
	Where results make sense

Topic: 1948 Summer Olympics medal count

Related Topics

1948 Winter Olympics

1948 Summer Olympics

Hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics

1932 Summer Olympics

1920 Summer Olympics

1924 Summer Olympics

1928 Summer Olympics

1936 Summer Olympics

WikiProject Sports Olympics

July 29

United Kingdom

United States

Tapio Rautavaara

World War II

Operation Barbarossa

	1956 summer olympics - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Because Melbourne is situated in the southern hemisphere, the Olympics were held later in the year than those held in the northern hemisphere.
		After being banned from the Olympics in 1948, a team of only West German athletes took part in 1952.
		Inspired by Australian teenager John Wing, an Olympic tradition begins when athletes of different nations are allowed to parade together at the closing ceremony, instead of with their national teams, as a symbol of world unity...
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/1956-Summer-Olympics (401 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		It was the first Olympics since NBC had merged with Vivendi Universal Entertainment; the merger, along with the acquisitions of the Bravo and Telemundo networks, made it possible for the network to broadcast over 1200 hours of coverage during the games, triple what was broadcast in the U.S. four years earlier.
		The main Olympic Stadium, the designated facility for the opening and closing ceremonies, was completed only two months before the games opened, with the sliding over of a futuristic glass roof designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
		The Mayor of Athens, Dora Bakoyianni, passed the Olympic Flag to the Mayor of Beijing, Wang Qishan.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/2/0/0/2004_Summer_Olympics_330c.html (2001 words)

	1948 Summer Olympics
		The Games of the XIV Olympiad were held in 1948 in London, United Kingdom.
		After a hiatus of 12 years caused by the outbreak of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
		For the first type, Olympic diplomas were awarded to the 6th highest placed athletes.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/19/1948_Summer_Olympic_Games.html (142 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics
		These were the first celebration of the Olympic Games since the recreation of the ancient Greek Olympics with the founding of the International Olympic Committee in 1894.
		This is remarkable, as the Olympics did not, for a long time, allow professional athletes to compete, with the sole exception of fencing.
		The weightlifting contests are also conducted in the Olympic stadium, with Launceston Elliot of Great Britain and Viggo Jensen of Denmark taking a first and a second place each in the single-hand and double-hand contests.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/18/1896_summer_olympics.shtml (886 words)

	1948 Summer Olympics Information
		The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad, were held in 1948 at Wembley Stadium in London, England.
		Duncan White of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) won the first medal for his country, a silver, in the 400 meter hurdles.
		Harold Sakata, who won a silver medal in weightlifting, later went on to portray Oddjob in the James Bond film Goldfinger.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/1948_Summer_Olympics (362 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia
		The 1896 Summer Olympics, formally called the Games of the I Olympiad, were the first modern Summer Olympic Games and the first Games since Roman emperor Theodosius I banned the Ancient Olympic Games in AD 393 as part of the Christian campaign against paganism.
		However, the 1900 Summer Olympics were already planned for Paris and, barring the so-called Intercalated Games of 1906, the Olympics did not return to Greece until the 2004 Summer Olympics.
		The true origin of the modern Olympics was acknowledged by De Coubertin as being in Much Wenlock, a rural market town in the English county of Shropshire.
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/1896_Summer_Olympics (3849 words)

	[No title]
		In 1953 after Fend was approached by Professor Willi Messerschmitt along with his idea for a two seater version the Fend Flitzer was taken over by Messerschmitt and Fend used the Flitzer to form the basis of a two seater version; the Fend Kabinenroller FK 175 (The Messerschmitt 175).
		The immediate postwar years of 1944 to 1948 were filled with uncertainty for Finland because it was in a weakened condition and the because new policy of reconciliation was still being formed.
		During the summer of 1948, Count Folke Bernadotte was sent by the UN to Palestine to mediate a truce and try to negotiate a settlement.
	www.lycos.com /info/1948.html (696 words)

	Egypt in the 2004 Summer Olympics
		The original Olympics were held every four years for a span that lasted for almost eight centuries.
		In fact, she is the only Egyptian athlete to be picked for any medal by SI at the summer event.
		Medals unlikely, but perhaps it will prove their time to be spotted by athletic talent-seeking scouts.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/egypt2004olympics.htm (1359 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics
		Athens was chosen as the host city in 1997, after surprisingly losing the bid to organize the 1996 Summer Olympics.
		It was the first Olympics since NBC had merged with Vivendi Universal Entertainment; the merger made it possible for the network to broadcast over 1200 hours of coverage during the games, triple what was broadcast in the U.S. four years earlier.
		Before, the medal ceremony for the last event of the Olympiad, the Men's Marathon, was conducted, with Stefano Baldini from Italy as the winner.
	www.askfactmaster.com /2004_Summer_Olympics (1697 words)

	1924 Summer Olympics
		British runners Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell won medals in the 100 and 400 m, respectively.
		The marathon distance was fixed at 42 km and 195 m, from the distance run at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.
		Ireland was given formal recognition as an independent nation in the Olympic Movement in Paris in 1924 and it was at these games that Ireland made its first appearance in an Olympic Games as an independent nation.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1924_summer_olympics.shtml (251 words)

	1984 Summer Olympics medal count Information
		This is the full table of the medal count of the 1984 Summer Olympics.
		1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006
		Summer Olympics medal count — Winter Olympics medal count
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/1984_Summer_Olympics_medal_count (149 words)

	1948 Summer Olympics at AllExperts
		The 1940 games had been scheduled for Tokyo, and later Helsinki as WWII started; no plans were made to hold games in 1944.
		* For the first time, Olympic diplomas were awarded to the 6th highest placed athletes.
		Note that these Olympic Games were the first time that the host nation did not win enough medals to be included in the top 10 medal winners.
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/1948_Summer_Olympics.htm (341 words)

