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At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, nine events in gymnastics were contested.^[1] Finland led all nations with six gold medals and ten medals overall.^[2]^[3]

Shortly after the Czechoslovak team arrived in London, 22 year old team member Eliška Misáková was taken ill and confined to an iron lung. She died of infantile paralysis on the same day that her teammates competed.^[4] When the Czechoslovak flag was raised at the medal ceremony, it was bordered with a black ribbon.^[4]

Medal table

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
individual all-round details	Veikko Huhtanen Finnland	Walter Lehmann Schweiz	Paavo Aaltonen Finnland
team all-around details	Finnland (FIN) Paavo Aaltonen Veikko Huhtanen Kalevi Laitinen Olavi Rove Aleksanteri Saarvala Sulo Salmi Heikki Savolainen Einari Teräsvirta	Schweiz (SUI) Karl Frei Christian Kipfer Walter Lehmann Robert Lucy Michael Reusch Josef Stalder Emil Studer Melchior Thalmann	Ungarn (HUN) László Baranyai Jozsef Fekete Gyözö Mogyorosi János Mogyorósi-Klencs Ferenc Pataki Lajos Sántha Lajos Tóth Ferenc Várkõi
floor exercises details	Ferenc Pataki Ungarn	János Mogyorósi-Klencs Ungarn	Zdeněk Růžička Czechoslovakia
horizontal bar details	Josef Stalder Schweiz	Walter Lehmann Schweiz	Veikko Huhtanen Finnland
parallel bars details	Michael Reusch Schweiz	Veikko Huhtanen Finnland	Josef Stalder Schweiz
parallel bars details	Michael Reusch Schweiz	Veikko Huhtanen Finnland	Christian Kipfer Schweiz
pommel horse details	Paavo Aaltonen Finnland	none awarded ^[A]	none awarded ^[A]
	Veikko Huhtanen Finnland
	Heikki Savolainen Finnland
rings details	Karl Frei Schweiz	Michael Reusch Schweiz	Zdeněk Růžička Czechoslovakia
vault details	Paavo Aaltonen Finnland	Olavi Rove Finnland	János Mogyorósi-Klencs Ungarn
			Ferenc Pataki Ungarn
			Leo Sotorník Czechoslovakia

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
team all-around details	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Zdeňka Honsová Marie Kovářová Miloslava Misáková Milena Müllerová Věra Růžičková Olga Šilhánová Božena Srncová Zdeňka Veřmiřovská	Ungarn (HUN) Edit Weckinger Mária Zalai-Kövi Irén Karcsics Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles Erzsébet Balázs Olga Tass Anna Fehér Margit Nagy-Sándor	Vereinigte Staaten (USA) Ladislava Bakanic Marian Barone Consetta Lenz Dorothy Dalton Meta Elste Helen Schifano Clara Schroth Anita Simonis
Individual all-around† details	Zdeňka Honsová Czechoslovakia	Edit Weckinger Ungarn Laura Micheli Italien	n/a
Vault† details	Karin Lindberg Schweden	Joan Airey Great Britain Clara Schroth Vereinigte Staaten	n/a
Balance Beam† details	Zdeňka Honsová Czechoslovakia	Irén Karcsics Ungarn Miloslava Misáková Czechoslovakia	n/a
Flying Rings†, ††† details	Zdeňka Honsová Czechoslovakia	Edit Weckinger Ungarn Laura Micheli Italien	n/a
Floor Exercise†, ††††	n/a	n/a	n/a
Uneven Bars†, ††	n/a	n/a	n/a

† Within the sport of artistic gymnastics, although men were recognized with individual medals at the time, the women weren’t. The list of the individual medalists within this table reflects the individuals who garnered a top-three placement in the team competition on the respective apparatus (or all 3 combined, in the case of the all-around) and who would have been awarded a medal with the rules that commenced with the 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympic Games and that would change periodically at future Olympic Games with respect to the debut of individual finals competitions at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics and with respect to the New Life rules that made their Olympic debut at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics.

†† Women did not compete on the Uneven Bars apparatus during these Olympic Games.

††† This was the only time that women gymnasts competed on this apparatus at an Olympic Games.

†††† Women’s Floor Exercise was not an event that existed at the time.

Notes

^[A] Other sources^[5]^[6] claim that Luigi Zanetti (Italien) also won a silver medal and Guido Figone (Italien) also won a bronze medal in the pommel horse event, despite the three gold medals awarded for the three-way first place tie.

References

^ (ed.) Lord Burghley (1951). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad (PDF). London: Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. pp. 389–405. Retrieved 2008-02-04. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-11-18.
^ "Gymnastics at the 1948 London Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
^ ^a ^b Wallechinsky, David (1984). The Complete Book of the Olympics. England: Penguin Books. p. 323. ISBN 0140066322.
^ Lord Killanin; Rodda, John (1983). The Olympic Games 1984. Willow. ISBN 0-00-218062-6.
^ Greenberg, Stan (1996). The Guinness Book of Olympic Facts and Feats. Guinness Publishing. ISBN 0-85112-639-1.

