.
Discus throw
space | athlete | country | Width (m) |
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1 | John Anderson | United States | 49.49 OR |
2 | Henri LaBorde | United States | 48.47 |
3 | Paul Winter | FRA | 47.85 |
4th | Jules Noël | FRA | 47.74 |
5 | István Donogán | HUN | 47.08 |
6th | Endre Madarász | HUN | 46.52 |
7th | Kalevi Kotkas | FIN | 45.87 |
8th | Paul Jessup | United States | 45.25 |
3rd August
The American world record holder Paul Jessup stayed about six and a half meters below his record. Olympic champion was his compatriot John Anderson, who also had the best series of all throwers and threw three times over 49 meters. However, there was a blatant faux pas by the judges. While the French Jules Noël clearly surpassed the 49-meter mark with his first final throw, the entire jury watched the decision in the pole vault . So Noël's attempt could neither be measured nor rated. After much back and forth it was decided that the French could repeat his throw. But he stayed below 48 meters and was cheated of at least the silver medal by this bad mistake by the judges. This silver went to the American Henri LaBorde, bronze went to Noël's compatriot Paul Winter.
Hammer throw
space | athlete | country | Width (m) |
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1 | Pat O'Callaghan | IRL | 53.92 |
2 | Ville Pörhölä | FIN | 52.27 |
3 | Peter Zaremba | United States | 50.33 |
4th | Ossian Skiold | SWE | 49.25 |
5 | Grant McDougall | United States | 49.12 |
6th | Federico Kleger | ARG | 48.33 |
7th | Gunnar Jansson | SWE | 47.79 |
8th | Armando Poggioli | ITA | 46.90 |
Final: August 1st
Pat O'Callaghan, Olympic champion in Amsterdam four years ago , was at the height of his career. He only had to be careful of the Finn Ville Pörhölä, who had changed disciplines after his Olympic victory in the shot put twelve years ago. And the already 35-year-old Pörhölä led quite surprisingly to the fifth round. With his last attempt the Irishman showed strong nerves and surpassed the Finn by half a meter. With that the gold and silver medals were distributed. The bronze medal went to local Peter Zaremba, who, along with O'Callaghan and Pörhölä, was the only one who exceeded the 50 meter mark. The Swedish Olympic runner-up from 1928 Ossian Skiöld finished fourth this time.
Javelin throw
space | athlete | country | Width (m) |
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1 | Matti Järvinen | FIN | 72.71 OR |
2 | Matti Sippala | FIN | 69.80 |
3 | Eino Penttila | FIN | 68.70 |
4th | Gottfried Weimann | GER | 68.18 |
5 | Lee Bartlett | United States | 64.46 |
6th | Kenneth Churchill | United States | 63.24 |
7th | Malcolm Metcalf | United States | 61.89 |
8th | Kosaku Sumiyoshi | JPN | 61.14 |
Final: August 4th
The German Gottfried Weimann opened this competition with the new Olympic record of 68.18 m. But this distance was no challenge for Matti Järvinen from Finland, world record holder with 74.02 m. Järvinen dominated this competition. He exceeded the seventy meters five times; all these attempts would have been enough for him to get gold. Weimann could not improve any more and had to watch as Järvinen's compatriots Matti Sippala and Eino Penttilä still overtook him in rounds five and six, so that all medals in the javelin went to Finland.
Decathlon
space | athlete | country | P - official value. | P - 85 value. |
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1 | James Bausch | United States | 8462,235 WR | 6736 |
2 | Akilles Jarvinen | FIN | 8292,480 | 6879 |
3 | Wolrad Eberle | GER | 8030,805 | 6623 |
4th | Wilson Charles | United States | 7985,000 | 6718 |
5 | Hans-Heinrich Sievert | GER | 7941.075 | 6515 |
6th | Paavo Yrjölä | FIN | 7687.990 | 6385 |
7th | Clyde Coffman | United States | 7534,410 | 6265 |
8th | Bob Tisdall | IRL | 7327.170 | 6398 |
Date: 5th / 6th August
As in 1928 in Amsterdam , the Finn Akilles Järvinen, brother of the javelin Olympic champion Matti Järvinen, won the silver medal. With excellent jumping and throwing performance on the second day, the American James Bausch had overtaken the Finn. Both athletes were better with their results than the previous world record set by Akilles Järvinen in 1930. Third was the German champion Wolrad Eberle, who also increased to over 8000 points. The 1928 Olympic champion Paavo Yrjölä came in sixth this time.
