List of 1932 Summer Olympics medal winners

The 1932 Summer Olympics, referred to by the International Olympic Committee as the Games of the X Olympiad, were held in Los Angeles, California, United States, from July 30 through August 14, 1932.

A total of individual athletes won medals. Athletes from the United States were the most successful, winning 103 medals during the games, 41 of which were gold. Italy and Finland, won the second and third most medals, with 36 and 25 respectively. France finished third in the gold medal count (behind Italy and the United States) having achieved 10 golds in their haul of 19 medals.

Medals were awarded in a total of 116 events across 16 sports. In addition, American football and lacrosse were held as demonstration events.

Athletics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 100m details	Eddie Tolan  United States	Ralph Metcalfe  United States	Arthur Jonath  Germany
Men's 200m details	Eddie Tolan  United States	George Simpson  United States	Ralph Metcalfe  United States
Men's 400m details	Bill Carr  United States	Ben Eastman  United States	Alex Wilson  Canada
Men's 800m details	Tommy Hampson  Great Britain	Alex Wilson  Canada	Phil Edwards  Canada
Men's 1500m details	Luigi Beccali  Italy	Jerry Cornes  Great Britain	Phil Edwards  Canada
Men's 5000m details	Lauri Lehtinen  Finland	Ralph Hill  United States	Lauri Virtanen  Finland
Men's 10000m details	Janusz Kusociński  Poland	Volmari Iso-Hollo  Finland	Lauri Virtanen  Finland
Men's 110m hurdles details	George Saling  United States	Percy Beard  United States	Donald Finlay  Great Britain
Men's 400m hurdles details	Bob Tisdall  Ireland	Glenn Hardin  United States	Morgan Taylor  United States
Men's 3000m steeplechase details	Volmari Iso-Hollo  Finland	Thomas Evenson  Great Britain	Joe McCluskey  United States
Men's 4 × 100 m relay details	United States (USA) Bob Kiesel Hector Dyer Emmett Toppino Frank Wykoff	Germany (GER) Friedrich Hendrix Erich Borchmeyer Arthur Jonath Helmut Körnig	Italy (ITA) Giuseppe Castelli Gabriele Salviati Ruggero Maregatti Edgardo Toetti
Men's 4 × 400 m relay details	United States (USA) Ivan Fuqua Ed Ablowich Karl Warner Bill Carr	Great Britain (GBR) Crew Stoneley Tommy Hampson David Burghley Godfrey Rampling	Canada (CAN) James Ball Ray Lewis Phil Edwards Alex Wilson
Men's 50 km walk details	Tommy Green  Great Britain	Jānis Daliņš  Latvia	Ugo Frigerio  Italy
Men's marathon details	Juan Carlos Zabala  Argentina	Sam Ferris  Great Britain	Armas Toivonen  Finland
Men's long jump details	Ed Gordon  United States	Lambert Redd  United States	Chuhei Nambu  Japan
Men's triple jump details	Chuhei Nambu  Japan	Erik Svensson  Sweden	Kenkichi Oshima  Japan
Men's high jump details	Duncan McNaughton  Canada	Bob Van Osdel  United States	Simeon Toribio  Philippines
Men's pole vault details	Bill Miller  United States	Shuhei Nishida  Japan	George Jefferson  United States
Men's shot put details	Leo Sexton  United States	Harlow Rothert  United States	František Douda  Czechoslovakia
Men's discus throw details	John Anderson  United States	Henri LaBorde  United States	Paul Winter  France
Men's hammer throw details	Pat O'Callaghan  Ireland	Ville Pörhölä  Finland	Peter Zaremba  United States
Men's javelin throw details	Matti Järvinen  Finland	Matti Sippala  Finland	Eino Penttilä  Finland
Men's decathlon details	James Bausch  United States	Akilles Järvinen  Finland	Wolrad Eberle  Germany
Women's 100m details	Stanisława Walasiewicz  Poland *	Hilda Strike  Canada	Wilhelmina von Bremen  United States
Women's 4 × 100 m relay details	United States (USA) Mary Carew Evelyn Furtsch Annette Rogers Wilhelmina von Bremen	Canada (CAN) Mary Frizzell Mildred Fizzell Lillian Palmer Hilda Strike	Great Britain (GBR) Nellie Halstead Eileen Hiscock Gwendoline Porter Violet Webb
Women's 80m hurdles details	Babe Didrikson  United States	Evelyne Hall  United States	Marjorie Clark  South Africa
Women's high jump details	Jean Shiley  United States	Babe Didrikson  United States	Eva Dawes  Canada
Women's discus throw details	Lillian Copeland  United States	Ruth Osburn  United States	Jadwiga Wajs  Poland
Women's javelin throw details	Babe Didrikson  United States	Ellen Braumüller  Germany	Tilly Fleischer  Germany

