Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's triple jump

Men's triple jump at the Games of the X Olympiad
Venue	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Dates	August 4
Competitors	16 from 12 nations
Medalists
Chuhei Nanbu Japan   Eric Svensson Sweden   Kenkichi Oshima Japan

Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeple		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's triple jump event at the 1932 Olympic Games took place August 4.

Results

Final standings

Rank	Name	Nationality	Distance	Notes
	Chuhei Nambu	Japan	15.72	WR
	Erik Svensson	Sweden	15.32
	Kenkichi Oshima	Japan	15.12
4	Eamonn Fitzgerald	Ireland	15.01
5	Wim Peters	Netherlands	14.93
6	Sol Furth	United States	14.88
7	Sid Bowman	United States	14.87
8	Rolland Romero	United States	14.85
9	Péter Bácsalmási	Hungary	14.33
10	Francesco Tabai	Italy	14.29
11	Onni Rajasaari	Finland	14.20
12	Mikio Oda	Japan	13.97
13	Nikolaos Papanikolaou	Greece	13.92
14	Mehar Chand Dhawan	India	13.66
15	Salvador Alanís	Mexico	13.28
-	Jack Portland	Canada		NM

Key: NM = No mark, WR = World record

References

• 1932 Summer Olympics results: Men's triple jump, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-04-03.