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[1] (ed.) Lord Burghley (1951). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad (PDF). London: Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. pp. 389–405. Retrieved 2008-02-04. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[2] "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-11-18.

[SR-3] "Gymnastics at the 1948 London Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2019.

[Wallechinsky-4] Wallechinsky, David (1984). The Complete Book of the Olympics. England: Penguin Books. p. 323. ISBN 0140066322.

[5] Lord Killanin; Rodda, John (1983). The Olympic Games 1984. Willow. ISBN 0-00-218062-6.

[6] Greenberg, Stan (1996). The Guinness Book of Olympic Facts and Feats. Guinness Publishing. ISBN 0-85112-639-1.

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+| next        = [[Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics|1952]]
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+At the [[1948 Summer Olympics]] in [[London]], nine events in [[gymnastics]] were contested.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad |author=(ed.) [[David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter|Lord Burghley]] |publisher=Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad |location=London |year=1951 |pages=389–405 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1948/OR1948.pdf |format=PDF |access-date=2008-02-04}}</ref>  [[Finland at the 1948 Summer Olympics|Finland]] led all nations with six gold medals and ten medals overall.<ref>{{cite web |title=Olympic Medal Winners |publisher=[[International Olympic Committee]] |url=http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp |access-date=2006-11-18}}</ref><ref name="SR">{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1948/GYM/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417053453/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1948/GYM/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Gymnastics at the 1948 London Summer Games |work=Sports Reference |access-date=20 July 2019}}</ref>
-Shortly after the Czech team arrived in London, 22 year old team member [[Eliška Misáková]] was taken ill and confined to an iron lung. She died of infantile paralysis on the same day that her teammates competed.<ref name="Wallechinsky">{{cite book |last1=Wallechinsky |first1=David |title=The Complete Book of the Olympics |date=1984 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=England |isbn=0140066322 |pages=323 }}</ref> When the Czech flag was raised at the medal ceremony, it was bordered with a black ribbon.<ref name="Wallechinsky" />
+Shortly after the Czechoslovak team arrived in London, 22 year old team member [[Eliška Misáková]] was taken ill and confined to an iron lung. She died of infantile paralysis on the same day that her teammates competed.<ref name="Wallechinsky">{{cite book |last1=Wallechinsky |first1=David |title=The Complete Book of the Olympics |date=1984 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=England |isbn=0140066322 |pages=323 }}</ref> When the Czechoslovak flag was raised at the medal ceremony, it was bordered with a black ribbon.<ref name="Wallechinsky" />
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+|{{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Edit Perényi-Weckinger|Edit Weckinger]]|HUN|1948 Summer}}<br>{{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Laura Micheli]]|ITA|1948 Summer}}
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-|{{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Joan Airey]]|GBR|1948 Summer}}<hr>{{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Clara Schroth]]|USA|1948 Summer}}
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+|{{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Zdeňka Honsová]]|TCH|1948 Summer}}
-|{{FlagIOCmedalist|[[ Irén Daruházi-Karcsics|Irén Karcsics]]|HUN|1948 Summer}}
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-† Within the sport of artistic gymnastics, although men were recognized with individual medals at the time, the women weren’t.  The list of the individual medalists within this table reflects the individuals who garnered a top-three placement [[Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic team all-around|in the team competition]] on the respective apparatus (or all 3 combined, in the case of the all-around) and who would have been awarded a medal with the rules that commenced with the [[Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics|1952 Helsinki Summer Olympic Games]] and that would change periodically at future Olympic Games with respect to the debut of individual finals competitions at the [[Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics|1972 Munich Summer Olympics]] and with respect to the [[Artistic_gymnastics#New_life|New Life]] rules that made their Olympic debut at the [[Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics|1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics]].
+† Within the sport of artistic gymnastics, although men were recognized with individual medals at the time, the women weren’t.  The list of the individual medalists within this table reflects the individuals who garnered a top-three placement [[Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic team all-around|in the team competition]] on the respective apparatus (or all 3 combined, in the case of the all-around) and who would have been awarded a medal with the rules that commenced with the [[Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics|1952 Helsinki Summer Olympic Games]] and that would change periodically at future Olympic Games with respect to the debut of individual finals competitions at the [[Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics|1972 Munich Summer Olympics]] and with respect to the [[Artistic gymnastics#New life|New Life]] rules that made their Olympic debut at the [[Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics|1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics]].
 †† Women did not compete on the Uneven Bars apparatus during these Olympic Games.