List of 1948 Winter Olympics medal winners

Barbara-Ann Scott of Canada and Hans Gerschwiler of Switzerland practice pairs figure skating before competition.

The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known by the International Olympic Committee as the V Olympic Winter Games, were a multi-sport event held in St. Moritz, Switzerland, from January 30 through February 8, 1948. A total of 669 athletes representing 28 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated at the Games in twenty two events across eight disciplines.^[1]

The Olympic programme was adjusted from that of the 1936 Winter Olympics^[2] with the addition of skeleton for men. The sport had first appeared at the 1928 Winter Olympics, which had also taken place in St. Moritz, but would not make another appearance until 2002 in Salt Lake City.^[3] Two demonstration sports were held in St. Moritz, winter pentathlon and military patrol. This was the fourth time military patrol had been held as a demonstration event, the closely related sport of biathlon was added to the programme beginning with the 1960 Squaw Valley Olympics.^[4][5] Both men and women competed in the 1948 Games, with women taking part in alpine skiing and figure skating.

A total of 123 athletes won medals at the 1948 Games.^[6] Norway, Sweden and Switzerland tied for the most number of medals, with ten each. The United States placed fourth in the medal count, with nine, and Austria placed fifth, with eight. Of the 28 competing NOCs, 13 won at least one medal, with 10 of these winning at least one gold. Notable absences from these Games were defeated Axis Powers members Germany and Japan, who were not invited to St. Moritz or the London Summer Olympics later in the year in light of the recently concluded World War II.^[6][7] The Soviet Union, who did not form an NOC until 1951,^[8] declined to take part.^[6][9]

Sweden repeated its success in cross-country skiing, winning all three medals in the Men's 18 km event and all three gold medals available in the sport.^[10] Canadian teenager Barbara-Ann Scott became the first from her nation to win an Olympic gold medal in figure skating, and Dick Button from the United States did the same.^[9] Alpine skier Henri Oreiller from France won the most medals with a total of three, with two gold medals from the downhill and combined events, and a bronze in the slalom event.^[6][11]

Alpine skiing

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's downhill[12]	Henri Oreiller  France	Franz Gabl  Austria	Rolf Olinger  Switzerland
			Karl Molitor  Switzerland
Women's downhill[13]	Hedy Schlunegger  Switzerland	Trude Beiser  Austria	Resi Hammerer  Austria
Men's slalom[14]	Edy Reinalter  Switzerland	James Couttet  France	Henri Oreiller  France
Women's slalom[15]	Gretchen Fraser  United States	Antoinette Meyer  Switzerland	Erika Mahringer  Austria
Men's combined[16]	Henri Oreiller  France	Karl Molitor  Switzerland	James Couttet  France
Women's combined[17]	Trude Beiser  Austria	Gretchen Fraser  United States	Erika Mahringer  Austria

Bobsleigh

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Two-man	Switzerland (SUI)[18] Switzerland II Felix Endrich Friedrich Waller	Switzerland (SUI)[18] Switzerland I Fritz Feierabend Paul Eberhard	United States (USA)[19] USA II Frederick Fortune Schuyler Carron
Four-man	United States (USA)[19] USA II Francis Tyler Patrick Martin Edward Rimkus William D'Amico	Belgium (BEL)[20] Belgium I Max Houben Freddy Mansveld Louis-Georges Niels Jacques Mouvet	United States (USA)[19] USA I James Bickford Thomas Hicks Donald Dupree William Dupree

Cross-country skiing

Swedish cross-country skier Martin Lundström during the Men's 18 km event. Lundström went on to win the gold medal in this event.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
18 km[21]	Martin Lundström  Sweden	Nils Östensson  Sweden	Gunnar Eriksson  Sweden
50 km[22]	Nils Karlsson  Sweden	Harald Eriksson  Sweden	Benjamin Vanninen  Finland
4×10 km	Sweden (SWE)[23] Gunnar Eriksson Martin Lundström Nils Östensson Nils Täpp	Finland (FIN)[24] August Kiuru Teuvo Laukkanen Sauli Rytky Lauri Silvennoinen	Norway (NOR)[25] Erling Evensen Olav Hagen Reidar Nyborg Olav Økern

