| Gymnastics at the Games of the XIV Olympiad | |
|---|---|
| Venue | Empress Hall |
| Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics | ||
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| List of gymnasts | ||
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| Team all-around | men | women |
| Individual all-around | men | |
| Vault | men | |
| Floor | men | |
| Pommel horse | men | |
| Rings | men | |
| Parallel bars | men | |
| Horizontal bar | men | |
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]
Shortly after the Czechoslovak 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 Czechoslovak flag was raised at the medal ceremony, it was bordered with a black ribbon.[4]
- ^ (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.
{{cite book}}:|author=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-11-18.
- ^ "Gymnastics at the 1948 London Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ a b Wallechinsky, David (1984). The Complete Book of the Olympics. England: Penguin Books. p. 323. ISBN 0140066322.