1948 London Olympic Games

1938 Prague World Championships

1948 London Olympic Games

1950 USSR Championships

1948 London Olympic Games
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City	London, GBR
Team Gold Medalist	Czechoslovakia Zdeňka Honsová Marie Kovářová Miloslava Misáková Milena Müllerová Věra Růžičkova Olga Šilhánová Božena Srncová Zdeňka Veřmiřovská
Preceded by	1936 Berlin Olympic Games
Succeeded by	1952 Helsinki Olympic Games

The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in London, England, United Kingdom. After a 12-year hiatus because of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics since the 1936 Games in Berlin. The 1940 Games had been scheduled for Tokyo, and then Helsinki; the 1944 Games had been provisionally planned for London. This was the second occasion that London had hosted the Olympic Games; the city had previously been the venue in 1908. The Olympics again returned to London in 2012, making it the only city to host the games three times.

The event came to be known as the Austerity Games because of the economic climate and post-war rationing. No new venues were built for the games, and athletes were housed in existing accommodation instead of an Olympic Village. A record 59 nations were represented by 4,104 athletes, 3,714 men and 390 women, in 19 sport disciplines. Because of their roles as aggressors in World War II, Germany and Japan were not invited to participate; the USSR were invited but chose not to send any athletes. The United States team won the most total medals, 84, and the most gold medals, 38. The host nation won 23 medals, three of them gold.

Format of Competition

Two group exercises for which the team score counted, along with individual compulsory and optional exercises on parallel bars, horse vault and balance beam. In the individual exercises, each team put up all eight of their gymnasts per event, where only the best six scores counted towards the team score.

Results

Rank	Country	GP	IP	Total
1	File:800px-Flag of the Czech Republic.png Czechoslovakia	128.750	316.700	445.450
	Zdeňka Honsová
	Marie Kovářová
	Miloslava Misáková
	Milena Müllerová
	Věra Růžičkova
	Olga Šilhánová
	Božena Srncová
	Zdeňka Veřmiřovská
2	Hungary	123.850	316.700	440.550
	Edit Weckinger
	Mária Zalai-Kövi
	Irén Karcsics
	Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles
	Erzsébet Balázs
	Olga Tass
	Anna Fehér
	Margit Nagy-Sándor
3	United States of America	119.450	303.150	422.600
	Ladislava Bakanic
	Marian Barone
	Consetta Lenz
	Dorothy Dalton
	Meta Elste
	Helen Schifano
	Clara Schroth
	Anita Simonis
4	Sweden	114.600	303.350	417.950
	Karin Lindberg
	Kerstin Bohman
	Ingrid Sandahl
	Göta Pettersson
	Gunnel Johansson
	Märta Andersson
	Ingrid Andersson
	Stina Haage
5	Netherlands	123.100	285.250	408.350
	Cootje van Kampen-Tonneman
	Lenie Gerrietsen
	Jacoba Wijnands
	Annie Ros
	Anna Maria van Geene
	Klara Post
	Truida Heil-Bonnet
	Dientje Meijer-Haantjes
6	Austria	113.800	291.650	405.450
	Gerti Fesl
	Gretchen Hehenberger
	Trude Gollner-Kolar
	Edeltraud Schramm
	Erika Enzenhofer
	Traudl Ruckser
	Gertrude Gries
	Gertrude Winnige-Barosch
7	Yugoslavia	119.000	278.900	397.900
	Vida Gerbec
	Dragana Đorđević
	Ruža Vojsk
	Draginja Ðipalović
	Tanja Žutić
	Dragica Basletić
	Zlatica Mijatović
	Neža Černe
8	Italy	112.600	281.600	394.200
	Laura Micheli
	Elena Santoni
	Licia Macchini
	Wanda Nuti
	Lilia Torriani
	Renata Bianchi
	Norma Icardi
	Luciana Pezzoni
9	Great Britain	107.050	285.900	392.950
	Cissy Davies
	Joan Airey
	Pat Hirst
	Pat Evans
	Dorothy Hey
	Audrey Rennard
	Irene Hirst
	Dorothy Smith
10	France	104.500	280.150	384.650
	F. Vailee
	Jeanine Touchard
	Christine Palau
	G. Guibert
	Colette Hué
	Martine Yvinou
	Irène Pittelioen
	Jeanette Vogelbacher
11	Belgium	111.750	241.850	353.600
	Albertine Van Roy-Moens
	Denise Parmentier
	Yvonne Van Bets
	Jenny Schumacher
	Caroline Verbraecken-De Loose
	Thérèse De Grijze
	Anna Jordaens
	Julienne Boudewijns

External Links

• Official results