page_title: Sailing at the 1948 Summer Olympics
section_title: Countries
hierarchical_section_title: Sailing at the 1948 Summer Olympics / Competition / Countries
context_page_description: Sailing/Yachting is an Olympic sport starting from the Games of the 1st Olympiad. With the exception of 1904 and the canceled 1916 Summer Olympics, sailing has always been included on the Olympic schedule. The Sailing program of 1948 consisted of a total of five sailing classes. For each class seven races were scheduled from 3–12 August 1948 Torquay/Torbay, on England's south coast.
  The sailing was done on the triangular type Olympic courses. The start was made in the center of a set of 8 numbered marks that were places in a circle. During the starting procedure the sequence of the marks was communicated to the sailors. By picking the mark that was most upwind the start could always be made upwind. This system is, at least in certain German lakes, still in use.
  Great Britain's last surviving Gold Medal Champion from the 1948 Summer Olympics, was David Bond who sailed for Great Britain in the Swallow Class.
caption: Countries that participated in the Sailing event of the 1948 Olympic Games. 
   Blue: Water 
   Gray: Never participated in OG 
   Dark Gray: Participated in earlier OG 
   Green: Country participated for the first time 
   Dark Blue: Country participated also on previous games 
   Red: Country boycotted the sailing event of the OG
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