Skeleton at the 1948 Winter Olympics

Skeleton at the V Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Cresta Run
Competitors	15 from 6 nations
Medalists
Nino Bibbia   Italy John Heaton   United States John Crammond   Great Britain
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Medals awarded for the skeleton discipline at the 1948 Winter Olympics held in St Moritz. At that time the sport was called cresta, and St. Moritz had the most famous Cresta Run, dating to 1884. In many locations the sport was referred to as tobogganing during these and the 1928 Games. The contest was run over a total of six runs.

Medalists

Gold	Nino Bibbia   Italy
Silver	John Heaton   United States
Bronze	John Crammond   Great Britain

Turn 10 at Cesana Pariol, where the bobsled, luge, and skeleton competitions took place for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, is named for Bibbia.

John Heaton also won the silver medal in skeleton at the 1928 Winter Olympics.

Results

Rank	Name	Country	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Run 5	Run 6	Total	Diff.
	Nino Bibbia	Italy	0:48.8	0:47.6	0:47.6	0:59.5	1:00.2	1:00.3	5:23.2	—
	John Heaton	United States	0:48.1	0:47.4	0:47.7	1:00.0	1:00.2	1:01.2	5:24.6	+1.4
	John Crammond	Great Britain	0:47.4	0:47.7	0:47.9	1:00.9	1:00.9	1:00.3	5:25.1	+1.9
4	Wilbur Lee Martin	United States	0:47.8	0:49.2	0:48.2	1:00.7	1:01.6	1:00.5	5:28.0	+4.8
5	Gottfried Kägi	Switzerland	0:48.9	0:48.8	0:48.7	1:00.8	1:01.6	1:01.1	5:29.9	+6.7
6	Richard Bott	Great Britain	0:48.3	0:48.9	0:49.2	1:01.5	1:01.4	1:01.4	5:30.7	+7.5
7	James Coats	Great Britain	0:48.8	0:48.7	0:49.0	1:02.3	1:01.7	1:01.4	5:31.9	+8.7
8	Fairchilds Maccarthy	United States	0:48.8	0:48.3	0:49.4	1:03.6	1:02.7	1:02.7	5:35.5	+12.3
9	Thomas Clarke	Great Britain	0:49.7	0:49.9	0:49.3	1:03.5	1:03.8	1:02.8	5:39.0	+15.8
10	C. William Johnson	United States	0:47.7	0:48.4	0:48.0	did not start			—	—
11	Milo Bigler	Switzerland	0:48.4	0:48.4	0:48.7	did not start			—	—
12	Dialma Balsegia	Switzerland	0:49.2	0:49.0	0:48.6	did not start			—	—
13	William Hirigoyen	France	0:52.7	0:49.9	0:51.0	did not start			—	—
	Christian Fischbacher	Switzerland	unknown			did not start			—	—
	Hugo Kuranda	Austria	unknown			did not start			—	—

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	1	0	0	1
2	United States	0	1	0	1
3	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		1	1	1	3

References

• 1948 skeleton results
• Austrian Olympic Committee results on 1948 skeleton (in German)
• Rapport Général sur les V^es Jeux Olympiques d’hiver St-Moritz 1948 (PDF) (in French). Comité Olympique Suisse. p. 67. Retrieved 2007-03-30.
• Skeletonsport.com results