Figure skating

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles[26]	Dick Button  United States	Hans Gerschwiler  Switzerland	Edi Rada  Austria
Ladies' singles[27]	Barbara-Ann Scott  Canada	Eva Pawlik  Austria	Jeannette Altwegg  Great Britain
Pairs	Belgium (BEL)[28] Pierre Baugniet Micheline Lannoy	Hungary (HUN)[29] Andrea Kékesy Ede Király	Canada (CAN)[30] Wallace Diestelmeyer Suzanne Morrow

Ice hockey

The gold-medal winning men's ice hockey team, the Ottawa RCAF Flyers.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	Canada (CAN)[31] Andy Gilpin Albert Renaud Bernard Dunster George Mara Hubert Brooks Henri-André Laperrière Irving Taylor Pete Leichnitz Jean Gravelle Louis Lecompte Murray Dowey Patrick Guzzo Roy A. Forbes Reginald Schroeter Ross King Thomas Hibberd Walter Halder	Czechoslovakia (TCH)[32] Bohumil Modrý Gustav Bubník Jaroslav Drobný Josef Trousílek Karel Stibor Ladislav Troják Miloslav Pokorný Miroslav Sláma Oldřich Zábrodský Přemysl Hajný Stanislav Konopásek Václav Roziňák Vilibald Šťovík Vladimír Bouzek Vladimír Kobranov Vladimír Zábrodský Zdeněk Jarkovský	Switzerland (SUI)[33] Alfred Bieler Beat Rüedi Emil Handschin Ferdinand Cattini Gebhard Poltera Hans Bänninger Hans Cattini Hans Dürst Hans Trepp Heini Lohrer Heinrich Boller Otto Schubiger Reto Perl Bibi Torriani Ulrich Poltera Walter Dürst Werner Lohrer

Nordic combined

Nordic combined gold medal winner Heikki Hasu, pictured in 1952

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual[34]	Heikki Hasu  Finland	Martti Huhtala  Finland	Sven Israelsson  Sweden

Skeleton

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual[35]	Nino Bibbia  Italy	John Heaton  United States	John Crammond  Great Britain

Ski jumping

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual[36]	Petter Hugsted  Norway	Birger Ruud  Norway	Thorleif Schjelderup  Norway

Speed skating

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
500 metres[37]	Finn Helgesen  Norway	Ken Bartholomew  United States	none awarded
		Thomas Byberg  Norway
		Robert Fitzgerald  United States
1500 metres[38]	Sverre Farstad  Norway	Åke Seyffarth  Sweden	Odd Lundberg  Norway
5000 metres[39]	Reidar Liaklev  Norway	Odd Lundberg  Norway	Göthe Hedlund  Sweden
10000 metres[40]	Åke Seyffarth  Sweden	Lassi Parkkinen  Finland	Pentti Lammio  Finland

Multiple medallists

Athletes who won more than one medal are listed below.^[6]

Athlete	Nation	Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Oreiller, HenriHenri Oreiller	France (FRA)	Alpine skiing	3 !2	0	1	3
Lundström, MartinMartin Lundström	Sweden (SWE)	Cross-country skiing	2	0	0	2
Fraser, GretchenGretchen Fraser	United States (USA)	Alpine skiing	1	1	0	2
Jochum-Beiser, TrudeTrude Jochum-Beiser	Austria (AUT)	Alpine skiing	1	1	0	2
Östensson, NilsNils Östensson	Sweden (SWE)	Cross-country skiing	1	1	0	2
Seyffarth, ÅkeÅke Seyffarth	Sweden (SWE)	Speed skating	1	1	0	2
Eriksson, GunnarGunnar Eriksson	Sweden (SWE)	Cross-country skiing	1	0	1	2
Couttet, JamesJames Couttet	France (FRA)	Alpine skiing	0	1	1	2
Lundberg, OddOdd Lundberg	Norway (NOR)	Speed skating	0	1	1	2
Molitor, KarlKarl Molitor	Switzerland (SUI)	Alpine Skiing	0	1	1	2
Mahringer, ErikaErika Mahringer	Austria (AUT)	Alpine skiing	0	0	2	2

See also

• 1948 Winter Olympics medal table

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