1932 Winter Olympics / Participant (United States)

United States

6th	4th	2

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

• Hubert Stevens , Curtis Stevens

  Gold (8: 14.74 min)

• John Heaton , Robert Minton

  Bronze (8: 29.15 min)

Men, foursome

• Billy Fiske , Edward Eagan , Clifford Gray , Jay O'Brien

  Gold (7: 53.68 min)

• 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
• Gordon Smith

  silver

figure skating

Men

• William Nagle

  11th place (1884.8)

• Gail Borden

  8th place (2110.8)

• James Madden

  7th place (2049.6)

• Roger Turner

  6th place (2297.6)

Women

• Louise Weigel

  14th place (1769.4)

• Suzanne Davis

  12th place (1780.4)

• Margaret Bennett

  11th place (1826.8)

• Maribel Vinson

  Bronze (2158.8)

Couples

• Gertrude Meredith & Joseph Savage

  7th place (77.5)

• Beatrix Loughran & Sherwin Badger

  Silver (10.5)

Speed ​​skating

Men

• Jack Shea

  500 m: gold (43.4 s, Olympic record)

  1500 m: gold (2: 57.5 min)

• Ray Murray

  500 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  1500 m: 5th place

• Allan Potts

  500 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• John Farrell

  500 m: 6th place

• Herb Taylor

  1500 m: 6th place

  5000 m: 4th place

• Lloyd Guenther

  1500 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Irving Jaffee

  5000 m: gold (9: 40.8 min)

  10,000 m: gold (19: 13.6 min)

• Edward Murphy

  5000 m: silver

• Carl Springer

  5000 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Edwin Wedge

  10,000 m: 4th place

• Valentine Bialas

  10,000 m: 5th place

• Eddie Schroeder

  10,000 m: 8th place

Nordic combination

• John Ericksen

  Individual: 25th place (316.30)

• Lloyd Ellingson

  Individual: 16th place (354.20)

• Rolf Monsen

  Individual: 9th place (369.30)

• Edward Blood

  Individual: 14th place (361.45)

Cross-country skiing

Men

• Erling Andersen

  18 km: 42nd place (1:58:13 h)

• Rolf Monsen

  18 km: 33rd place (1:42:36 h)

• Richard Parsons

  18 km: 28th place (1:40:08 h)

  50 km: 15th place (5:13:59 h)

• Olle Zetterstrom

  18 km: 23rd place (1:38:26 h)

• Nort Billings

  50 km: not finished

• Robert Reid

  50 km: 33rd place (5:26:06 h)

• Nils Backstrom

  50 km: 33rd place (5:25:40 h)

Ski jumping

• Roy Mikkelsen

  Normal hill: eliminated after a fall at the 1st jump

• Peder Falstad

  Normal hill: 13th place (199.5)

• John Steele

  Normal hill: 15th place (195.6)

• 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 )