1948 Winter Olympics / Ice Hockey

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	Winner: Canada

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	Winner: Czechoslovakia

The Olympic men's ice hockey tournament of the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz ( Switzerland ) was also the 15th IIHF - Ice Hockey World Championship and the 26th European Ice Hockey Championship . The games took place from January 30th to February 8th, 1948. Nine teams took part; the tournament was carried out in league play .

For the first time after the war, record world champions Canada were there again, winning their twelfth title and their fourth Olympic gold medal. The Czechoslovakia finished the tournament only because of the goal difference just to second place and was the eighth time European champion.
Canada was not rated as highly at first, but gained momentum as the tournament progressed. It was an unusually tough team and the fastest team, which replaced the better technology of the ČSR with strength. The defense was particularly good with only five goals against, Halder was the best man in the storm. The ČSR, the most uniform and technically best team in the tournament, only played at half speed in the final match against the USA. Switzerland clearly had the third best team, even though the defeat against the ČSR was extremely high.

However, the tournament was overshadowed by a scandal. The USA team competed with professional players and was therefore subsequently disqualified by the International Olympic Committee . The Americans were not hit particularly hard, however, as they had not won a medal anyway due to their disappointing performance at this Olympic tournament. The "AAU team" that was not needed left Dübendorf on February 6th at 11 am on a Swissair scheduled flight via Paris , from where the journey continued with a special aircraft operated by the "Trans-World Airline" from 9 pm.

Games

January 30, 1948	St. Moritz	Switzerland	-	United States		5: 4 (1: 0.1: 1.3: 3)
January 30, 1948	St. Moritz	Canada	-	Sweden		3: 1 (1: 1.1: 0.1: 0)
January 30, 1948	St. Moritz	Poland	-	Austria		7: 5 (0: 2.4: 2.3: 1)
January 30, 1948	St. Moritz	Czechoslovakia	-	Italy		22: 3 (6: 0.10: 1.6: 2)
January 31, 1948	St. Moritz	United States	-	Poland		23: 4 (5: 0.9: 1.9: 3)
January 31, 1948	St. Moritz	Czechoslovakia	-	Sweden		6: 3 (3: 2.3: 1.0: 0)
January 31, 1948	St. Moritz	Switzerland	-	Italy		16: 0 (4: 0.9: 0.3: 0)
January 31, 1948	St. Moritz	Great Britain	-	Austria		5: 4 (1: 2.1: 1.3: 1)
February 1, 1948	St. Moritz	Canada	-	Great Britain		3: 0 (1: 0.1: 0.1: 0)
February 1, 1948	St. Moritz	United States	-	Italy		31: 1 (6: 0.11: 1.14: 0)
February 1, 1948	St. Moritz	Switzerland	-	Austria		11: 2 (2: 2.3: 0.6: 0)
February 1, 1948	St. Moritz	Czechoslovakia	-	Poland		13: 1 (2: 0.5: 1.6: 0)
February 2, 1948	St. Moritz	Sweden	-	Austria		7: 1 (3: 1.1: 0.3: 0)
February 2, 1948	St. Moritz	Canada	-	Poland		15: 0 (5: 0.6: 0.4: 0)
February 2, 1948	St. Moritz	Czechoslovakia	-	Great Britain		11: 4 (4: 1.6: 1.1: 2)
February 3, 1948	St. Moritz	Canada	-	Italy		21: 1 (11: 0.6: 0.4: 1)
February 3, 1948	St. Moritz	United States	-	Sweden		5: 2 (2: 0.2: 1.1: 1)
February 4, 1948	St. Moritz	Czechoslovakia	-	Austria		17: 3 (4: 0.5: 1, 8: 2)
February 4, 1948	St. Moritz	Switzerland	-	Great Britain		12: 3 (5: 2.5: 1.2: 0)
February 4, 1948	St. Moritz	Poland	-	Italy		13: 7 (3: 1.6: 2.4: 4)
February 5, 1948	St. Moritz	Switzerland	-	Sweden		8: 2 (3: 0.3: 1.2: 1)
February 5, 1948	St. Moritz	Great Britain	-	Poland		7: 2 (2: 0.1: 1.4: 1)
February 5, 1948	St. Moritz	Austria	-	Italy		16: 5 (3: 4.6: 0.7: 1)
February 5, 1948	St. Moritz	Canada	-	United States		12: 3 (3: 1.4: 0.5: 2)
February 6, 1948	St. Moritz	Sweden	-	Great Britain		4: 3 (1: 2.1: 1.2: 0)
February 6, 1948	St. Moritz	Switzerland	-	Poland		14: 0 (8: 0.5: 0.1: 0)
February 6, 1948	St. Moritz	Canada	-	Czechoslovakia		0: 0 (0: 0.0: 0.0: 0)
February 6, 1948	St. Moritz	United States	-	Austria		13: 2 (4: 2.4: 0.5: 0)
February 7, 1948	St. Moritz	United States	-	Great Britain		4: 3 (1: 1.2: 0.1: 2)
February 7, 1948	St. Moritz	Sweden	-	Italy		23: 0 (6: 0.10: 0.7: 0)
February 7, 1948	St. Moritz	Switzerland	-	Czechoslovakia		1: 7 (0: 1.1: 2.0: 4)
February 7, 1948	St. Moritz	Canada	-	Austria		12: 0 (5: 0.5: 0.2: 0)
February 8, 1948	St. Moritz	Great Britain	-	Italy		14: 7 (6: 2.5: 3.3: 2)
February 8, 1948	St. Moritz	Sweden	-	Poland		13: 2 (5: 1.4: 1.4: 0)
February 8, 1948	St. Moritz	Czechoslovakia	-	United States		4: 3 (3: 1.1: 2.0: 0)
February 8, 1948	St. Moritz	Switzerland	-	Canada		0: 3 (0: 1.0: 1.0: 1)

Final table and medals

Due to the use of paid players, the placement of the USA was not counted for the Olympic Games, but for the World Cup. For the European Championship only the placements of the European teams were taken into account.

