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Figure skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics – Men's singles

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Men's singles
at the V Olympic Winter Games
VenueOlympia Eisstadion Badrutts Park
Dates2-6 February
Competitors16 from 10 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Dick Button
 United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Hans Gerschwiler
 Switzerland
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Edi Rada
 Austria
← 1936
1952 →

The men's individual skating event was held as part of the figure skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics. It was the seventh appearance of the event, which had previously been held twice at the Summer Olympics in 1908 and 1920 and at all four Winter Games from 1924 onward. The competition was held from 2 to 5 February 1948. Sixteen figure skaters from ten nations competed.[1]

Results

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Rank Name Nation CF FS Total points Places
1 Dick Button  United States 1 994.7 1 191.177 10
2 Hans Gerschwiler  Switzerland 2 965.1 3 181.122 23
3 Edi Rada  Austria 3 941.0 4 178.133 33
4 John Lettengarver  United States 4 916.3 2 176.400 36
5 Ede Király  Hungary 5 922.1 5 174.400 42
6 James Grogan  United States 9 867.4 6 168.711 62
7 Graham Sharp  Great Britain 6 909.8 8 167.044 67
8 Hellmut May  Austria 7 893.2 7 165.666 68
9 Hellmut Seibt  Austria 8 882.9 12 162.655 79
10 Ladislav Čáp  Czechoslovakia 10 859.0 11 160.233 96
11 Fernand Leemans  Belgium 11 838.0 14 157.822 104
12 Wallace Diestelmeyer  Canada 13 809.1 9 156.322 110
13 Zdeněk Fikar  Czechoslovakia 12 819.0 13 154.155 114
14 Karl Enderlin  Switzerland 14 796.7 10 154.244 110
15 Carlo Fassi  Italy 16 764.9 15 145.966 135
16 Per Cock-Clausen  Denmark 15 785.5 16 145.533 135

Referee:

Assistant Referee:

Judges:

References

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  1. ^ "Figure Skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics: Singles, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 2 July 2020.