Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
Breaststroke
200 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		women
4×200 m	men

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

Medal table

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

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Wally Ris United States (USA)	57.3 (OR)	Alan Ford United States (USA)	57.8	Géza Kádas Hungary (HUN)	58.1
400 m freestyle	Bill Smith United States (USA)	4:41.0 (OR)	Jimmy McLane United States (USA)	4:43.4	John Marshall Australia (AUS)	4:47.7
1500 m freestyle	Jimmy McLane United States (USA)	19:18.5	John Marshall Australia (AUS)	19:31.3	György Mitró Hungary (HUN)	19:43.2
100 m backstroke	Allen Stack United States (USA)	1:06.4	Bob Cowell United States (USA)	1:06.5	Georges Vallerey France (FRA)	1:07.8
200 m breaststroke	Joe Verdeur United States (USA)	2:39.3 (OR)	Keith Carter United States (USA)	2:40.2	Bob Sohl United States (USA)	2:43.9
4 × 200 metre freestyle relay	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

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Greta Andersen Denmark (DEN)	1:06.3	Ann Curtis United States (USA)	1:06.5	Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen Netherlands (NED)	1:07.6
400 m freestyle	Ann Curtis United States (USA)	5:17.8 (OR)	Karen Harup Denmark (DEN)	5:21.2	Catherine Gibson Great Britain (GBR)	5:22.5
100 m backstroke	Karen Harup Denmark (DEN)	1:14.4 (OR)	Suzanne Zimmerman United States (USA)	1:16.0	Judy-Joy Davies Australia (AUS)	1:16.7
200 m breaststroke	Nel van Vliet Netherlands (NED)	2:57.2	Nancy Lyons Australia (AUS)	2:57.7	Éva Novák Hungary (HUN)	3:00.2
4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	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

References

1948 Summer Olympics results: swimming, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-10-01.

Events at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London

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Swimming at the Summer Olympics

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Coordinates: 51°33′29″N 0°16′59″W / 51.5581°N 0.2830°W / 51.5581; -0.2830

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