List of 1948 Summer Olympics medal winners

The 1948 Summer Olympics (also known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad) was an international multi-sport event held from July 29 through August 14, 1948, in London, United Kingdom.

The United States team being awarded their gold medals for the Men's coxed fours

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 100 m details	Harrison Dillard  United States	Barney Ewell  United States	Lloyd La Beach  Panama
Women's 100 m details	Fanny Blankers-Koen  Netherlands	Dorothy Manley  Great Britain	Shirley Strickland de la Hunty  Australia
Men's 200 m details	Mel Patton  United States	Barney Ewell  United States	Lloyd La Beach  Panama
Women's 200 m details	Fanny Blankers-Koen  Netherlands	Audrey Williamson  Great Britain	Audrey Patterson  United States
Men's 400 m details	Arthur Wint  Jamaica	Herb McKenley  Jamaica	Mal Whitfield  United States
Men's 800 m details	Mal Whitfield  United States	Arthur Wint  Jamaica	Marcel Hansenne  France
Men's 1500 m details	Henry Eriksson  Sweden	Lennart Strand  Sweden	Wim Slijkhuis  Netherlands
Men's 5000 m details	Gaston Reiff  Belgium	Emil Zátopek  Czechoslovakia	Wim Slijkhuis  Netherlands
Men's 10000 m details	Emil Zátopek  Czechoslovakia	Alain Mimoun  France	Bertil Albertsson  Sweden
Men's 110 m hurdles details	Bill Porter  United States	Clyde Scott  United States	Craig Dixon  United States
Men's 400 m hurdles details	Roy Cochran  United States	Duncan White  Ceylon	Rune Larsson  Sweden
Women's 80 m hurdles details	Fanny Blankers-Koen  Netherlands	Maureen Gardner  Great Britain	Shirley Strickland de la Hunty  Australia
Men's 3000 m steeplechase details	Tore Sjöstrand  Sweden	Erik Elmsäter  Sweden	Göte Hagström  Sweden
Men's 4×100 m relay details	United States (USA) Barney Ewell Lorenzo Wright Harrison Dillard Mel Patton	Great Britain (GBR) Jack Archer Jack Gregory Alastair McCorquodale Ken Jones	Italy (ITA) Enrico Perucconi Antonio Siddi Carlo Monti Michele Tito
Women's 4×100 m relay details	Netherlands (NED) Xenia Stad-de Jong Nettie Witziers-Timmer Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs Fanny Blankers-Koen	Australia (AUS) Shirley Strickland de la Hunty June Maston Betty McKinnon Joyce King	Canada (CAN) Viola Myers Nancy Mackay Diane Foster Patricia Jones
Men's 4×400 m relay details	United States (USA) Art Harnden Cliff Bourland Roy Cochran Mal Whitfield	France (FRA) Jean Kerebel Francis Schewetta Robert Chef d'Hôtel Jacques Lunis	Sweden (SWE) Kurt Lundquist Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt Folke Alnevik Rune Larsson
Men's decathlon details	Bob Mathias  United States	Ignace Heinrich  France	Floyd Simmons  United States
Men's 10 km walk details	John Mikaelsson  Sweden	Ingemar Johansson  Sweden	Fritz Schwab  Switzerland
Men's 50 km walk details	John Ljunggren  Sweden	Gaston Godel  Switzerland	Tebbs Lloyd Johnson  Great Britain
Men's marathon details	Delfo Cabrera  Argentina	Tom Richards  Great Britain	Étienne Gailly  Belgium
Men's long jump details	Willie Steele  United States	Theodore Bruce  Australia	Herb Douglas  United States
Women's long jump details	Olga Gyarmati  Hungary	Noemí Simonetto de Portela  Argentina	Ann-Britt Leyman  Sweden
Men's triple jump details	Arne Åhman  Sweden	George Avery  Australia	Ruhi Sarıalp  Turkey
Men's high jump details	Jack Winter  Australia	Bjørn Paulson  Norway	George Stanich  United States
Women's high jump details	Alice Coachman  United States	Dorothy Odam-Tyler  Great Britain	Micheline Ostermeyer  France
Men's pole vault details	Guinn Smith  United States	Erkki Kataja  Finland	Bob Richards  United States
Men's shot put details	Wilbur Thompson  United States	Jim Delaney  United States	Jim Fuchs  United States
Women's shot put details	Micheline Ostermeyer  France	Amelia Piccinini  Italy	Ine Schäffer  Austria
Men's discus throw details	Adolfo Consolini  Italy	Giuseppe Tosi  Italy	Fortune Gordien  United States
Women's discus throw details	Micheline Ostermeyer  France	Edera Cordiale-Gentile  Italy	Jacqueline Mazéas  France
Men's javelin throw details	Tapio Rautavaara  Finland	Steve Seymour  United States	József Várszegi  Hungary
Women's javelin throw details	Herma Bauma  Austria	Kaisa Parviainen  Finland	Lily Carlstedt-Kelsby  Denmark
Men's hammer throw details	Imre Németh  Hungary	Ivan Gubijan  Yugoslavia	Bob Bennett  United States

