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List Of 1948 Summer Olympics Medal Winners
The United States team being awarded their gold medals for the Men's coxed fours 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. Athletics Source: Basketball Source: Boxing Rafael Iglesias knocking down Gunnar Nilsson in the men's heavyweight final Source: Canoeing Men's events Women's events Source: Cycling Source: Diving Source: Equestrian Source: Fencing Men's events Women's events Source: Field hockey Source: Football Source: Gymnastics Men's events Women's events Source: Modern pentathlon Rowing Sailing Shooting Swimming Men's events Women's events Water polo Weightlifting Wrestling Greco-Roman Freestyle 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British Railways. * January 4 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic, named the ''Union of Burma'', with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President, and U Nu its first Prime Minister. * January 5 ** Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (''Tournament of Roses Parade'' and the ''Rose Bowl Game''). ** The first Kinsey Reports, Kinsey Report, ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'', is published in the United States. * January 7 – Mantell UFO incident: Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of an unidentified flying object. * January 12 – Mahatma Gandhi begins his fast-unto-death in Delhi, to stop communal violence during the Partition of India. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wim Slijkhuis
Willem Frederik "Wim" Slijkhuis (13 January 1923 – 28 June 2003) was a Dutch athlete. During his career that lasted from 1939 to 1954 he was a world's top middle distance runner, excelling in distances from 1500 to 5000 metres. Slijkhuis began his international sports career shortly after World War II, having competed nationally since 1939. In 1946, he won a silver medal in the 5000 m at the European Championships in Oslo.Wim Slijkhuis sports-reference.com Two years later he took part in the in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Elmsäter
Fritz Erik Elmsäter (7 October 1919 – 9 March 2006) was the first Swedish athlete to compete in both the Summer and Winter Olympics. In 1948 he won a silver medal in the 3000 m steeplechase race, and finished 19th in the 18 km cross-country skiing and 9th in the Nordic combined event. At the 1952 Winter Olympics, he was the flag bearer for Sweden, and finished 56th in the 18 km skiing race and 13th in the Nordic combined. Biography He was born Erik Pettersson and changed his name to Fritz Erik Elmsäter in 1939. A multitalented athlete, he played as a football goalkeeper in the 1930s, and competed in modern pentathlon, military relays and gymnastics. He had his best results in the 3000 m steeplechase. In this event he won four national titles in 1943–1946 and set two world records, becoming in 1944 the first person to run the steeplechase within nine minutes. He won silver medals at the 1946 European Championships and at the 1948 Olympics. Elmsäter was a career m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tore Sjöstrand
Thore "Tore" Ingvar Sjöstrand (31 July 1921 – 26 January 2011) was a Swedish steeplechase runner. He won a bronze medal at the 1946 European Championships and a gold at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Domestically Sjöstrand won two titles, in 1947 and 1948, and finished second five times. After finishing eighth at the 1950 European championships he retired and moved to Växjö Växjö ( ) is a city and the seat of Växjö Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden. It had 70,489 inhabitants (2019) out of a municipal population of 95,995 (2021). It is the administrative, cultural, and industrial centre of Kronoberg County .... There he worked as a retailer and died aged 89. Swedish Olympic Committee References 192 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen Gardner
Maureen Angela Jane Dyson (née Gardner, 12 November 1928 – 2 September 1974) was a British athlete who competed mainly in the 80 metres hurdles. She won silver medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics and 1950 European Athletics Championships, both times losing to Fanny Blankers-Koen. She was coached by Geoff Dyson, whom she married one month after the 1948 Olympics. Maureen Gardner grew up in the Florence Park area of Temple Cowley, Oxford, and went to Donnington Junior School, Florence Park, Oxford. Her former home at 17 Maidcroft Road now has a blue plaque in her honour. Running Gardner competed in flat running at the 1946 European Athletics Championships and finished fourth in the 4×100 m relay (with Sylvia Cheeseman, Winifred Jordan and Joyce Judd) and fifth in the 100 m sprint. At the 1948 Summer Olympics she came second in the 80 metre hurdles to Fanny Blankers-Koen, both of them recording the same time of 11.2 seconds. She also helped Great Britain place fourth in the 4× ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rune Larsson (athlete)
Karl Rune Larsson (17 June 1924 – 17 September 2016) was a Swedish sprinter and hurdler who specialized in 400 m events. He competed at the and and won two bronze medals in 1948: in the 400 m hurdles and 4 × 400 m relay. He also won bronze medals in the same events at the European championships of 1946 and 1950. Larsson received the |
