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Winter Games   Host City: Lake Placid, United States Date
Started: February 4, 1932 Date Finished: February 8, 1932
Events: 7  Participants: 42 (32 men and 10 women) from 6
countries Youngest Participant: CAN Herb Flack (18 years, 220
days) Oldest Participant: JPN Tomeju Uruma (29 years, 58 days)
Most Medals (Athlete): 4 athletes with 2 medals Most Medals
(Country): USA United States and CAN Canada (5 medals)   Lake
Placid had hosted its first major speed skating competition in
1919, with the Eastern Outdoor Championships, won by local
skater Charlie Jewtraw, who went on to become Olympic Champion
in the 500 m at the inaugural Winter Olympics in 1924. Since
then, many records had been set on the ice of the town’s Mirror
Lake. For the 1932 Games, a $150,000 stadium was built with a
capacity of 5,000. A hockey rink was placed in the cen