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Games of the XIV Olympiad - London 1948

Date: 29 July - 14 August.
Nations: 59.
Athletes: 4,099 (3,714 men, 385 women).
Sports: 17.
Events: 136.
Official opening of the Games by:
His Majesty King George VI.
Olympic flame: John Mark (athletics).
Olympic oath: Donald Finlay (athletics).
Official oath: - (first time in Munich in 1972).
Number of medal-winning nations: 37.
National medal total:
1. USA 84 (38, 27, 19)
   
                   
      After Paris, London became the second city to host the Games twice. The Yugoslav Olympic Committee had submitted Belgrade’s candidature for the organisation of these Games in 1936. It was the first of three Belgrade’s candidatures.
Germany and Japan were not invited to participate in the Games due to their war “merits”.
For the first time an Olympic medal was won by a black woman.
It was Alice Coachman, an Afro-American from Albany, Georgia, who triumphed in the high jump (1,68 m). Robert Bob Mathias (USA), aged 17 years and nine months, became the youngest athletic champion of all time when he won the decathlon gold, only four months after he had taken up athletics.
Yugoslavia participated with 96 athletes in seven sports, and silver medals were won by the football squad and Ivan Grubijan in the hammer throw.

Candidate cities: Baltimore, Lausanne, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Philadelphia.

 
The most successful athlete: Fanny Blankers-Koen (Netherlands), four gold medals (100m, 200m, 80m hurdles
and 4 x 100m)
 
     

SPORTS (17)

   
 
 
     
  • Aquatics1
  • Cycling
  • Boxing
  • Rowing
  • Gymnastics
  • Weight lifting
  • Sailing
  • Canoe/kayak
  • Equestrian
  • Basketball
  • Fencing
  • Modern Pentathlon
  • Wrestling
  • Shooting
  • Football
  • Hockey
  1 - swimming, diving, water polo and starting with 1984, synchronized swimming  
             
     

NATIONAL MEDAL TOTAL

     
     
  Country Gold Silver Bronze
1. USA 38 27 19
2. SWEDEN 16 11 17
3. FRANCE 10 6 13
4. HUNGARY 10 5 12
5. ITALY 8 12 9
6. FINLAND 8 7 5
7. TURKEY 6 4 2
8. CZECHOSLOVAKIA 6 2 3
9. SWITZERLAND 5 10 5
10. DENMARK 5 7 8
11. NETHERLANDS 5 2 9
12. GREAT BRITAIN 3 14 6
13. ARGENTINA 3 3 1
14. AUSTRALIA 2 6 5
15. BELGIUM 2 2 3
16. EGYPT 2 2 1
17. MEXICO 2 1 2
18. SOUTH AFRICA 2 1 1
19. NORWAY 1 3 3
20. JAMAICA 1 2 0
21. AUSTRIA 1 0 3
22. INDIA 1 0 0
23. PERU 1 0 0
24. YUGOSLAVIA 0 2 0
25. CANADA 0 1 2
26. PORTUGAL 0 1 1
27. URUGUAY 0 1 1
28. CUBA 0 1 0
29. SPAIN 0 1 0
30. TRINIDAD 0 1 0
31. SRI LANKA 0 1 0
32. SOUTH KOREA 0 0 2
33. PANAMA 0 0 2
34. BRAZIL 0 0 1
35. IRAN 0 0 1
36. POLAND 0 0 1
37. PORTORICO 0 0 1
  For the first time Olympic medals were won by Jamaica, Peru, Trinidad, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Panama, Iran and Puerto Rico.  
             
           
                   
             
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