Sailing at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Snowbird

Snowbird[1] at the Games of the X Olympiad
Line drawing of the Snowbird
Venue	Los Angeles Harbor
Dates	First race: August 5, 1932 (1932-08-05) Last race: August 11, 1932 (1932-08-11)
Competitors	12 from 11 nations
Teams	11
Medalists
Jacques Lebrun  France Bob Maas  Netherlands Santiago Amat  Spain

Sailing at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Snowbird	Open
Star	Open
6 Metre	Open
8 Metre	Open
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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]

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).

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]

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.
	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
	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
	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

• 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]}

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]

• "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.