United States at the 1932 Winter Olympics
Flag of the United States
IOC code	USA
NOC	United States Olympic Committee
inLake 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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TheUnited States of America (USA) was the host nation for the1932 Winter Olympics inLake Placid, New York.

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

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

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

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

Summary

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

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

The cross-country skiing part of this event was combined with the18 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 themain medal event of ski jumping, results can be found in the table below.

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

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