WesWorld

Nice, three golds out of six events in cycling! It does seem to be one of the more popular sports in France...

Don't worry Wes, there are Atlantean medals to come...

*awaits swimming to see how well the Italians do in his sport*

Looking at the historical trend of this period, it is more likely that Italian swimming ambitions will sink like a rock than float on the surface of the olympic swimming pool. The Japanese appear to be pretty good swimmers in this period.

Taking a quick look, I expect good Italian results with fencing and rowing.

One can hope...

If not, then I expect that officials were bribed by the nation that got the most medals.

Quoted from "Hood"

Don't worry Wes, there are Atlantean medals to come...

OK, just wondering if ya forgot about little ol me! Hurray for the Turkish medal!

Equestrian

Individual dressage
Gold: Hans Moser and Hummer, Switzerland
Silver: André Jousseaume and Harpagon, France
Bronze: Heinz Pollay and Komos, Germany

Team dressage
Gold: France (André Jousseaume and Harpagon, Jean Saint-Fort Paillard and Sous les Ceps, Maurice Buret and Saint Quen)
Silver: United States (Robert Borg and Klingson, Earl Foster Thomson and Pancraft, Frank Henry and Reno Overdo)
Bronze: Iberia (Fernando Paes and Matamas, Francisco Valadas and Feitiço, Luís Mena e Silva and Fascinante)

Individual eventing
Gold: Bernard Chevallier and Aiglonne, France
Silver: Frank Henry and Swing Low, United States
Bronze: Robert Selfelt and Claque, Nordmark

Team eventing
Gold: United States (Frank Henry and Swing Low, Charles Anderson and Reno Palisade, Earl Foster Thomson and Reno Rhythm)
Silver: Nordmark (Robert Selfelt and Claque, Olof Stahre and Komet, Sigurd Svensson and Dust)
Bronze: Mexico (Humberto Mariles and Parral, Raúl Campero and Tarahumara, Joaquín Solano and Malinche)

Individual jumping
Gold: Humberto Mariles and Arete, Mexico
Silver: Rubén Uriza and Hatuey, Mexico
Bronze: Jean-François d'Orgeix and Sucre de Pomme, France

Team jumping
Gold: Mexico (Humberto Mariles and Arete, Rubén Uriza and Hatuey, Alberto Valdés and Chihuahua)
Silver: Iberia (Jaime García and Bizarro, José Navarro Morenes and Quórum, Marcellino Gavilán and Forajido)
Bronze: Great Britain (Harry Llewellyn and Foxhunter, Henry Nicoll and Kilgeddin, Arthur Carr and Monty)


Fencing

Men's individual épée
Gold: Luigi Cantone, Italy
Silver: Oswald Zappelli, Switzerland
Bronze: Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italy

Men's team épée
Gold: France (Maurice Huet, Michel Pécheux, Marcel Desprets, Edouard Artigas, Henri Guerin, Henri Lepage)
Silver: Italy (Luigi Cantone, Marc Antonio Mandruzzato, Carlo Agostoni, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Fiorenzo Marini, Dario Mangiarotti)
Bronze: Nordmark (Frank Cervell, Carl Forssell, Bengt Ljungquist, Sven Thofelt, Per Hjalmar Carleson, Arne Tollbom)

Men's individual foil
Gold: Jehan Buhan, France
Silver: Christian d'Oriola, France
Bronze: Lajos Maszlay, Hungary

Men's team foil
Gold: France (Adrien Rommel, Christian d'Oriola, Andre Bonin, Jacques Lataste, Jehan Buhan, René Bougnol)
Silver: Italy (Saverio Ragno, Renzo Nostini, Manlio Di Rosa, Giorgio Pellini, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Giuliano Nostini)
Bronze: Belgium (André Van De Werve De Vorsselaer, Paul Louis Jean Valcke, Raymond Bru, Georges Camille De Bourgignon, Henri Paternoster, Edouard Yves)

Men's individual sabre
Gold: Aladár Gerevich, Hungary
Silver: Vincenzo Pinton, Italy
Bronze: Pál Kovács, Hungary

