Athletics At The 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 Metres
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Athletics At The 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 Metres
The men's 400 metres sprint event at the 1932 Olympic Games took place on August 4 and August 5 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (also known as the Los Angeles Coliseum or L.A. Coliseum) is a multi-purpose stadium in the Exposition Park, Los Angeles, Exposition Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. Conceived as a hal .... Twenty-seven athletes from 15 nations competed. The 1930 Olympic Congress in Berlin had reduced the limit from 4 athletes per NOC to 3 athletes.Official Report, p. 377. The event was won by Bill Carr of the United States, that nation's second consecutive title and sixth overall in the event (all by different men). Ben Eastman's silver marked the first time countrymen had gone one-two in the event since the United States did it at the first three Olympics (1896, 1900, and 1904, including a podium sweep in 1904). Background This was the ninth appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics ...
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Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (also known as the Los Angeles Coliseum or L.A. Coliseum) is a multi-purpose stadium in the Exposition Park, Los Angeles, Exposition Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. Conceived as a hallmark of civic pride, the Coliseum was commissioned in 1921 as a memorial to Los Angeles veterans of World War I. Completed in 1923, it will become the first stadium to have hosted the Summer Olympics three times when it hosts the 2028 Summer Olympics, previously hosting in 1932 Summer Olympics, 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics, 1984. It was designated a National Historic Landmark on July 27, 1984, a day before the 1984 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, opening ceremony of the 1984 Summer Olympics. The stadium serves as the home of the USC Trojans football, University of Southern California Trojans football team of the Big Ten Conference, and is located directly adjacent to the school's main University Park, Los Angeles, University Park campu ...
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Seikan Oki
was a Japanese sprinter. He competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1932 Summer Olympics The 1932 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the X Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1932) were an international multi-sport event held from July 30 to August 14, 1932, in Los Angeles, California, United States. The Games were held du .... References External links * 1907 births 2000 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1932 Summer Olympics Japanese male sprinters Olympic athletes for Japan Place of birth missing 20th-century Japanese sportsmen {{Japan-sprint-athletics-bio-stub ...
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Godfrey Rampling
Godfrey Lionel Rampling (14 May 1909 – 20 June 2009) was an English athlete and army officer who competed for Great Britain in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He turned 100 on 14 May 2009 and was the oldest living British Olympian at the time of his death. Life and career Rampling was born in Blackheath, London, the son of Gertrude Anne (Taylor) and Horace Johnson Rampling, a costumier. After attending the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1929. In 1932 he was promoted to lieutenant. Rampling won the British AAA championships 440 yards title at the 1931 AAA Championships and the 1934 AAA Championships. At the 1932 Summer Olympics, Rampling was fourth in his semifinal in the individual 400 metre event and didn't reach the final, but ran the anchor leg to help the British 4 × 400 m relay team win the silver medal, behind the United States. At the 1934 British Empire ...
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Felix Rinner
Felix Rinner (6 January 1911 – 2 April 1976) was an Austrian sprinter and an officer of the Austrian SS. Biography Rinner finished third behind Godfrey Rampling in the 440 yards event at the 1931 AAA Championships. Rinner competed in the men's 200 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Rinner was a ten time national champion across four different sprint events in the 1930s. When Austria was annexed by Germany, on March 11, 1938, he led a command of 40 armed SS men who forced their way in and occupied the Austrian Federal Chancellery. In 1941 Rinner was a member of the Austrian SS (Obersturmbannführer) to the SS Panzergrenadier Division “Viking”, was Adjutant to SS leader Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903-1946, executed by hanging in Berlin for being a major perpetrator of the Holocaust), the commander of the entire Austrian SS, and was involved in the organization of the Gestapo The (, ), Syllabic abbreviation, abbreviated Gestapo (), was the official secret p ...
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Manuel Álvarez (sprinter)
José Manuel Álvarez (10 June 1910 – 8 June 1991) was a Mexican sprinter who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics in the 400 m and 4 × 400 m relay. He won gold and silver medals at the Central American and Caribbean Games The Central American and Caribbean Games (CAC or CACGs) are a multi-sport regional championship event, held quadrennial (once every four years), typically in the middle (even) year between Summer Olympics. The games are for 32 countries and .... References External links * 1910 births 1991 deaths Mexican male sprinters Olympic athletes for Mexico Athletes (track and field) at the 1932 Summer Olympics Athletes from Mexico City Competitors at the 1930 Central American and Caribbean Games Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Mexico Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics 20th-century Mexican sportsmen {{Mexico-athletics-bio-stub ...
