Figure skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics

In the III. 1932 Olympic Games in Lake Placid three competitions were held in figure skating. Venue was the skating rink at the Olympic Arena.

Medalist

Gentlemen

The competition consisted of duty and a five-minute freestyle. The performances were judged by seven adjudicators.

Karl Schaefer won his first Olympic gold medal. Gillis Grafström was by winning the silver medal after his three gold medals at the Olympic Games in a row, the most successful figure skaters in the Olympics at all. With the bronze medal winning Canadian Montgomery Wilson won for the first time a non-Europeans in the men's singles at the Olympic Games medals.

Ladies

The competition consisted of duty and a four-minute freestyle. The performances were judged by seven adjudicators.

Sonja Henie won by unanimous judges' ruling her second Olympic title in a row. Fritzi Burger had to, like four years earlier content with silver. The American Maribel Vinson won bronze.

The Briton Cecilia Colledge was with her ​​participation 11 years and 74 days old and is so to this day the youngest participant at the Olympic Winter Games. Your country woman Mollie Phillips wore at the opening ceremony as the first woman ever the flag of a nation participants.

Couples

The competition consisted of a five minute freestyle. The performances were judged by seven adjudicators.

The French now married Andrée Brunet and Pierre Brunet defended their Olympic title from 1928. It was the first Olympic title defense in pair skating. Winning the title of the French was less clear than expected. The Americans Beatrix Loughran and Sherwin Badger showed the idea of her life and won the silver medal. Two judges, one of whom Walter Jakobsson had set them in the first place. Loughran had already won at the Olympic Games in 1924 and 1928 in a single run two medals. By winning her third medal she is still the only American figure skater who managed to win three Olympic medals. The Hungarians Emília Rotter and László Szollás that have been set by a judge in the first place, won bronze, the first medal for her country at the Olympic Winter Games.

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