United States at the 1932 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	USA
Nocname:	United States Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1932
Flagcaption:	Flag of the United States
Location:	Lake Placid
Competitors:	64 (58 men, 6 women)
Sports:	4
Flagbearer:	Billy Fiske (bobsleigh)
Rank:	1
Gold:	6
Silver:	4
Bronze:	2
Appearances:	auto

The United States of America (USA) was the host nation for the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.

Medalists

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
		Speed skating	500 meters
		Speed skating	5000 meters
		Speed skating	1500 meters
		Speed skating	10,000 meters
	Hubert Stevens	Bobsleigh	Two-man
	Billy Fiske Clifford Grey Jay O'Brien	Bobsleigh	Four-man
		Speed skating	5000 meters
	Beatrix Loughran	Figure skating	Pairs
		Ice hockey	Men's tournament
	Henry Homburger Edmund Horton Paul Stevens	Bobsleigh	Four-man
	Robert Minton	Bobsleigh	Two-man
		Figure skating	Women's singles

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Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Speed skating	4	1	0	5
Bobsleigh	2	1	1	4
Figure skating	0	1	1	2
Ice hockey	0	1	0	1
Total	style=background:gold	6	style=background:silver	4	style=background:#c96	2	12

Medals by date
Day	Date				Total
1	February 4	2	1	0	3
2	February 5	1	0	0	1
5	February 8	1	0	0	1
6	February 9	1	0	1	2
7	February 10	0	0	1	1
9	February 12	0	1	0	1
10	February 13	0	1	0	1
12	February 15	1	1	0	2
Total		style=background:gold	6	style=background:silver	4	style=background:#c96	2	12

Multiple medalists
Name	Sport				Total
Irving Jaffee	Speed skating	2	0	0	2
Jack Shea	Speed skating	2	0	0	2

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 1932 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
John Heaton Robert Minton	align=left rowspan=2	Two-man	2:15.02	4	2:07.51	3	2:04.29	3	2:02.33	3	8:29.15
Hubert Stevens Curtis Stevens	2:13.10	3	2:04.27	1	1:59.69	1	1:57.68	1	8:14.74
Billy Fiske Eddie Eagan Clifford Grey Jay O'Brien	align=left rowspan=2	Four-man	2:00.52	1	1:59.16	1	1:57.41	1	1:56.59	2	7:53.68
Henry Homburger Percy Bryant Francis Stevens Edmund Horton	2:01.77	2	2:01.09	2	1:58.56	3	1:54.28	1	7:55.70

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1932 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Erling Andersen	align=left rowspan=4	18 km	1:58:13	42
Rolf Monsen	1:42:36	33
Richard Parsons	1:40:08	28
Olle Zetterstrom	1:38:26	23
Nils Backstrom	align=left rowspan=4	50 km	5:25:40	19
Nort Billings
Richard Parsons	5:13:59	15
Robert Reid	5:26:06	20

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event			Total
		Rank	Rank	Places	Points	Rank
Gail Borden	align=left rowspan=4	Singles	7	9	54	2110.8	8
James Madden	8	7	52	2049.6	7
William Nagle	12	10	77	1884.8	11
Roger Turner	5	6	40	2297.6	6

Women

Athlete	Event			Total
		Rank	Rank	Places	Points	Rank
Margaret Bennett	align=left rowspan=4	Singles	12	8	75	1826.8	11
Suzanne Davis	10	14	83	1780.4	12
Maribel Vinson	3	3	23	2158.8
Louise Weigel	14	13	92	1769.4	14

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Points	Score	Rank
Beatrix Loughran Sherwin Badger	align=left rowspan=2	Pairs	16	77.5
Gertrude Meredith Joseph Savage	49	59.8	7

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 1932 Winter Olympics.

Summary

Roster

Osborne Anderson
Johnny Bent
John Chase
John Cookman
Douglas Everett
Franklin Farrel
Joseph Fitzgerald
Edwin Frazier
John Garrison
Gerard Hallock
Robert Livingston
Francis Nelson
Winthrop Palmer
Gordon Smith

Tournament

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
	6	5	0	1	32	4
	6	4	1	1	27	5
	6	2	4	0	7	26
	6	0	6	0	3	34

4 Feb		1:2 OT (0:0,0:1,1:0,0:0,0:1)
5 Feb		4:1 (1:0,2:0,1:1)
7 Feb		7:0 (3:0,2:0,2:0)
8 Feb		5:0 (1:0,1:0,3:0)
10 Feb		8:0 (2:0,2:0,4:0)
13 Feb		2:2 OT (1:1,1:0,0:1,0:0,0:0,0:0)

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1932 Winter Olympics.

The cross-country skiing part of this event was combined with the 18 km race of cross-country skiing. Those results can be found above in this article in the cross-country skiing section. Some athletes (but not all) entered in both the cross-country skiing and Nordic combined event, their time on the 18 km was used for both events.

The ski jumping (normal hill) event was held separate from the main medal event of ski jumping, results can be found in the table below.

Athlete	Event	Cross-country		Ski Jumping			Total
		Time	Points	Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Points	Rank
Edward Blood	align=left rowspan=4	Individual	1:41:58	170.25	51.5	46.0	191.2	361.45	14
Lloyd Ellingson	1:44:14	160.50	45.0	56.0	193.7	354.20	16
John Ericksen	1:54:58	115.50	49.5	54.0	200.8	316.30	25
Rolf Monsen	1:42:36	167.40	54.0	52.0	201.9	369.30	9

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1932 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1			Jump 2			Total
		Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Peder Falstad	align=left rowspan=4	Normal hill	56.0	96.1	18	62.5	103.4	12	199.5	13
Roy Mikkelsen	53.0	52.0 (fall)	31
Caspar Oimoen	63.0	104.7	7	67.5	112.0	2	216.7	5
John Steele	55.0	98.0	14	56.0	97.6	16	195.6	15

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Heat	Final
		Rank Time	Rank Time
John Farrell	align=left rowspan=4	500 m	2 Q	6
Ray Murray	3	Did not advance
Allan Potts	3	Did not advance
Jack Shea	2 Q	43.4
Lloyd Guenther	align=left rowspan=4	1500 m	6	Did not advance
Ray Murray	1 Q 2:29.9	5
Jack Shea	1 Q 2:58.0	2:57.5
Herb Taylor	1 Q 2:49.3	6
Irving Jaffee	align=left rowspan=4	5000 m	1 Q 9:52.0	9:40.8
Eddie Murphy	2 Q
Carl Springer	6	Did not advance
Herb Taylor	2 Q	4
Valentine Bialas	align=left rowspan=4	10,000 m	3 Q	5
Irving Jaffee	1 Q 18:05.4	19:13.6
Edwin Wedge	4 Q	4
Eddie Schroeder	4 Q	8

References

• Book: Official Report III Olympic Winter Games Lake Placid 1932 . (ed.) George Lattimer . III Olympic Winter Games Committee . 1932 . PDF . 2008-06-10.
• Web site: Olympic Medal Winners . . 2009-06-03.
• Olympic Winter Games 1932, full results by sports-reference.com