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Sweden finished second on the medal table at the 1948 London Summer Olympics with 16 gold, 11 silver and 17 bronze medals for a total of 44 medals, according to multiple contemporary compilations of t...
The United States led the medal table at the 1948 London Summer Olympics, topping the standings in gold medals and overall count (sources list the USA as the leading country) . Official Olympic pages ...
The United States led the 1948 London Games with 84 total medals and the most golds, anchoring a dominant showing in swimming and diving . Individual standouts included Fanny Blankers-Koen (4 golds in...
The event winners at the (, 1896) were a small, mostly male, and internationally mixed group whose achievements are recorded officially by the IOC and reconstructed by historians; is widely celebrated...
The Games produced a small group of athletes who stood out by winning more than one Olympic gold: foremost among them was sprinter with four golds, while other multi‑gold winners included Finnish gymn...
Bob (Robert) Mathias of the United States won the Olympic decathlon at the first Summer Games after WWII (London 1948) at age 17, scoring 7,139 points and later repeating in 1952 . Fanny Blankers‑Koen...
The 1948 London Games — nicknamed the “Austerity Games” — returned the Olympics after a 12‑year wartime hiatus and were staged on a shoestring, using existing venues and rationed resources while drawi...