1948 Summer Olympics / Sailing

Sailing at the 1948 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Torquay
Competition venue	Tor Bay
Nations	23
Athletes	186 (186 )
date	August 3 to 12, 1948
decisions	5
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At the XIV Summer Olympics in London in 1948 , five sailing competitions were held. The venue is Tor Bay in the city of Torquay in Devon . All competitions were only for men.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
01	United States	2	1	2	5
02	Denmark	1	-	1	2
03	Great Britain	1	-	-	1
03	Norway	1	-	-	1
05	Sweden	-	1	1	2
06th	Argentina	-	1	-	1
06th	Cuba	-	1	-	1
06th	Portugal	-	1	-	1
09	Netherlands	-	-	2	2

Medalist

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Firefly	Paul Elvstrøm	Ralph Evans	Koos de Jong
star	United States Hilary Smart Paul Smart	Cuba Carlos de Cárdenas Culmell Carlos de Cárdenas Plá	Netherlands Bob Maas Edward Stutterheim
6 meter class	United States Alfred Lee Loomis Jr. Michael Mooney James Smith James Weekes Herman Whiton	Argentina Emilio Homps Rodolfo Rivademar Rufino Rodríguez de la Torre Julio Sieburger Enrique Sieburger jr. Enrique Sieburger sr.	Sweden Karl-Robert Ameln Martin Hindorff Tore Holm Torsten Lord Gösta Salén
Swallow	Great Britain David Bond Stewart Morris	Portugal Duarte Manuel Bello Fernando Bello	United States Lockwood Pirie Owen Torrey
Dragons	Norway Håkon Barfod Sigve Lie Thor Thorvaldsen	Sweden Folke Bohlin Gösta Brodin Hugo Johnson	Denmark Klaus Baess Ole Berntsen William Berntsen

Results

Firefly

space	country	athlete	Points
1	THE	Paul Elvstrøm	5543
2	United States	Ralph Evans	5408
3	NED	Koos de Jong	5204
4th	SWE	Rickard Sarby	4603
5	CAN	Paul McLaughlin	4535
6th	URU	Felix Sienra Castellanos	4079
7th	FRA	Jean-Jacques Herbulot	4068
8th	BEL	Pierre Van der Haeghen	3660

star

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	United States	Hilary Smart Paul Smart	5828
2	CUB	Carlos de Cardenas Culmell Carlos de Cardenas Plá	4949
3	NED	Bob Maas Edward Stutterheim	4731
4th	GBR	Durward Knowles Sloane Farrington	4372
5	ITA	Agostino Straulino Nicolò Rode	4370
6th	POR	Joaquim Fiúza Júlio de Sousa Leite Gourinho	4292
7th	OUT	Jock Sturrock Leslie Fenton	3828
8th	CAN	Bill Gooderham Gerald Fairhead	2635

6 m class

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	United States	Alfred Lee Loomis Jr. Michael Mooney James Smith James Weekes Herman Whiton	5472
2	ARG	Emilio Homps Rodolfo Rivademar Rufino Rodríguez de la Torre Julio Sieburger Enrique Sieburger jr. Enrique Sieburger sr.	5120
3	SWE	Karl-Robert Ameln Martin Hindorff Tore Holm Torsten Lord Gösta Salén	4033
4th	NOR	Apache Magnus Konow Anders Evensen Lars Skage Musæus Håkon Solem Ragnar Hargreaves	3217
5	GBR	James Howden Hume James Douglas Howden Hume Bonar Hardie Hamish Hardie Harry Hunter	2879
6th	BEL	Louis Franck Emile Hayoit Willy Huybrechts Hendrik van Riel Willy van Rompaey	2752
7th	SUI	Henri Copponex Andre Firmenich Émile Lachapelle Charles Stern Marcel Stern P. Bonnet ( DNF ) R. Fehlmann ( DNF ) Louis Noverraz	2594
8th	ITA	Giovanni Reggio Renato Costentino Beppe Croce Luigi Poggi Enrico Poggi Federico de Luca ( DNF ) Giorgio Audizio ( DNF )	2099

Swallow

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	GBR	David Bond Stewart Morris	5625
2	POR	Duarte Manuel Bello Fernando Bello	5579
3	United States	Lockwood Pirie Owen Torrey	4352
4th	SWE	Stig Hedberg Lars Matton	3342
5	THE	Johan Rathje Naalli Petersen	2935
6th	ITA	Dario Salata Achille Roncoroni	2893
7th	CAN	John Robertson Richard Townsend	2807
8th	NOR	Øivind Christensen Knut Bengtson K. Heje Øivind Thommessen	2768

Dragons

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	NOR	Pan Håkon Barfod Sigve Lie Thor Thorvaldsen	4746
2	SWE	Slaghoken Folke Bohlin Gosta Brodin Hugo Johnson	4621
3	THE	Snap Klaus Baess Ole Berntsen William Berntsen	4223
4th	GBR	Ceres II William Strain George Brown James P. Wallace	3943
5	ITA	Ausonia Giuseppe Canessa Bruno Bianchi Luigi De Manincor	3366
6th	FIN	Vinha Rainer Packalen Niilo Orama Aatos Hirvisalo	3057
7th	ARG	Pampero Roberto Sieburger Jorge Salas Chávez Jorge del Río Salas	2843
8th	NED	Joy Kees Jonker Biem Dudok van Heel Wim van Duyl	2408

Web links

• Sailing at the 1948 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )