Canada at the 1948 Winter Olympics

Canada at the
1948 Winter Olympics
IOC code CAN
NOC Canadian Olympic Committee
Website www.olympic.ca (English) (French)
in St. Moritz
Competitors 28 (24 men, 4 women) in 7 sports
Flag bearer Hubert Brooks (ice hockey)
Medals
Ranked 6th
Gold Silver Bronze Total
2 0 1 3
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
1906 Intercalated Games

Canada competed at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Canada has competed at every Winter Olympic Games.

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event
 Gold Ann Scott, BarbaraBarbara Ann Scott Figure skating Women's singles
 Gold Canada men's national ice hockey team (RCAF Flyers)
Hubert Brooks Patrick Guzzo J. Leichnitz
Murray Dowey Walter Halder George Mara
Bernard Dunster Thomas Hibberd Albert Renaud
R.A. Forbes Ross King Reginald Schroeter
A. Gilpin Henri-André Laperriere Irving Taylor
Jean Gravelle John Lecompte
Ice hockey Men's competition
 Bronze Morrow, SuzanneSuzanne Morrow
Diestelmeyer, WallaceWallace Diestelmeyer
Figure skating Pairs

Alpine skiing

Men
Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Bill Irwin Downhill 3:41.3 60
Bert Irwin 3:39.1 56
Hector Sutherland 3:14.1 28
Harvey Clifford 3:14.1 28
Bill Irwin Slalom 1:40.4 51 1:21.2 45 3:01.6 50
Bert Irwin 1:29.4 39 1:16.6 35 2:46.0 37
Hector Sutherland 1:19.2 27 1:12.0 28 2:31.2 28
Harvey Clifford 1:13.5 19 1:10.2 24 2:23.7 19

Men's combined

The downhill part of this event was held along with the main medal event of downhill skiing. For athletes competing in both events, the same time was used (see table above for the results). The slalom part of the event was held separate from the main medal event of slalom skiing (included in table below).

Athlete Slalom Total (downhill + slalom)
Time 1 Time 2 Rank Points Rank
Bert Irwin 2:02.5 (+0:05) 1:18.9 61 53.51 49
Bill Irwin 1:32.9 1:12.7 33 39.25 36
Harvey Clifford 1:26.8 1:10.2 23 20.34 21
Hector Sutherland 1:22.8 1:17.3 25 21.72 23
Women
Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Rhona Wurtele Downhill 3:26.1 37

Cross-country skiing

Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
18 km Bill Irwin 1'44:43 81
Tom Dennie 1'35:41 73
50 km Tom Dennie DNF

Figure skating

Men
Athlete CF FS Points Places Final rank
Wallace Diestelmeyer 13 9 156.322 110 12
Women
Athlete CF FS Points Places Final rank
Suzanne Morrow 9 15 143.655 117 14
Marilyn Ruth Take 12 13 143.722 110.5 12
Barbara Ann Scott 1 1 163.077 11 1st, gold medalist(s)
Pairs
Athletes Points Places Final rank
Suzanne Morrow
Wallace Diestelmeyer
11.000 31 3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Ice hockey

The tournament was run in a round-robin format with nine teams participating.

Pld W L T GF GA Pts
 Canada 1st, gold medalist(s) 870169515
 Czechoslovakia 8701801815
  Switzerland 8620672112
 Sweden 844055288
 Great Britain 835039476
 Poland 826029974
 Austria 817033772
 Italy 8080241560
 United States * 8530863310

* United States team was disqualified. Only eight teams are officially ranked.

Top scorer

Team GP G A Pts
Canada Walter Halder 821829
Gold:
 Canada (CAN)
Hubert Brooks
Murray Dowey
Bernard Dunster
R.A. Forbes
A. Gilpin
Jean Gravelle
Patrick Guzzo
Walter Halder
Thomas Hibberd
Ross King
Henri-André Laperriere
John Lecompte
J. Leichnitz
George Mara
Albert Renaud
Reginald Schroeter
Irving Taylor

Nordic combined

Events:

The cross-country skiing part of this event was combined with the main medal event, meaning that athletes competing here were skiing for two disciplines at the same time. Details can be found above in this article, in the cross-country skiing section.

The ski jumping (normal hill) event was held separate from the main medal event of ski jumping, results can be found in the table below. Athletes would perform three jumps, of which the two best jumps (distance and form) were counted.

Athlete Event Cross-country Ski Jumping Total
Points Rank Distance 1 Distance 2 Distance 3 Points Rank Points Rank
Bill Irwin Individual 99.00 39 51.0 51.0 51.5 181.0 30 280.00 37

Ski jumping

Athlete Event Distance 1 Distance 2 Total points Rank
Bill Irwin Normal hill 56.0 54.0 175.1 39
Laurent Bernier 58.0 54.5 (fall) 129.3 46
Tom Mobraaten 59.0 (fall) 58.0 135.9 44

Speed skating

Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
500 m Craig Mackay DNF
Abe Hardy 45.5 19
Gordon Audley 45.3 17
Frank Stack 43.6 6
1500 m Gordon Audley 2:30.0 32
Abe Hardy 2:28.5 29
Frank Stack 2:25.7 27
5000 m Craig Mackay 8:47.2 14
10,000 m Craig Mackay 20:15.5 13

References

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