Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics

At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, 11 swimming events were contested, six for men and five for women. All swimming events took place at the Empire Pool. There was a total of 249 participants from 34 countries competing.

Medal table

1	United States (USA)	8	6	1	15
2	Denmark (DEN)	2	2	0	4
3	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	2	3
4	Australia (AUS)	0	2	2	4
5	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	3	4
6	France (FRA)	0	0	2	2
7	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Wally Ris  United States	57.3 (OR)	Alan Ford  United States	57.8	Géza Kádas  Hungary	58.1
400 m freestyle	Bill Smith  United States	4:41.0 (OR)	Jimmy McLane  United States	4:43.4	John Marshall  Australia	4:47.7
1500 m freestyle	Jimmy McLane  United States	19:18.5	John Marshall  Australia	19:31.3	György Mitró  Hungary	19:43.2
100 m backstroke	Allen Stack  United States	1:06.4	Bob Cowell  United States	1:06.5	Georges Vallerey  France	1:07.8
200 m breaststroke	Joe Verdeur  United States	2:39.3 (OR)	Keith Carter  United States	2:40.2	Bob Sohl  United States	2:43.9
4 × 200 metre freestyle relay	United States (USA) Wally Ris Jimmy McLane Wally Wolf Bill Smith	8:46.0 (WR)	Hungary (HUN) Elemér Szatmári György Mitró Imre Nyéki Géza Kádas	8:48.4	France (FRA) Joseph Bernardo René Cornu Henri Padou, Jr. Alexandre Jany	9:08.0

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Greta Andersen  Denmark	1:06.3	Ann Curtis  United States	1:06.5	Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen  Netherlands	1:07.6
400 m freestyle	Ann Curtis  United States	5:17.8 (OR)	Karen Harup  Denmark	5:21.2	Catherine Gibson  Great Britain	5:22.5
100 m backstroke	Karen Harup  Denmark	1:14.4 (OR)	Suzanne Zimmerman  United States	1:16.0	Judy-Joy Davies  Australia	1:16.7
200 m breaststroke	Nel van Vliet  Netherlands	2:57.2	Nancy Lyons  Australia	2:57.7	Éva Novák  Hungary	3:00.2
4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	United States (USA) Marie Corridon Thelma Kalama Brenda Helser Ann Curtis	4:29.2 (OR)	Denmark (DEN) Eva Arndt Karen Harup Greta Andersen Fritze Carstensen	4:29.6	Netherlands (NED) Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher Margot Marsman Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen Hannie Termeulen	4:31.6

Participating nations

249 swimmers from 34 nations competed.

Argentina (17)  Australia (10)  Austria (2)  Belgium (6)  Bermuda (5)  Brazil (13)  Canada (9)  China (1)  Colombia (2)

Cuba (2)  Czechoslovakia (3)  Denmark (6)  Egypt (6)  Finland (1)  France (17)  Great Britain (25)  Greece (2)

Hungary (15)  Iceland (8)  India (7)  Mexico (9)  Netherlands (12)  New Zealand (1)  Norway (1)  Pakistan (4)

Philippines (3)  Portugal (1)  South Africa (3)  Spain (6)  Sweden (8)  Switzerland (8)  United States (28)  Uruguay (2)  Yugoslavia (6)