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Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics

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Field	Value
event	Athletics
games	1932 Summer
image	General view of Los Angeles Olympic Stadium on the opening day of the Games of the Xth Olympiad, while contenders from all nations take the Olympic Athlete's Oath.jpg
image_size	300px
num_events	29
nations	34
competitors	386
prev	1928
next	1936

At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, 29 athletics events were contested. It was the first time the 50 kilometres race walk appeared in the athletic program at the Games. This was the second time women's events in athletics were included in the Olympic Games program and the first time that women competed in the javelin throw and 80m hurdles at the Olympics. There was a total of 386 participants from 34 countries competing.

The athletics events took place at Los Angeles Olympic Stadium, now the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Medal summary

Men

Decathlon
James Bausch	8462.23	Akilles Järvinen	8292.48	Wolrad Eberle	8030.80

Women

Javelin throw
Babe Didrikson	43.69 m	Ellen Braumüller	43.50 m	Tilly Fleischer	43.01 m

Participating Nations

Records broken

Of the 29 events competed new Olympic records were set in all but three: men's long jump, high jump and hammer throw. World records were set in 10 events.

Men's world records

Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Result
400 metres	5 August	Final	Bill Carr	USA	46.2
800 metres	2 August	Final	Tommy Hampson	GBR	1:49.8
4 × 100 metres relay	7 August	Final	Bob Kiesel
Hector Dyer
Emmett Toppino
Frank Wykoff	USA	40.0
4 × 400 metres relay	7 August	Final	Ivan Fuqua
Ed Ablowich
Karl Warner
Bill Carr	USA	3:08.2
Triple jump	4 August	Final	Chuhei Nambu	JPN	15.72 m
Decathlon	6 August	Final	James Bausch	USA	8462.235

Women's world records

Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Result
100 metres	1 August	Heats	Stanisława Walasiewicz	POL	11.9
80 metres hurdles	4 August	Final	Babe Didrikson	USA	11.7
Evelyne Hall	USA
4 × 100 metres relay	7 August	Final	Mary Carew
Evelyn Furtsch
Annette Rogers
Wilhelmina von Bremen	USA	47.0
Mary Frizzel
Mildred Fizzell
Lillian Palmer
Hilda Strike	CAN
High jump	7 August	Final	Jean Shiley	USA	1.65 m
Babe Didrikson	USA

References

"Olympedia – Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics".
The Men's 3000 Metres Steeplechase event at the [[1932 Summer Olympics]] was 3460 metres due to an error in lap counting – the runners did an extra lap of the track.

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