List of 1932 Winter Olympics medal winners

Sonja Henie of Norway and Karl Schäfer of Austria, the gold medal winners in ladies' and men's singles figure skating during the 1932 Olympic Games

The 1932 Winter Olympics, officially known as the III Olympic Winter Games,^[1] were a winter multi-sport event held in Lake Placid, New York, United States, from February 4 to February 15, 1932. A total of 252 athletes representing 17 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in these Games. Overall, 14 events in 7 disciplines were contested.^[2]

The Olympic program remained similar to previous Winter Olympics, with only a few exceptions: neither skeleton nor military patrol events were held; curling, which had appeared in the first Winter Olympic Games, was a non-medal demonstration sport in 1932, as were a sled dog race and women's speed skating.^[2][3][4] Both men and women competed in these Games, although the only medal events women contested were the ladies' singles and pairs in figure skating.^[5] Warm weather forced officials to hold the four-man bobsleigh competition two days after the closing ceremonies, which had been conducted on February 13.^[6]

A total of 87 athletes won medals.^[7] Athletes from the United States earned the most medals during the Games, winning 12 medals, half of which were gold. Athletes from Norway and Canada won the second and third most medals, with 10 and 7 respectively. Only four other nations—Sweden, Finland, Austria, and Germany—won medals in more than one event.^[8] Athletes from 10 of the 17 participating NOCs won at least one medal; 7 won at least one gold medal.^[8]

Sonja Henie of Norway won her second consecutive gold medal in the ladies' individual figure skating competition.^[9] Andrée Brunet and Pierre Brunet of France won their third consecutive medal in pairs figure skating, having won bronze in Chamonix before golds in St. Moritz and Lake Placid.^[10][11] In the men's event, Austrian figure skater Karl Schäfer beat out three-time Olympic champion Gillis Grafström of Sweden.^[12] American Edward Eagan became the first athlete to win medals at both Summer and Winter Olympics; he had won a gold medal in light heavyweight boxing at the 1920 Summer Olympics and took home a gold in the four-man bobsleigh at Lake Placid. Although other athletes since have earned medals in both Summer and Winter Olympics, Eagan remains the only person to have won gold medals in both.^[2][13]

Bobsleigh

Billy Fiske, gold medalist in the four-man bobsleigh event

A number of athletes may have served as alternates for the various teams in the bobsleigh events, although there is disagreement among sources as to whether they should be considered medal winners. They are listed in the International Olympic Committee's medalist database as having won medals for teams on which they were alternates.^[14] However, while they do appear in the Official Report of the 1932 Olympic Games on pages which list members of the teams, their names are not mentioned in the pages that list winners of the events. This list only includes those athletes who were listed in the Official Report as winners of the events.^[15]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Two-man	United States (USA)[16] USA I Hubert Stevens Curtis Stevens	Switzerland (SUI)[17] Switzerland II Reto Capadrutt Oscar Geier	United States (USA)[16] USA II John Heaton Robert Minton
Four-man	United States (USA)[16] USA I Billy Fiske Edward Eagan Clifford Grey Jay O'Brien	United States (USA)[16] USA II Henry Homburger Percy Bryant Francis Stevens Edmund Horton	Germany (GER)[18] Germany I Hanns Kilian Max Ludwig Hans Mehlhorn Sebastian Huber

Cross-country skiing

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
18 km[19]	Sven Utterström  Sweden	Axel Wikström  Sweden	Veli Saarinen  Finland
50 km[20]	Veli Saarinen  Finland	Väinö Liikkanen  Finland	Arne Rustadstuen  Norway

Figure skating

Beatrix Loughran, bronze medal winner in pairs at the 1932 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles[21]	Karl Schäfer  Austria	Gillis Grafström  Sweden	Montgomery Wilson  Canada
Ladies' singles[22]	Sonja Henie  Norway	Fritzi Burger  Austria	Maribel Vinson  United States
Pairs	France (FRA)[23] Andrée Brunet Pierre Brunet	United States (USA)[24] Beatrix Loughran Sherwin Badger	Hungary (HUN)[25] Emília Rotter László Szollás

Ice hockey

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	Canada (CAN)[26] William Cockburn Clifford Crowley Albert Duncanson George Garbutt Roy Henkel Vic Lindquist Norman Malloy Walter Monson Kenneth Moore Romeo Rivers Hack Simpson Hugh Sutherland Stanley Wagner Alston Wise	United States (USA)[27] 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	Germany (GER)[28] Rudi Ball Alfred Heinrich Erich Herker Gustav Jaenecke Werner Korff Walter Leinweber Erich Römer Martin Schröttle Marquardt Slevogt Georg Strobl

Nordic combined

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual[29]	Johan Grøttumsbråten  Norway	Ole Stenen  Norway	Hans Vinjarengen  Norway

Ski jumping

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual[30]	Birger Ruud  Norway	Hans Beck  Norway	Kaare Wahlberg  Norway

Speed skating

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
500 metres[31]	Jack Shea  United States	Bernt Evensen  Norway	Alexander Hurd  Canada
1500 metres[32]	Jack Shea  United States	Alexander Hurd  Canada	Willy Logan  Canada
5000 metres[33]	Irving Jaffee  United States	Eddie Murphy  United States	Willy Logan  Canada
10000 metres[34]	Irving Jaffee  United States	Ivar Ballangrud  Norway	Frank Stack  Canada

Statistics

Multiple medalists

Athletes who won multiple medals during the 1932 Winter Olympics are listed below.^[7]

Athlete	Nation	Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Jaffee, IrvingIrving Jaffee	United States (USA)	Speed skating	2	0	0	2
Shea, JohnJohn Shea	United States (USA)	Speed skating	2	0	0	2
Saarinen, VeliVeli Saarinen	Finland (FIN)	Cross-country skiing	1	0	1	2
Hurd, AlexanderAlexander Hurd	Canada (CAN)	Speed skating	0	1	1	2
Logan, WillyWilly Logan	Canada (CAN)	Speed skating	0	0	2	2

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