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Los Angeles 1932 LOS ANGELES 1932 The Games of the X Summer Olympiad. July 30 - August 14, 1932. Los Angeles, USA. 1 ATHLETICS MEN 100 m 1.Eddie Tolan (USA) 200 m 1.Eddie Tolan (USA) 100 m: 2.Ralph Metcalfe (USA) 200 m: 3.Ralph Metcalfe (USA) 2 1500 m 1.Luigi Beccali (Italy) 7.Jack Lovelock (New Zealand) 3 800 m: 3.Phil Edwards (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) 4 400 m hurdles Hammer throw 1.Bob Tisdall (Ireland) 1.Pat O’Callaghan (Ireland) 4 x 100 m 2.Germany (Eric Borchmeyer) 4 x 400 m: 2.Great Britain (David Burghley) 5 50 km walk 2.Janis Dalins (Latvia) 3.Ugo Frigerio (Italy) 6 Marathon 1.Juan Carlos Zabala (Argentina) Triple jump High jump 1.Chuhei Nambu (Japan) 1.Duncan McNaughton (Canada) Long jump: 3.Chuhei Nambu (Japan) 7 Discus throw 1.John Anderson (USA) Javelin throw 1.Matti Jarvinen (Finland) 8 Decathlon 1.James Bausch (USA) 4.Wilson Charles (USA) 9.Erwin Wegner (Germany) 9 WOMEN 100 m 1.Stanislawa Walasiewicz (Poland) 4 x 100 m 1.USA (Wilhelmina von Bremen) 100 m: 3.Wilhelmina von Bremen (USA) 10 80 m hurdles 1.Babe Didrikson (USA) 3.Marjorie Clark (South Africa) High jump 1.Jean Shiley (USA) 11 Javelin throw 1.Babe Didrikson (USA) High jump: 2.Babe Didrikson (USA) 12 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) 13 EQUESTRIAN Individual dressage 1.Xavier Lesage (France) Team dressage: 1.France (Xavier Lesage) 14 Individual eventing 1.Charles Pahud de Mortanges (Netherlands) Team eventing: 2.Netherlands (Charles Pahud de Mortanges) Individual jumping 1.Takeichi Nishi (Japan) 15 FENCING MEN Team sabre 1.Hungary (Aladar Gerevich) 16 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) 17 WOMEN Individual foil 1.Ellen Muller-Preis (Austria) 18 FIELD HOCKEY 1.India (Dhyan Chand) 19 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) 20 MODERN PENTATHLON 1.Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna (Sweden) 21 ROWING Single sculls 1.Bobby Pearce (Australia) 3.Guillermo Douglas (Uruguay) Coxless four 1.Great Britain (Jack Beresford) 22 SAILING Snowbird 3.Santiago Amat (Spain) 23 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) 24 WOMEN 100 m freestyle 1.Helene Madison (USA) 400 m freestyle 1.Helene Madison (USA) 25 4 x 100 m freestyle 1.USA (Helene Madison) 26 WEIGHTLIFTING 67.5 kg Rene Duverger (France) 27 75 kg 1.Rudolf Ismayr (Germany) 28 82.5 kg 1.Louis Hostin (France) 82.5+ kg 1.Jaroslav Skobla (Czechoslovakia) 3.Josef Strassberger (Germany) 29 MEDAL COUNT 1.USA (41-32-30) 2.ITALY (12-12-12) 30 3.FRANCE (10-5-4) Previous Olympiad Next Olympiad (LAKE PLACID 1932) (GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN 1936) Previous Summer Olympiad Next Summer Olympiad (AMSTERDAM 1928) (BERLIN 1936) Back to the Main Page (OLYMPIC HISTORY ON STAMPS) 31 .
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