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Basketball

Main article: Basketball at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament details	United States (USA) Cliff Barker Don Barksdale Ralph Beard Lew Beck Vince Boryla Gordon Carpenter Alex Groza Wallace Jones Bob Kurland Ray Lumpp R. C. Pitts Jesse Renick Jackie Robinson Kenny Rollins	France (FRA) André Barrais Michel Bonnevie André Buffière René Chocat René Dérency Maurice Desaymonnet André Even Maurice Girardot Fernand Guillou Raymond Offner Jacques Perrier Yvan Quénin Lucien Rebuffic Pierre Thiolon	Brazil (BRA) Algodão Bráz Marcus Vinícius Dias Affonso Évora Ruy de Freitas Alexandre Gemignani Alberto Marson Alfredo da Motta Nilton Pacheco Massinet Sorcinelli

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Boxing

Rafael Iglesias knocking down Gunnar Nilsson in the men's heavyweight final

Main article: Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (-51 kg / 112 lb) details	Pascual Pérez  Argentina	Spartaco Bandinelli  Italy	Han Su-An  South Korea
Bantamweight (-54 kg / 118 lb) details	Tibor Csík  Hungary	Gianni Zuddas  Italy	Juan Venegas  Puerto Rico
Featherweight (-58 kg / 126 lb) details	Ernesto Formenti  Italy	Dennis Shepherd  South Africa	Aleksy Antkiewicz  Poland
Lightweight (-62 kg / 135 lb) details	Gerald Dreyer  South Africa	Jos Vissers  Belgium	Svend Wad  Denmark
Welterweight (-67 kg / 147 lb) details	Július Torma  Czechoslovakia	Hank Herring  United States	Alessandro D'Ottavio  Italy
Middleweight (-73 kg / 160 lb) details	László Papp  Hungary	John Wright  Great Britain	Ivano Fontana  Italy
Light heavyweight (-80 kg / 175 lb) details	George Hunter  South Africa	Don Scott  Great Britain	Mauro Cía  Argentina
Heavyweight (+80 kg/175 lb) details	Rafael Iglesias  Argentina	Gunnar Nilsson  Sweden	John Arthur  South Africa

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Canoeing

Main article: Canoeing at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 1000 m details	Josef Holeček  Czechoslovakia	Douglas Bennett  Canada	Robert Boutigny  France
C-1 10000 m details	František Čapek  Czechoslovakia	Frank Havens  United States	Norman Lane  Canada
C-2 1000 m details	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Jan Brzák-Felix Bohumil Kudrna	United States (USA) Steven Lysak Stephen Macknowski	France (FRA) Georges Dransart Georges Gandil
C-2 10000 m details	United States (USA) Steven Lysak Stephen Macknowski	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Václáv Havel Jiří Pecka	France (FRA) Georges Dransart Georges Gandil
K-1 1000 m details	Gert Fredriksson  Sweden	Johan Andersen  Denmark	Henri Eberhardt  France
K-1 10000 m details	Gert Fredriksson  Sweden	Kurt Wires  Finland	Eivind Skabo  Norway
K-2 1000 m details	Sweden (SWE) Hans Berglund Lennart Klingström	Denmark (DEN) Ejvind Hansen Jakob Jensen	Finland (FIN) Thor Axelsson Nils Björklöf
K-2 10000 m details	Sweden (SWE) Gunnar Åkerlund Hans Wetterström	Norway (NOR) Ivar Mathisen Knut Østby	Finland (FIN) Thor Axelsson Nils Björklöf

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 m details	Karen Hoff  Denmark	Alida van der Anker-Doedens  Netherlands	Fritzi Schwingl  Austria

Source:^[6]

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual time trial details	José Beyaert  France	Gerrit Voorting  Netherlands	Lode Wouters  Belgium
Team time trial details	Belgium (BEL) Lode Wouters Leon De Lathouwer Eugène Van Roosbroeck	Great Britain (GBR) Bob Maitland Tiny Thomas Ian Scott	France (FRA) José Beyaert Alain Moineau Jacques Dupont
Time trial details	Jacques Dupont  France	Pierre Nihant  Belgium	Tommy Godwin  Great Britain
Sprint details	Mario Ghella  Italy	Reg Harris  Great Britain	Axel Schandorff  Denmark
Tandem details	Italy (ITA) Ferdinando Terruzzi Renato Perona	Great Britain (GBR) Reg Harris Alan Bannister	France (FRA) René Faye Gaston Dron
Team pursuit details	France (FRA) Charles Coste Serge Blusson Fernand Decanali Pierre Adam	Italy (ITA) Arnaldo Benfenati Guido Bernardi Anselmo Citterio Rino Pucci	Great Britain (GBR) Alan Geldard Tommy Godwin David Ricketts Wilf Waters

Source:^[7]

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 3 metre springboard details	Bruce Harlan  United States	Miller Anderson  United States	Sammy Lee  United States
Women's 3 metre springboard details	Vicki Draves  United States	Zoe Ann Olsen-Jensen  United States	Patsy Elsener  United States
Men's 10 metre platform details	Sammy Lee  United States	Bruce Harlan  United States	Joaquín Capilla  Mexico
Women's 10 metre platform details	Vicki Draves  United States	Patsy Elsener  United States	Birte Christoffersen  Denmark

Source:^[8]

Equestrian

Main article: Equestrian at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual dressage details	Hans Moser and Hummer  Switzerland	André Jousseaume and Harpagon  France	Gustaf Adolf Boltenstern Jr. and Trumf  Sweden
Team dressage details	France (FRA) André Jousseaume and Harpagon Jean Saint-Fort Paillard and Sous les Ceps Maurice Buret and Saint Quen	United States (USA) Robert Borg and Klingson Earl Foster Thomson and Pancraft Frank Henry and Reno Overdo	Portugal (POR) Fernando Paes and Matamas Francisco Valadas and Feitiço Luís Mena e Silva and Fascinante
Individual eventing details	Bernard Chevallier and Aiglonne  France	Frank Henry and Swing Low  United States	Robert Selfelt and Claque  Sweden
Team eventing details	United States (USA) Frank Henry and Swing Low Charles Anderson and Reno Palisade Earl Foster Thomson and Reno Rhythm	Sweden (SWE) Robert Selfelt and Claque Olof Stahre and Komet Sigurd Svensson and Dust	Mexico (MEX) Humberto Mariles and Parral Raúl Campero and Tarahumara Joaquín Solano and Malinche
Individual jumping details	Humberto Mariles and Arete  Mexico	Rubén Uriza and Hatuey  Mexico	Jean-François d'Orgeix and Sucre de Pomme  France
Team jumping details	Mexico (MEX) Humberto Mariles and Arete Rubén Uriza and Hatuey Alberto Valdés and Chihuahua	Spain (ESP) Jaime García and Bizarro José Navarro Morenés and Quórum Marcellino Gavilán and Forajido	Great Britain (GBR) Harry Llewellyn and Foxhunter Henry Nicoll and Kilgeddin Arthur Carr and Monty

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Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
épée details	Gino Cantone  Italy	Oswald Zappelli  Switzerland	Edoardo Mangiarotti  Italy
team épée details	France (FRA) Henri Guérin Henri Lepage Marcel Desprets Michel Pécheux Édouard Artigas Maurice Huet	Italy (ITA) Edoardo Mangiarotti Carlo Agostoni Dario Mangiarotti Gino Cantone Marco Antonio Mandruzzato Fiorenzo Marini	Sweden (SWE) Sven Thofelt Per Carleson Frank Cervell Carl Forssell Bengt Ljungquist Arne Tollbom
foil details	Jéhan de Buhan  France	Christian d'Oriola  France	Lajos Maszlay  Hungary
team foil details	France (FRA) André Bonin Jéhan de Buhan Jacques Lataste René Bougnol Philippe Christian d'Oriola Adrien Rommel	Italy (ITA) Edoardo Mangiarotti Manlio Di Rosa Renzo Nostini Giuliano Nostini Giorgio Pellini Saverio Ragno	Belgium (BEL) Georges de Bourguignon Henri Paternóster Édouard Yves Raymond Bru André Van De Werve De Vorsselaer Paul Valcke
sabre details	Aladár Gerevich  Hungary	Vincenzo Pinton  Italy	Pál Kovács  Hungary
team sabre details	Hungary (HUN) Aladár Gerevich Tibor Berczelly Rudolf Kárpáti Pál Kovács László Rajcsányi Bertalan Papp	Italy (ITA) Vincenzo Pinton Gastone Darè Carlo Turcato Mauro Racca Aldo Montano Renzo Nostini	United States (USA) Norman Cohn-Armitage George Worth Tibor Nyilas Dean Cetrulo Miguel de Capriles James Flynn