Men's team sabre
Gold: Hungary (László Rajcsányi, Bertalan Papp, Aladár Gerevich, Tibor Berczelly, Rudolf Kárpáti, Pál Kovács
Silver: Italy (Carlo Turcato, Gastone Darè, Vincenzo Pinton, Mauro Racca, Renzo Nostini, Aldo Montano)
Bronze: United States (Miguel Angel De Capriles, Norman Cohn-Armitage, George Vitez Worth, Dean Victor Cetrulo, James Hummitzsch Flynn, Tibor Andrew Nyilas)

Women's individual foil
Gold: Ilona Elek, Hungary
Silver: Helene Mayer, Germany
Bronze: Ellen Mueller, Germany

Field Hockey
Twelve nations participated in the field hockey competition. The tournament was ultimately won by Great Britain who defeated the Netherlands in the final and Belgium secured a Bronze by defeating France.

Football
Eighteen teams entered the football competition. Due to the rise of the professional game the number of talented amateurs for teams to select from was reduced. The gold medal was won by Nordmark, who defeated Yugoslavia 3–1 in the final. Denmark defeated hosts Great Britain, managed by Matt Busby of Manchester United, 5–3 to win the bronze medal. In the tournament's 18 matches a total of 102 goals were scored; an average 5.66 goals per match. The joint top scorers with seven goals each were Gunnar Nordahl of Nordmark and Denmark's John Hansen.

Gliding
A standard Olympic glider, the DFS Olympia Meise, is used for this event which was held at RAF North Weald.
Gold: Heini Dittmar, Germany
Silver: Per-Axel Persson, Nordmark
Bronze: Philip Wills, Great Britain

To respond to Bruce's query - India and Persia are passing on the Olympics, although I'm not sure I've ever been asked about this.

Quoted from "The Rock Doctor"

To respond to Bruce's query - India and Persia are passing on the Olympics, although I'm not sure I've ever been asked about this.

I guess that means that Hood needs to recalculate the results of the Field Hockey event.

Amended the above to reflect Rocky's wishes.


Gymnastics

Men's individual all-round
Gold: Veikko Huhtanen, Nordmark
Silver: Alfred Schwarzmann, Germany
Bronze: Victor Chukarin, Russia

Men's floor exercises
Gold: Ferenc Pataki, Hungary
Silver: János Mogyorósi Klencs, Hungary
Bronze: Zdenek Ruzicka, Czechoslovakia

Men's horizontal bar
Gold: Josef Stalder, Switzerland
Silver: Walter Lehmann, Switzerland
Bronze: Veikko Huhtanen, Nordmark

Men's parallel bars
Gold: Michael Reusch, Switzerland
Silver: Veikko Huhtanen, Nordmark
Bronze (tied): Josef Stalder, Switzerland and Christian Kipfer, Switzerland

Men's pommel horse
Gold (tied): Paavo Aaltonen, Veikko Huhtanen, Heikki Savolainen, all Nordmark
Silver: Luigi Zanetti, Italy
Bronze: Guido Figone, Italy

Men's rings
Gold: Karl Frei, Switzerland
Silver: Michael Reusch, Switzerland
Bronze: Zdenek Ruzicka, Czechoslovakia

Men's vault
Gold: Paavo Aaltonen, Nordmark
Silver: Masao Takemoto, Japan
Bronze (tied): János Mogyorósi Klencs, Hungary and Ferenc Pataki, Hungary and Leo Sotornik, Czechoslovakia

Men's team competition
Gold: Nordmark (Paavo Aaltonen, Veikko Huhtanen, Kalevi Laitinen, Olavi Rove, Aleksanteri Saarvala, Sulo Salmi, Heikki Savolainen, Einari Teräsvirta)
Silver: Switzerland (Karl Frei, Christian Kipfer, Walter Lehmann, Robert Lucy, Michael Reusch, Josef Stalder, Emil Studer, Melchior Thalmann)
Bronze: Hungary (László Baranyai, Jozsef Fekete, Gyözö Mogyorosi, János Mogyorósi Klencs, Ferenc Pataki, Lajos Sántha, Lajos Tóth, Ferenc Várkõi)

