Olympic Winter Games 1932 / Nordic skiing

Nordic skiing with the III. Winter Olympics
information
venue	Lake Placid
Competition venue	Olympic Stadium Intervale Hill
Nations	11
Athletes	91 (91 men)
date	10-13 February 1932
decisions	4th
← St. Moritz 1928 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 →

With the III. During the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , four competitions were held in Nordic skiing . These were also considered the 9th Nordic World Ski Championships . In addition to Olympic medals, world championship medals were also awarded. The only exception was the Nordic Combined, in which there were only Olympic medals. The venues were the Olympic Stadium and the Intervale Hill ski jump .

Athletes from Scandinavia completely dominated these competitions. All the medals went to Norway , Finland and Sweden , the fifth place for an American was the best that was left for other nations.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Norway	2	2	3	7th
2	Finland	1	1	1	3
3	Sweden	1	1	-	2

Medalist

Cross-country skiing

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
18 km	Sven Utterström	Axel Wikström	Veli Saarinen
50 km	Veli Saarinen	Väinö Liikkanen	Arne Rustadstuen

Ski jumping

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Special jumping	Birger Ruud	Hans Beck	Kåre Walberg

Nordic combination

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
singles	Johan Grøttumsbråten	Ole Stenen	Hans Vinjarengen

Cross-country skiing

18 km

space	country	athlete	Time (h)
1	SWE	Sven Utterström	1:23:07
2	SWE	Axel Wikström	1:25:07
3	FIN	Veli Saarinen	1:25:24
4th	FIN	Martti Lappalainen	1:26:31
5	NOR	Arne Rustadstuen	1:27:06
6th	NOR	Johan Grøttumsbråten	1:27:15
7th	FIN	Valmari Toikka	1:27:51
8th	NOR	Ole Stenen	1:28:05
9	FIN	Väinö Liikkanen	1:28:30
10	SWE	Nils Svärd	1:29:05
21st	AUT	Harald Bosio	1:38:23
29	AUT	Harald Paumgarten	1:41:20
41	AUT	Gregor Höll	1:55:18

Date: February 10, 1932
42 participants from 11 countries, all in the ranking.

The Norwegians, who had dominated the shorter running distance up until then, were left empty-handed for the first time.

50 km

space	country	athlete	Time (h)
1	FIN	Veli Saarinen	4:28:00
2	FIN	Väinö Liikkanen	4:28:20
3	NOR	Arne Rustadstuen	4:31:53
4th	NOR	Ole Hegge	4:32:04
5	NOR	Sigurd Vestad	4:32:40
6th	SWE	Sven Utterström	4:33:35
7th	FIN	Tauno Lappalainen	4:45:02
8th	SWE	John Lindgren	4:47:22
9	SWE	Gustaf Jonsson	4:49:52
10	TCH	Antonín Bartoň	4:52:24

Date: February 13, 1932
32 participants from 9 countries, 20 of them in the ranking.

Special jumping

space	country	athlete	Widths (m)	Points
1	NOR	Birger Ruud	66.5 / 69.0	228.1
2	NOR	Hans Beck	71.5 / 63.5	227.0
3	NOR	Kåre Walberg	62.5 / 64.0	219.5
4th	SWE	Sven Eriksson	65.5 / 64.0	218.9
5	United States	Caspar Oimoen	63.5 / 67.5	216.7
6th	SUI	Fritz Kaufmann	63.5 / 65.5	215.8
7th	NOR	Sigmund Ruud	63.0 / 62.5	215.1
8th	JPN	Goro Adachi	60.0 / 66.0	210.7
9	SUI	Cesare Chiogna	60.0 / 63.0	209.8
10	SWE	Erik Rylander	58.0 / 58.5	206.0
18th	SUI	Fritz Steuri	58.0 / 53.5	192.4
25th	AUT	Harald Paumgarten	42.5 / 46.5	163.4

Date: February 12, 1932
34 participants from 10 countries, 32 in the ranking.

The Austrian Harald Bosio did not start his second jump.

Nordic combination

space	country	athlete	Points running	Points jumping	points total
1	NOR	Johan Grøttumsbråten	240.00	206.0	446.00
2	NOR	Ole Stenen	235.75	200.3	436.05
3	NOR	Hans Vinjarengen	213.00	221.6	434.60
4th	NOR	Sverre Kolterud	204.00	214.6	418.60
5	SWE	Sven Eriksson	181.50	220.8	402.30
6th	TCH	Antonín Bartoň	208.50	188.6	397.10
7th	POLE	Bronislaw Czech	195.00	197.0	392.00
8th	TCH	František Šimůnek	178.50	196.8	375.30
9	United States	Rolf Monsen	167.40	201.9	369.30
10	CAN	Jostein Nordmoe	165.96	201.6	367.56
18th	AUT	Harald Paumgarten	172.50	169.7	342.20
22nd	SUI	Cesare Chiogna	102.00	219.6	321.60
23	SUI	Fritz Kaufmann	097.50	223.2	320.70
26th	SUI	Fritz Steuri	115.50	200.4	315.90
29	AUT	Harald Bosio	186.00	112.7	298.70
33	AUT	Gregor Höll	114.00	071.0	185.00

Date: February 10, 1932 (18 km cross-country skiing), February 11, 1932 (ski jumping)
33 participants from 10 countries, all in the ranking.

literature

• Cross-country skiing at the Olympic Winter Games: List of Olympic champions in cross-country skiing. Edited by the Bucher Group, General Books Verlag, 2010, 188 pages.

Web links

• Cross-country skiing at the 1932 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Ski jumping at the 1932 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Nordic combination at the 1932 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1932 Winter Olympics (PDF; 8.1 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "The development of Nordic winter skiing after the 1st Olympic Winter Games until today". In: Sport Zürich, February 19, 1960, p. 4.