Boxing

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (-50.8 kg / 112 lb) details	István Énekes  Hungary	Francisco Cabañas  Mexico	Louis Salica  United States
Bantamweight (-53.5 kg / 118 lb) details	Horace Gwynne  Canada	Hans Ziglarski  Germany	José Villanueva  Philippines
Featherweight (-57.2 kg / 126 lb) details	Carmelo Robledo  Argentina	Josef Schleinkofer  Germany	Allan Carlsson  Sweden
Lightweight (-61.2 kg / 135 lb) details	Lawrence Stevens  South Africa	Thure Ahlqvist  Sweden	Nathan Bor  United States
Welterweight (-66.7 kg / 147 lb) details	Edward Flynn  United States	Erich Campe  Germany	Bruno Ahlberg  Finland
Middleweight (-72.6 kg / 160 lb) details	Carmen Barth  United States	Amado Azar  Argentina	Ernest Peirce  South Africa
Light heavyweight (-79.4 kg / 175 lb) details	David Carstens  South Africa	Gino Rossi  Italy	Peter Jørgensen  Denmark
Heavyweight (over 79.4 kg/175 lb) details	Santiago Lovell  Argentina	Luigi Rovati  Italy	Frederick Feary  United States

Cycling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual time trial details	Attilio Pavesi  Italy	Guglielmo Segato  Italy	Bernhard Britz  Sweden
Team time trial details	Italy (ITA) Giuseppe Olmo Attilio Pavesi Guglielmo Segato	Denmark (DEN) Henry Leo Nielsen Frode Sørensen	Sweden (SWE) Arne Berg Bernhard Britz Sven Höglund
1000m time trial details	Dunc Gray  Australia	Jacobus van Egmond  Netherlands	Charles Rampelberg  France
Sprint details	Jacobus van Egmond  Netherlands	Louis Chaillot  France	Bruno Pellizzari  Italy
Tandem details	France (FRA) Louis Chaillot Maurice Perrin	Great Britain (GBR) Ernest Chambers Stanley Chambers	Denmark (DEN) Harald Christensen Willy Gervin
Team pursuit details	Italy (ITA) Paolo Pedretti Nino Borsari Marco Cimatti Alberto Ghilardi	France (FRA) Henri Mouillefarine Paul Chocque Amédée Fournier René Legrèves	Great Britain (GBR) Frank Southall William Harvell Charles Holland Ernest Johnson

Diving

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 metre springboard details	Michael Galitzen  United States	Harold Smith  United States	Richard Degener  United States
10 metre platform details	Harold Smith  United States	Michael Galitzen  United States	Frank Kurtz  United States

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 metre springboard details	Georgia Coleman  United States	Katherine Rawls  United States	Jane Fauntz  United States
10 metre platform details	Dorothy Poynton  United States	Georgia Coleman  United States	Marion Roper  United States

Equestrian

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual dressage details	Xavier Lesage and Taine  France	Charles Marion and Linon  France	Hiram Tuttle and Olympic  United States
Team dressage details	France (FRA) Xavier Lesage and Taine Charles Marion and Linon André Jousseaume and Sorelta	Sweden (SWE) Bertil Sandström and Kreta Thomas Byström and Gulliver Gustaf Adolf Boltenstern, Jr. and Ingo	United States (USA) Hiram Tuttle and Olympic Isaac Kitts and American Lady Alvin Moore and Water Pat
Individual eventing details	Charles Pahud de Mortanges and Ferdinand  Netherlands	Earl Foster Thomson and Jenny Camp  United States	Clarence von Rosen, Jr. and Sunnyside Maid  Sweden
Team eventing details	United States (USA) Earl Foster Thomson and Jenny Camp Harry Chamberlin and Pleasant Smiles Edwin Argo and Honolulu Tomboy	Netherlands (NED) Charles Pahud de Mortanges and Marcroix Karel Schummelketel and Duiveltje Aernout van Lennep and Henk	No Bronze awarded
Individual jumping details	Takeichi Nishi and Uranus  Japan	Harry Chamberlin and Show Girl  United States	Clarence von Rosen, Jr. and Empire  Sweden

• Note:The scheduled team jumping event was declared void as no nation completed the course with three riders

Fencing

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's épée details	Giancarlo Cornaggia Medici  Italy	Georges Buchard  France	Carlo Agostoni  Italy
Men's team épée details	France (FRA) Fernand Jourdant Bernard Schmetz Georges Tainturier Georges Buchard Jean Piot Philippe Cattiau	Italy (ITA) Saverio Ragno Giancarlo Cornaggia Medici Franco Riccardi Carlo Agostoni Renzo Minoli	United States (USA) George Charles Calnan Gustave Marinius Heiss Frank Stahl Jr. Righeimer Tracy Jaeckel Curtis Charles Shears Miguel Angel De Capriles
Men's foil details	Gustavo Marzi  Italy	Joseph L. Levis  United States	Giulio Gaudini  Italy
Men's team foil details	France (FRA) Edward Gardère René Bondoux René Bougnol René Lemoine Philippe Cattiau Jean Piot	Italy (ITA) Giulio Gaudini Gustavo Marzi Ugo Pignotti Gioachino Guaragna Rodolfo Terlizzi Giorgio Pessina	United States (USA) George Charles Calnan Richard Clarke Steere Joseph L. Levis Dernell Every Hugh Vincent Alessandroni Frank Stahl Jr. Righeimer
Men's sabre details	György Piller  Hungary	Giulio Gaudini  Italy	Endre Kabos  Hungary
Men's team sabre details	Hungary (HUN) Endre Kabos Attila Petschauer Ernő Nagy Gyula Glykais György Piller Aladár Gerevich	Italy (ITA) Gustavo Marzi Giulio Gaudini Renato Anselmi Emilio Salafia Arturo De Vecchi Ugo Pignotti	Poland (POL) Tadeusz Friedrich Marian Suski Władysław Dobrowolski Władysław Segda Leszek Lubicz Adam Papée
Women's foil details	Ellen Preis  Austria	Judy Guinness  Great Britain	Erna Bogen  Hungary

Field hockey

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament details	India (IND) Richard Allen Muhammad Aslam Lal Bokhari Frank Brewin Richard Carr Dhyan Chand Leslie Hammond Arthur Hind Sayed Jaffar Masud Minhas Broome Pinniger Gurmit Singh Kullar Roop Singh William Sullivan Carlyle Tapsell	Japan (JPN) Shunkichi Hamada Junzo Inohara Sadayoshi Kobayashi Haruhiko Kon Kenichi Konishi Hiroshi Nagata Eiichi Nakamura Yoshio Sakai Katsumi Shibata Akio Sohda Toshio Usami	United States (USA) William Boddington Harold Brewster Roy Coffin Amos Deacon Horace Disston Samuel Ewing James Gentle Henry Greer Lawrence Knapp David McMullin Leonard O'Brien Charles Sheaffer Frederick Wolters

Gymnastics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
All-Around, Individual details	Romeo Neri  Italy	István Pelle  Hungary	Heikki Savolainen  Finland
All-Around, Team details	Italy (ITA) Oreste Capuzzo Savino Guglielmetti Mario Lertora Romeo Neri Franco Tognini	United States (USA) Frank Haubold Frank Cumiskey Al Jochim Fred Meyer Michael Schuler	Finland (FIN) Mauri Nyberg-Noroma Ilmari Pakarinen Heikki Savolainen Einari Teräsvirta Martti Uosikkinen
Floor details	István Pelle  Hungary	Georges Miez  Switzerland	Mario Lertora  Italy
Horizontal bar details	Dallas Bixler  United States	Heikki Savolainen  Finland	Einari Teräsvirta  Finland
Indian clubs details	George Roth  United States	Philip Erenberg  United States	William Kuhlemeier  United States
Parallel bars details	Romeo Neri  Italy	István Pelle  Hungary	Heikki Savolainen  Finland
Pommel horse details	István Pelle  Hungary	Omero Bonoli  Italy	Frank Haubold  United States
Rings details	George Gulack  United States	Bill Denton  United States	Giovanni Lattuada  Italy
Rope climbing details	Raymond Bass  United States	William Galbraith  United States	Thomas F. Connolly  United States
Tumbling details	Rowland Wolfe  United States	Ed Gross  United States	William Herrmann  United States
Vault details	Savino Guglielmetti  Italy	Al Jochim  United States	Ed Carmichael  United States

