1948 Summer Olympics / Participant (Jamaica)

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Jamaica took part in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London , England , with a delegation of 13 athletes (nine men and four women). It was Jamaica's first participation.

Medalist

gold

Surname	sport	competition
Arthur Wint	athletics	400 meters

silver

Surname	sport	competition
Herb McKenley	athletics	400 meters
Arthur Wint	athletics	800 meters

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Ray Edwards

  Light heavyweight: 17th place

Weightlifting

• Simon Williams

  Featherweight: 17th place

• Michael Espeut

  Lightweight: 9th place

athletics

• Leslie Laing

  100 meters: heats

  200 meters: 6th place

  4 × 400 meters: Final run not finished

• Basil McKenzie

  100 meters: heats

  200 meters: heats

• Herb McKenley

  200 meters: 4th place

  400 meters: silver

  4 × 400 meters: Final run not finished

• George Rhoden

  400 meters: heats

  4 × 400 meters: Final run not finished

• Arthur Wint

  400 meters: gold

  800 meters: silver

  4 × 400 meters: Final run not finished

• Sydney Foster

  110 meter hurdles: prelims

• Cynthia Thompson

  Women, 100 meters: 6th place

  Women, 200 meters: semi-finals

• Kathleen Russell

  Women, 100 meters: semi-finals

  Women, 200 meters: heats

  Women, long jump: 6th place

• Vinton Beckett

  Women, 80 meter hurdles: prelims

  Women, high jump: 4th place

  Women, long jump: 11th place

• Carmen Phipps

  Women, high jump: 11th place

Web links

• Jamaican Olympic team from 1948 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )