1932 Summer Olympics

The Summer Olympic Games 1932 ( officially Games of the X Olympiad ) were held until August 12, 1932 in Los Angeles, USA, to the specially built Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on July 30. Los Angeles had applied already for 1924 and 1928 and now in spite of great concern awarded the contract because there were no other candidates. The IOC had been criticized not have good memories of the first non-European Games in St. Louis in 1904. Well as the high cost of travel in a generally economically difficult time.

Highlights

  • Although because of a global economic crisis only about half as much athletes as four years earlier participated in Amsterdam, as many teams that travel could not pay, there were many great successes and 18 old world records were set or outbid.
  • For the first time since 1896, the games were limited to two weeks. In the intervening games still had each located several months between the opening and closing ceremonies.
  • At the Olympic hockey tournament, a total of only three teams participate. How could the United States win the bronze medal, although they lost all games ( 1:24 to 2:9 against India and Japan).

Outstanding athletes

  • The 21- year-old American Mildred "Babe" Didrikson qualified for a total of five contests, but was allowed to participate in only three of which they won all: gold in the javelin, high jump and 80 - meter hurdles, in the last two disciplines even with world record. In the final of the high jump the outstanding U.S. athlete, however, jumped 1,657 meters as high as her teammate Jean Shiley. The jury Didrikson due to the jump style decided to allocate only the second place ( head first ). The two women left their medals merge later.
  • The 14- year-old Japanese Kusuo Kitamura won the competition more than 1500 meters freestyle and is the youngest male athlete ever to win a gold medal in a sport.
  • Gold for Franz and Toni Schmidt ( first ascent of the Matterhorn north face ).

Participant

A total of 37 nations participated in the Summer Olympics in 1932, nine fewer than 1928. For China and Colombia it was the first participation in the Olympic Games.

  • Argentina Argentina ( 32)
  • Australia (12 )
  • Belgium Belgium (36 )
  • Brazil 1889 Brazil (82 )
  • China Republic of China 1928 ( 1)
  • Denmark Denmark ( 43)
  • German Empire German Empire (134 )
  • Estonia Estonia ( 2)
  • Finland Finland ( 40)
  • France France (103 )
  • Haiti 1807 Haiti ( 2)
  • British India British India ( 19)
  • Ireland Ireland ( 8)
  • Italy 1861 Italy ( 112)
  • Japan Japan (117 )
  • Canada 1921 Canada ( 102)
  • Colombia Colombia ( 1)
  • Latvia Latvia ( 2)
  • Mexico 1918 Mexico (73 )
  • New Zealand New Zealand (21 )
  • Netherlands Netherlands (45 )
  • Norway Norway ( 5)
  • Austria Austria ( 19)
  • Philippines 1919 Philippines ( 8)
  • Poland Poland ( 51)
  • Portugal Portugal ( 6)
  • Sweden Sweden (81 )
  • Switzerland Switzerland (6 )
  • Spain 1875 Spain ( 6)
  • South Africa Union of South Africa 1928 (12 )
  • Czechoslovakia 1920 Czechoslovakia ( 7)
  • Hungary 1918 Hungary ( 58)
  • Uruguay Uruguay ( 1)
  • United States 48 United States ( 474)
  • United Kingdom United Kingdom (108 )

Others

  • For the first time the award ceremony took place simultaneously after the competitions. In addition, the three-level podium was introduced at the Summer Games (the " podium " is an invention of Lake Placid, which had held the Winter Games in the same year ).
  • For the first time in the history of the Olympic Games an Olympic village, consisting of 550 houses was built, for the male athletes - the women were housed in luxury hotels.
  • Paavo Nurmi was disabled for life because of an expense report, which cost him his amateur status.
  • In the years 1912-1948 also medals for artistic achievements were awarded to 18 areas in seven Olympic Games. In 1932 there were the following award-winning art competitions: Architectural designs, urban designs, sculpture / sculptures, medals and plaques, paintings and prints, drawings and watercolors, other graphic art, literature / poetry of any kind, works of poetry and music ( with the subdivisions in music at Art, song compositions, compositions for an instrument and orchestral compositions ).
  • In Los Angeles 1924 Olympic Mountaineer Price olympique Prix d' alpinisme was awarded for the second time after the Games in Chamonix.
  • For the wrestler Olympic champion Jacob Brendel his 1000 marks travel money were collected at home privately in Nuremberg.
  • The games brought sensational innovations: triggered electrical timekeeping with starter pistols, stopwatch and photo finish; Flags and anthems, as well as the presence of the boxing referee between the ropes and not in the conventional way outside the ring.
  • Stanisław Walasiewicz, who won the 100 -meter run of the women who was intersex in reality. However, this was only in 1980 noted in their autopsy.

