Olympic Games of summer of 1932

The Olympic Games of summer of 1932 , Plays of Xe Olympiad of the modern era, were celebrated with Los Angeles, the the United States.

Organization

  • No other city candidate.

  • the Memorial Coliseum builds in 1920 is raised and carried in 105.000 places.
  • Construction of an equestrian stage of 10.000 places.
  • the football stadium of Pasadena is transformed into cycle-racing track (85 000 places).
  • There was half less participants than in the plays of 1928 because of the distance and the costs high to go in California.
  • A hundred and thousand people attended the opening ceremony.
  • first Plays to be extended over sixteen days.
  • the male athletes were lodged in a single Olympic village (the women were installed with the hotel).
  • Appearance of timing to the 1/100 of second.
  • the use of film of arrival becomes systematic. This one will be besides necessary at the time it 100 m to decide between Eddie Tolan (gold) of Ralph Metcalfe (money).
  • the number of competitors engaged by nation in the individual tests is limited to three.
  • the ceremony of handing-over of the medals is fixed: podium of tiercé, rising of the flags, national anthem. This ceremony takes place after the tests over the place of the competition and either the day of the closing ceremony.

Striking facts

  • the Japanese Kusuo Kitamura, 14 years old, gained the 1.500m freestyle and became the youngest competitor, all confused sports, to gain a gold medal in an individual test.
  • the American one eighteen years Mildred Didrickson was qualified for the five female tests of athletics.
  • the Swedish police officer Ivar Johansson took down three medals in all-in wrestling and gréco-Roman.
  • Judy Guinness shows a remarkable fair play, the British fencer gave up her hopes of a gold medal after having pointed out with official that it had noted finally that its adversary Austrian the Ellen Müller-Preis had touched it twice.
  • the swimmer Buster Crabbe gains the 400 meters freestyle before incarnating Flash Gordon and playing in many Sérials and Series B.

Hero of the Plays

  • the Scandinavian Ivar Johansson gains the Olympic medals all-in wrestling and géco-Roman.

  • American the Mildred Didrickson gains the gold medals of, the race throwing the javelin of the hedges and is classified second with the high jump.
  • Helene Madison, American swimmer, gains gold in 100,4 X 100 and 400 meters freestyle.
  • Takeichi Nishi, Japan, gains the horsemanship

Sports and disciplines

  • Athletics, to see detailed results

  • Fencing, to see detailed results
  • Gymnastic, to see resulted detailed
  • Natation, to see detailed results

Table of the medals

See too

External bond

  • the page of the Olympic Games of Los Angeles on the official site of the CIO.

Simple: 1932 Summer Olympics

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