The men's individual skating event was held as part of the figure skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics. It was the seventh appearance of the event, which had previously been held twice at the Summer Olympics in 1908 and 1920 and at all four Winter Games from 1924 onward. The competition was held from 2 to 5 February 1948. Sixteen figure skaters from ten nations competed.[1]
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| Venue | Olympia Eisstadion Badrutts Park | |||||||||
| Dates | 2-6 February | |||||||||
| Competitors | 16 from 10 nations | |||||||||
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Results edit
| Rank | Name | Nation | CF | FS | Total points | Places | ||
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| 1 | Dick Button |  United States |
1 | 994.7 | 1 | 191.177 | 10 | |
| 2 | Hans Gerschwiler |  Switzerland |
2 | 965.1 | 3 | 181.122 | 23 | |
| 3 | Edi Rada |  Austria |
3 | 941.0 | 4 | 178.133 | 33 | |
| 4 | John Lettengarver | United States |
4 | 916.3 | 2 | 176.400 | 36 | |
| 5 | Ede Király |  Hungary |
5 | 922.1 | 5 | 174.400 | 42 | |
| 6 | James Grogan | United States |
9 | 867.4 | 6 | 168.711 | 62 | |
| 7 | Graham Sharp |  Great Britain |
6 | 909.8 | 8 | 167.044 | 67 | |
| 8 | Hellmut May | Austria |
7 | 893.2 | 7 | 165.666 | 68 | |
| 9 | Hellmut Seibt | Austria |
8 | 882.9 | 12 | 162.655 | 79 | |
| 10 | Ladislav Čáp |  Czechoslovakia |
10 | 859.0 | 11 | 160.233 | 96 | |
| 11 | Fernand Leemans |  Belgium |
11 | 838.0 | 14 | 157.822 | 104 | |
| 12 | Wallace Diestelmeyer |  Canada |
13 | 809.1 | 9 | 156.322 | 110 | |
| 13 | Zdeněk Fikar | Czechoslovakia |
12 | 819.0 | 13 | 154.155 | 114 | |
| 14 | Karl Enderlin | Switzerland |
14 | 796.7 | 10 | 154.244 | 110 | |
| 15 | Carlo Fassi |  Italy |
16 | 764.9 | 15 | 145.966 | 135 | |
| 16 | Per Cock-Clausen |  Denmark |
15 | 785.5 | 16 | 145.533 | 135 | |
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References edit
- ^ "Figure Skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics: Singles, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 2 July 2020.