1948 Winter Olympics / Participant (United States)

United States

3	4th	2

The United States took part in the 5th Winter Olympics in St. Moritz in 1948 with a delegation of 69 athletes, ten of them women.

Male contestants from the United States
sport	athlete	discipline	space	comment
bob	James Bickford Thomas Hicks Donald Dupree, Sr. William Dupree	Four-man bobsleigh		USA I
	Francis William Tyler Patrick Martin Edward Rimkus William D'Amico	Four-man bobsleigh		USA II
	Tuffield Latour Leo Martin	Two-man bobsleigh	9	USA I
	Frederick Fortune, Jr. Schuyler Carron	Two-man bobsleigh		USA II
ice Hockey	Goodwin Harding Herbert Van Ingen Robert Baker Robert Boeser Bruce Cunliffe John Garrity Donald Geary John Joseph Kirrane Bruce Mather Allan Opsahl Frederick Pearson Stanton Priddy Jack Riley Ralph Warburton	-	dq
figure skating	Richard Button	Men's
	Jim Grogan	Men's	6th
	Peter Kennedy	Pair skating	6th	together with Karol Kennedy
	John Lettengarver	Men's	4th
	Robert Swenning	Pair skating	4th	together with Yvonne Sherman
Speed ​​skating	Kenneth Bartholomew	500 m
	Raymond Blum	1500 m	20th
		5000 m	17th
	Robert Fitzgerald	500 m
		1500 m	28
	Kenneth Henry	500 m	5
		1500 m	22nd
		5000 m	18th
	Delbert Lamb	500 m	6th
	Louis Rupprecht	5000 m	21st
		10,000 m	17th
	Arthur Seaman	10,000 m	18th
	Richard Solem	5000 m	27
		10,000 m	19th
	John works	5000 m	6th
		10,000 m	11
skeleton	John Heaton	-
	William Johnson	-	dnf
	Fairchilds MacCarthy	-	8th
	William Martin	-	4th
Alpine skiing	Robert Blatt	Departure	44
		combination	29
	Devereaux Jennings	Departure	45
	Steve Knowlton	Departure	43
		combination	25th
		slalom	16
	Barney McLean	Departure	47
		combination	26th
		slalom	24
	Dick Movitz	Departure	42
	Jack Reddish	Departure	26th
		combination	12
		slalom	7th
	Colin Stewart	slalom	20th
Nordic skiing	Walter Bietila	Special jumping	42
	Wendell Broomhall	18 km cross-country skiing	65
	Corey Engen	18 km cross-country skiing	75
		combination	26th
	Sverre Fredheim	Special jumping	12
	Donald Johnson	18 km cross-country skiing	66
		combination	27
	Paul Perrault	Special jumping	15th
	Ralph Townsend	18 km cross-country skiing	74
		combination	33
	Gordy Wren	18 km cross-country skiing	77
		combination	29
		Special jumping	5

Female participants from the United States
sport	athlete	discipline	space	comment
figure skating	Karol Kennedy	Pair skating	6th	together with Peter Kennedy
	Gretchen Merrill	Ladies	8th
	Eileen Seigh	Ladies	11
	Yvonne Sherman	Ladies	6th
		Pair skating	4th	together with Robert Swenning
Alpine skiing	Gretchen Fraser	Departure	13
		slalom
		combination
	Rebecca Cremer	Departure	22nd
		combination	17th
	Brynhild Grasmoen	Departure	12
		slalom	9
	Paula Can	Departure	28
		slalom	11
	Andrea Mead-Lawrence	Departure	35
		slalom	8th
		combination	21st
	Ruth-Marie Stewart	Departure	20th
		combination	16

Web links

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