Silver medal of the Czechoslovak national team

space			team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
Olympia	WM	EM
1.	1.	-	Canada	8th	7th	1	0	69: 500	+64	15: 01
2.	2.	1.	Czechoslovakia	8th	7th	1	0	80: 18	+62	15: 01
3.	3.	2.	Switzerland	8th	6th	0	2	67: 021	+46	12: 04
-	4th	-	United States	8th	5	0	3	86: 33	+53	10: 06
4th	5.	3.	Sweden	8th	4th	0	4th	55: 028	+27	08: 08
5.	6th	4th	United Kingdom	8th	3	0	5	39: 047	−8	06:10
6th	7th	5.	Poland	8th	2	0	6th	29: 097	−68	04:12
7th	8th.	6th	Austria	8th	1	0	7th	33: 077	−44	02:14
8th.	9.	7th	Italy	8th	0	0	8th	24: 156	−132	00:16

The winning Canadian team at the 1948 Winter Olympics

placement	team	player
	Canada	Murray Dowey , Bernard Dunster , Jean Gravelle , Patrick Guzzo , Walter Halder , Thomas Hibberd , Henri-André Laperrière , John Lecompte , George Mara , Albert Roméo Renaud , Reginald Schroeter , Irving Taylor
	Czechoslovakia	Vladimír bouzek , Gustav Bubník , Jaroslav Drobný , Přemysl Hajný , Zdenek Jarkovský , Vladimir Kobranov , Stanislav Konopásek , Bohumil Modrý , Miloslav Pokorny , Vaclav Rozinák , Miroslav Slama , Karel Stibor , Vilibald Štovík , Ladislav Troják , Josef Trousílek , Oldrich Zábrodský , vladimír Zábrodský
	Switzerland	Hans Bänninger , Alfred Bieler , Heinrich Boller , Ferdinand Cattini , Hans Cattini , Hans Dürst , Walter Dürst , Emil Handschin , Werner Lohrer , Heini Lohrer , Reto Perl , Ulrich Poltera , Gebhard Poltera , Beat Rüedi , Otto Schubiger , Riccardo Torriani , Hans Trepp
4th	United States	Al Opsahl , Bruce Mather , Bruce Cunliffe , Donald Geary , Fred Pearson , Goodwin Harding , Herb Vaningen , Jack Kirrane, Jr. , Jack Riley, Jr. , Jack Garrity , Ralph Warburton , Robert Baker , Bob Boeser , Stan Priddy
5	Sweden	Stig Andersson , Åke Andersson , Stig Carlsson , Åke Ericson , Rolf Ericsson , Svante Granlund , Arne Johansson , Rune Johansson , Gunnar Landelius , Klas Lindström , Lars Ljungman , Holger Nurmela , Bror Pettersson , Rolf Pettersson , Kurt Svanberg , Sven Thunman
6th	Great Britain	Lennie Baker , George Baillie , Jimmy Chappell , Gerry Davey , Freddie Dunkelman , Art Green , Frankie Green , Frank Jardine , John Murray , Johnny Oxley , Stan Simon , Bert Smith , Archie Stinchcombe , Tom Syme
7th	Poland	Henryk Bromowicz , Mieczysław Burda , Stefan Csorich , Zygmunt Ginter , Alfred Gansiniec , Tomasz Jasiński , Mieczysław Kasprzycki , Bolesław Kolasa , Adam Kowalski , Eugeniusz Lewacki , January Maciejko , Czeslaw Marchewczyk , Mieczysław Palus , Henryk Przezdziecki , Hilary Skarżyński , Maksymilian Więcek , Ernest Ziaja
8th	Austria	Franz Csöngei , Friedrich Demmer , Egon Engel , Walter Feistritzer , Gustav Gross , Fredl Huber , Julius Juhn , Oskar Nowak , Hansjörg Reichel , Hans Schneider , Willibald Stanek , Herbert Ulrich , Friedrich Walter , Helfried Winger , Rudolf Wurmbrandt
9	Italy	Claudio Apollonio , Giancarlo Bassi , Mario Bedogni , Luigi Bestagini , Giancarlo Bucchetti , Carlo Bulgheroni , Ignazio Dionisi , Arnaldo Fabris , Vincenzo Fardella , Aldo Federici , Umberto Gerli , Dino Innocenti , Constanzo Mangini , Dino Menardi , Otto Rauth , Franco Rossi , Gianantonio Zopegni

Web links

Commons : Ice Hockey at the 1948 Winter Olympics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Conclusion of the Winter Olympics" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 10, 1948, p. 4 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ «Short - but interesting»; fourth post; “Sport Zürich”, No. 18 of February 6, 1948, pages 6 and 7