1932 Men's Olympic Track & Field Medalists
Updated August 28, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
| Event | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 100m | Eddie Tolan, USA | 10.3 | OR |
| Ralph Metcalfe, USA | 10.3 | ||
| Arthur Jonath, GER | 10.5 | ||
| 200m | Eddie Tolan, USA | 21.2 | OR |
| George Simpson, USA | 21.4 | ||
| Ralph Metcalfe, USA | 21.5 | ||
| 400m | Bill Carr, USA | 46.2 | WR |
| Benjamin Eastman, USA | 46.4 | ||
| Alexander Wilson, CAN | 47.4 | ||
| 800m | Tommy Hampson, GBR | 1:49.7 | WR |
| Alexander Wilson, CAN | 1:49.9 | ||
| Philip Edwards, CAN | 1:51.5 | ||
| 1500m | Luigi Beccali, ITA | 3:51.2 | OR |
| John Cornes, GBR | 3:52.6 | ||
| Philip Edwards, CAN | 3:52.8 | ||
| 5000m | Lauri Lehtinen, FIN | 14:30.0 | OR |
| Ralph Hill, USA | 14:30.0 | ||
| Lauri Virtanen, FIN | 14:44.0 | ||
| 10,000m | Janusz Kusocinski, POL | 30:11.4 | OR |
| Volmari Iso-Hollo, FIN | 30:12.6 | ||
| Lauri Virtanen, FIN | 30:35.0 | ||
| Marathon | Juan Carlos Zabala, ARG | 2:31:36.0 | OR |
| Samuel Ferris, GBR | 2:31:55.0 | ||
| Armas Toivonen, FIN | 2:32:12.0 | ||
| 110m H | George Saling, USA | 14.6 | |
| Percy Beard, USA | 14.7 | ||
| Donald Finlay, GBR | 14.8 | ||
| 400m H | Bob Tisdall, IRE | 51.7 | |
| Glenn Hardin, USA | 51.9 | ||
| Morgan Taylor, USA | 52.0 | ||
| 3000m Steeple |
Volmari Iso-Hollo, FIN | 10:33.4 | |
| Thomas Evenson, GBR | 10:46.0 | ||
| Joseph McCluskey, USA | 10:46.2 | ||
| 50k Walk | Thomas Green, GBR | 4:50:10 | |
| Janis Dalinsh, LAT | 4:57:20 | ||
| Ugo Frigerio, ITA | 4:59:06 | ||
| 4x100m | USA (Bob Kiesel, Emmett Toppino, Hector Dyer, Frank Wykoff) |
40.0 | WR |
| Germany | 40.9 | ||
| Italy | 41.2 | ||
| 4x400m | USA (Ivan Fuqua, Edgar Ablowich, Karl Warner, Bill Carr) |
3:08.2 | WR |
| Great Britain | 3:11.2 | ||
| Canada | 3:12.8 |
Note: Due to a lap count error, the 3000-meter steeplechase actually went 3460 meters, or one lap too many.
| Event | Mark | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| High Jump | Duncan McNaughton, CAN | 6- 51/2 | |
| Robert Van Osdel, USA | 6- 51/2 | ||
| Simeon Toribio, PHI | 6- 51/2 | ||
| Pole Vault | Bill Miller, USA | 14- 13/4 | OR |
| Shuhei Nishida, JPN | 14- 0 | ||
| George Jefferson, USA | 13- 9 | ||
| Long Jump | Edward Gordon, USA | 25- 03/4 | |
| Charles L.Redd, USA | 24- 111/4 | ||
| Chuhei Nambu, JPN | 24- 51/4 | ||
| Triple Jump | Chuhei Nambu, JPN | 51- 7 | WR |
| Erik Svensson, SWE | 50- 31/4 | ||
| Kenkichi Oshima, JPN | 49- 71/4 | ||
| Shot Put | Leo Sexton, USA | 52- 6 | OR |
| Harlow Rothert, USA | 51- 5 | ||
| Frantisek Douda, CZE | 51- 21/2 | ||
| Discus | John Anderson, USA | 162- 4 | OR |
| Henri J.Laborde, USA | 159- 01/2 | ||
| Paul Winter, FRA | 157- 0 | ||
| Hammer | Pat O'Callaghan, IRE | 176-11 | |
| Ville Pörhölä, FIN | 171- 6 | ||
| Peter Zaremba, USA | 165- 11/2 | ||
| Javelin | Matti Järvinen, FIN | 238- 6 | OR |
| Matti Sippala, FIN | 229- 0 | ||
| Eino Penttilä, FIN | 225- 41/2 | ||
| Decathlon | Jim Bausch, USA | 8462 pts | WR |
| Akilles Järvinen, FIN | |||
| Wolrad Eberle, GER |
| Track & Field | Women |
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