page_title: 1948 Summer Olympics
section_title: Sports
hierarchical_section_title: 1948 Summer Olympics / Sports
caption_attribution_description: A Boy Scout who fainted in the intense heat was the first 'casualty' of the 1948 Olympic Games. The temperature was in the nineties as the sun blazed down mercilessly. Daily Herald Archive at the National Media Museum
context_page_description: The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was held in London, United Kingdom from 29 July to 14 August 1948.
  Following a twelve-year hiatus caused by the outbreak of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics held since the 1936 Games in Berlin. The 1940 Olympic Games had been scheduled for Tokyo, and then for Helsinki; the 1944 Olympic Games had been provisionally planned for London. This was the second occasion that London had hosted the Olympic Games, having previously hosted them in 1908, forty years earlier. The Olympics would again return to London 64 years later in 2012, making London the first city to have hosted the games three times, and the only such city until Paris and Los Angeles host their third games in 2024 and 2028, respectively. The 1948 Olympic Games were the first of two summer Olympic Games held under the IOC presidency of Sigfrid Edström.
  The event came to be known as the Austerity Games, because of the difficult economic climate and rationing imposed in the aftermath of World War II.
context_section_description: The 1948 Summer Olympics featured 136 medal events, covering 23 disciplines in 17 different sports and in arts.
  In the list below, the number of events in each discipline is noted in parentheses.
  Aquatics
   Diving (4)
   Swimming (11)
   Water polo (1)
   Athletics (33)
   Basketball (1)
   Boxing (8)
   Canoeing (9)
   Cycling
  Road (2)
  Track (4)
   Equestrian
  Dressage (2)
  Eventing (2)
  Show jumping (2)
   Fencing (7)
   Field hockey (1)
   Football (1)
   Gymnastics (9)
   Modern pentathlon (1)
   Rowing (7)
   Sailing (5)
   Shooting (4)
   Weightlifting (6)
   Wrestling
  Freestyle (8)
  Greco-Roman (8)
  These Games also included Lacrosse as a demonstration sport.
caption: A Boy Scout who fainted in the intense heat was the first 'casualty' of the 1948 Olympic Games. The temperature was noted as 97 °F (36 °C) as the sun blazed down mercilessly.[16]
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