Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Swimming
at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Swimming; at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Venue	Wembley Arena
Dates	30 July – 7 August 1948
No. of events	11
Competitors	249 from 34 nations
	← 1936 1952 →

At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, 11 swimming events were contested, six for men and five for women.^[1] All swimming events took place at the Empire Pool. There was a total of 249 participants from 34 countries competing.^[2]

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	8	6	1	15
2	Denmark (DEN)	2	2	0	4
3	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	2	3
4	Australia (AUS)	0	2	2	4
5	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	3	4
6	France (FRA)	0	0	2	2
7	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		11	11	11	33

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Wally Ris United States	57.3 (OR)	Alan Ford United States	57.8	Géza Kádas Hungary	58.1
400 m freestyle details	Bill Smith United States	4:41.0 (OR)	Jimmy McLane United States	4:43.4	John Marshall Australia	4:47.7
1500 m freestyle details	Jimmy McLane United States	19:18.5	John Marshall Australia	19:31.3	György Mitró Hungary	19:43.2
100 m backstroke details	Allen Stack United States	1:06.4	Bob Cowell United States	1:06.5	Georges Vallerey France	1:07.8
200 m breaststroke details	Joe Verdeur United States	2:39.3 (OR)	Keith Carter United States	2:40.2	Bob Sohl United States	2:43.9
4 × 200 metre freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Wally Ris Jimmy McLane Wally Wolf Bill Smith	8:46.0 (WR)	Hungary (HUN) Elemér Szatmári György Mitró Imre Nyéki Géza Kádas	8:48.4	France (FRA) Joseph Bernardo René Cornu Henri Padou, Jr. Alexandre Jany	9:08.0

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Greta Andersen Denmark	1:06.3	Ann Curtis United States	1:06.5	Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen Netherlands	1:07.6
400 m freestyle details	Ann Curtis United States	5:17.8 (OR)	Karen Harup Denmark	5:21.2	Catherine Gibson Great Britain	5:22.5
100 m backstroke details	Karen Harup Denmark	1:14.4 (OR)	Suzanne Zimmerman United States	1:16.0	Judy-Joy Davies Australia	1:16.7
200 m breaststroke details	Nel van Vliet Netherlands	2:57.2	Nancy Lyons Australia	2:57.7	Éva Novák Hungary	3:00.2
4 × 100 metre freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Marie Corridon Thelma Kalama Brenda Helser Ann Curtis	4:29.2 (OR)	Denmark (DEN) Eva Arndt Karen Harup Greta Andersen Fritze Carstensen	4:29.6	Netherlands (NED) Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher Margot Marsman Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen Hannie Termeulen	4:31.6

Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Medal summary

Men's events

Women's events

Participating nations

References

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