The rating table from 1920 was used to determine the points.
The rating table from 1912 was used to determine the points.
For a better classification of the performance, the points converted according to the current rating system from 1985 are also given. According to this table, which is valid today, Järvinen would have been the Olympic champion. But these comparisons are only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis. This is most noticeable in the pole vault , where people jumped with completely different poles than they do today.
Results women
100 m
space | Athlete | country | Time (s) |
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1 | Stanisława Walasiewicz | POLE | 11.9 WRe |
2 | Hilda Strike | CAN | 11.9 WRe |
3 | Wilhelmina of Bremen | United States | 12.0 |
4th | Marie Dollinger | GER | 12.2 |
5 | Eileen Hiscock | GBR | 12.3 |
6th | Elizabeth Wilde | United States | 12.3 |
Final: August 2nd
In the final there was an exciting and high-class duel between the Pole Stanisława Walasiewicz - later active in the USA under the name Stella Walsh - and the Canadian Hilda Strike. With the better start, Strike was slightly ahead at the beginning. But Walasiewicz caught up and was just ahead of the Canadian at the finish. Both runners set the existing world record with 11.9 s.
In this competition, too, the jury was not particularly competent. The placement of the American Wilhelmina von Bremen in third place was still clear. But behind that, the officials first put Eileen Hiscock in fourth and Marie Dollinger and Elizabeth Wilde together in fifth. Only the much later evaluation of the target film recordings resulted in the correction of the result as listed here.
80 m hurdles
space | Athlete | country | Time (s) |
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1 | Mildred Didrikson | United States | 11.7 WR |
2 | Evelyne Hall | United States | 11.7 WR |
3 | Marjorie Clark | RSA | 11.8 |
4th | Simone Schaller | United States | 11.8 |
5 | Violet Webb | GBR | 11.9 |
6th | Alda Wilson | CAN | 12.0 |
Final: August 4th
In this competition, Mildred Didrikson showed her special class for the second time after throwing the javelin . The outcome was wafer-thin after Didrikson was clearly ahead until shortly before the finish. But she hit the last hurdle and her compatriot Evelyne Hall came very close to her again. But Didrikson was just before Hall in the finish, both improved the existing world record by a tenth of a second. The bronze medal went to the South African Marjorie Clark, who with 11.8 seconds reached exactly the time with which she had previously held the world record. Simone Schaller also came in fourth with 11.8 seconds.
4 × 100 m relay
space | country | Athletes | Time (s) |
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1 | United States |
Mary Carew Evelyn Furtsch Annette Rogers Wilhelmina of Bremen |
47.0 WR |
2 | Canada |
Mildred Fizzell Lillian Palmer Mary Frizzell Hilda Strike |
47.0 WR |
3 | Great Britain |
Eileen Hiscock Gwendoline Porter Violet Webb Nellie Halstead |
47.6 |
4th | Netherlands |
Johanna Dalmolen Cornelia Aalten Elly du Mée Tollien Schuurman |
47.7 |
5 | Japan |
Mie Muraoka Michi Nakanishi Asa Dogura Sumiko Watanabe |
48.9 |
6th | German Empire |
Grete Heublein Ellen Braumüller Tilly Fleischer Marie Dollinger |
50.0 |
Final: August 7th
This season was impressive, exciting and high-class. Mary Carew and Evelyn Furtsch initially brought the US relay forward two meters. But in the final corner, Mary Frizzell made a very strong race for Canada and made up the gap. The last change of the Canadians did not work out. The 100-meter Olympic runner-up Hilda Strike took up the pursuit of the 100-meter Olympic third party Wilhelmina von Bremen, two meters behind. But it wasn't quite enough for Canada. Both seasons were at the same time and ran a new world record with 47.0 s . There was bronze for Great Britain. Fourth place just behind the British went to the Dutch. The German relay ran with three throwers and only one real sprinter and was so clearly behind without a chance.
