1948 Summer Olympics / Participant (Iceland)

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Iceland participated in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London with a delegation of 20 athletes (17 men and three women) in 18 competitions in three sports part. None of the athletes managed to win a medal. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the athlete Finnbjörn Þorvaldsson .

Participants by sport

Art competitions

• Ásgeir Bjarnþórsson

  painting

athletics

• Finnbjörn Þorvaldsson

  100 m: heats

  4 × 100 m relay: heats

  Long jump: eliminated in qualification

• Haukur Clausen

  100 m: heats

  200 m: heats

  4 × 100 m relay: heats

• Reynir Sigurðsson

  400 m: heats

• Óskar Jónsson

  800 m: heats

  1500 m: heats

• Ásmundur Bjarnason

  4 × 100 m relay: heats

• Trausti Eyjólfsson

  4 × 100 m relay: heats

• Torfi Bryngeirsson

  Pole vault: eliminated in qualification

• Sigfús Sigurðsson

  Shot put: 13th place

• Vilhjálmur Vilmundarson

  Shot put: eliminated in qualifying

• Jóel Sigurðsson

  Javelin throw: eliminated in qualification

• Örn Clausen

  100 m: heats

  Decathlon: 12th place

swim

Men

• Ari Friðbjörn Guðmundsson

  100 m freestyle: prelims

  400 m freestyle: prelims

• Guðmundur Ingólfsson

  100 m back: prelims

• Sigurður T. Jónsson

  200 m chest: semi-finals

• Sigurdur Jónsson

  200 m chest: heats

• Atli Steinarsson

  200 m chest: heats

Women

• Kolbrún Ólafsdóttir

  100 m back: prelims

• Anna Ólafsdóttir

  200 m chest: heats

• Þórdís Árnadóttir

  200 m chest: heats

Web links

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