Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics

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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]

Medal summary

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
team all-around
details
 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
individual all-round
details
Veikko Huhtanen
 Finland
Walter Lehmann
 Switzerland
Paavo Aaltonen
 Finland
floor exercises
details
Ferenc Pataki
 Hungary
János Mogyorósi Klencs
 Hungary
Zdenek Ruzicka
 Czechoslovakia
horizontal bar
details
Josef Stalder
 Switzerland
Walter Lehmann
 Switzerland
Veikko Huhtanen
 Finland
parallel bars
details
Michael Reusch
 Switzerland
Veikko Huhtanen
 Finland
Josef Stalder
 Switzerland
Christian Kipfer
 Switzerland
pommel horse
details
Paavo Aaltonen
 Finland
none awarded[A] none awarded [A]
Veikko Huhtanen
 Finland
Heikki Savolainen
 Finland
rings
details
Karl Frei
 Switzerland
Michael Reusch
 Switzerland
Zdenek Ruzicka
 Czechoslovakia
vault
details
Paavo Aaltonen
 Finland
Olavi Rove
 Finland
János Mogyorósi Klencs
 Hungary
Ferenc Pataki
 Hungary
Leo Sotornik
 Czechoslovakia

Women's event

Event Gold Silver Bronze
team all-around
details
 Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Zdeňka Honsová
Marie Kovářová
Miloslava Misáková
Milena Müllerová
Věra Růžičkova
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

Notes

^[A] Other sources[3][4] 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

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