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Toggle Results subsection. 1.1 Round One. ... 1932: Competitors: 15 from 8 nations ... The Men's 3000 Metres Steeplechase event at the 1932 Summer Olympics was 3460 ...
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 ...
Only two athletes have won multiple Olympic steeplechase titles: Volmari Iso-Hollo (1932 and 1936), and Ezekiel Kemboi (2004 and 2012). Competitors in the steeplechase are normally event-specialists, although former champions Iso-Hollo, Ville Ritola and Kipchoge Keino all won Olympic medals in other distance running events.
The selection of the host city for the 1932 Summer Olympics was made at the 23rd IOC Session in Rome, Italy, on April 9, 1923.Remarkably, the selection process consisted of a single bid, from Los Angeles’ Olympic Committee led by Billy May Garland, and as there were no bids from any other city, Los Angeles was selected by default to host the 1932 Games.
At the 1932 Olympic Games, he won the silver medal in the 3000 metre steeplechase event. Four years later at the 1936 Olympic Games, he was eliminated in the first round of the 3000 metre steeplechase competition. In 1934 he won the silver medal in the 2-mile steeplechase at the 1934 British Empire Games. [1]
At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, McCluskey won the bronze medal in the 3,000-meter steeplechase event.However, his medal could have been a silver. A substitute lap counter failed to hold up the number of the laps remaining the first time the runners went past, and the athletes wound up running an extra lap.
Steeplechase Roger Vigneron (19 June 1910 – 14 December 1973) [ 1 ] was a French middle-distance runner . He competed in the men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1932 Summer Olympics .
The 1932 Summer Olympics, referred to by the International Olympic Committee as the Games of the X Olympiad, were held in Los Angeles, California, United States, from July 30 through August 14, 1932. A total of individual athletes won medals.