Speed Skating
Speed Skating World Championships
- Men's All-round Champion – Ivar Ballangrud (Norway)
1932 Winter Olympics (Men)
- 500m – gold medal: Jack Shea (USA)
- 1500m – gold medal: Jack Shea (USA)
- 5000m – gold medal: Irving Jaffee (USA)
- 10000m – gold medal: Irving Jaffee (USA)
1932 Winter Olympics (Women)
- Women's speed skating is held as a demonstration event only with competitions over 500m, 1000m and 1500m.
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“If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honor in one eye, and death i’th’ other,
And I will look on both indifferently;
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