1948 Winter Olympics / Participant (Great Britain)

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The United Kingdom took part in the 5th Winter Olympics in St. Moritz in 1948 with a delegation of 55 athletes, twelve of them women.

Male participants from the UK
sport	athlete	discipline	space	comment
bob	William Coles William McLean Raymond Collings George Holiday	Four-man bobsleigh	7th	GBR I
	Richard Jeffrey Edgar Meddings George Powell-Sheddon James Iremonger	Four-man bobsleigh	15th	GBR II
	William Coles Raymond Collings	Two-man bobsleigh	5	GBR I
	Anthony Gadd Basil Wellicome	Two-man bobsleigh	dnf	GBR II
ice Hockey	Stanley Simon Leonhard Baker George Baillie James Chappell Gerry Davey Frederick Dunkelman Art Green Frank Green Frank Jardine John Murray John Oxley William Smith Archibald Stinchcombe Thomas Syme	-	5
figure skating	John Nicks	Pair skating	8th	together with Jennifer Nicks
	Graham Sharpe	Men's	7th
	Dennis Silverthorne	Pair skating	5	together with Winnie Silverthorne
Speed ​​skating	Dennis Blundell	500 m	32
		1500 m	30th
		5000 m	32
	John Cronshey	500 m	25th
		5000 m	11
		10,000 m	dnf
	Henry Howes	500 m	35
		1500 m	18th
		5000 m	19th
		10,000 m	dnf
	Bruce Peppin	500 m	29
		1500 m	23
	Thomas Ross	500 m	41
		1500 m	28
skeleton	Richard Bott	-	6th
	Thomas Clarke	-	9
	James Coats	-	7th
	John Crammond	-
Alpine skiing	James Palmer-Tokinson	Departure	74
		combination	dnf
	Ian Appleyard	Departure	91
		slalom	55
	Peter Boumphrey	Departure	dnf
	John Boyagis	slalom	63
	Donald Garrow	Departure	60
		combination	45
		slalom	49
	Stuart Parkinson	Departure	81
	Harry Taylor	Departure	88
		combination	61
		slalom	61

Female participants from the UK
sport	athlete	discipline	space	comment
figure skating	Bridget Adams	Ladies	7th
	Jeannette Altwegg	Ladies
	Marion Davies	Ladies	10
	Jill Hood-Linzee	Ladies	19th
	Jennifer Nicks	Pair skating	8th	together with John Nicks
	Winnie Silverthorne	Pair skating	5	together with Dennis Silverthorne
Alpine skiing	Bridget Duke-Wooley	slalom	24
	Barbara Greenland	slalom	dnf
	Sheena Mackintosh	Departure	33
		combination	24
		slalom	21st
	Isobel Roe	Departure	27
		combination	23
		slalom	23
	Xanthe Ryder	Departure	34
		combination	27
	Rosemarie Sparrow	Departure	30th
		combination	25th

Web links

• British Olympic Team 1948 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )