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The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, were an international
International

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 multi-sport event
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 which was celebrated in 1932 in Los Angeles
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, California
California

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, United States
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. No other cities made a bid to host these Olympics. Held during the worldwide Great Depression
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, many nations and athletes were unable to pay for the trip to Los Angeles. Fewer than half the participants of the 1928 Summer Olympics
1928 Summer Olympics

The 1928 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1928 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands....
 in Amsterdam
Amsterdam

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 returned to compete in 1932. U.S. President Herbert Hoover
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 did not attend the Games, becoming the first sitting head of government not to appear at an Olympics hosted in that country.

The organizing committee put no record of the finances of the Games in their report, though contemporary newspapers reported that the Games had made a profit of US$
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1,000,000.


the medal winners, ordered by sport: >
tal of 37 nations were represented at the 1932 Games.






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The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, were an international
International

International or internationally most often describes interaction between nations, or encompassing two or more nations, constituting a group or association having members in two or more nations, or generally reaching beyond national boundaries....
 multi-sport event
Multi-sport event

A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, and featuring competition in many different sports between organized teams of athletes from nation-states....
 which was celebrated in 1932 in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. No other cities made a bid to host these Olympics. Held during the worldwide Great Depression
Great Depression

File:International depression.pngThe Great Depression was a worldwide economic Recession starting in most places in 1929 and ending at different times in the 1930s or early 1940s for different countries....
, many nations and athletes were unable to pay for the trip to Los Angeles. Fewer than half the participants of the 1928 Summer Olympics
1928 Summer Olympics

The 1928 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1928 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands....
 in Amsterdam
Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the Capital of the Netherlands and List of cities in the Netherlands with over 100,000 people of the Netherlands, located in the Provinces of the Netherlands of North Holland in the west of the country....
 returned to compete in 1932. U.S. President Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States . Besides his political career, Hoover was a professional mining engineer and author....
 did not attend the Games, becoming the first sitting head of government not to appear at an Olympics hosted in that country.

The organizing committee put no record of the finances of the Games in their report, though contemporary newspapers reported that the Games had made a profit of US$
United States dollar

The United States dollar is the unit of currency of the United States and was defined by the Coinage Act of 1792 to be between 371 and 416 grains of silver ....
1,000,000.

Highlights

  • An Olympic Village
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    Frequently, an Olympic Village is built within an Olympic Park or elsewhere in a host city. Olympic Villages are built to house all participating athletes, as well as officials, athletic trainers, and other staff....
     was built for the first time, in the Baldwin Hills, occupied by the male athletes. Female athletes were housed at the Chapman Park Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard
    Wilshire Boulevard

    Wilshire Boulevard is one of the principal east-west arterial roads in Los Angeles, California, California, United States. It was named for Henry Gaylord Wilshire , an Ohio native who made and lost fortunes in real estate, farming, and gold mining....
    .
  • The first use of a victory podium.
  • The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
    Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

    The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is a large outdoor sports stadium in the University Park, Los Angeles, California neighborhood of Los Angeles, California at Exposition Park that is home to the University of Southern California Trojans football team....
     was known in 1932 as Olympic Stadium.
  • Tenth Street, a major thoroughfare in Los Angeles, was renamed Olympic Boulevard in honor of the Games.
  • Babe Didrikson won two gold medals in the javelin
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    The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the Javelin , a spear-like object made of metal, Glass-reinforced plastic and, in some cases, carbon fiber....
     and the hurdles event, and competed in a jump-off for a silver in the high jump. Her technique in the jump-off was ruled illegal, leaving Didrikson with second place.
  • In field hockey
    Field hockey

    Field hockey is a team sport in which a team of players attempt to score Goal by hitting, pushing or flicking the ball with hockey sticks into the opposing team's goal....
    , only three nations took part. The host nation lost both matches, 1-24 to India
    India

    India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
     and 2-9 to Japan
    Japan

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    , but still won a bronze medal.
  • Poland
    Poland

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    's Stanislawa Walasiewicz
    Stanislawa Walasiewicz

    Stanislawa Walasiewicz, also known as Stanislawa Walasiewicz?wna and Stella Walsh was a Poland Athletics who became an Olympic Games champion by competing among women, even though it was later learned that Walasiewicz had ambiguous genitalia and could not easily be identified as either biologically male or female....
     won the gold medal in the women's 100 meters; she would also win the silver medal in the event four years later. After her death in 1980, it was discovered that she was intersex and would have been ineligible to participate.
  • Finnish
    Finland

    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
     star Paavo Nurmi
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    File:Paavo Nurmi .JPGPaavo Johannes Nurmi was a Finland running. Born in Turku, he was known as one of the "Flying Finn "; a term given to him, Hannes Kolehmainen, Ville Ritola and others for their distinction in running....
     was barred from competing in the Olympics for being a professional.
  • Eddie Tolan
    Eddie Tolan

    Thomas Edward "Eddie" Tolan , nicknamed the "Midnight Express" was an United States Athletics and Sprint . He set world records in the 100-yard dash and 100-meter event and Olympic records in the 100-meter and 200-meter events....
     won both the 100 m and 200 m sprint events.
  • Helene Madison
    Helene Madison

    Helene Madison was an United States swimmer. She won three gold medals in freestyle at the 1932 Summer Olympics. She was born in Madison, Wisconsin....
     won three gold medals in swimming
    Swimming

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    , while the Japan
    Japan

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    ese upset the men's events and took all but one title.
  • Takeichi Nishi
    Takeichi Nishi

    Colonel Baron was a Japanese Imperial Army officer, Equestrianism show jumper, and Olympic Games Gold Medalist at the 1932 Summer Olympics. He was a tank unit commander at the Battle of Iwo Jima and was killed in action during the defense of the island....
     (Baron Nishi) was the gold medalist with his horse Uranus in the equestrian show jumping individual event
    Equestrian at the 1932 Summer Olympics

    The Equestrianism Events at the 1932 Summer Olympics included Dressage , Eventing , and Show Jumping . The competitions were held from August 10, 1932 to August 14, 1932....
    . Nishi's gold medal is Japan's only gold medal in the equestrian event to this day. Nishi would later die in 1945 as an officer stationed in the defense of the island of Iwo Jima
    Battle of Iwo Jima

    The Battle of Iwo Jima , or Operation Detachment, was a battle in which the United States fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japanese Empire....
    , and as such is a main character in Clint Eastwood
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    's film, Letters from Iwo Jima
    Letters from Iwo Jima

    is a 2006 in film war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood whose cast includes Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya. The film portrays the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese Imperial Japanese Army and is a companion piece to Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers , which depicts the same battle from the American viewpoin...
    .


Medals awarded

See the medal winners, ordered by sport:
  • Athletics
    Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics

    At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, 29 athletics events were contested, 23 for men and 6 for women. It was the first time the 50 km walk appeared in the men's athletics at the Games....
  • Boxing
    Boxing at the 1932 Summer Olympics

    These are the results of the boxing competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Medals were awarded in 8 boxing weight classes....
  • Cycling
    Cycling at the 1932 Summer Olympics

    The cycling competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles consisted of two road bicycle racing events and four track cycling events, all for men only....
  • Diving
    Diving at the 1932 Summer Olympics

    At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, four diving events were organized, two for men, and two for women. The United States swept the medals in all four events....
  • Equestrian
    Equestrian at the 1932 Summer Olympics

    The Equestrianism Events at the 1932 Summer Olympics included Dressage , Eventing , and Show Jumping . The competitions were held from August 10, 1932 to August 14, 1932....
  • Fencing
    Fencing at the 1932 Summer Olympics

    At the 1932 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested.Medal SummaryMedal Table...
  • Gymnastics
    Gymnastics at the 1932 Summer Olympics

    At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, eleven events in gymnastics were contested, all for men only. The competitions were held from Monday, August 8, 1932 to Friday, August 12, 1932....
  • Hockey
 
  • Modern pentathlon
    Modern pentathlon at the 1932 Summer Olympics

    The modern pentathlon at the 1932 Summer OlympicsEventsIndividual competition...
  • Rowing
    Rowing at the 1932 Summer Olympics

    Sport rowing at the 1932 Summer Olympics featured 7 events, for men only. The competitions were held from August 9, 1932 to August 13, 1932....
  • Sailing
    Sailing at the 1932 Summer Olympics

    At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, four events in sailing were contested. Races were held from August 5, 1932 to August 12, 1932 in the Port of Los Angeles....
  • Shooting
    Shooting at the 1932 Summer Olympics

    When ISSF shooting events was reintroduced at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, the extent of the competitions was far from those in the previous Games: it consisted of only two events, one rifle event and one pistol event, and no team events at all ....
  • Swimming
    Swimming at the 1932 Summer Olympics

    At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, eleven swimming events were contested, six for men and five for women. The competitions were held from Saturday August 6, 1932 to Saturday August 13, 1932....
  • Water polo
    Water polo at the 1932 Summer Olympics

    Final results for the water polo tournament at the 1932 Summer Olympics:...
  • Weightlifting
    Weightlifting at the 1932 Summer Olympics

    The weightlifting events at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California consisted of five weight classes, all for men only. The competitions were held on Saturday, July 30, 1932 and on Sunday, July 31, 1932....
  • Wrestling
    Wrestling at the 1932 Summer Olympics

    At the 1932 Summer Olympics, 14 wrestling events were contested, for all men. There were seven weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and seven classes in freestyle wrestling....


    • Demonstration sports

    • American football
      American football

      American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play....
    • Lacrosse
      Lacrosse at the 1932 Summer Olympics

      Lacrosse was a demonstration sport at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Teams from Canada at the 1932 Summer Olympics and the United States at the 1932 Summer Olympics played three games, with the team from the United States winning the series 2 games to 1....


    Participating nations

    1932 Olympic Games Countries
    A total of 37 nations were represented at the 1932 Games. Colombia
    Colombia

    Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
     and the Republic of China
    Republic of China

    The Republic of China , also known as Nationalist China is a country in East Asia that has evolved from a single-party state with full global recognition into a multi-party democratic state with Political status of Taiwan....
     (with a single athlete) made their first appearance at the Olympic Games.
         


    Medal count

    These are the top ten nations that won medals at these Games.
    1 (host nation)413230103
    2 12121236
    3 105419
    4 95923
    5 77418
    6 64515
    7 581225
    8 47516
    9 312520
    10 3115


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