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United States at the 1932 Winter Olympics
Flag of the United States
IOC code	USA
NOC	United States Olympic Committee
in Lake Placid
Competitors	64 (58 men, 6 women) in 4 sports
Flag bearer	Billy Fiske (bobsleigh)
Medals Ranked 1st	Gold 6 Silver 4 Bronze 2 Total 12
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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The United States of America (USA) was the host nation for the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.

Medalists

The following U.S. competitors won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Jack Shea Speed skating 500 meters February 4  Gold Irving Jaffee Speed skating 5000 meters February 4  Gold Jack Shea Speed skating 1500 meters February 5  Gold Irving Jaffee Speed skating 10,000 meters February 8  Gold Curtis Stevens Hubert Stevens Bobsleigh Two-man February 9  Gold Eddie Eagan Billy Fiske Clifford Grey Jay O'Brien Bobsleigh Four-man February 15  Silver Eddie Murphy Speed skating 5000 meters February 4  Silver Sherwin Badger Beatrix Loughran Figure skating Pairs February 12  Silver United States men's national ice hockey team Osborne Anderson Johnny Bent John Chase John Cookman Douglas Everett Franklin Farrel Joseph Fitzgerald Edwin Frazier John Garrison Gerard Hallock Robert Livingston Francis Nelson Winthrop Palmer Gordon Smith Ice hockey Men's tournament February 13  Silver Percy Bryant Henry Homburger Edmund Horton Paul Stevens Bobsleigh Four-man February 15  Bronze John Heaton Robert Minton Bobsleigh Two-man February 9  Bronze Maribel Vinson Figure skating Women's singles February 10

Medals by sport Sport Total Speed skating 4 1 0 5 Bobsleigh 2 1 1 4 Figure skating 0 1 1 2 Ice hockey 0 1 0 1 Total 6 4 2 12 Medals by date Day Date Total 1 February 4 2 1 0 3 2 February 5 1 0 0 1 5 February 8 1 0 0 1 6 February 9 1 0 1 2 7 February 10 0 0 1 1 9 February 12 0 1 0 1 10 February 13 0 1 0 1 12 February 15 1 1 0 2 Total 6 4 2 12 Multiple medalists Name Sport Total Irving Jaffee Speed skating 2 0 0 2 Jack Shea Speed skating 2 0 0 2

Bobsleigh

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
John Heaton Robert Minton	Two-man	2:15.02	4	2:07.51	3	2:04.29	3	2:02.33	3	8:29.15
Hubert Stevens Curtis Stevens		2:13.10	3	2:04.27	1	1:59.69	1	1:57.68	1	8:14.74
Billy Fiske Eddie Eagan Clifford Grey Jay O'Brien	Four-man	2:00.52	1	1:59.16	1	1:57.41	1	1:56.59	2	7:53.68
Henry Homburger Percy Bryant Francis Stevens Edmund Horton		2:01.77	2	2:01.09	2	1:58.56	3	1:54.28	1	7:55.70

Cross-country skiing

Figure skating

Men

Women

Athlete	Event	CF	FS	Total
		Rank	Rank	Places	Points	Rank
Margaret Bennett	Singles	12	8	75	1826.8	11
Suzanne Davis		10	14	83	1780.4	12
Maribel Vinson		3	3	23	2158.8
Louise Weigel		14	13	92	1769.4	14

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Points	Score	Rank
Beatrix Loughran Sherwin Badger	Pairs	16	77.5
Gertrude Meredith Joseph Savage		49	59.8	7

Ice hockey

Summary

Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
United States men	Men's tournament	Canada L 1–2 OT	Poland W 4–1	Germany W 7–0	Poland W 5–0	Germany W 8–0	Canada T 2–2 OT

Roster

Tournament

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
Canada	6	5	0	1	32	4
United States	6	4	1	1	27	5
Germany	6	2	4	0	7	26
Poland	6	0	6	0	3	34

4 Feb	United States	1:2 OT (0:0,0:1,1:0,0:0,0:1)	Canada
5 Feb	United States	4:1 (1:0,2:0,1:1)	Poland
7 Feb	United States	7:0 (3:0,2:0,2:0)	Germany
8 Feb	United States	5:0 (1:0,1:0,3:0)	Poland
10 Feb	United States	8:0 (2:0,2:0,4:0)	Germany
13 Feb	United States	2:2 OT (1:1,1:0,0:1,0:0,0:0,0:0)	Canada

Nordic combined

The cross-country skiing part of this event was combined with the 18 km race of cross-country skiing. Those results can be found above in this article in the cross-country skiing section. Some athletes (but not all) entered in both the cross-country skiing and Nordic combined event, their time on the 18 km was used for both events.

The ski jumping (normal hill) event was held separate from the main medal event of ski jumping, results can be found in the table below.

Ski jumping

Speed skating

Athlete	Event	Heat	Final
		Rank Time	Rank Time
John Farrell	500 m	2 Q	6
Ray Murray		3	Did not advance
Allan Potts		3	Did not advance
Jack Shea		2 Q	43.4 OR
Lloyd Guenther	1500 m	6	Did not advance
Ray Murray		1 Q 2:29.9	5
Jack Shea		1 Q 2:58.0	2:57.5
Herb Taylor		1 Q 2:49.3	6
Irving Jaffee	5000 m	1 Q 9:52.0	9:40.8
Eddie Murphy		2 Q
Carl Springer		6	Did not advance
Herb Taylor		2 Q	4
Valentine Bialas	10,000 m	3 Q	5
Irving Jaffee		1 Q 18:05.4	19:13.6
Edwin Wedge		4 Q	4
Eddie Schroeder		4 Q	8

References

• (ed.) George Lattimer (1932). Official Report III Olympic Winter Games Lake Placid 1932 (PDF). III Olympic Winter Games Committee. Retrieved 2008-06-10. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2009-06-03.
• Olympic Winter Games 1932, full results by sports-reference.com

v t e Winter Olympics medal table leaders by year

1924:  Norway 1928:  Norway 1932:  United States 1936:  Norway 1948:  Norway 1948:  Sweden 1952:  Norway 1956:  Soviet Union 1960:  Soviet Union 1964:  Soviet Union 1968:  Norway 1972:  Soviet Union 1976:  Soviet Union 1980:  Soviet Union 1984:  East Germany 1988:  Soviet Union 1992:  Germany 1994:  Russia 1998:  Germany 2002:  Norway 2006:  Germany 2010:  Canada 2014:  Norway 2018:  Norway 2022:  Norway

• Nations at the 1932 Winter Olympics
• United States at the Winter Olympics by year
• 1932 in American sports