1932

The Games of the X Summer Olympiad. July 30 - August 14, 1932. Los Angeles, USA.

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ATHLETICS

MEN

100 m

1. (USA)

200 m

1.Eddie Tolan (USA)

100 m: 2. (USA)

200 m: 3.Ralph Metcalfe (USA)

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1500 m

1.Luigi Beccali ()

7.Jack Lovelock (New Zealand)

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800 m: 3. (Canada)

1500 m: 3.Phil Edwards (Canada)

4 x 400 m: 3.Canada (Phil Edwards)

10000 m

1.Janusz Kusocinski (Poland)

110 m hurdles

1.George Saling (USA)

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400 m hurdles

1.Bob Tisdall (Ireland) 1.Pat O’Callaghan (Ireland)

4 x 100 m

2. (Eric Borchmeyer)

4 x 400 m: 2.Great Britain (David Burghley)

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50 km walk

2.Janis Dalins (Latvia)

3.Ugo Frigerio (Italy)

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Marathon

1.Juan Carlos Zabala (Argentina)

Triple jump High jump

1.Chuhei Nambu () 1.Duncan McNaughton (Canada)

Long jump: 3.Chuhei Nambu (Japan)

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Discus throw

1.John Anderson (USA)

Javelin throw

1.Matti Jarvinen (Finland)

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Decathlon

1.James Bausch (USA)

4.Wilson Charles (USA)

9.Erwin Wegner (Germany)

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WOMEN

100 m

1.Stanislawa Walasiewicz (Poland)

4 x 100 m

1.USA (Wilhelmina von Bremen)

100 m: 3.Wilhelmina von Bremen (USA)

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80 m hurdles

1.Babe Didrikson (USA)

3.Marjorie Clark (South Africa)

High jump

1. (USA)

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Javelin throw

1.Babe Didrikson (USA)

High jump: 2.Babe Didrikson (USA)

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CYCLING

ROAD

Individual road race

1.Attilio Pavesi (Italy)

Team road race: 1.Italy (Attilio Pavesi)

TRACK

Team pursuit

1.Italy (Paolo Pedretti, Nino Borsari, Marco Cimatti, Alberto Ghilardi)

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EQUESTRIAN

Individual dressage

1.Xavier Lesage (France)

Team dressage: 1.France (Xavier Lesage)

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Individual eventing

1.Charles Pahud de Mortanges (Netherlands)

Team eventing: 2.Netherlands (Charles Pahud de Mortanges)

Individual jumping

1.Takeichi Nishi (Japan)

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FENCING

MEN

Team sabre

1.Hungary (Aladar Gerevich)

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Individual sabre

Final Round

Giulio Gaudini (Italy) - Gyorgy Piller (Hungary) 5-2

1.Gyorgy Piller (Hungary)

2.Giulio Gaudini (Italy)

Team sabre: 1.Hungary (Gyorgy Piller), 2.Italy (Giulio Gaudini) Individual sabre: 2.Giulio Gaudini (Italy) Individual foil: 3.Giulio Gaudini (Italy) Team foil: 2.Italy (Giulio Gaudini)

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WOMEN

Individual foil

1.Ellen Muller-Preis (Austria)

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FIELD HOCKEY

1.India (Dhyan Chand)

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GYMNASTICS

Individual all-around

1.Romeo Neri (Italy)

Team all-around: 1.Italy (Romeo Neri) Parallel bars: 1.Romeo Neri (Italy)

Floor exercise

2.Georges Miez (Switzerland)

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MODERN PENTATHLON

1.Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna (Sweden)

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ROWING

Single sculls

1.Bobby Pearce ()

3.Guillermo Douglas (Uruguay)

Coxless four

1.Great Britain ()

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SAILING

Snowbird

3.Santiago Amat (Spain)

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SWIMMING

MEN

4 x 200 m freestyle

1.Japan (Yasuji Miyazaki, Hisakichi Toyoda, Takashi Yokoyama, Masanori Yusa)

100 m freestyle: 1.Yasuji Miyazaki (Japan)

200 m breaststroke

1.Yoshiyiki Tsuruta (Japan)

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WOMEN

100 m freestyle

1.Helene Madison (USA)

400 m freestyle

1.Helene Madison (USA)

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4 x 100 m freestyle

1.USA (Helene Madison)

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WEIGHTLIFTING

67.5 kg

Rene Duverger (France)

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75 kg

1.Rudolf Ismayr (Germany)

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82.5 kg

1.Louis Hostin (France)

82.5+ kg

1.Jaroslav Skobla (Czechoslovakia)

3.Josef Strassberger (Germany)

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MEDAL COUNT

1.USA (41-32-30)

2.ITALY (12-12-12)

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3.FRANCE (10-5-4)

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