1948 Summer Olympics / Participant (British Guyana)

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British Guiana , now Guyana , took part in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London with a delegation of four male athletes in seven competitions in three sports. It was Guyana's first participation in the Olympic Games, no medals were won.

Participants by sport

Weightlifting

• Alphonso Correia

  Featherweight: 18th place

• Orlando Chaves

  Middleweight: 21st place

athletics

• Charles Thompson

  100 meters: heats

  Long jump: 19th place in qualification

Cycling

• Laddie Lewis

  Road race: DNF

  Sprint: Hope run after the preliminary round

  1000 meter time trial: 21st place

Web links

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