Skeleton at the 1948 Winter Olympics
Medals awarded for the skeleton discipline at the 1948 Winter Olympics held in St Moritz. At that time the sport was called cresta, and St. Moritz had the most famous Cresta Run, dating to 1884. In many locations the sport was referred to as tobogganing during these and the 1928 Games. The contest was run over a total of six runs.
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| Venue | Cresta Run | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 15 from 6 nations | ||||||||||||
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Medalists
| Gold | Nino Bibbia |
| Silver | John Heaton.svg.png){kind=small} |
| Bronze | John Crammond |
Turn 10 at Cesana Pariol, where the bobsled, luge, and skeleton competitions took place for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, is named for Bibbia.
John Heaton also won the silver medal in skeleton at the 1928 Winter Olympics.
Results
| Rank | Name | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 5 | Run 6 | Total | Diff. |
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 | Nino Bibbia | | 0:48.8 | 0:47.6 | 0:47.6 | 0:59.5 | 1:00.2 | 1:00.3 | 5:23.2 | — |
 | John Heaton | | 0:48.1 | 0:47.4 | 0:47.7 | 1:00.0 | 1:00.2 | 1:01.2 | 5:24.6 | +1.4 |
 | John Crammond | | 0:47.4 | 0:47.7 | 0:47.9 | 1:00.9 | 1:00.9 | 1:00.3 | 5:25.1 | +1.9 |
| 4 | Wilbur Lee Martin | | 0:47.8 | 0:49.2 | 0:48.2 | 1:00.7 | 1:01.6 | 1:00.5 | 5:28.0 | +4.8 |
| 5 | Gottfried Kägi |  | 0:48.9 | 0:48.8 | 0:48.7 | 1:00.8 | 1:01.6 | 1:01.1 | 5:29.9 | +6.7 |
| 6 | Richard Bott | | 0:48.3 | 0:48.9 | 0:49.2 | 1:01.5 | 1:01.4 | 1:01.4 | 5:30.7 | +7.5 |
| 7 | James Coats | | 0:48.8 | 0:48.7 | 0:49.0 | 1:02.3 | 1:01.7 | 1:01.4 | 5:31.9 | +8.7 |
| 8 | Fairchilds Maccarthy | | 0:48.8 | 0:48.3 | 0:49.4 | 1:03.6 | 1:02.7 | 1:02.7 | 5:35.5 | +12.3 |
| 9 | Thomas Clarke | | 0:49.7 | 0:49.9 | 0:49.3 | 1:03.5 | 1:03.8 | 1:02.8 | 5:39.0 | +15.8 |
| 10 | C. William Johnson | | 0:47.7 | 0:48.4 | 0:48.0 | did not start | — | — | ||
| 11 | Milo Bigler | | 0:48.4 | 0:48.4 | 0:48.7 | did not start | — | — | ||
| 12 | Dialma Balsegia | | 0:49.2 | 0:49.0 | 0:48.6 | did not start | — | — | ||
| 13 | William Hirigoyen |  | 0:52.7 | 0:49.9 | 0:51.0 | did not start | — | — | ||
| Christian Fischbacher | | unknown | did not start | — | — | |||||
| Hugo Kuranda |  | unknown | did not start | — | — | |||||
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (3 nations) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
References
- 1948 skeleton results
- Austrian Olympic Committee results on 1948 skeleton (in German)
- Rapport Général sur les Ves Jeux Olympiques d’hiver St-Moritz 1948 (PDF) (in French). Comité Olympique Suisse. p. 67. Retrieved 2007-03-30.
- Skeletonsport.com results
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