Duncan White
Major Deshamanya Duncan M. White MBE, ED (1 March 1918 – 3 July 1998) was a Sri Lankan sportsman. He was the first Ceylonese athlete to win an Olympic medal, winning silver in the 400-metre hurdles at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England. He was also the second South Asian to have won an Olympic medal in track and field after Norman Pritchard of India, with the third being Susanthika Jayasinghe, another Sri Lankan, won a silver medal in the 200 metres in 2000."Duncan White, the gentleman" '''', 5 July 1998. Early life White was born on 1 March 1918 in[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Cochran
LeRoy Braxton Cochran (January 6, 1919 – September 26, 1981) was an American sprinter and hurdler, winner of two gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Born in Richton, Mississippi, as the ninth of ten children to a sportive family. Cochran played football and was a one-man track team in the high school. Cochran wanted to go to Tulane University with a football scholarship, but was persuaded by his older brother Commodore, who won a gold medal at 1924 Summer Olympics in 4×400 m relay, to go to Indiana University Bloomington with a track scholarship. Commodore later became also his coach. After winning the AAU championships in 400 m hurdles in 1939, Cochran was selected to the 1940 US Olympic team to run 400 m flat, 400 m hurdles and 4×400 m relay race. But when the 1940 Summer Olympics were cancelled due to the World War II, Cochran entered the V-7 Navy officer training course in 1942, and went to Miami for training in the Navy's Sub Chaser Training School. He served in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Dixon
Craig Kline Dixon (March 3, 1926 – February 25, 2021) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 110 meter hurdles. He competed for the United States in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain in the 110 meter hurdles where he won the bronze medal. Dixon was born in Los Angeles, California Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' .... References 1926 births 2021 deaths American male hurdlers Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in track and field Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics Track and field athletes from California Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Track and field athletes from Los Angeles 20th-century American people {{US-athletics-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clyde Scott
Clyde Luther Scott (August 29, 1924 – January 30, 2018) was an American athlete who competed professionally in the National Football League and earned an Olympic medal in the 110 meter hurdles. He was born in Dixie, Louisiana. Biography Scott grew up in Smackover, Arkansas, and participated in both track and football at the University of Arkansas and the US Naval Academy. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame. He competed for the United States in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain in the 110 meter hurdles where he won the silver medal. While at the University of Arkansas, he was initiated into the Xi Chapter of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. Scott's nickname while at the University of Arkansas was "Smackover", after his hometown. Scott was a three-time All-SWC player at RB and DB, and an All-American in 1948. He helped Arkansas win the 1946 Southwest Conference championship, as well as leading the Raz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Porter (athlete)
William "Bill" Franklin Porter III (March 24, 1926 – March 10, 2000) was an American track and field athlete, gold medal winner of the 110-meter hurdles at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Born in Jackson, Michigan, Porter attended the Jackson High School, but did not compete in any sport there. He took up hurdle running while attending The Hill School in Pennsylvania. He then enrolled to the Western Michigan University, and later transferred to the Northwestern University, where he captained the athletics team. Porter won his only AAU Championship title in 1948 in 110 m hurdles and thus qualified for the Olympic Games. The best American hurdler at the time was Harrison Dillard. He beat Porter to the second place at the 1947 and 1948 NCAA Championships, but fell ill at the 1948 Olympic trials and did not qualify. At the Olympics three other Americans: Porter, Clyde Scott and Craig Dixon were headlong over the rest of the field in the Olympic final. From the start to finish th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertil Albertsson
Bertil Ebbe Gustaf Albertsson (1 September 1921 – 3 March 2008) was a Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ... runner. He competed in the 5000 m and 10000 m events at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics and finished in 3–12 place, winning a bronze medal in the 10000 m in 1948. Albertsson won eight national titles: in the 5000 m in 1947, 1949 and 1951–53, and in the 10000 m in 1948, 1950 and 1954. References 1921 births 2008 deaths Sportspeople from Uppsala Swedish male long-distance runners Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Sweden Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and fie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
