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Lake Placid 1932
Tuesday, 19 June 2007
The 1932 Winter Olympics, officially known as the III Olympic Winter Games, were celebrated in 1932 in Lake Placid, New York, United States. The games opened on February 4, 1932. The 1932 Winter Olympic Games were going to be in Big Pines, CA (near Wrightwood, CA and Mountain High, CA) due to Alf Engen's world record, on then, the world's largest ski jump, but due to poor snow conditions the games moved to Lake Placid.

Highlights

  • Irving Jaffee won the 5,000m and the 10,000m speedskating beating previous champion and world record holder Ivar Ballangrud in the 10,000m by 5 yards.
  • The USA win the games with a total accumilation of 6 gold medals, 4 silver medals and 2 bronze medals with a total of 12 medals.

Medal count

Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 United States United States (host nation) 6 4 2 12
2 Norway Norway 3 4 3 10
3 Canada Canada 1 1 5 7
4 Sweden Sweden 1 2 0 3
5 Finland Finland 1 1 1 3
6 Austria Austria 1 1 0 2
7 France France 1 0 0 1
8 Switzerland Switzerland 0 1 0 1
9 Germany Germany 0 0 2 2
10 Hungary Hungary 0 0 1 1
 
 
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