Canada competed at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Canada has competed at every Winter Olympic Games.
Medalists
MedalNameSportEvent Figure skating Women's singles Canada men's national ice hockey team (RCAF Flyers) Ice hockey Men's competition Figure skating Pairs
Of the 28 athletes participating only 8 did not receive any medals. While the men's hockey medal is counted as one, each of the 17 players received individual medals. The pairs figure skating counted as a single medal.
Alpine skiing
Men
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankBill IrwinDownhill3:41.360Bert Irwin3:39.156Hector Sutherland3:14.128Harvey Clifford3:14.128Bill IrwinSlalom1:40.4511:21.2453:01.650Bert Irwin1:29.4391:16.6352:46.037Hector Sutherland1:19.2271:12.0282:31.228Harvey Clifford1:13.5191:10.2242:23.719
Men's combined
The downhill part of this event was held along with the main medal event of downhill skiing. For athletes competing in both events, the same time was used (see table above for the results). The slalom part of the event was held separate from the main medal event of slalom skiing (included in table below).
AthleteSlalomTotal (downhill + slalom)Time 1Time 2RankPointsRankBert Irwin2:02.5 (+0:05)1:18.96153.5149Bill Irwin1:32.91:12.73339.2536Harvey Clifford1:26.81:10.22320.3421Hector Sutherland1:22.81:17.32521.7223
Women
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankRhona WurteleDownhill3:26.137
Cross-country skiing
Men EventAthleteRaceTimeRank18 kmBill Irwin1'44:4381Tom Dennie1'35:417350 kmTom DennieDNF–
Figure skating
Men AthleteCFFSPointsPlacesFinal rank Wallace Diestelmeyer139156.32211012
Women AthleteCFFSPointsPlacesFinal rank Suzanne Morrow915143.65511714 Marilyn Ruth Take1213143.722110.512 Barbara Ann Scott11163.07711
Pairs AthletesPointsPlacesFinal rank Suzanne MorrowWallace Diestelmeyer11.00031
Ice hockey
The tournament was run in a round-robin format with nine teams participating. PldWLTGFGAPts 870169515 8701801815 8620672112 844055288 835039476 826029974 817033772 8080241560 *8530863310 * United States team was disqualified. Only eight teams are officially ranked.
Canada 3-1 Sweden Canada 3-0 United Kingdom Canada 15-0 Poland Canada 21-1 Italy Canada 12-3 USA Canada 0-0 Czechoslovakia Canada 12-0 Austria Canada 3-0 Switzerland
Top scorer TeamGPGAPts Walter Halder821829
Gold:Hubert Brooks Murray Dowey Bernard Dunster R.A. Forbes A. Gilpin Jean Gravelle Patrick Guzzo Walter Halder Thomas Hibberd Ross King Henri-André Laperriere John Lecompte J. Leichnitz George Mara Albert Renaud Reginald Schroeter Irving Taylor
Nordic combined
Events: 18 km cross-country skiing normal hill ski jumping
The cross-country skiing part of this event was combined with the main medal event, meaning that athletes competing here were skiing for two disciplines at the same time. Details can be found above in this article, in the cross-country skiing section.
The ski jumping (normal hill) event was held separate from the main medal event of ski jumping, results can be found in the table below. Athletes would perform three jumps, of which the two best jumps (distance and form) were counted.
AthleteEventCross-countrySki JumpingTotalPointsRankDistance 1Distance 2Distance 3PointsRankPointsRankBill IrwinIndividual99.003951.051.051.5181.030280.0037
Ski jumping
AthleteEventDistance 1Distance 2Total pointsRankBill IrwinNormal hill56.054.0175.139Laurent Bernier58.054.5 (fall)129.346Tom Mobraaten59.0 (fall)58.0135.944
Speed skating
Men EventAthleteRaceTimeRank500 mCraig MackayDNF–Abe Hardy45.519Gordon Audley45.317Frank Stack43.661500 mGordon Audley2:30.032Abe Hardy2:28.529Frank Stack2:25.7275000 mCraig Mackay8:47.21410,000 mCraig Mackay20:15.513
References
Olympic Winter Games 1948, full results by sports-reference.com