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Official list of medal winners and results by sport at the St. Moritz 1948 Olympic Games. Celebrate medal-winning moments by the world's top athletes.
- St. Moritz 1948 Winter Olympics - Athletes, Medals & Results
Relive the moments that went down in history at the 1948...
- St. Moritz 1948 Winter Olympics - Athletes, Medals & Results
Relive the moments that went down in history at the 1948 winter Olympics in St. Moritz. Access official videos, results, galleries, sport and athletes.
21 cze 2024 · St Moritz 1948: A war-weary world emerges from the shadows. The Swiss resort’s second Olympic Winter Games, staged 20 years after its first, provided the perfect tonic for a world still recovering from the Second World War. Legacy overview.
Winter Pentathlon. Did you know? Speed skater Guido Caroli carried the Olympic Torch on the ice during the opening ceremony of the 1956 Winter Olympics. He tripped over a microphone wire and fell, but fortunately he was not harmed and the fire did not go out.
Barbara Ann Scott became the first and only Canadian woman to win an Olympic gold medal in figure skating when she won the competition at St. Moritz. Despite the distraction caused by a low-flying airplane during her compulsory routine, she could muster the focus to place first entering the free skate.
The US ice hockey team caused a huge upset by defeating the favored Soviet Union at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics. The team was coached by Herb Brooks , who was the last player to be cut from the 1960 team (which also won gold).
At the end of the war, Siegfrid Edström, the Swede Siegfrid Edström, the fourth president of the I.O.C., convened a meeting of the Executive Board in London. St. Moritz is in charge of the Winter Games for the second time. Neither Germany nor Japan are invited.
