Figure skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics

Figure skating at the V Winter Olympics
Type:	Olympic Games
Champions
Men's singles: Dick Button
Ladies' singles: Barbara Ann Scott
Pair skating: Micheline Lannoy / Pierre Baugniet
Previous: 1936 Winter Olympics
Next: 1952 Winter Olympics

At the 1948 Winter Olympics, three figure skating events were contested: men's singles, ladies' singles, and pair skating.

Event summary

Barbara Ann Scott became the first Canadian to win the figure skating gold medal while Dick Button became the first American to win a figure skating title for the United States. Button also became the first figure skater to perform a double axel in competition.

The competition began with the men's compulsory figures on February 2. However, the next day, competition was postponed in the midst of the ladies' figures event due to a thaw that left puddles of water on the outdoor ice surface. On February 5 competition had to be resumed, regardless of poor ice conditions, in order to allow the Games to finish on schedule. The pairs event on February 7 was skated in a heavy snowstorm, with the ice having to be scraped after each program.^[1]

Medal summary

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Dick Button (USA)	Hans Gerschwiler (SUI)	Edi Rada (AUT)
Ladies' singles	Barbara Ann Scott (CAN)	Eva Pawlik (AUT)	Jeannette Altwegg (GBR)
Pair skating	Micheline Lannoy / Pierre Baugniet (BEL)	Andrea Kékesy / Ede Király (HUN)	Suzanne Morrow / Wallace Diestelmeyer (CAN)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada	1	0	1	2
2	Belgium	1	0	0	1
	United States	1	0	0	1
4	Austria	0	1	1	2
5	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
7	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
Total		3	3	3	9

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	CF		FS		Total points	Places
1	Dick Button	United States	1	994.7	1		191.177	10
2	Hans Gerschwiler	Switzerland	2	965.1	3		181.122	23
3	Edi Rada	Austria	3	941.0	4		178.133	33
4	John Lettengarver	United States	4	916.3	2		176.400	36
5	Ede Király	Hungary	5	922.1	5		174.400	42
6	James Grogan	United States	9	867.4	6		168.711	62
7	Henry Graham Sharp	Great Britain	6	909.8	8		167.044	67
8	Hellmut May	Austria	7	893.2	7		165.666	68
9	Helmut Seibt	Austria	8	882.9	12		162.655	79
10	Ladislav Čáp	Czechoslovakia	10	859.0	11		160.233	96
11	Fernand Leemans	Belgium	11	838.0	14		157.822	104
12	Wallace Diestelmeyer	Canada	13	809.1	9		156.322	110
13	Zdeněk Fikar	Czechoslovakia	12	819.0	13		154.155	114
14	Karl Enderlin	Switzerland	14	796.7	10		154.244	110
15	Carlo Fassi	Italy	16	764.9	15		145.966	135
16	Per Cock-Clausen	Denmark	15	785.5	16		145.533	135

Referee:

• Henri Mügeli

Assistant Referee:

• Eugen Kirchhofer

Judges:

• Kenneth M. Beaumont
• Emile Finsterwald
• M. Bernard Fox
• Vladimír Koudelka
• Ernst Labin
• Marcel Nicaise
• Melville F. Rogers
• Sven P. Sørensen
• Elemér Terták
• Bruno Bonfiglio (substitute)

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	CF		FS		Total points	Places
1	Barbara Ann Scott	Canada	1	858.1	1		163.077	11
2	Eva Pawlik	Austria	3	832.1	2		157.588	24
3	Jeannette Altwegg	Great Britain	2	842.1	6		156.166	28
4	Jirína Nekolová	Czechoslovakia	4	807.2	4		154.088	34
5	Alena Vrzáňová	Czechoslovakia	7	797.2	3		153.044	44
6	Yvonne Sherman	United States	8	783.9	5		149.833	62
7	Bridget Shirly Adams	Great Britain	5	806.8	16		148.644	69
8	Gretchen Merrill	United States	6	798.0	11		148.466	73
9	Martha Musilek Bachem	Austria	14	744.5	7		144.456	103
10	Marion Tiefy Davies	Great Britain	11	763.5	12		144.766	104
11	Eileen Seigh	United States	10	755.8	10		144.111	110
12	Marilyn Ruth Take	Canada	12	754.1	13		143.722	110.5
13	Dagmar Lerchová	Czechoslovakia	15	745.5	8		144.433	112
14	Suzanne Morrow	Canada	9	761.9	15		143.655	117
15	Maja Hug	Switzerland	13	755.9	19		141.522	137
16	Jacqueline du Bief	France	16	746.0	21		139.022	147.5
17	Marika Saáry	Hungary	17	739.3	14		140.944	142
18	Hildegard Appeltauer	Austria	18	743.7	20		139.300	155
19	Maidie Jill Linzee	Great Britain	19	742.8	18		140.200	145
20	Ingeborg Solar	Austria	23	677.8	9		135.444	186
21	Éva Lindner	Hungary	22	679.7	17		134.188	192
22	Marit Henie	Norway	21	699.4	23		133.111	194
23	Lotti Höner	Switzerland	20	699.1	22		134.211	186
24	Grazia Barcellona	Italy	25	607.9	24		122.211	218
25	Doris Blanc	Switzerland	24	635.6	25		122.622	221

Referee:

• Gustavus F.C. Witt

Assistant Referee:

• Jakob Biedermann

Judges:

• Ercole Cattaneo
• Harold G. Storke
• Eugen Kirchhofer
• Hubert M. Martineau
• Melville F. Rogers
• Adolf Rosdol
• Georges Torchon
• Marcell Vadas
• Karel Zemek
• Christen Christensen (substitute)

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Points	Places
1	Micheline Lannoy / Pierre Baugniet	Belgium	11.227	17.5
2	Andrea Kékesy / Ede Király	Hungary	11.109	26
3	Suzanne Morrow / Wallace Diestelmeyer	Canada	11.000	31
4	Yvonne Sherman / Robert Swenning	United States	10.581	53
5	Winifred Silverthorne / Dennis Silverthorne	Great Britain	10.572	53
6	Karol Kennedy / Peter Kennedy	United States	10.536	59.5
7	Marianna Nagy / László Nagy	Hungary	9.909	89
8	Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks	Great Britain	9.700	98
9	Herta Ratzenhofer / Emil Ratzenhofer	Austria	9.436	111.5
10	Margot Walle / Allan Fjeldheim	Norway	9.281	118.5
11	Susanne Giebisch / Helmut Seibt	Austria	9.290	117.5
12	Luny Unold / Hans Kuster	Switzerland	9.281	120
13	Grazia Barcellona / Carlo Fassi	Italy	9.263	121.5
14	Denise Favart / Jacques Favart	France	8.700	139
WD	Blazena Knittlová / Karel Vosátka	Czechoslovakia

Referee:

• Gustavus F.C. Witt

Assistant Referee:

• James Koch

Judges:

• Christen Christensen
• M. Bernard Fox
• Rudolf Kaler
• Eugen Kirchhofer
• Vladimír Koudelka
• Mollie Phillips
• Melville F. Rogers
• Elemér Terták
• Georges Torchon
• Mario Verdi

References

External links

• "Official Olympic report" (PDF).  (3.70 MB)
• Winter Olympic Memories: Men
• Winter Olympic Memories: Ladies
• Winter Olympic Memories: Pairs
• Skatabase: Men
• Skatabase: Ladies
• Skatabase: Pairs

Figure skating at the Olympic Games
	1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014
List of medalists List of venues