Canada competed at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States. Canada has competed at every Winter Olympic Games.
W. A. Hewitt served as chairman of the winter games sub-committee of the Canadian Olympic Committee. Melville Marks Robinson served as manager of the Canadian delegation to the Olympics, with Claude C. Robinson as the honorary assistant manager.
Canadian Olympic Committee member W. A. Fry self-published a book covering Canadian achievements at the 1932 Winter Olympics and 1932 Summer Olympics. His 1933 book, Canada at the tenth Olympiad, 1932 : Lake Placid, New York, Feb. 4 to 13 - Los Angeles, California, July 30 to Aug. 14, was printed by the Dunnville Chronicle presses and dedicated to Canadian sportsman Francis Nelson who died in 1932.
Medalists MedalNameSportEvent Canada men's national ice hockey team (The Winnipegs) Ice hockey Men's competition Speed skating Men's 1500m Figure skating Men's singles Speed skating Men's 500m William Logan Speed skating Men's 1500m William Logan Speed skating Men's 5000m Frank Stack Speed skating Men's 10,000m
Cross-country skiing
Men EventAthleteRaceTimeRank18 kmJohn Currie1'49:0340John Taylor1'48:1139Bud Clark1'46:3338Harry Pangman1'43:123550 kmWalter RyanDNF–Hubert DouglasDNF–Kaare Engstad5'19:1916
Figure skating
Men AthleteEventCFFSPlacesPointsFinal rank Montgomery WilsonMen's singles33242448.3
Women AthleteEventCFFSPlacesPointsFinal rank Mary LittlejohnWomen's singles15151011711.615 Elizabeth Fisher1312821801.013 Constance Wilson-Samuel45282129.54
Pairs AthletesPointsScoreFinal rank Frances ClaudetChauncey Bangs3668.96 Constance Wilson-SamuelMontgomery Wilson3569.65
Ice hockey
The Canadian Olympic Committee selected the Winnipeg Hockey Club as the 1931 Allan Cup champions to represent Canada. Claude C. Robinson was chosen to oversee finances for the team, while W. A. Hewitt was named honorary manager. After the Winnipeg Hockey Club won the gold medal at the Olympics, Hewitt sought for future Canadian national teams at the Olympics to be the reigning Allan Cup champion team, strengthened with six additional players.
TeamGPWLTGFGA 6501324 6411275 6240726 6060334
4 Feb 1:2 OT(0:0,0:1,1:0,0:0,0:1)6 Feb 4:1(2:0,2:0,0:1) 7 Feb 9:0(2:0,5:0,2:0)8 Feb 5:0(2:0,1:0,2:0)9 Feb 10:0(5:0,1:0,4:0)13 Feb 2:2 OT(1:1,1:0,0:1,0:0,0:0,0:0)
Top scorer TeamGPGAPts Walter Monson67411
Gold:William CockburnClifford CrowleyAlbert DuncansonGeorge GarbuttRoy HenkelVic LindquistNorman MalloyWalter MonsonKenneth MooreRomeo RiversHack SimpsonHugh SutherlandStanley WagnerAlston Wise
Nordic combined
Events: 18 km cross-country skiing normal hill ski jumping
The cross-country skiing part of this event was combined with the main medal event 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.
AthleteEventCross-countrySki JumpingTotalTimePointsRankDistance 1Distance 2Total pointsRankPointsRankArthur GravelIndividual2'00:1894.503350.551.5184.122278.6030Howard Bagguley1'50:35133.502551.051.5185.221318.7024Ross Wilson1'43:55162.002140.0 (fall)36.090.832252.8031Jostein Nordmoe1'42:56165.961853.052.5201.69367.5610
Ski jumping
AthleteEventJump 1Jump 2TotalDistancePointsRankDistancePointsRankPointsRankArnold StoneNormal hill61.530.0 (fall)3349.085.526115.529Leslie Gagne45.082.52644.528.031110.530Jacques Landry52.591.72154.095.119186.820Bob Lymburne58.098.61351.093.522192.119
Speed skating
Men EventAthleteHeatFinalTimePositionTimePosition500 mFrank Stack44.31 Qn/a4Leopold Sylvestren/a5Did not advanceWilly Logann/a2 Qn/a5Alex Hurd44.91 Qn/a1500 mFrank Stackn/a2 Qn/a4Herb Flackn/a4Did not advanceWilly Logann/a2 Qn/aAlex Hurdn/a2 Qn/a5000mAlex HurdDNF–Did not advanceHarry Smythn/a4 Qn/a8Frank Stackn/a4 Qn/a7Willy Logann/a3 Qn/a10,000 mMarion McCarthyDNF–Did not advanceAlex Hurd17:56.21 Qn/a7Willy Logann/a5Did not advanceFrank Stackn/a2 Qn/a
References
Sources
Olympic Winter Games 1932, full results by sports-reference.com