Ice hockey at the 1932 Winter Olympics

Ice hockey at the 1932 Winter Olympics

Tournament details
Host country	United States
Dates	4–13 February
Teams	4
Venue(s)	Lake Placid (outdoors)
Final positions
Champions	Canada (4th title)
Runner-up	United States
Third place	Germany
Fourth place	Poland
Tournament statistics
Matches played	12
Goals scored	69 (5.75 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Walter Monson 11 points
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The men's ice hockey tournament at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, U.S.A., was the 4th Olympic Championship, also serving as the 6th World Championships. Canada, represented by the Winnipeg Hockey Club, won its fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal and sixth consecutive World Championship. The United States took the silver medal and Germany claimed one of its three all-time hockey medals by taking the bronze (West Germany would win a bronze medal in 1976, and Germany's men's team would win silver in 2018).

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Canada (CAN) William Cockburn Clifford Crowley Albert Duncanson George Garbutt Roy Henkel Vic Lindquist Norman Malloy Walter Monson Kenneth Moore Romeo Rivers Hack Simpson Hugh Sutherland Stanley Wagner Alston Wise	United States (USA) 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	Germany (GER) Rudi Ball Alfred Heinrich Erich Herker Gustav Jaenecke Werner Korff Walter Leinweber Erich Römer Martin Schröttle Marquardt Slevogt Georg Strobl

Participating nations

The Polish national team during the Olympics.

A total of 48(*) ice hockey players from four nations competed at the Lake Placid Games:

•  Canada (14)
•  Germany (10)
•  Poland (10)
•  United States (14)

(*) NOTE: Only players who participated in at least one game are counted.

Final tournament

Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA
Canada	6	5	1	0	32	4
United States	6	4	1	1	27	5
Germany	6	2	0	4	7	26
Poland	6	0	0	6	3	34

4 Feb	United States	1:2 OT (0:0,0:1,1:0,0:0,0:1)	Canada
4 Feb	Germany	2:1 (0:0,1:1,1:0)	Poland
5 Feb	United States	4:1 (1:0,2:0,1:1)	Poland
6 Feb	Canada	4:1 (2:0,2:0,0:1)	Germany
7 Feb	Canada	9:0 (2:0,5:0,2:0)	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
8 Feb	Canada	5:0 (2:0,1:0,2:0)	Germany
9 Feb	Canada	10:0 (5:0,1:0,4:0)	Poland
10 Feb	United States	8:0 (2:0,2:0,4:0)	Germany
13 Feb	Germany	4:1 (0:0,2:1,2:0)	Poland
13 Feb	United States	2:2 OT (1:1,1:0,0:1,0:0,0:0,0:0)	Canada

Top scorer

Team	GP	G	A	Pts
Walter Monson	6	7	4	11

Final ranking

1	Canada (CAN)
2	United States (USA)
3	Germany (GER)
4	Poland (POL)

References

• 1932 Olympic Games report (digitized copy online)
• International Olympic Committee results database