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
foil details	Ilona Schachererné Elek  Hungary	Karen Lachmann  Denmark	Ellen Müller-Preis  Austria

Source:^[10]

Field hockey

Main article: Field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament details	India (IND) Ranganandhan Francis Tarlochan Singh Bawa Akhtar Hussain Leslie Claudius Keshav Dutt Jaswant Rajput Kishan Lal Kunwar Digvijay Singh Reginald Rodrigues Pat Jansen Latif-ur Rehman Leo Pinto Randhir Singh Gentle Amir Kumar Maxie Vaz Balbir Singh Sr. Lawrie Fernandes Walter de Sousa G. Nandy Singh Gerry Glackan	Great Britain (GBR) Dave Brodie George Sime William Lindsay Mickey Walford Frank Reynolds Robin Lindsay John Peake Neil White Bob Adlard Norman Borrett Bill Griffiths Ronald Davies	Netherlands (NED) André Boerstra Henk Bouwman Piet Bromberg Harry Derckx Han Drijver Dick Esser Wim van Heel Roepie Kruize Jenne Langhout Ton Richter Dick Loggere Eddy Tiel

Source:^[11][12][13]

Football

Main article: Football at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament details	Sweden (SWE) Torsten Lindberg Knut Nordahl Erik Nilsson Birger Rosengren Bertil Nordahl Sune Andersson Kjell Rosén Gunnar Gren Gunnar Nordahl Henry Carlsson Nils Liedholm Börje Leander	Yugoslavia (YUG) Ljubomir Lovrić Miroslav Brozović Branko Stanković Zlatko Čajkovski Miodrag Jovanović Aleksandar Atanacković Zvonko Cimermančić Rajko Mitić Stjepan Bobek Željko Čajkovski Bernard Vukas Franjo Šoštarić Prvoslav Mihajlović Franjo Velfl Kosta Tomašević	Denmark (DEN) Eigil Nielsen Viggo Jensen Knud Børge Overgaard Axel Pilmark Dion Ørnvold Ivan Jensen Johannes Plöger Knud Lundberg Carl Aage Præst John Hansen Jørgen Leschly Sørensen Holger Seebach Karl Aage Hansen

Source:^[14][15][16]

Gymnastics

Main article: Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
All-Around, Individual details	Veikko Huhtanen  Finland	Walter Lehmann  Switzerland	Paavo Aaltonen  Finland
All-Around, Team details	Finland (FIN) Veikko Huhtanen Paavo Aaltonen Kalevi Laitinen Olavi Rove Einari Teräsvirta Heikki Savolainen Aleksanteri Saarvala Sulo Salmi	Switzerland (SUI) Walter Lehmann Josef Stalder Christian Kipfer Emil Studer Robert Lucy Michael Reusch Melchior Thälmann Karl Frei	Hungary (HUN) Lajos Tóth Lajos Sántha László Baranyai Ferenc Pataki János Mogyorósi-Klencs Ferenc Várkői József Fekete Győző Mogyorossy
Floor exercise details	Ferenc Pataki  Hungary	János Mogyorósi-Klencs  Hungary	Zdeněk Růžička  Czechoslovakia
Horizontal bar details	Josef Stalder  Switzerland	Walter Lehmann  Switzerland	Veikko Huhtanen  Finland
Parallel bars details	Michael Reusch  Switzerland	Veikko Huhtanen  Finland	Christian Kipfer  Switzerland
			Josef Stalder  Switzerland
Pommel horse details	Veikko Huhtanen  Finland	none	none
	Heikki Savolainen  Finland
	Paavo Aaltonen  Finland
Rings details	Karl Frei  Switzerland	Michael Reusch  Switzerland	Zdeněk Růžička  Czechoslovakia
Vault details	Paavo Aaltonen  Finland	Olavi Rove  Finland	János Mogyorósi-Klencs  Hungary
			Ferenc Pataki  Hungary
			Leo Sotorník  Czechoslovakia

