| Ski jumping at the V Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Olympiaschanze | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 7 February | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 49 from 14 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning Score | 227.0 | ||||||||||||
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Ski jumping at the 1948 Winter Olympics consisted of one event held on 7 February. [1] The competition took place at Olympiaschanze with a K-Point of 68m. [2] [3]
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 |  Norway (NOR) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Totals (1 entries) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
Norway swept all three medals for the second time, having previously done so in 1932.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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| Normal hill | Petter Hugsted  Norway | 228.1 | Birger Ruud Norway | 226.6 | Thorleif Schjelderup Norway | 225.1 |
Each athlete took two jumps, and were ranked on the total points scored. [1]
Fourteen nations participated in ski jumping at the Cortina Games. France and Iceland made the Olympic ski jumping debuts. [1]
Austria (4)
Canada (3)
Finland (4)
France (4)
Hungary (2)
Iceland (1)
Italy (3) Norway (4)
Poland (4)
Switzerland (4)
Sweden (4)
Czechoslovakia (4)
United States (4)
Yugoslavia (4)
The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as St. Moritz 1948, were a winter multi-sport event held from 30 January to 8 February 1948 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The Games were the first to be celebrated after World War II; it had been twelve years since the last Winter Games in 1936.
The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as St. Moritz 1928, was an international winter multi-sport event that was celebrated from 11 to 19 February 1928 in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Chamonix 1924, were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. Originally held in association with the 1924 Summer Olympics, the sports competitions were held at the foot of Mont Blanc in Chamonix, and Haute-Savoie, France between 25 January and 5 February 1924. The Games were organized by the French Olympic Committee, and were originally reckoned as the "International Winter Sports Week." With the success of the event, it was retroactively designated by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as "the first Olympic Winter Games".
Canada competed at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Canada has competed at every Winter Olympic Games.
Nordic combined at the 1948 Winter Olympics consisted of one event, held from 31 January to 1 February. The ski jumping portion took place at Olympiaschanze St. Moritz, while the cross-country portion took place around the hills of St. Moritz.
The men's ski jumping at the 1928 Winter Olympics took place at the 70-meter (230 ft) Olympiaschanze in St. Moritz, Switzerland, on 18 February. Thirty-eight competitors from thirteen nations competed, with the event being won by Norway's Alf Andersen ahead of countryman Sigmund Ruud and Czechoslovakia's Rudolf Burkert.
Norway competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Norway ranked first in the total medal count, as they had in the inaugural 1924 Games.
Sweden competed at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
The United States competed at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
France competed at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Norway competed at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Austria competed at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Italy competed at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Nino Bibbia won the nation's first medal at the Winter Games.
Switzerland was the host nation for the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz. It was the second time that Switzerland had hosted the Winter Games, after the 1928 Winter Olympics, also in St. Moritz.
Finland competed at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Czechoslovakia competed at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The country's only medal was a silver in ice hockey.
Athletes from the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia competed at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Bulgaria competed at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Iceland competed in the Winter Olympic Games for the first time at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
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