Only six teams were at the start.
high jump
space | Athlete | country | Height (m) |
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1 | Jean Shiley | United States | 1,650 WR |
2 | Mildred Didrikson | United States | 1,650 WR |
3 | Eva Dawes | CAN | 1,600 |
4th | Lien Gisolf | NED | 1.575 |
5 | Marjorie Clark | RSA | 1.575 |
6th | Annette Rogers | United States | 1.575 |
7th | Helma Notte | GER | 1,550 |
8th | Yuriko Hirohashi | JPN | 1,500 |
Date: August 7th
Both Jean Shiley and Mildred Didrikson kept clear up to and including 1.625 m. Both athletes, Shiley in the first and Didrikson in the second attempt, also jumped the new world record height of 1.65 m. However, both failed at the next height of 1.67 m. Since there was still no rule of multiple attempts or failed attempts, there was now a jump-off. Both now crossed the 1.67 m. Didrikson's attempt was not recognized, however, because she crossed the bar head first - referred to as "diving", which was not permitted under the rules of the time. It was strange, however, that Didrikson had contested the entire competition with this jumping style, which should no longer be legal in the jump-off. The Canadian Eva Dawes won the bronze medal with 1.60 m.
The 1.67 meters jumped by Jean Shiley were not recognized as a world record, as they had been crossed in the jump-off and not during the regular three attempts. The end result also shows the regularly skipped height as the end result.
Discus throw
space | Athlete | country | Width (m) |
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1 | Lillian Copeland | United States | 40.58 OR |
2 | Ruth Osburn | United States | 40.12 |
3 | Yadwiga Vajsovna | POLE | 38.74 |
4th | Tilly Fleischer | GER | 36.12 |
5 | Grete Heublein | GER | 34.66 |
6th | Stanisława Walasiewicz | POLE | 33.60 |
7th | Mitsue Ishizu | JPN | 33.52 |
8th | Ellen Braumüller | GER | 33.15 |
Date: August 2nd
The discus throw was not a competition with technically mature performances. The Polish Jadwiga Vajsowna, who had set a new world record in June with 42.43 m , was only a shadow of herself and just won the bronze medal with 38.74 m, because the German Grete Heublein did not already have her before achievements shown. Gold and silver surprisingly made the two Americans Ruth Osburn and Lillian Copeland between themselves. Until the last round, the only 18-year-old Osburn led the way. She picked up a disc for the first time less than six months before the Games, but had already won the US Olympic eliminations. With her last attempt, Copeland was able to counter and won the gold medal with a new Olympic record . Osburn and Copeland were the only female throwers who got more than forty yards.
Javelin throw
space | Athlete | country | Width (m) |
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1 | Mildred Didrikson | United States | 43.69 OR |
2 | Ellen Braumüller | GER | 43.50 |
3 | Tilly Fleischer | GER | 43.01 |
4th | Masako Shinpo | JPN | 39.08 |
5 | Nan Gindele | United States | 37.95 |
6th | Gloria Russell | United States | 36.74 |
7th | Maria Uribe | MEX | 33.66 |
8th | Mitsue Ishizu | JPN | 30.81 |
Date: July 31
The top favorite was the US-American Nan Gindele, who set a world record with 46.74 m in June of the Olympic year . The German champion Tilly Fleischer was also in the favorites field due to her preliminary performances. In the first attempt, Mildred Didrikson set a new Olympic record of 43.69 m , which everyone else struggled with. The two Germans Ellen Braumüller and Tilly Fleischer came close to the Olympic record length with 43.50 m and 43.01 m respectively, but Didrikson won her first gold medal, Braumüller and Fleischer won silver and bronze, while the world record holder Nan Gindele was almost fifth stayed nine meters below her world record. In front of her was the Japanese Masako Shinpo in fourth place.
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede : The History of Olympic Athletics. Volume 1: 1896-1936. 2nd Edition. Bartels & Wernitz publishing house, Berlin 1970, DNB 368759857 .
Web links
- IOC website on athletics at the 1932 Games on olympic.org, accessed August 6, 2017
- Los Angeles 1932: Games in Times of Depression from sportschau.de, accessed on August 6, 2017
- Athletics - Olympic Games 1932 from sport-komplett.de, accessed on August 6, 2017
- Olympic Games 1932: Find in Kleinmachnow. The riddle about the gold medal on pnn.de, accessed on August 6, 2017
- Olympic timekeeping highlights on trustedwatch.de, accessed on August 6, 2017
Videos
- LOS ANGELES X OLYMPIC GAMES 1932 TRACK & FIELD SILENT NEWSREEL 86554b MD , published February 12, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed August 6, 2017
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- The Fastest Men On Earth (1932 - Los Angeles) 9/20 , published July 13, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed August 6, 2017
- 1932 Olympic Games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum , published February 19, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed August 6, 2017