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
All-Around, Team details	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Zdena Veřmiřovská Zdeňka Honsová Miloslava Misáková Věra Růžičková Božena Srncová Milena Müllerová Olga Šilhánová Marie Kovářová	Hungary (HUN) Edit Perényiné Weckinger Mária Kövi-Zalai Irén Daruháziné Karcsics Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles Erzsébet Balázs Olga Lemhényiné Tass Anna Fehér Margit Sándorné Nagy	United States (USA) Helen Schifano Clara Schroth Meta Elste Marian Barone Ladislava Bakanic Connie Caruccio-Lenz Anita Simonis Dorothy Dalton

Source:^[17]

Modern pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's details	William Grut  Sweden	George Moore  United States	Gösta Gärdin  Sweden

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
single sculls details	Merv Wood  Australia	Eduardo Risso  Uruguay	Romolo Catasta  Italy
double sculls details	Great Britain (GBR) Dickie Burnell Bert Bushnell	Denmark (DEN) Ebbe Parsner Aage Larsen	Uruguay (URU) William Jones Juan Rodríguez
coxless pairs details	Great Britain (GBR) Jack Wilson Ran Laurie	Switzerland (SUI) Hans Kalt Josef Kalt	Italy (ITA) Felice Fanetti Bruno Boni
coxed pairs details	Denmark (DEN) Finn Pedersen Tage Henriksen Carl-Ebbe Andersen	Italy (ITA) Giovanni Steffè Aldo Tarlao Alberto Radi	Hungary (HUN) Antal Szendey Béla Zsitnik Sr. Róbert Zimonyi
coxless four details	Italy (ITA) Giuseppe Moioli Elio Morille Giovanni Invernizzi Franco Faggi	Denmark (DEN) Helge Halkjær Aksel Bonde Helge Muxoll Schrøder Ib Storm Larsen	United States (USA) Fred Kingsbury Stu Griffing Greg Gates Bob Perew
coxed four details	United States (USA) Warren Westlund Bob Martin Bob Will Gordy Giovanelli Allen Morgan	Switzerland (SUI) Rudolf Reichling Erich Schriever Émile Knecht Peter Stebler André Moccand	Denmark (DEN) Erik Larsen Børge Raahauge Nielsen Henry Larsen Harry Knudsen Ib Olsen
eight details	United States (USA) Ian Turner Dave Turner Jim Hardy George Ahlgren Lloyd Butler Dave Brown Justus Smith John Stack Ralph Purchase	Great Britain (GBR) Chris Barton Michael Lapage Guy Richardson Paul Bircher Paul Massey Brian Lloyd John Meyrick Alfred Mellows Jack Dearlove	Norway (NOR) Kristoffer Lepsøe Torstein Kråkenes Hans Egill Hansen Halfdan Gran-Olsen Harald Kråkenes Leif Næss Thor Pedersen Carl Monssen Sigurd Monssen

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Firefly details	Paul Elvstrøm  Denmark	Ralph Evans  United States	Koos de Jong  Netherlands
Star details	United States (USA) Hilarious Hilary Smart Paul Smart	Cuba (CUB) Kurush III Carlos de Cárdenas Carlos de Cárdenas Jr.	Netherlands (NED) BEM II Bob Maas Edward Stutterheim
Swallow details	Great Britain (GBR) Swift Stewart Morris David Bond	Portugal (POR) Symphony Duarte de Almeida Bello Fernando Pinto Coelho Bello	United States (USA) Margaret Lockwood Masters Pirie Owen Cates Torrey Jr.
Dragon details	Norway (NOR) Pan Thor Thorvaldsen Sigve Lie Håkon Barfod	Sweden (SWE) Slaghoken Folke Bohlin Hugo Johnson Gösta Brodin	Denmark (DEN) Snap William Berntsen Ole Berntsen Klaus Baess
6 Metre details	United States (USA) Llanoria Herman Whiton Alfred Loomis James Weekes James Smith Michael Mooney	Argentina (ARG) Djinn Enrique Sieburger Sr. Emilio Homps Rufino Rodríguez de la Torre Rodolfo Rivademar Enrique Sieburger Jr. Julio Sieburger	Sweden (SWE) Ali baba II Tore Holm Torsten Lord Martin Hindorff Karl-Robert Ameln Gösta Salén