Competitions

For the first and only time football has been removed from the program. Shooting was represented with two competitions again. Furthermore, there were the following changes compared to Amsterdam 1928:

  • Athletics: 50 - km walk for men and javelin for women were added
  • Riding: accounted for the Team Event in jumping
  • Rings: another weight class in Greco-Roman wrestling
  • Sailing: boat class Star was added
  • Gymnastics: More of the team fight for women accounted for, but there were four new Wettbewerbefür Men: floor exercise, Indian clubs, Tauhangeln and tumbling.

There were a total of 116 competitions in 14 sports (number of competitions in brackets) only seven more than in Amsterdam:

Boxes ( 8) Fencing ( 7) Weightlifting ( 5) Hockey ( 1) Athletics (29 ) Modern Pentathlon ( 1)

Cycling (6 ) - Web (4) - Road (2) Horse riding ( 5) - Dressage ( 2) - Jumping ( 1) - Versatility ( 2)

Rings ( 14) - Freestyle ( 7) - Greco-Roman ( 7) Rowing ( 7) Shooting ( 2)

Swimming (16 ) - Swimming ( 11) - Water Polo ( 1) - Diving ( 4) Sailing ( 4) Gymnastics ( 11)

There were discharged nine art competitions.

Demonstration sports

Charles Curtis Olympic Oath 1932 Summer Olympics medal table International Olympic Committee India national field hockey team Japan national field hockey team Babe Didrikson Zaharias Portugal at the 1932 Summer Olympics Switzerland at the 1932 Summer Olympics Uruguay at the 1932 Summer Olympics Jakob Brendel Starting pistol Tumbling (gymnastics) Cycling at the 1932 Summer Olympics Equestrian at the 1932 Summer Olympics Wrestling at the 1932 Summer Olympics Rowing at the 1932 Summer Olympics Swimming at the 1932 Summer Olympics Water polo at the 1932 Summer Olympics Diving at the 1932 Summer Olympics Sailing at the 1932 Summer Olympics Gymnastics at the 1932 Summer Olympics Art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics 1924 Summer Olympics 1940 Summer Olympics 1960 Summer Olympics 1964 Summer Olympics 1988 Summer Olympics Winter Olympic Games 1928 Winter Olympics 1940 Winter Olympics 1948 Winter Olympics 1952 Winter Olympics 1960 Winter Olympics 1972 Winter Olympics 1984 Winter Olympics 1960 Summer Paralympics 1964 Summer Paralympics 1968 Summer Paralympics 1972 Summer Paralympics 1976 Summer Paralympics 1980 Summer Paralympics 1984 Summer Paralympics 1988 Summer Paralympics 1992 Summer Paralympics 1996 Summer Paralympics 2000 Summer Paralympics 2004 Summer Paralympics 2012 Summer Paralympics 2016 Summer Paralympics 2020 Summer Paralympics 1976 Winter Paralympics 1980 Winter Paralympics 1984 Winter Paralympics 1988 Winter Paralympics 1992 Winter Paralympics 1994 Winter Paralympics 1998 Winter Paralympics 2002 Winter Paralympics 2006 Winter Paralympics 2010 Winter Paralympics 2014 Winter Paralympics 2018 Winter Paralympics Youth Olympic Games 2010 Summer Youth Olympics 2014 Summer Youth Olympics 2016 Winter Youth Olympics 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Integrated Authority File
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