Skeleton at the 1948 Winter Olympics

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Medals awarded for the skeleton discipline at the 1948 Winter Olympics held in St Moritz. 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.

1 Medalists
2 Results
3 Medal table
4 References

[edit] Medalists

Gold	Nino Bibbia Italy (ITA)
Silver	John Heaton United States (USA)
Bronze	John Crammond Great Britain (GBR)

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.

Jack Heaton also won the silver medal in skeleton at the 1928 Winter Olympics.

[edit] Results

Rank	Name	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Run 5	Run 6	Total	Diff.
	Nino Bibbia (ITA)	0:48.8	0:47.6	0:47.6	0:59.5	1:00.2	1:00.3	5:23.2	—
	John Heaton (USA)	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 (GBR)	0:47.4	0:47.7	0:47.9	1:00.9	1:00.9	1:00.3	5:25.1	+1.9
4	William Martin (USA)	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 (SUI)	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 (GBR)	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 (GBR)	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 (USA)	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 (GBR)	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 (USA)	0:47.7	0:48.4	0:48.0	did not start			—	—
11	Milo Bigler (SUI)	0:48.4	0:48.4	0:48.7	did not start			—	—
12	Dialma Balsegia (SUI)	0:49.2	0:49.0	0:48.6	did not start			—	—
13	William Hirigoyen (FRA)	0:52.7	0:49.9	0:51.0	did not start			—	—
	Christian Fischbacher (SUI)	unknown			did not start			—	—
	Hugo Kuranda (AUT)	unknown			did not start			—	—

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
2	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
3	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1

[edit] References

1948 skeleton results
1948 Winter Olympics results, including skeleton (Polish)
Austrian Olympic Committee results on 1948 skeleton (German)
Rapport Général sur les V^es Jeux Olympiques d’hiver St-Moritz 1948 (PDF) (in French), Comité Olympique Suisse, p. 67. Retrieved on 2007-03-30.
Skeletonsport.com results

v • d • e Events at the 1948 Winter Olympics (St. Moritz)

Alpine skiing • Bobsleigh • Cross‑country skiing • Figure skating • Ice hockey • Military patrol (demonstration) • Nordic combined • Skeleton • Ski jumping • Speed skating • Winter pentathlon (demonstration)