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
25 metre rapid fire pistol details	Károly Takács  Hungary	Carlos Enrique Díaz Sáenz Valiente  Argentina	Sven Lundquist  Sweden
50 metre pistol details	Edwin Vásquez  Peru	Rudolf Schnyder  Switzerland	Torsten Ullman  Sweden
50 metre rifle prone details	Art Cook  United States	Walter Tomsen  United States	Jonas Jonsson  Sweden
300 metre rifle three positions details	Emil Grünig  Switzerland	Pauli Janhonen  Finland	Willy Røgeberg  Norway

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Wally Ris  United States	Alan Ford  United States	Géza Kádas  Hungary
400 m freestyle details	Bill Smith  United States	Jimmy McLane  France	John Marshall  Australia
1500 m freestyle details	Jimmy McLane  United States	John Marshall  Australia	György Mitró  Hungary
100 m backstroke details	Allen Stack  United States	Bob Cowell  United States	Georges Vallerey Jr.  France
200 m breaststroke details	Joe Verdeur  United States	Keith Carter  United States	Bob Sohl  United States
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Wally Ris Jimmy McLane Wally Wolf Bill Smith Bob Gibe William Dudley Edwin Gilbert Eugene Rogers	Hungary (HUN) Elemér Szathmáry György Mitró Imre Nyéki Géza Kádas	France (FRA) Jo Bernardo René Cornu Henri Padou Jr. Alexandre Jany

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Greta Andersen  Denmark	Ann Curtis  United States	Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen  Netherlands
400 m freestyle details	Ann Curtis  United States	Karen Margrethe Harup  Denmark	Cathie Gibson  Great Britain
100 m backstroke details	Karen Margrethe Harup  Denmark	Suzanne Zimmerman  United States	Judy-Joy Davies  Australia
200 m breaststroke details	Nel van Vliet  Netherlands	Nancy Lyons  United States	Éva Gérard-Novák  Hungary
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Marie Corridon Thelma Kalama Brenda Helser Ann Curtis	Denmark (DEN) Eva Arndt-Riise Karen Margrethe Harup Greta Andersen Fritze Carstensen Elvi Svendsen	Netherlands (NED) Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher Margot Marsman Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen Hannie Termeulen

Water polo

Main article: Water polo at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament details	Italy (ITA) Pasquale Buonocore Emilio Bulgarelli Cesare Rubini Geminio Ognio Gildo Arena Aldo Ghira Gianfranco Pandolfini Mario Maioni Tullio Pandolfini	Hungary (HUN) Endre Győrfi Miklós Holop Dezső Gyarmati Károly Szittya Oszkár Csuvik István Szivós Sr. Dezső Lemhényi László Jeney Dezső Fábián Jenő Brandi	Netherlands (NED) Joop Rohner Nijs Korevaar Cor Braasem Hans Stam Albert Ruimschotel Ruud van Feggelen Frits Smol Piet Salomons Hennie Keetelaar

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bantamweight –56 kg details	Joe DePietro  United States	Julian Creus  Great Britain	Rich Tom  United States
Featherweight –60 kg details	Mahmoud Fayad  Egypt	Rodney Wilkes  Trinidad and Tobago	Jafar Salmasi  Iran
Lightweight –67.5 kg details	Ibrahim Hassanien Shams  Egypt	Attia Mohammed Hamouda  Egypt	Jim Halliday  Great Britain
Middleweight –75 kg details	Frank Spellman  United States	Pete George  United States	Kim Seong-Jip  South Korea
Light-heavyweight –82.5 kg details	Stan Stanczyk  United States	Harold Sakata  United States	Gösta Magnusson  Sweden
Heavyweight +82.5 kg details	John Davis  United States	Norb Schemansky  United States	Bram Charité  Netherlands

