1948 Summer Olympics has part(s) of the class Olympic sporting event
Venues
No new venues were built for the Games. A cinder track was laid inside Empire Stadium and all other venues were adapted. For the first time at the Olympics swimming events were held undercover, at the 8000 capacity Empire Pool. As the pool was longer than the standard Olympic length of 50 metres a platform was constructed across the pool which both shortened it and housed officials. In 2010 one of the last remaining venues from the Games, the Herne Hill Velodrome where cycling events were staged, was saved when a new 15-year lease was agreed meaning that repairs could take place. Campaigners and users of the track had feared that it would be forced to close as it was in desperate need of refurbishment.
Wembley Empire Exhibition Grounds
Empire Stadium – opening and closing ceremonies, athletics, equestrian (jumping), football finals, field hockey finals
Empire Pool – boxing, diving, swimming, water polo
Palace of Engineering – fencing
Other venues
Empress Hall, Earl's Court – boxing preliminaries, wrestling, weightlifting, gymnastics
Harringay Arena, Harringay – basketball & wrestling
Royal Regatta Course, Henley-on-Thames – canoeing, rowing
Herne Hill Velodrome, Herne Hill – track cycling
Windsor Great Park – cycling road race
Central Stadium, Military Headquarters, Aldershot – equestrian (jumping), modern pentathlon (riding, fencing, swimming)
Tweseldown Racecourse – equestrian (dressage, eventing)
Arsenal Stadium, Highbury – football preliminaries
Selhurst Park – football preliminaries
Craven Cottage, Fulham – football preliminaries
Ilford – football preliminaries
Griffin Park, Brentford – football preliminaries
Champion Hill, Dulwich – football preliminaries
Green Pond Road Stadium, Walthamstow – football preliminaries
White Hart Lane, Tottenham – football preliminaries
Lyons' Sports Club, Sudbury – field hockey preliminaries
Guinness Sports Club, Park Royal – field hockey preliminaries
Polytechnic Sports Ground, Chiswick – field hockey preliminaries
National Rifle Association Ranges, Bisley – shooting, modern pentathlon (shooting)
Finchley Lido, Finchley – water polo preliminaries
English Channel, Torbay – yachting
Fratton Park, Portsmouth – football preliminaries
Goldstone Ground, Brighton – football preliminaries
Royal Military Academy – modern pentathlon (running)