Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics

At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, nine events in gymnastics were contested.[1] Finland led all nations with six gold medals and ten medals overall.[2][3]

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
individual all-round	Veikko Huhtanen  Finland	Walter Lehmann  Switzerland	Paavo Aaltonen  Finland
team all-around	Finland (FIN) Paavo Aaltonen Veikko Huhtanen Kalevi Laitinen Olavi Rove Aleksanteri Saarvala Sulo Salmi Heikki Savolainen Einari Teräsvirta	Switzerland (SUI) Karl Frei Christian Kipfer Walter Lehmann Robert Lucy Michael Reusch Josef Stalder Emil Studer Melchior Thalmann	Hungary (HUN) László Baranyai Jozsef Fekete Gyözö Mogyorosi János Mogyorósi-Klencs Ferenc Pataki Lajos Sántha Lajos Tóth Ferenc Várkõi
floor exercises	Ferenc Pataki  Hungary	János Mogyorósi-Klencs  Hungary	Zdeněk Růžička  Czechoslovakia
horizontal bar	Josef Stalder  Switzerland	Walter Lehmann  Switzerland	Veikko Huhtanen  Finland
parallel bars	Michael Reusch  Switzerland	Veikko Huhtanen  Finland	Josef Stalder  Switzerland
			Christian Kipfer  Switzerland
pommel horse	Paavo Aaltonen  Finland	none awarded ^[A]	none awarded ^[A]
	Veikko Huhtanen  Finland
	Heikki Savolainen  Finland
rings	Karl Frei  Switzerland	Michael Reusch  Switzerland	Zdeněk Růžička  Czechoslovakia
vault	Paavo Aaltonen  Finland	Olavi Rove  Finland	János Mogyorósi-Klencs  Hungary
			Ferenc Pataki  Hungary
			Leo Sotorník  Czechoslovakia

Women's event

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
team all-around	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Zdeňka Honsová Marie Kovářová Miloslava Misáková Milena Müllerová Věra Růžičková Olga Šilhánová Božena Srncová Zdeňka Veřmiřovská	Hungary (HUN) Edit Weckinger Mária Zalai-Kövi Irén Karcsics Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles Erzsébet Balázs Olga Tass Anna Fehér Margit Nagy-Sándor	United States (USA) Ladislava Bakanic Marian Barone Consetta Lenz Dorothy Dalton Meta Elste Helen Schifano Clara Schroth Anita Simonis

Shortly after the Czech team arrived in London, 22 year old team member Eliška Misáková was taken ill and confined to an iron lung. She died of infantile paralysis on the same day that her teammates competed.[4] When the Czech flag was raised at the medal ceremony, it was bordered with a black ribbon.[4]

Notes

^[A] Other sources[5][6] claim that Luigi Zanetti (Italy) also won a silver medal and Guido Figone (Italy) also won a bronze medal in the pommel horse event, despite the three gold medals awarded for the three-way first place tie.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Finland (FIN)	6	2	2	10
2	Switzerland (SUI)	3	4	2	9
3	Hungary (HUN)	1	2	3	6
4	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	3	4
5	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 nations)		11	8	11	30

References

1. (ed.) Lord Burghley (1951). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad (PDF). London: Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. pp. 389–405. Retrieved 2008-02-04.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
2. "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-11-18.
3. "Gymnastics at the 1948 London Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
4. Wallechinsky, David (1984). The Complete Book of the Olympics. England: Penguin Books. p. 323. ISBN 0140066322.
5. Lord Killanin; Rodda, John (1983). The Olympic Games 1984. Willow. ISBN 0-00-218062-6.
6. Greenberg, Stan (1996). The Guinness Book of Olympic Facts and Feats. Guinness Publishing. ISBN 0-85112-639-1.