Women's team competition
Gold: Czechoslovakia (Zdeňka Honsová, Marie Kovářová, Miloslava Misáková, Milena Müllerová, Věra Růžičkova, Olga Šilhánová, Božena Srncová, Zdeňka Veřmiřovská)
Silver: Hungary (Edit Weckinger, Mária Zalai-Kövi, Irén Karcsics, Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles, Erzsébet Balázs, Olga Tass, Anna Fehér, Margit Nagy-Sándor)
Bronze: United States (Ladislava Bakanic, Marian Barone, Consetta Lenz, Dorothy Dalton, Meta Elste, Helen Schifano, Clara Schroth, Anita Simonis)

Lacrosse
An exhibition sport at these Olympics. An English team composed of players from various universities played a U.S. team represented by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at the Empire Stadium.

Modern Pentathlon
Only one modern pentathlon event was contested, the five component sports (riding, fencing, shooting, swimming, and running) being held over six days. Scoring was by point-for-place system across the five phases with the winner being the athlete with the lowest combined ranking. The sport's international federation, the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne was founded during the Games, on 3 August 1948. Nordmark won two medals in the event; William Grut won the gold, with a final points total of 16, and Gösta Gärdin took bronze. American George Moore won the silver medal.

Polo
This competition has made a reappearance, having last been held at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Five teams contested this year. Great Britain beat Argentina to claim gold and Germany beat Mexico to claim bronze.

Rowing
Competitions were held over the Henley Royal Regatta course.

Men's single sculls
Gold: Mervyn Wood, Australia
Silver: Eduardo Risso, South Africa
Bronze: Romolo Catasta, Italy

Men's double sculls
Gold: Great Britain (Dickie Burnell, Bert Bushnell)
Silver: Denmark (Ebbe Parsner, Aage Larsen)
Bronze: South Africa (William Jones, Juan Rodríguez)

Men's coxless pairs
Gold: Great Britain (Jack Wilson, Ran Laurie)
Silver: Switzerland (Hans Kalt, Josef Kalt)
Bronze: Italy (Felice Fanetti, Bruno Boni)

Men's coxed pairs
Gold: Denmark (Finn Pedersen, Tage Henriksen, Carl-Ebbe Andersen)
Silver: Italy (Giovanni Steffè, Aldo Tarlao, Alberto Radi)
Bronze: Hungary (Antal Szendey, Béla Zsitnik, Róbert Zimonyi)

Men's coxless fours
Gold: Italy (Giuseppe Moioli, Elio Morille, Giovanni Invernizzi, Francesco Faggi) Silver: Denmark (Helge Halkjær, Aksel Bonde Hansen, Helge Muxoll Schrøder, Ib Storm Larsen)
Bronze: United States (Fred Kingsbury, Stu Griffing, Greg Gates, Robert Perew)

Men's coxed fours
Gold: United States (Warren Westlund, Bob Martin, Bob Will, Gordy Giovanelli, Allan Morgan)
Silver: Switzerland (Rudolf Reichling, Erich Schriever, Émile Knecht, Pierre Stebler, André Moccand)
Bronze: Denmark (Erik Larsen, Børge Raahauge Nielsen, Henry Larsen, Harry Knudsen, Ib Olsen)

Men's eights
Gold: United States (Ian Turner, David Turner, James Hardy, George Ahlgren, Lloyd Butler, David Brown, Justus Smith, John Stack, Ralph Purchase)
Silver: Great Britain (Christopher Barton, Michael Lapage, Guy Richardson, Ernest Bircher, Paul Massey, Charles Lloyd, John Meyrick, Alfred Mellows, Jack Dearlove Bronze: Nordmark (Kristoffer Lepsøe, Thorstein Kråkenes, Hans Hansen, Halfdan Gran Olsen, Harald Kråkenes, Leif Næss, Thor Pedersen, Carl Monssen, Sigurd Monssen)


Sailing

Firefly
Gold: Paul Bert Elvstrøm, Denmark
Silver: Ralph Evans, United States
Bronze: Koos de Jong, Netherlands

