1932 Winter Olympics / Participant (United States)
United States
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The United States participated in the III. 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid with a delegation of 64 athletes in seven disciplines, including 58 men and 6 women. The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was bobsleigh driver Billy Fiske .
Participants by sport
bob
Men, twos
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Hubert Stevens , Curtis Stevens
- Gold (8: 14.74 min)
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John Heaton , Robert Minton
- Bronze (8: 29.15 min)
Men, foursome
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Billy Fiske , Edward Eagan , Clifford Gray , Jay O'Brien
- Gold (7: 53.68 min)
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Henry Homburger , Percy Bryant , Paul Stevens , Edmund Horton
- Silver (7: 55.70 min)
ice Hockey
Men
- Ty Anderson
- Johnny Bent
- John Chase
- John Cookman
- Doug Everett
- Franklin Farrell
- Joseph Fitzgerald
- Ted Frazier
- John Garrison
- Gerard Hallock
- Robert Livingston
- Francis Nelson
- Winthrop Palmer
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Gordon Smith
- silver
figure skating
Men
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William Nagle
- 11th place (1884.8)
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Gail Borden
- 8th place (2110.8)
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James Madden
- 7th place (2049.6)
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Roger Turner
- 6th place (2297.6)
Women
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Louise Weigel
- 14th place (1769.4)
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Suzanne Davis
- 12th place (1780.4)
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Margaret Bennett
- 11th place (1826.8)
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Maribel Vinson
- Bronze (2158.8)
Couples
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Gertrude Meredith & Joseph Savage
- 7th place (77.5)
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Beatrix Loughran & Sherwin Badger
- Silver (10.5)
Speed skating
Men
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Jack Shea
- 500 m: gold (43.4 s, Olympic record)
- 1500 m: gold (2: 57.5 min)
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Ray Murray
- 500 m: eliminated in the preliminary run
- 1500 m: 5th place
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Allan Potts
- 500 m: eliminated in the preliminary run
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John Farrell
- 500 m: 6th place
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Herb Taylor
- 1500 m: 6th place
- 5000 m: 4th place
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Lloyd Guenther
- 1500 m: eliminated in the preliminary run
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Irving Jaffee
- 5000 m: gold (9: 40.8 min)
- 10,000 m: gold (19: 13.6 min)
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Edward Murphy
- 5000 m: silver
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Carl Springer
- 5000 m: eliminated in the preliminary run
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Edwin Wedge
- 10,000 m: 4th place
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Valentine Bialas
- 10,000 m: 5th place
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Eddie Schroeder
- 10,000 m: 8th place
Nordic combination
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John Ericksen
- Individual: 25th place (316.30)
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Lloyd Ellingson
- Individual: 16th place (354.20)
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Rolf Monsen
- Individual: 9th place (369.30)
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Edward Blood
- Individual: 14th place (361.45)
Cross-country skiing
Men
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Erling Andersen
- 18 km: 42nd place (1:58:13 h)
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Rolf Monsen
- 18 km: 33rd place (1:42:36 h)
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Richard Parsons
- 18 km: 28th place (1:40:08 h)
- 50 km: 15th place (5:13:59 h)
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Olle Zetterstrom
- 18 km: 23rd place (1:38:26 h)
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Nort Billings
- 50 km: not finished
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Robert Reid
- 50 km: 33rd place (5:26:06 h)
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Nils Backstrom
- 50 km: 33rd place (5:25:40 h)
Ski jumping
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Roy Mikkelsen
- Normal hill: eliminated after a fall at the 1st jump
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Peder Falstad
- Normal hill: 13th place (199.5)
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John Steele
- Normal hill: 15th place (195.6)
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Caspar Oimoen
- Normal hill: 5th place (216.7)
Web links
- United States at the 1932 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )