1932 Winter Olympics medal table

{{Infobox award

| name = 1932 Winter Olympics medals

| image = Jack Shea 1929.jpg

| image_caption = Jack Shea of the United States tied for most gold medals won at the 1932 Winter Olympics, winning two in men's speed skating.

| alt = Jack Shea wearing a speed-skating outfit on top of a frozen lake, a mountain can be seen in the background.

| award2_type = Most total medals

| award2_winner = {{flagIOC|USA|1932 Winter|12}}

| award1_type = Most gold medals

| award1_winner = {{flagIOC|USA|1932 Winter|6}}

| award3_type = Medalling NOCs

| award3_winner = 10

| location = Lake Placid, New York, US

| previous = 1928

| main = Olympics medal tables

| next = 1936

}}

The 1932 Winter Olympics, officially known as the III Olympic Winter Games, were an international multi-sport event held in Lake Placid, New York, United States, from February 4 to 15, 1932. A total of 252 athletes representing 17 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated, 8 NOCs{{efn|Argentina, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Yugoslavia did not send athletes to these games.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/editions/30/countries |archive-date=April 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240429135045/https://www.olympedia.org/editions/30/countries |access-date=February 1, 2025 |title=NOCs at the 1928 Winter Olympics |work=Olympedia |url-status=live }}{{sfn|III Olympic Winter Games Committee|1932|page=72}}}} fewer than the last Winter Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The games featured 14 events in 4 sports across 7 disciplines. These Winter Games were the first held outside of Europe, with prior editions held in Chamonix, France, and St. Moritz, Switzerland.{{cite web|url=https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Factsheets/The-Olympic-Winter-Games.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130171949/https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Factsheets/The-Olympic-Winter-Games.pdf |archive-date=30 November 2022 |date=October 14, 2021 |page=1 |title=Factsheet: The Winter Olympic Games |work=International Olympic Committee |access-date=July 22, 2024 |url-status=live}}{{sfn|III Olympic Winter Games Committee|1932|page=270}}

Overall, athletes representing 10 NOCs won at least one medal, and 7 NOCs won at least one gold medal. Host nation United States won the most gold medals and the most overall medals, with 6 and 12 respectively. Hungary's team obtained their first Winter Olympic medal, with figure skaters Emília Rotter and László Szollás winning bronze in the pair skating event.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/results/12760 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241202140352/https://www.olympedia.org/results/12760 |archive-date=December 2, 2024 |work=Olympedia |access-date=February 1, 2025 |title=Pairs, Mixed |url-status=live}} Norway achieved two podium sweeps at the games, in the individual nordic combined event with Johan Grøttumsbråten winning the gold, Ole Stenen winning the silver, and Hans Vinjarengen winning the bronze, and in the individual ski jump event with Birger Ruud winning the gold, Hans Beck winning the silver, and Kaare Wahlberg winning the bronze.{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/pittsburgh-post-gazette-olympics-at-a-gl/164439130/ |date=February 12, 1932 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |title=Olympics at a glance |page=17 |agency=Associated Press |access-date=February 1, 2025 |via=Newspapers.com }}{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-birger-ruud-wins-ski-jumping/164670208/ |date=February 13, 1932 |access-date=February 1, 2025 |title=Birger Ruud Wins Ski Jumping Title By Narrow Margin |work=The Gazette |page=17 |agency=The Canadian Press |last1=Ward |first1=Wallace H. |via=Newspapers.com }}

Speed skaters Irving Jaffee and Jack Shea, both from the United States, tied for the most gold medals won for an individual at the games, with two. Shea became the first American athlete to win multiple gold medals at the same Olympic Winter Games.{{cite web|url=https://usopm.org/lake-placid-1932-winter-olympic-games/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250108192805/https://usopm.org/lake-placid-1932-winter-olympic-games/ |archive-date=January 8, 2025 |title=Lake Placid 1932 Olympic Winter Games |work=United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum |date=August 21, 2019 |access-date=February 1, 2025 |url-status=live }} Alongside Jaffee and Shea, cross-country skier Veli Saarinen of Finland and speed skaters Alexander Hurd and Willy Logan of Canada tied for the most total medals won with two each.{{cite Sports-Reference|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1932/|title=1932 Lake Placid Winter Games|access-date=August 13, 2010 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100402092655/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1932/|archive-date=April 2, 2010 }} Bobsledder Eddie Eagan of the United States became the first and only person to win a gold medal in different events at the Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics,{{efn|Gillis Grafström also won gold in both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games but in the same event: figure skating, which had been contested in the 1920 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/86175 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241202140249/https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/86175 |archive-date=December 2, 2024 |access-date=February 2, 2025 |work=Olympedia |url-status=live |title=Gillis Grafström }}}} after winning the gold medal in the four-man event at these games and in the men's light heavyweight event in boxing at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/blog/sportscenter/post/_/id/31045/this-day-in-sports-eddie-eagan-wins-his-other-olympic-gold |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230605112813/https://www.espn.com/blog/sportscenter/post/_/id/31045/this-day-in-sports-eddie-eagan-wins-his-other-olympic-gold |archive-date=June 5, 2023 |title=This Day in Sports: Eddie Eagan Wins His "Other" Olympic Gold |date=February 15, 2010 |work=ESPN |access-date=February 1, 2025 |url-status=live }}

Medals

File:Irving Jaffee.jpg tied for most gold medals won at these games, winning two gold medals alongside Shea.|alt=Irving Jaffee wearing a speed-skating outfit on top of ice. The lower half of another athlete can be seen in the background.|upright=0.8]]

File:Emilie Rotter & Laszló Szollas 1934 Euros.jpg and László Szollás, the first Winter Olympic medalists for Hungary.|alt=Emília Rotter and László Szollás figure skating on ice.|upright=0.8]]

The medals used for the 1932 Winter Olympics were minted by the Robbins Company. The obverse of the medals featured a design of a goddess holding a laurel wreath behind the Adirondack Mountains. It also featured the host city's landscape with a stadium and a ski jumping hill. The reverse of the medals featured the Olympic rings, the official name of the games, and a laurel wreath. The medal itself had curved ridges that were said to represent ancient Greek columns.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympics.com/en/olympic-games/lake-placid-1932/medal-design |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240911065006/https://www.olympics.com/en/olympic-games/lake-placid-1932/medal-design |archive-date=September 11, 2024 |access-date=February 1, 2025 |title=Lake Placid 1932 Olympic Medals - Design, History & Photos |work=International Olympic Committee |url-status=live}}

For the first time in Olympic history, medals awarded to athletes were given out on podiums. The podiums were based on the medal awarding of the athletics events at the 1930 British Empire Games in Hamilton, Canada, where winning athletes stood on top of a podium while the second- and third-placed athletes stood on their sides, one step below. Then-president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Henri de Baillet-Latour, saw the practice and developed his own version. Instructions to use De Baillet-Latour's version of the practice were sent out by the IOC to the organizing committees of the 1932 Summer Olympics and 1932 Winter Olympics. Shea became the first Olympic champion to be awarded a medal on top of a podium after winning the gold medal at the men's 500 metres event in speed skating.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/news/1932-the-podium-makes-its-olympic-debut |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804141633/https://www.olympic.org/news/1932-the-podium-makes-its-olympic-debut |archive-date=August 4, 2020 |date=October 20, 2017 |access-date=February 1, 2025 |title=1932: The podium makes its Olympic debut |work=International Olympic Committee |url-status=live }}{{sfn|Martin|Gynn|2000|p=146}}

Medal table

The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals.{{cite web |title=Olympic medal table: USA beat China to top spot at Paris 2024 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/olympics-2024-medal-table-count-paris-b2580716.html |website=The Independent | date=August 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812015233/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/olympics-2024-medal-table-count-paris-b2594580.html |archive-date=August 12, 2024 |url-status=live |last1=Ostlere |first1=Lawrence |access-date=August 12, 2024 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=A Medal Count That Adds Up To Little |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/sports/olympics/19araton.html |website=The New York Times | date=August 18, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321004238/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/sports/olympics/19araton.html |archive-date=March 21, 2023 |url-status=live |last1=Araton |first1=Harvey |url-access=subscription |access-date=25 July 2024 }} If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code.{{cite web |title=What happens if two countries are tied in the Olympic medal table? Tiebreaker rules explained |url=https://en.as.com/olympic_games/what-happens-if-two-countries-are-tied-in-the-olympic-medal-table-tiebreaker-rules-explained-n/ |website=Diario AS | date=August 10, 2024 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240811152350/https://en.as.com/olympic_games/what-happens-if-two-countries-are-tied-in-the-olympic-medal-table-tiebreaker-rules-explained-n/ |archive-date=August 11, 2024 |url-status=live |last1=Cons |first1=Roddy |access-date=August 11, 2024 |language=en-us}}

{{Medals table

| caption = 1932 Winter Olympics medal table{{cite web|url=https://www.olympics.com/en/olympic-games/lake-placid-1932/medals |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240911071951/https://www.olympics.com/en/olympic-games/lake-placid-1932/medals |archive-date=September 11, 2024 |access-date=February 1, 2025 |title=Lake Placid 1932 Olympic Medal Table - Gold, Silver & Bronze |work=International Olympic Committee |url-status=live }}

| host = USA

| flag_template = flagIOC

| event = 1932 Winter

| team =

| gold_USA = 6 | silver_USA = 4 | bronze_USA = 2 | host_USA = yes

| gold_NOR = 3 | silver_NOR = 4 | bronze_NOR = 3

| gold_SWE = 1 | silver_SWE = 2 | bronze_SWE = 0

| gold_CAN = 1 | silver_CAN = 1 | bronze_CAN = 5

| gold_FIN = 1 | silver_FIN = 1 | bronze_FIN = 1

| gold_AUT = 1 | silver_AUT = 1 | bronze_AUT = 0

| gold_FRA = 1 | silver_FRA = 0 | bronze_FRA = 0

| gold_SUI = 0 | silver_SUI = 1 | bronze_SUI = 0

| gold_GER = 0 | silver_GER = 0 | bronze_GER = 2

| gold_HUN = 0 | silver_HUN = 0 | bronze_HUN = 1

}}

Notes

References

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{{cite book |title=The Olympic Marathon |last1=Martin |first1=David |last2=Gynn |first2=Roger |isbn=0880119691 |publisher=Human Kinetics |date=2000}}
{{cite journal|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1932/1932w.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410085042/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1932/1932w.pdf |archive-date=10 April 2008 |journal=III Olympic Winter Games Committee |via=LA84 Foundation |title=Official Report III Olympic Winter Games |ref={{harvid|III Olympic Winter Games Committee|1932}}|url-status=dead }}

External links

{{IOC games|games=1932 Winter Olympics }}
{{cite web |title=1932 Winter Olympics |publisher=Olympedia.com |url=http://www.olympedia.org/editions/31 |access-date=24 February 2021 }}

Medal table

1932