Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Swimming at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Venue	Wembley Arena
Dates	30 July – 7 August 1948
No. of events	11
Competitors	249 from 34 nations
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At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, 11 swimming events were contested, six for men and five for women. ^[1] All swimming events took place at the Empire Pool. There was a total of 249 participants from 34 countries competing. ^[2]

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
Totals (7 entries)		11	11	11	33

Medal summary

Men's events

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

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

Participating nations

249 swimmers from 34 nations competed. ^[2]

Argentina  (17)   Australia  (10)   Austria  (2)   Belgium  (6)   Bermuda  (5)   Brazil  (13)   Canada  (9)   China  (1)   Colombia  (2)

Cuba  (2)   Czechoslovakia  (3)   Denmark  (6)   Egypt  (6)   Finland  (1)   France  (17)   Great Britain  (25)   Greece  (2)

Hungary  (15)   Iceland  (8)   India  (7)   Mexico  (9)   Netherlands  (12)   New Zealand  (1)   Norway  (1)   Pakistan  (4)

Philippines  (3)   Portugal  (1)   South Africa  (3)   Spain  (6)   Sweden  (8)   Switzerland  (8)   United States  (28)   Uruguay  (2)   Yugoslavia  (6)

References

1. "Olympedia – Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 2023-12-16.
2. "Swimming at the 1948 London Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 15 September 2016.

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