Modern pentathlon

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's details	Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna  Sweden	Bo Lindman  Sweden	Richard Mayo  United States

Rowing

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
single sculls details	Bobby Pearce  Australia	William Miller  United States	Guillermo Douglas  Uruguay
double sculls details	United States (USA) Ken Myers William Gilmore	Germany (GER) Herbert Buhtz Gerhard Boetzelen	Canada (CAN) Charles Pratt Noël de Mille
coxless pairs details	Great Britain (GBR) Lewis Clive Hugh Edwards	New Zealand (NZL) Cyril Stiles Rangi Thompson	Poland (POL) Henryk Budziński Jan Mikołajczak
coxed pairs details	United States (USA) Joseph Schauers Charles Kieffer Edward Jennings	Poland (POL) Jerzy Braun Janusz Ślązak Jerzy Skolimowski	France (FRA) Anselme Brusa André Giriat Pierre Brunet
coxless four details	Great Britain (GBR) John Badcock Hugh Edwards Jack Beresford Rowland George	Germany (GER) Karl Aletter Ernst Gaber Walter Flinsch Hans Maier	Italy (ITA) Antonio Ghiardello Francesco Cossu Giliante D'Este Antonio Garzoni Provenzani
coxed four details	Germany (GER) Hans Eller Horst Hoeck Walter Meyer Joachim Spremberg Carlheinz Neumann	Italy (ITA) Bruno Vattovaz Giovanni Plazzer Riccardo Divora Bruno Parovel Guerrino Scher	Poland (POL) Jerzy Braun Janusz Ślązak Stanisław Urban Edward Kobyliński Jerzy Skolimowski
eight details	United States (USA) Edwin Salisbury James Blair Duncan Gregg David Dunlap Burton Jastram Charles Chandler Harold Tower Winslow Hall Norris Graham	Italy (ITA) Vittorio Cioni Mario Balleri Renato Bracci Dino Barsotti Roberto Vestrini Guglielmo Del Bimbo Enrico Garzelli Renato Barbieri Cesare Milani	Canada (CAN) Earl Eastwood Joseph Harris Stanley Stanyar Harry Fry Cedric Liddell William Thoburn Don Boal Albert Taylor Les MacDonald

Sailing

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Snowbird details	Jacques Lebrun  France	Bob Maas  Netherlands	Santiago Amat  Spain
Star details	United States (USA) Jupiter Gilbert Gray Andrew Libano	Great Britain (GBR) Joy George Colin Ratsey Peter Jaffe	Sweden (SWE) Swedisk Star Gunnar Asther Daniel Sundén-Cullberg
6 metre details	Sweden (SWE) Bissbi Tore Holm Martin Hindorff Olle Åkerlund Åke Bergqvist	United States (USA) Gallant Robert Carlson Temple Ashbrook Frederic Conant Charles Smith Donald Wills Douglas, Jr. Emmett Davis	Canada (CAN) Caprice Philip Rogers Gerald Wilson Gardner Boultbee Kenneth Glass
8 metre details	United States (USA) Angelita John Biby William Cooper Carl Dorsey Owen Churchill Robert Sutton Pierpont Davis Alan Morgan Alphonse Burnand Thomas Webster John Huettner Richard Moore Kenneth Carey	Canada (CAN) Santa Maria Ernest Cribb Harry Jones Peter Gordon Hubert Wallace Ronald Maitland George Gyles	none awarded

Shooting

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
25 metre rapid fire pistol details	Renzo Morigi  Italy	Heinz Hax  Germany	Domenico Matteucci  Italy
50 metre rifle prone details	Bertil Rönnmark  Sweden	Gustavo Huet  Mexico	Zoltán Soós-Hradetzky  Hungary

Swimming

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Yasuji Miyazaki  Japan	Tatsugo Kawaishi  Japan	Albert Schwartz  United States
400 m freestyle details	Buster Crabbe  United States	Jean Taris  France	Tsutomu Ōyokota  Japan
1500 m freestyle details	Kusuo Kitamura  Japan	Shozo Makino  Japan	Jim Cristy  United States
100 m backstroke details	Masaji Kiyokawa  Japan	Toshio Irie  Japan	Kentaro Kawatsu  Japan
200 m breaststroke details	Yoshiyuki Tsuruta  Japan	Reizo Koike  Japan	Teófilo Yldefonso  Philippines
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	Japan (JPN) Yasuji Miyazaki Hisakichi Toyoda Takashi Yokoyama Masanori Yusa	United States (USA) Frank Booth George Fissler Maiola Kalili Manuella Kalili	Hungary (HUN) István Bárány László Szabados András Székely András Wanié

