# Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics

At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, nine events in gymnastics were contested. Finland led all nations with six gold medals and ten medals overall.
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. When the Czechoslovak flag was raised at the medal ceremony, it was bordered with a black ribbon.

## 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 |
| Totals (5 entries) | Totals (5 entries) | 11 | 8 | 11 | 30 |

### Men's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| individual all-round details | Veikko Huhtanen Finland | Walter Lehmann Switzerland | Paavo Aaltonen Finland |
| 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 |
| floor exercises details | Ferenc Pataki Hungary | János Mogyorósi-Klencs Hungary | Zdeněk Růžička 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 |
| parallel bars details | Michael Reusch Switzerland | Veikko Huhtanen Finland | Christian Kipfer Switzerland |
| pommel horse details | Paavo Aaltonen Finland | none awarded | none awarded |
| pommel horse details | Veikko Huhtanen Finland | none awarded | none awarded |
| pommel horse details | Heikki Savolainen Finland | none awarded | none awarded |
| rings details | Karl Frei Switzerland | Michael Reusch Switzerland | Zdeněk Růžička Czechoslovakia |
| vault details | Paavo Aaltonen Finland | Olavi Rove Finland | János Mogyorósi-Klencs Hungary |
| vault details | Paavo Aaltonen Finland | Olavi Rove Finland | Ferenc Pataki Hungary |
| vault details | Paavo Aaltonen Finland | Olavi Rove Finland | Leo Sotorník Czechoslovakia |

### Women's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| team all-around details | Czechoslovakia (TCH) Zdeňka Honsová Marie Kovářová Miloslava Misáková Milena Müllerová Věra Růžičková 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 |
| Individual all-around† details | Zdeňka Honsová Czechoslovakia | Edit Weckinger Hungary Laura Micheli Italy | n/a |
| Vault† details | Karin Lindberg Sweden | Joan Airey Great Britain Clara Schroth United States | n/a |
| Balance Beam† details | Zdeňka Honsová Czechoslovakia | Irén Karcsics Hungary Miloslava Misáková Czechoslovakia | n/a |
| Flying Rings†, ††† details | Zdeňka Honsová Czechoslovakia | Edit Weckinger Hungary Laura Micheli Italy | n/a |
| Floor Exercise†, †††† | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Uneven Bars†, †† | n/a | n/a | n/a |
† Within the sport of artistic gymnastics, although men were recognized with individual medals at the time, the women weren’t. The list of the individual medalists within this table reflects the individuals who garnered a top-three placement in the team competition on the respective apparatus (or all 3 combined, in the case of the all-around) and who would have been awarded a medal with the rules that commenced with the 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympic Games and that would change periodically at future Olympic Games with respect to the debut of individual finals competitions at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics and with respect to the New Life rules that made their Olympic debut at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics.
†† Women did not compete on the Uneven Bars apparatus during these Olympic Games.
††† This was the only time that women gymnasts competed on this apparatus at an Olympic Games.
†††† Women’s Floor Exercise was not an event that existed at the time.

## Participating nations

* Argentina (7)
* Austria (16)
* Belgium (8)
* Cuba (7)
* Czechoslovakia (16)
* Denmark (8)
* Egypt (8)
* Finland (8)
* France (16)
* Great Britain (16)
* Hungary (16)
* Italy (16)
* Luxembourg (8)
* Mexico (5)
* Netherlands (8)
* Sweden (8)
* Switzerland (8)
* United States (16)
* Yugoslavia (16)