# List of 1948 Winter Olympics medal winners

The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known by the International Olympic Committee as the V Olympic Winter Games, were a multi-sport event held in St. Moritz, Switzerland, from January 30 through February 8, 1948. A total of 669 athletes representing 28 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated at the Games in twenty two events across eight disciplines.
The Olympic programme was adjusted from that of the 1936 Winter Olympics with the addition of skeleton for men. The sport had first appeared at the 1928 Winter Olympics, which had also taken place in St. Moritz, but would not make another appearance until 2002 in Salt Lake City. Two demonstration sports were held in St. Moritz, winter pentathlon and military patrol. This was the fourth time military patrol had been held as a demonstration event, the closely related sport of biathlon was added to the programme beginning with the 1960 Squaw Valley Olympics. Both men and women competed in the 1948 Games, with women taking part in alpine skiing and figure skating.
A total of 123 athletes won medals at the 1948 Games. Norway, Sweden and Switzerland tied for the most number of medals, with ten each. The United States placed fourth in the medal count, with nine, and Austria placed fifth, with eight. Of the 28 competing NOCs, 13 won at least one medal, with 10 of these winning at least one gold. Notable absences from these Games were defeated Axis Powers members Germany and Japan, who were not invited to St. Moritz or the London Summer Olympics later in the year in light of the recently concluded World War II. The Soviet Union, who did not form an NOC until 1951, declined to take part.
Sweden repeated its success in cross-country skiing, winning all three medals in the Men's 18 km event and all three gold medals available in the sport. Canadian teenager Barbara-Ann Scott became the first from her nation to win an Olympic gold medal in figure skating, and Dick Button from the United States did the same. Alpine skier Henri Oreiller from France won the most medals with a total of three, with two gold medals from the downhill and combined events, and a bronze in the slalom event.

## Alpine skiing

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's downhill details | Henri Oreiller France | Franz Gabl Austria | Rolf Olinger Switzerland |
| Men's downhill details | Henri Oreiller France | Franz Gabl Austria | Karl Molitor Switzerland |
| Women's downhill details | Hedy Schlunegger Switzerland | Trude Beiser Austria | Resi Hammerer Austria |
| Men's slalom details | Edy Reinalter Switzerland | James Couttet France | Henri Oreiller France |
| Women's slalom details | Gretchen Fraser United States | Antoinette Meyer Switzerland | Erika Mahringer Austria |
| Men's combined details | Henri Oreiller France | Karl Molitor Switzerland | James Couttet France |
| Women's combined details | Trude Beiser Austria | Gretchen Fraser United States | Erika Mahringer Austria |

## Bobsleigh

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Two-man details | Switzerland (SUI) Switzerland II Felix Endrich Friedrich Waller | Switzerland (SUI) Switzerland I Fritz Feierabend Paul Eberhard | United States (USA) USA II Frederick Fortune Schuyler Carron |
| Four-man details | United States (USA) USA II Francis Tyler Patrick Martin Edward Rimkus William D'Amico | Belgium (BEL) Belgium I Max Houben Freddy Mansveld Louis-Georges Niels Jacques Mouvet | United States (USA) USA I James Bickford Thomas Hicks Donald Dupree William Dupree |

## Cross-country skiing

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 18 km details | Martin Lundström Sweden | Nils Östensson Sweden | Gunnar Eriksson Sweden |
| 50 km details | Nils Karlsson Sweden | Harald Eriksson Sweden | Benjamin Vanninen Finland |
| 4×10 km details | Sweden (SWE) Gunnar Eriksson Martin Lundström Nils Östensson Nils Täpp | Finland (FIN) August Kiuru Teuvo Laukkanen Sauli Rytky Lauri Silvennoinen | Norway (NOR) Erling Evensen Olav Hagen Reidar Nyborg Olav Økern |

## Figure skating

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's singles details | Dick Button United States | Hans Gerschwiler Switzerland | Edi Rada Austria |
| Ladies' singles details | Barbara-Ann Scott Canada | Eva Pawlik Austria | Jeannette Altwegg Great Britain |
| Pairs details | Belgium (BEL) Pierre Baugniet Micheline Lannoy | Hungary (HUN) Andrea Kékesy Ede Király | Canada (CAN) Wallace Diestelmeyer Suzanne Morrow |

## Ice hockey

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's team details | Canada (CAN) Andy Gilpin Albert Renaud Bernard Dunster George Mara Hubert Brooks Henri-André Laperrière Irving Taylor Pete Leichnitz Jean Gravelle Louis Lecompte Murray Dowey Patrick Guzzo Roy A. Forbes Reginald Schroeter Ross King Thomas Hibberd Walter Halder | Czechoslovakia (TCH) Bohumil Modrý Gustav Bubník Jaroslav Drobný Josef Trousílek Karel Stibor Ladislav Troják Miloslav Pokorný Miroslav Sláma Oldřich Zábrodský Přemysl Hajný Stanislav Konopásek Václav Roziňák Vilibald Šťovík Vladimír Bouzek Vladimír Kobranov Vladimír Zábrodský Zdeněk Jarkovský | Switzerland (SUI) Alfred Bieler Beat Rüedi Emil Handschin Ferdinand Cattini Gebhard Poltera Hans Bänninger Hans Cattini Hans Dürst Hans Trepp Heini Lohrer Heinrich Boller Otto Schubiger Reto Perl Bibi Torriani Ulrich Poltera Walter Dürst Werner Lohrer |

## Nordic combined

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's individual details | Heikki Hasu Finland | Martti Huhtala Finland | Sven Israelsson Sweden |

## Skeleton

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's individual details | Nino Bibbia Italy | John Heaton United States | John Crammond Great Britain |

## Ski jumping

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's individual details | Petter Hugsted Norway | Birger Ruud Norway | Thorleif Schjelderup Norway |

## Speed skating

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 500 metres details | Finn Helgesen Norway | Ken Bartholomew United States | none awarded |
| 500 metres details | Finn Helgesen Norway | Thomas Byberg Norway | none awarded |
| 500 metres details | Finn Helgesen Norway | Robert Fitzgerald United States | none awarded |
| 1500 metres details | Sverre Farstad Norway | Åke Seyffarth Sweden | Odd Lundberg Norway |
| 5000 metres details | Reidar Liaklev Norway | Odd Lundberg Norway | Göthe Hedlund Sweden |
| 10000 metres details | Åke Seyffarth Sweden | Lassi Parkkinen Finland | Pentti Lammio Finland |

## Multiple medallists

Athletes who won more than one medal are listed below.
| Athlete | Nation | Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| Henri Oreiller | France (FRA) | Alpine skiing | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Martin Lundström | Sweden (SWE) | Cross-country skiing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gretchen Fraser | United States (USA) | Alpine skiing | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Trude Jochum-Beiser | Austria (AUT) | Alpine skiing | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Nils Östensson | Sweden (SWE) | Cross-country skiing | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Åke Seyffarth | Sweden (SWE) | Speed skating | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Gunnar Eriksson | Sweden (SWE) | Cross-country skiing | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| James Couttet | France (FRA) | Alpine skiing | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Odd Lundberg | Norway (NOR) | Speed skating | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Karl Molitor | Switzerland (SUI) | Alpine Skiing | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Erika Mahringer | Austria (AUT) | Alpine skiing | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |