Sailing at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Snowbird

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]

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
Jacques Lebrun  France
Bob Maas  Netherlands
Santiago Amat Cansino  Spain

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 medals1

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
Open street map 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]

RankCountryHelmsman Race 1Race 2Race 3Race 4Race 5Race 6Race 7Race 8Race 9Race 10Race 11Total
Pos.Pts.Pos.Pts.Pos.Pts.Pos.Pts.Pos.Pts.Pos.Pts.Pos.Pts.Pos.Pts.Pos.Pts.Pos.Pts.Pos.Pts.
 France Jacques Lebrun66757548111391113948485787
 Netherlands Bob Maas2101112103939664884210759385
 Spain Santiago Amat Cansino5784485721048210111841027576
4  Germany Edgar Behr1022103921066576648DSQ02106674
5  Canada Reg Dixon7510293111571117593111664872
6  Great Britain George Colin Ratsey11157111754893847593933969
7  United States Charles Lyon and,
Joseph Jessop
393984
DNF

0

8

4
753966751118466
8  Italy Silvio Treleani48931111021028457210575711162
9  Sweden Sven Thorell8466666675DNS0DNF057663921059
10  Austria Hans Riedl934810293937593102398410244
11  South Africa Cecil Goodricke111DNF05784DNS0DNS0DNS0DNS0DNS0DNS0DNS012

    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, manned by 1 amateur maximum (maximum number of substitutes 1) was allowed.[1]
    • This event was a gender independent event. However it turned out to be a man's only event.

    Other information

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

    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". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee.

    References

    1. (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.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
    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.
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