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (- 52 kg) details	Pietro Lombardi  Italy	Kenan Olcay  Turkey	Reino Kangasmäki  Finland
Bantamweight (- 57 kg) details	Kurt Pettersén  Sweden	Ali Mahmoud Hassan  Egypt	Halil Kaya  Turkey
Featherweight (- 62 kg) details	Mehmet Oktav  Turkey	Olle Anderberg  Sweden	Ferenc Tóth  Hungary
Lightweight (- 67 kg) details	Gustav Freij  Sweden	Aage Eriksen  Norway	Károly Ferencz  Hungary
Welterweight (- 73 kg) details	Gösta Andersson  Sweden	Miklós Szilvási  Hungary	Henrik Hansen  Denmark
Middleweight (- 79 kg) details	Axel Grönberg  Sweden	Muhlis Tayfur  Turkey	Ercole Gallegati  Italy
Light Heavyweight (- 87 kg) details	Karl-Erik Nilsson  Sweden	Kelpo Gröndahl  Finland	Ibrahim Orabi  Egypt
Heavyweight (+ 87 kg) details	Ahmet Kireççi  Turkey	Tor Nilsson  Sweden	Guido Fantoni  Italy

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (- 52 kg) details	Lenni Viitala  Finland	Halit Balamir  Turkey	Thure Johansson  Sweden
Bantamweight (- 57 kg) details	Nasuh Akar  Turkey	Gerald Leeman  United States	Charles Kouyos  France
Featherweight (- 62 kg) details	Gazanfer Bilge  Turkey	Ivar Sjölin  Sweden	Adolf Müller  Switzerland
Lightweight (- 67 kg) details	Celal Atik  Turkey	Gösta Frändfors  Sweden	Hermann Baumann  Switzerland
Welterweight (- 73 kg) details	Yaşar Doğu  Turkey	Dick Garrard  Australia	Leland Merrill  United States
Middleweight (- 79 kg) details	Glen Brand  United States	Adil Candemir  Turkey	Erik Lindén  Sweden
Light Heavyweight (- 87 kg) details	Henry Wittenberg  United States	Fritz Stöckli  Switzerland	Bengt Fahlqvist  Sweden
Heavyweight (+ 87 kg) details	Gyula Bóbis  Hungary	Bertil Antonsson  Sweden	Joseph Armstrong  Australia

Multiple medalists

Fanny Blankers-Koen won the most gold medals of any athlete at the 1948 Summer Games.

Athletes who won at least two gold medals or three or more medals are listed below.

Athlete	Nation	Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Veikko Huhtanen	Finland (FIN)	Gymnastics	3	1	1	5
Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands (NED)	Athletics	4	0	0	4
Paavo Aaltonen	Finland (FIN)	Gymnastics	3	0	1	4
Ann Curtis	United States (USA)	Swimming	2	1	0	3
Jimmy McLane	United States (USA)	Swimming	2	1	0	3
Humberto Mariles	Mexico (MEX)	Equestrianism	2	0	1	3
Micheline Ostermeyer	France (FRA)	Athletics	2	0	1	3
Mal Whitfield	United States (USA)	Athletics	2	0	1	3
Frank Henry	United States (USA)	Equestrianism	1	2	0	3
Michael Reusch	Switzerland (SUI)	Gymnastics	1	2	0	3
Karen Margrethe Harup	Denmark (DEN)	Swimming	1	2	0	3
Barney Ewell	United States (USA)	Athletics	1	2	0	3
Josef Stalder	Switzerland (SUI)	Gymnastics	1	1	1	3
Ferenc Pataki	Hungary (HUN)	Gymnastics	1	0	2	3
Walter Lehmann	Switzerland (SUI)	Gymnastics	0	3	0	3
Edoardo Mangiarotti	Italy (ITA)	Fencing	0	2	1	3
János Mogyorósi-Klencs	Hungary (HUN)	Gymnastics	0	1	2	3
Shirley Strickland de la Hunty	Australia (AUS)	Athletics	0	1	2	3
Gert Fredriksson	Sweden (SWE)	Canoeing	2	0	0	2
Jéhan de Buhan	France (FRA)	Fencing	2	0	0	2
Aladár Gerevich	Hungary (HUN)	Fencing	2	0	0	2
Heikki Savolainen	Finland (FIN)	Gymnastics	2	0	0	2
Vicki Draves	United States (USA)	Diving	2	0	0	2
Wally Ris	United States (USA)	Swimming	2	0	0	2
Bill Smith	United States (USA)	Swimming	2	0	0	2
Heikki Savolainen	Finland (FIN)	Gymnastics	2	0	0	2
Roy Cochran	United States (USA)	Athletics	2	0	0	2
Harrison Dillard	United States (USA)	Athletics	2	0	0	2
Mel Patton	United States (USA)	Athletics	2	0	0	2

Source:^[18]

See also

• 1948 Summer Olympics medal table