	1980 Winter Olympics
		The Games of the XIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, United States of America.
		An unfancied amateur United States ice hockey team win the gold medal, defeating Finland in the final.
		Their extraordinary upset victory over the heavy favourite Soviet team in the semifinal becomes known as the "Miracle On Ice" in the US press.
	www.knowallabout.com /1/19/1980_winter_olympics.html (170 words)

	Canada at the Olympics
		The Summer and Winter Olympic games were held during the same year up to and including 1992, after which the same-year format was dropped.
		They captured the GOLD medal in the 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932 (they are the only team ever to win 4 Gold medals in 4 successive Games - 1920 to 1932), 1948, 1952, and (exactly 50 years later), won the Gold medal by defeatiing the USA in the 2002 Winter Games.
		The Summer and Winter Paralympic games were held during the same year up to and including 1992, after which the same-year format was dropped.
	www.members.shaw.ca /kcic1/olympics.html (714 words)

	1952 Summer Olympics at AllExperts
		Helsinki had been earlier given the 1940 Summer Olympics but they were canceled due to World War II.
		* To the enjoyment of the Finnish crowd, the Olympic Flame was lit by two heroes, runners Paavo Nurmi and Hannes Kolehmainen.
		The first gold medal for the USSR was won by Nina Romashkova in women's Discus Throwing Event.
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/1952_Summer_Olympics.htm (317 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006
		Albertville closed a chapter in Olympic history — 1992 was the last year the Winter and Summer Games would be hosted in the same year.
		Frederic Blackburn won two medals, a silver as a member of the relay team and another silver in the 1,000 event.
		Canada’s last medal, a silver, came on the final day of competition, courtesy of the men’s hockey team, which lost to the Unified Team in the final.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/history/1992albertville.shtml (1174 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Index
		Armenian lifter Ashot Danielyan was stripped of his bronze medal after a positive test for the steroid nandrolone, becoming the fourth weightlifter to test positive in the Summer Games.
		The Sydney Olympics drew to a close after 17 days, and were donned the "best ever" by IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch.
		The U.S. led the medal count with 97 medals, 40 of which were gold.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/index.html (426 words)

	1980 Winter Olympics Summary
		Before the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the United States Olympic hockey team was not expected to compete for a medal.
		The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIII Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, United States of America.
		Their defeat of the Soviet team in the medal round became known as the "Miracle on Ice" in the US press.
	www.bookrags.com /1980_Winter_Olympics (1204 words)

	Bobsled: Todd Hays - Olympics 2006
		Hays, who allowed the American men to break a 46-year medal drought by capturing the silver medal in the four-man bobsled competition, was involved in an accident in January of 2005.
		"Each year, every summer, they push athletes, and drivers are evaluated on their speed and strength and ability to push a sled.
		Searching for speed and pushing the limits has never been the problem for Hays, who is hoping for a gold medal in bobsledding, something that hasn't been accomplished by U.S. men since 1948 in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
	www.ktvu.com /olympics2006/6207593/detail.html (703 words)

	1968 Summer Olympics Summary
		The 1968 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were held in Mexico City in 1968.
		Dick Fosbury won the gold medal in the high jump using the radical Fosbury flop technique, which quickly became the dominant technique in the event.
		In the 200 m medal award ceremony, two African-American athletes Tommie Smith (gold) and John Carlos (bronze) raised their fl-gloved fists as a symbol of Black Power.
	www.bookrags.com /1968_Summer_Olympics (1108 words)

	Ice Hockey: Canada Is Team To Beat - Olympics 2006
		Canada's gold medal in 2002 sparked its resurgence as the dominant force in international ice hockey.
		Overall, ice hockey in the Olympic Games dates back to 1920, when the tournament was part of the Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.
		The last team to win successive Olympic titles was the Soviet Union/Unified Team, which won in 1984, 1988 (as Soviet Union) and 1992 (as Unified Team).
	www.wsbtv.com /olympics2006/6207547/detail.html (1493 words)

	CNNSI.com - 2002 Winter Olympics - Bobsled - Americans Bakken, Flowers win bobsled gold - Wednesday February 20, 2002 ...
		Now they are Olympic champions, and Flowers is the first fl athlete ever to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics.
		But it had not won an Olympic bobsled medal since Arthur Tyler took the four-man bronze in 1956 in Cortina, Italy, and had not won gold since his brother, Francis, took the four-man in 1948 at St. Moritz.
		That was only slightly better than Prokoff, but the 25-year-old Bakken is a skilled driver with hundreds of runs on the Olympic track in the city where she lives.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/2002/bobsled/news/2002/02/19/women_bobsled_ap (1041 words)

	Cuba at the 1948 Summer Olympics at AllExperts
		Cuba at the 1948 Summer Olympics at AllExperts
		Cuba competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom under the IOC country code CUB.
		It was the fifth appearance of the Caribbean nation, which made its Olympic debut in 1900.
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/cu/cuba_at_the_1948_summer_olympics.htm (142 words)

	ipedia.com: 1980 Winter Olympics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		See also: 1980 Winter Paralympics The Games of the XIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, United States of America.
		An upstart United States ice hockey team, made up primarily of collegiate players, won the gold medal, defeating the heavily favored Soviet team and then Finland in the medal round.
		Their string of upset victories, and especially the defeat of the Soviet team in the medal round, became known as the "Miracle On Ice" in the US press.
	www.ipedia.com /1980_winter_olympics.html (255 words)

	1948 Summer Olympics medal count (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This is the full table of the medal count of the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
		1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004
		Winter Games medal counts: 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006
	www.webnote.info /en/1948_Summer_Olympics_medal_count.htm (169 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)