The 1932 Olympic show jumping competition was held in the Olympic Stadium, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. It was the final event of the Olympics and was already sold out only a few days after tickets went on sale. The jumping courses were laid out by Snowy Baker, Australian boxing and swimming Olympian from 1908, who lived in Los Angeles in 1932, managed a polo club, and taught horse skills.
Team and individual events were held concurrently. No team had three riders finish the course cleanly, so no team medals were awarded. The individual championship was won by Japan’s Takeichi, Baron Nishi, who would later die on Iwo Jima during World War II.
The German riders did not attend for financial reasons, despite having several favored riders. The competitions had very small fields because of the travel distance to the American West Coast and the world-wide depression. The jumping competitions were restricted to men and military officers, as they would be through 1952, with women first allowed to compete in Olympic jumping in 1956.
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