Poland at the 1948 Winter Olympics

Poland at the
1948 Winter Olympics
IOC codePOL
NOCPolish Olympic Committee
Websitewww.pkol.pl (in Polish)
in St. Moritz
Competitors29 (men) in 5 sports
Flag bearerStanisław Marusarz
Medals
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
0
Total
0
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)

Poland competed at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Alpine skiing

Men
Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Jan Pawlica Downhill DNF
Jerzy Schindler 3:49.4 67
Jan Gąsienica Ciaptak 3:21.3 37
Józef Marusarz 3:20.2 35
Jan Gąsienica Ciaptak Slalom DNF DNF
Jan Lipowski DNF DNF
Józef Marusarz 1:19.2 27 1:14.0 31 2:33.2 31

Men's combined

The downhill part of this event was held along with the main medal event of downhill skiing. For athletes competing in both events, the same time was used (see table above for the results). The slalom part of the event was held separate from the main medal event of slalom skiing (included in table below).

Athlete Slalom Total (downhill + slalom)
Time 1 Time 2 Rank Points Rank
Jerzy Schindler DNF
Jan Gąsienica Ciaptak 1:25.0 1:27.2 (+0:05) 38 31.12 31
Józef Marusarz 1:23.2 1:18.8 29 25.96 27

Cross-country skiing

Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
18 km Leopold Tajner 1'38:45 76
Stanisław Bukowski 1'34:17 70
Józef Daniel Krzeptowski 1'31:05 62
Tadeusz Kwapień 1'27:55 47
Stefan Dziedzic 1'25:33 38
Men's 4 x 10 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Józef Daniel Krzeptowski
Stanisław Bukowski
Tadeusz Kwapień
Stefan Dziedzic
2'59:19 10

Ice hockey

The tournament was run in a round-robin format with nine teams participating.

Pld W L T GF GA Pts
 Canada 8 7 0 1 69 5 15
 Czechoslovakia 8 7 0 1 80 18 15
  Switzerland 8 6 2 0 67 21 12
 Sweden 8 4 4 0 55 28 8
 Great Britain 8 3 5 0 39 47 6
 Poland 6th 8 2 6 0 29 97 4
 Austria 8 1 7 0 33 77 2
 Italy 8 0 8 0 24 156 0
 United States * 8 5 3 0 86 33 10

* United States team was disqualified. Only eight teams are officially ranked.

  • Poland 7-5 Austria
  • USA 23-4 Poland
  • Czechoslovakia 13-2 Poland
  • Canada 15-0 Poland
  • Poland 13-7 Italy
  • United Kingdom 7-2 Poland
  • Switzerland 14-0 Poland
  • Sweden 13-2 Poland
Contestants
Henryk Bromowicz
Mieczysław Burda
Stefan Csorich
Zygmunt Ginter
Alfred Gansiniec
Tomasz Jasiński
Mieczysław Kasprzycki
Bolesław Kolasa
Adam Kowalski
Eugeniusz Lewacki
Jan Maciejko
Czesław Marchewczyk
Mieczysław Palus
Henryk Przeździecki
Hilary Skarżyński
Maksymilian Więcek
Ernest Ziaja

Nordic combined

Events:

  • 18 km cross-country skiing
  • normal hill ski jumping

The cross-country skiing part of this event was combined with the main medal event, meaning that athletes competing here were skiing for disciplines two at the same time. Details can be found above in this article, in the cross-country skiing section.

The ski jumping (normal hill) event was held separate from the main medal event of ski jumping, results can be found in the table below. Athletes would perform three jumps, of which the two best jumps (distance and form) were counted.

Athlete Event Cross-country Ski Jumping Total
Points Rank Distance 1 Distance 2 Distance 3 Points Rank Points Rank
Leopold Tajner Individual 126.00 35 61.5 58.0 55.0 195.5 20 321.50 34
Józef Daniel Krzeptowski 162.00 26 58.0 57.0 60.5 197.8 18 359.80 22
Tadeusz Kwapień 178.50 21 47.0 52.5 51.0 173.7 34 352.20 25
Stefan Dziedzic 190.50 18 52.0 54.5 52.0 177.1 31 367.20 20

Ski jumping

Athlete Event Distance 1 Distance 2 Total points Rank
Jan Kula Normal hill 49.0 59.0 184.5 33
Jan Gąsienica Ciaptak 53.0 61.0 180.8 36
Jozef Daniel Krzeptowski 54.5 55.0 188.9 30
Stanisław Marusarz 59.0 59.0 192.8 27

References

  • Comité Olympique Suisse (January 1951). Rapport Général sur les Ves Jeux Olympiques d'hiver St-Moritz 1948 (PDF) (in French). Lausanne: H. Jaunin. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-04-10. Retrieved 2008-06-10.
  • Olympic Winter Games 1948, full results by sports-reference.com