Sailing at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Snowbird

Snowbird[1]
at the Games of the X Olympiad
Line drawing of the Snowbird
VenueLos Angeles Harbor
DatesFirst race: August 5, 1932 (1932-08-05)
Last race: August 11, 1932 (1932-08-11)
Competitors12 from 11 nations
Teams11
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jacques Lebrun  France
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Bob Maas  Netherlands
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Santiago Amat  Spain
Sailing at the
1932 Summer Olympics
SnowbirdOpen
StarOpen
6 MetreOpen
8 MetreOpen

The Snowbird was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 1932 Summer Olympics program in Los Angeles Harbor. Eleven races were scheduled. 12 sailors, on 11 boats, from 11 nation competed.[2]

Race schedule[1]

 ●  Event competitions  ●  Event finals
Date August
5th
Fri		 6th
Sat		 7th
Sun		 8th
Mon		 9th
Tue		 10th
Wed		 11th
Thu
Snowbird ● ● ●● ● ● ●● ●●●
Total gold medals 1

Course area and course configuration

The courses had been well prepared. The marks were laid by the United States Lighthouse Service in the form of large Government. Visiting yachts were kept at a safe distance from the racing boats by the US Coast Guard. Tows were arranged by the US Navy to and from Los Angeles Harbor to the race area. The Snowbird stayed inside the breakwater to protect them from the ocean swell. Unfortunately no documentation is found about the course configuration(s) yet.

1932 Olympic Course Areas
OpenStreetMap view of the current map of Los Angeles. Projected are the 1932 Olympic courses of the Snowbird (Red Area).

Weather conditions

Due to the normal afternoon sea breeze in Los Angeles Harbor it was decided to race the Snowbirds in the morning. However it turned out that in various morning there was no wind at all. This made it necessary to run the Snowbirds races in the afternoon in windy conditions. It also made id difficult for several sailors to sail the races in the Snowbird as well in one of the other classes.[1]

Final results[1]

Rank Country Helmsman Race 1 Race 2 Race 3 Race 4 Race 5 Race 6 Race 7 Race 8 Race 9 Race 10 Race 11 Total
Pos. Pts. Pos. Pts. Pos. Pts. Pos. Pts. Pos. Pts. Pos. Pts. Pos. Pts. Pos. Pts. Pos. Pts. Pos. Pts. Pos. Pts.
1st place, gold medalist(s)  France Jacques Lebrun 6 6 7 5 7 5 4 8 1 11 3 9 1 11 3 9 4 8 4 8 5 7 87
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Netherlands Bob Maas 2 10 1 11 2 10 3 9 3 9 6 6 4 8 8 4 2 10 7 5 9 3 85
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Spain Santiago Amat Cansino 5 7 8 4 4 8 5 7 2 10 4 8 2 10 1 11 8 4 10 2 7 5 76
4  Germany Edgar Behr 10 2 2 10 3 9 2 10 6 6 5 7 6 6 4 8 DSQ 0 2 10 6 6 74
5  Canada Reg Dixon 7 5 10 2 9 3 1 11 5 7 1 11 7 5 9 3 1 11 6 6 4 8 72
6  Great Britain George Colin Ratsey 1 11 5 7 1 11 7 5 4 8 9 3 8 4 7 5 9 3 9 3 3 9 69
7  United States Charles Lyon and,
Joseph Jessop		 3 9 3 9 8 4
DNF
0
8
4		 7 5 3 9 6 6 7 5 1 11 8 4 66
8  Italy Silvio Treleani 4 8 9 3 11 1 10 2 10 2 8 4 5 7 2 10 5 7 5 7 1 11 62
9  Sweden Sven Thorell 8 4 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 5 DNS 0 DNF 0 5 7 6 6 3 9 2 10 59
10  Austria Hans Riedl 9 3 4 8 10 2 9 3 9 3 7 5 9 3 10 2 3 9 8 4 10 2 44
11  South Africa Cecil Goodricke 11 1 DNF 0 5 7 8 4 DNS 0 DNS 0 DNS 0 DNS 0 DNS 0 DNS 0 DNS 0 12

Legend: DNF – Did not finish; DNS – Did not start; DSQ – Disqualified;

Daily standings

Graph showing the daily standings in the Snowbird during the 1932 Summer Olympics

Notes

  • For this event one yacht from each country, crewed by 1 amateur maximum (maximum number of substitutes 1) was allowed.[1]
  • This event was a gender independent event. However it turned out that only men participated.[citation needed]

Other information

During the Sailing regattas at the 1932 Summer Olympics among others the following persons were competing in the Snowbird:

Snowbird sailors at the 1932 Olympic Games

After the finish of the last race, Maas seemed to have won the gold medal. His French opponent Jacques Baptiste Lebrun, however, successfully had a protest re-opened about an earlier penalty after the competition had ended, which moved him into first place, and put Maas back to second place.[3]

Further reading

  • "Digital Library Collection (Official Olympic Reports 1896 - 2008)". Digital Library Collection at la84.org. la84foundation. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  • "Sailing at the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Games: Mixed One Person Dinghy". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  • "Los Angeles 1932". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e (ed.) Browne, Francis Granger (1933). "Official Report of the Games of the X Olympiad" (PDF). Los Angeles: Xth Olympiade Committee of the Games of Los Angeles, U. S. A. 1932, LTD. Retrieved 7 May 2015. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  2. ^ The 1932 Olympic scoring system was used.
  3. ^ "Bob Maas Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympic Sports. Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 8 May 2015.