1932 Winter Olympics

At the 1932 Winter Olympics, the ice hockey tournament was contested by only four teams. The competition was held from Thursday, February 4, 1932 to Saturday, February 13, 1932. Canada won the gold medal, the United States took the silver medal and Germany claimed one of its two all-time hockey medals by taking the bronze (West Germany also won the bronze medal in 1976).
==Medallists==
William CockburnClifford CrowleyAlbert DuncansonGeorge GarbuttRoy HenkelVic LindquistNorman MalloyWalter MonsonKenneth MooreRomeo RiversHack SimpsonHugh SutherlandStanley WagnerAlston Wise	Osborne AndersonJohnny BentJohn ChaseJohn CookmanDouglas EverettFranklin FarrelJoseph FitzgeraldEdwin FrazierJohn GarrisonGerard HallockRobert LivingstonFrancis NelsonWinthrop PalmerGordon Smith	Rudi BallAlfred HeinrichErich HerkerGustav JaeneckeWerner KorffWalter LeinweberErich RomerMartin SchröttleMarquard SlevogtGeorg Strobl
==Participating teams==
The Great Depression had taken its toll on the world economy. Most of the European nations could not afford to send a hockey team to the United States only to be humiliated by the Canadian and American teams.
After a lot of lobbying by the Americans and promises of financial assistance, Germany and Poland agreed to send teams.
This was the first time that European hockey teams would visit North America.
Both Germany and Poland went on tours of the United States (see 1931-32 International Club Matches).
Canada was represented by the Winnipeg Winnipegs, who had won the Allan Cup the previous season. They took a break from their current season to play in the tournament. 
==Tournament==
Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA
 	6 	5	1	0	32	4
 	6 	4	1	1	27	5
 	6 	2	0	4	7 	26
 	6 	0	0	6	3 	34
4 Feb 		1:2 OT(0:0,0:1,1:0,0:0,0:1) 	
4 Feb 		2:1(0:0,1:1,1:0) 	
5 Feb 		4:1(1:0,2:0,1:1) 	
6 Feb 		4:1(2:0,2:0,0:1) 	
7 Feb 		9:0(2:0,5:0,2:0) 	
7 Feb 		7:0(3:0,2:0,2:0) 	
8 Feb 		5:0(1:0,1:0,3:0) 	
8 Feb 		5:0(2:0,1:0,2:0) 	
9 Feb 		10:0(5:0,1:0,4:0) 	
10 Feb		8:0(2:0,2:0,4:0) 	
13 Feb		4:1(0:0,2:1,2:0) 	
13 Feb		2:2 OT(1:1,1:0,0:1,0:0,0:0,0:0)	
==Top scorer==
Team 	GP	G	A	Pts
Walter Monson	6 	7	4	11
==Final ranking==
1	
 	represented by:Winnipeg Hockey Club
2	
3	
 	Rudi Ball (Berliner SC)Alfred Heinrich (SC Brandenburg Berlin)Erich Herker (Berliner SC)Gustav Jaenecke (Berliner SC)Werner Korff (Berliner SC)Walter Leinweber (EV Füssen)Erich Romer (Berliner SC)Martin Schröttle (SC Riessersee)Marquard Slevogt(SC Riessersee)Georg Strobl (SC Riessersee)
4	
 	Adam KowalskiAleksander KowalskiWlodzimierz KrygierWitalis LudwiczakCzeslaw MarchewczykKazimierz MaterskiAlbert MauerRoman SabinskiTadeusz SachsKazimierz SokolowskiJozef Stogowski
==Exhibition games==
See also: 1931-32 Poland and 1931-32 Germany
*1/22: Boston Bruins - American Olympic Team 5:1
*1/29: Toronto Nationals/Marlboros (each played 30 mins) - Canadian Olympic Team 1:0 (1:0 Nationals, 0:0 Marlboros) @ Toronto 
*1/31: Canadian Olympic Team - Port Colborne Seniors 1:0
*2/1: Canadian Olympic Team - Niagara Falls Cataracts 1:0 
*2/5: Lake Placid HC - Germany 5:0
*2/5: McGill University - Canadian Olympic Team 2:0
*2/6: Lake Placid HC - Poland 6:2
*2/6: McGill University - United States 2:1
*2/11: Canada-United States Combined - Lake Placid HC 3:2 
*2/15: Canadian Olympic Team - Montreal All-Stars 2:1 @ Montreal
*2/19: Canadian Olympic Team - Atlantic City Sea Gulls 5:1 @ Atlantic City
*2/21: Canadian Olympic Team - Brooklyn Crescents 5:2 @ Madison Square Garden
*2/22: Canadian Olympic Team - Bronx Hockey Club 10:3 @ New York
==Team Photos==
32CAnOlym.jpg|Canada
1932GerOly.jpg|Germany
1932Poland.jpg|Poland
1932USA.jpg|United States
==References==
* 1932 Olympic Games report (digitized copy online)
* International Olympic Committee results database
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Category:1932 in ice hockey