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. This was only the second time women's events in athletics were included in the Olympic Games program and was the first time that the javelin throw became a women's Olympic event.

Paavo Nurmi from Finland was suspended one week before the Games by the IAAF for accepting payments in excess of his expenses for an exhibition tour (ie for "professionalism").

[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 metres	Eddie Tolan United States (USA)	Ralph Metcalfe United States (USA)	Arthur Jonath Germany (GER)
200 metres	Eddie Tolan United States (USA)	George Simpson United States (USA)	Ralph Metcalfe United States (USA)
400 metres	Bill Carr United States (USA)	Ben Eastman United States (USA)	Alexander Wilson Canada (CAN)
800 metres	Thomas Hampson Great Britain (GBR)	Alexander Wilson Canada (CAN)	Phil Edwards Canada (CAN)
1500 metres	Luigi Beccali Italy (ITA)	Jerry Cornes Great Britain (GBR)	Phil Edwards Canada (CAN)
5000 metres	Lauri Lehtinen Finland (FIN)	Ralph Hill United States (USA)	Lauri Virtanen Finland (FIN)
10000 metres	Janusz Kusociński Poland (POL)	Volmari Iso-Hollo Finland (FIN)	Lauri Virtanen Finland (FIN)
110 metre hurdles	George Saling United States (USA)	Percy Beard United States (USA)	Donald Finlay Great Britain (GBR)
400 metre hurdles	Bob Tisdall Ireland (IRL)	Glenn Hardin United States (USA)	Morgan Taylor United States (USA)
3000 metre steeplechase[1]	Volmari Iso-Hollo Finland (FIN)	Thomas Evenson Great Britain (GBR)	Joe McCluskey United States (USA)
4×100 metre relay	United States (USA) Robert 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
4×400 metre relay	United States (USA) Ivan Fuqua Edgar Ablowich Karl Warner Bill Carr	Great Britain (GBR) Crew Stoneley Thomas Hampson David Burghley Godfrey Rampling	Canada (CAN) James Ball Ray Lewis Phil Edwards Alexander Wilson
Decathlon	James Bausch United States (USA)	Akilles Järvinen Finland (FIN)	Wolrad Eberle Germany (GER)
50km walk	Thomas Green Great Britain (GBR)	Jānis Daliņš Latvia (LAT)	Ugo Frigerio Italy (ITA)
Marathon	Juan Carlos Zabala Argentina (ARG)	Samuel Ferris Great Britain (GBR)	Armas Toivonen Finland (FIN)
Long jump	Ed Gordon United States (USA)	Lambert Redd United States (USA)	Chuhei Nambu Japan (JPN)
Triple jump	Chuhei Nambu Japan (JPN)	Erik Svensson Sweden (SWE)	Kenkichi Oshima Japan (JPN)
High jump	Duncan McNaughton Canada (CAN)	Robert van Osdel United States (USA)	Simeon Toribio Philippines (PHI)
Pole vault	William Miller United States (USA)	Shuhei Nishida Japan (JPN)	George Jefferson United States (USA)
Shot put	Leo Sexton United States (USA)	Harlow Rothert United States (USA)	František Douda Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Discus throw	John Anderson United States (USA)	Henri LaBorde United States (USA)	Paul Winter France (FRA)
Javelin throw	Matti Järvinen Finland (FIN)	Matti Sippala Finland (FIN)	Eino Penttilä Finland (FIN)
Hammer throw	Pat O'Callaghan Ireland (IRL)	Ville Pörhölä Finland (FIN)	Peter Zaremba United States (USA)

[edit] Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 metres	Stanisława Walasiewicz Poland (POL) *	Hilda Strike Canada (CAN)	Wilhelmina von Bremen United States (USA)
80 metre hurdles	Babe Didrikson United States (USA)	Evelyne Hall United States (USA)	Marjorie Clark South Africa (RSA)
4×100 metre relay	United States (USA) Mary Carew Evelyn Furtsch Annette Rogers Wilhelmina von Bremen	Canada (CAN) Mary Frizzel Mildred Fizzell Lilian Palmer Hilda Strike	Great Britain (GBR) Nellie Halstead Eileen Hiscock Gwendoline Porter Violet Webb
High jump	Jean Shiley United States (USA)	Babe Didrikson United States (USA)	Eva Dawes Canada (CAN)
Discus throw	Lillian Copeland United States (USA)	Ruth Osborn United States (USA)	Jadwiga Wajs Poland (POL)
Javelin throw	Babe Didrikson United States (USA)	Ellen Braumüller Germany (GER)	Tilly Fleischer Germany (GER)

• Later found to possess male genitalia bringing result into question

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	16	13	6	35
2	Finland (FIN)	3	4	4	11
3	Great Britain (GBR)	2	4	2	8
4	Poland (POL)	2	0	1	3
5	Ireland (IRL)	2	0	0	2
6	Canada (CAN)	1	3	5	9
7	Japan (JPN)	1	1	2	4
8	Italy (ITA)	1	0	2	3
9	Argentina (ARG)	1	0	0	1
10	Germany (GER)	0	2	3	5
11	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	0	1	0	1
13	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Philippines (PHI)	0	0	1	1
	South Africa (RSA)	0	0	1	1

[edit] References

• International Olympic Committee results database

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