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Helene Madison  United States	Willy den Ouden  Netherlands	Eleanor Saville  United States
400 m freestyle details	Helene Madison  United States	Lenore Kight  United States	Jenny Maakal  South Africa
100 m backstroke details	Eleanor Holm  United States	Bonnie Mealing  Australia	Valerie Davies  Great Britain
200 m breaststroke details	Clare Dennis  Australia	Hideko Maehata  Japan	Else Jacobsen  Denmark
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Helen Johns Helene Madison Josephine McKim Eleanor Saville	Netherlands (NED) Corrie Laddé Willy den Ouden Puck Oversloot Maria Vierdag	Great Britain (GBR) Joyce Cooper Valerie Davies Edna Hughes Helen Varcoe

Water polo

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament details	Hungary (HUN) István Barta György Bródy Olivér Halassy Márton Homonnai Sándor Ivády Alajos Keserű Ferenc Keserű János Németh Miklós Sárkány József Vértesy	Germany (GER) Emil Benecke Otto Cordes Hans Eckstein Fritz Gunst Erich Rademacher Joachim Rademacher Hans Schulze Heiko Schwartz	United States (USA) Austin Clapp Philip Daubenspeck Charles Finn Charles McCallister Wally O'Connor Cal Strong Herbert Wildman

Weightlifting

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Featherweight –60 kg details	Raymond Suvigny  France	Hans Wölpert  Germany	Anthony Terlazzo  United States
Lightweight –67.5 kg details	René Duverger  France	Hans Haas  Austria	Gastone Pierini  Italy
Middleweight –75 kg details	Rudolf Ismayr  Germany	Carlo Galimberti  Italy	Karl Hipfinger  Austria
Light-heavyweight –82.5 kg details	Louis Hostin  France	Svend Olsen  Denmark	Henry Duey  United States
Heavyweight +82.5 kg details	Jaroslav Skobla  Czechoslovakia	Václav Pšenička  Czechoslovakia	Josef Straßberger  Germany

Wrestling

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bantamweight (- 56 kg) details	Jakob Brendel  Germany	Marcello Nizzola  Italy	Louis François  France
Featherweight (- 61 kg) details	Giovanni Gozzi  Italy	Wolfgang Ehrl  Germany	Lauri Koskela  Finland
Lightweight (- 66 kg) details	Eric Malmberg  Sweden	Abraham Kurland  Denmark	Eduard Sperling  Germany
Welterweight (- 72 kg) details	Ivar Johansson  Sweden	Väinö Kajander  Finland	Ercole Gallegati  Italy
Middleweight (- 79 kg) details	Väinö Kokkinen  Finland	Jean Földeák  Germany	Axel Cadier  Sweden
Light Heavyweight (- 87 kg) details	Rudolf Svensson  Sweden	Onni Pellinen  Finland	Mario Gruppioni  Italy
Heavyweight (+ 87 kg) details	Carl Westergren  Sweden	Josef Urban  Czechoslovakia	Nikolaus Hirschl  Austria

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bantamweight (- 56 kg) details	Robert Pearce  United States	Ödön Zombori  Hungary	Aatos Jaskari  Finland
Featherweight (- 61 kg) details	Hermanni Pihlajamäki  Finland	Edgar Nemir  United States	Einar Karlsson  Sweden
Lightweight (- 66 kg) details	Charles Pacôme  France	Károly Kárpáti  Hungary	Gustaf Klarén  Sweden
Welterweight (- 72 kg) details	Jack van Bebber  United States	Daniel MacDonald  Canada	Eino Leino  Finland
Middleweight (- 79 kg) details	Ivar Johansson  Sweden	Kyösti Luukko  Finland	József Tunyogi  Hungary
Light Heavyweight (- 87 kg) details	Peter Mehringer  United States	Thure Sjöstedt  Sweden	Eddie Scarf  Australia
Heavyweight (+ 87 kg) details	Johan Richthoff  Sweden	Jack Riley  United States	Nikolaus Hirschl  Austria

Statistics

Medal leaders

Athletes who won multiple medals during the 1932 Winter Olympics are listed below.

See also

• 1932 Summer Olympics medal table

External links

• "Los Angeles 1932". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.

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