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Khristos Mantikas
Christos Mantikas (1902 – 6 June 1960) was a Greek sprinter. He competed in the men's 400 metres, 100 metres hurdles, 440 metres hurdles and relay events at the 1932 Summer Olympics He also competed in 400m Hurdles in the 1936 Summer Olympics where he finished 6th in the final. From the 1935 AAA Championships to the 1939 AAA Championships, Mantikas medalled three times in the 440 yards hurdles event and once in the 120 yards hurdles event at the prestigious AAA Championships The AAA Championships was an annual track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association of England. It was the foremost domestic athletics event in the United Kingdom during its lifetime, despite the existence of the offi .... References 1902 births 1960 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1932 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics Greek male sprinters Greek male hurdlers Olympic athletes for Greece Greeks from the Ott ...
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Walter Nehb
Walter Nehb (3 December 1908 – 6 March 1966) was a German sprinter. He competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1932 Summer Olympics The 1932 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the X Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1932) were an international multi-sport event held from July 30 to August 14, 1932, in Los Angeles, California, United States. The Games were held du .... References 1908 births 1966 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1932 Summer Olympics German male sprinters Olympic athletes for Germany Place of birth missing 20th-century German sportsmen {{Germany-sprint-bio-stub ...
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Crew Stoneley
Crew Hadlett Stoneley OBE (9 May 1911 – 27 August 2002) was an English athlete who competed for Great Britain in the 1932 Summer Olympics.* Biography Stoneley was born in Leeds, educated at Blundell's School and in 1931 received his commission in the British Army. Stoneley became the national 440 yards champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 1932 AAA Championships. Shortly afterwards he was selected to represent Great Britain at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, as the leadoff runner in the 4 × 400 metre relay, where he won the silver medal with his teammates Tommy Hampson, David Burghley and Godfrey Rampling. In the 400 metre contest he was eliminated in the semi-finals. At the 1934 British Empire Games he was a member of the English relay team which won the gold medal in the 4 × 440 yards competition. In the 440 yards event he won the bronze medal. Stoneley was awarded the OBE. Stoneley retired in 1964 as a Brigadier and served ...
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George Golding
George Augustus Golding (6 May 1906 – 30 August 1999) was an Australian runner who won a bronze medal in the 440 yd event at the 1930 British Empire Games. Together with his future wife Clare Dennis he competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and placed sixth in the 400 metres; he was eliminated in the semi-finals in the 400 metre hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is a track and field hurdling event. The event has been on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900 for men and since 1984 for women. On a standard outdoor track, 400 metres is the length of the inside lane, onc .... References 1906 births 1999 deaths Australian male sprinters Australian male hurdlers Olympic athletes for Australia Athletes (track and field) at the 1932 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia Athletes (track and field) at the 1930 British Empire Games Medallists at the 1930 British Empire Games People from Forbes, New South Wales Sportsmen from N ...
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Sten Pettersson
Sten Karl Leopold "Sten-Pelle" Pettersson (11 September 1902 – 1 June 1984) was a Swedish track and field athlete who competed in sprint and hurdling events. He competed at the 1924, 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics in the 110 and 400 m hurdles and 400 m and 4 × 400 m sprint relay (six events in total). He won a bronze medal in the 110 m hurdles in 1924, and finished fourth in the 400 m hurdles and 4 × 400 m relay in 1928, while failing to reach the finals on other occasions. Pettersson held two world records, for about a year each, in the 110 m (1927–1928) and 400 m hurdles (1925–1927). In 1925 he became the first recipient of the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal The Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal (, but usually simply called ''Bragdguldet'', "The Feat Gold") is an annual award "for the most significant Sweden, Swedish sports achievement of the year". It has been awarded by a jury led by the Swedish morning .... References External links dataOlympics profile {{DEFA ...
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Iwao Masuda
was a Japanese sprinter. He competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1932 Summer Olympics The 1932 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the X Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1932) were an international multi-sport event held from July 30 to August 14, 1932, in Los Angeles, California, United States. The Games were held du .... References External links * 1914 births Year of death missing Japanese male sprinters Olympic male sprinters Olympic athletes for Japan Athletes (track and field) at the 1932 Summer Olympics Japan Championships in Athletics winners 20th-century Japanese sportsmen Sportspeople from Shizuoka (city) Athletes from Shizuoka Prefecture {{Japan-sprint-athletics-bio-stub ...
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Börje Strandvall
Börje Strandvall (22 January 1909 – 20 July 1987) was a Finnish sprinter. He competed in the men's 200 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to .... References External links * 1909 births 1987 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1932 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics Finnish male sprinters Olympic athletes for Finland Place of birth missing 20th-century Finnish sportsmen {{Finland-athletics-bio-stub ...
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