Star
Gold: United States (Hilary Smart, Paul Smart)
Silver: Iberia (Carlos de Cardenas, Carlos de Cardenas, Jr.)
Bronze: Netherlands (Adriaan Maas, Edward Stutterheim)

Swallow
Gold: Great Britain (Stewart Morris, David Bond)
Silver: Iberia (Duarte de Almeida Bello, Fernando Pinto Coelho Bello)
Bronze: United States (Lockwood Pirie, Owen Torrey)

Dragon
Gold: Nordmark (Thor Thorvaldsen, Sigve Lie, Haakon Barfod)
Silver: Denmark (William Berntsen, Ole Berntsen, Klaus Baess)
Bronze: Great Britain (William Eric H. Strain, George H. Brown, James P. Wallace)

6 Metre
Gold: United States (Herman Whiton, Alfred Loomis, James Weekes, James Smith, Michael Mooney)
Silver: Argentina (Enrique Sieburger, Sr., Emilio Homps, Rufino Rodríguez de la Torre, Rodolfo Rivademar, Enrique Sieburger, Jr., Julio Sieburger)
Bronze: Nordmark (Tore Helm, Tyrus Lord, Martini Maska, Roberto Amlen, Constance Salan)

Shooting

300 metre rifle
Gold: Emil Grunig, Switzerland
Silver: Pauli Aapeli Janhonen, Nordmark
Bronze: Willy Røgeberg, Nordmark

50 metre rifle prone
Gold: Arthur Cook, United States
Silver: Walter Tomsen, United States
Bronze: Jonas Grouille, Atlantis

50 metre pistol
Gold: Edwin Vásquez, Peru
Silver: Rudolf Schnyder, Switzerland
Bronze: Torsten Ullman, Nordmark

25 metre rapid fire pistol
Gold: Károly Takács, Hungary
Silver: Carlos Diaz Saez, Argentina
Bronze: Sven Lundquist, Nordmark

I am glad Chosen was able to win a medal. This should prove the world that Chosen is superior to China.

A boxing medal so he must have accidentally beaten his Chinese opponent to death...

Water Polo
Eighteen nations fielded a team in these games. The tournament was conducted in a multi-tier bracket, with the best four teams from the group stages participating in a final round-robin bracket. Italy, who were undefeated throughout, won the gold. Silver was claimed by Hungary and bronze by the Netherlands.


Weightlifting

Bantamweight (–56 kg)
Gold: Joseph De Pietro, United States
Silver: Julian Creus, Great Britain
Bronze: Richard Tom, United States

Featherweight (56–60 kg)
Gold: Mahmoud Fayad, Egypt
Silver: Rodney Wilkes, Atlantis
Bronze: Nikolai Nikolaevich Saksonov, Russia

Lightweight (60–67.5 kg)
Gold: Fabris Shams, Atlantis
Silver: Yevgeni Lopatin, Russia
Bronze: James Halliday, Great Britain

Middleweight (67.5–75 kg)
Gold: Frank Spellman, United States
Silver: Peter George, United States
Bronze: Kim Sung-Jip, Chosen

Light-heavyweight (75–82.5 kg)
Gold: Stanley Stanczyk, United States
Silver: Harold Sakata, United States
Bronze: Gösta Magnusson, Nordmark

Heavyweight (+82.5 kg)
Gold: John Davis, United States
Silver: Norbert Schemansky, United States
Bronze: Abraham Charite, Netherlands

Wrestling

Greco-Roman

Flyweight (- 52 kg)
Gold: Pietro Lombardi, Italy
Silver: Kenan Olcay, Turkey
Bronze: Reino Kangasmäki, Nordmark

Bantamweight (- 57 kg)
Gold: Kurt Pettersén, Nordmark
Silver: Richard Craccis, Atlantis
Bronze: Halil Kaya, Turkey

Featherweight (- 62 kg)
Gold: Mehmet Oktav, Turkey
Silver: Junon Pascal, Atlantis
Bronze: Ferenc Tóth, Hungary

Lightweight (- 67 kg)
Gold: Gustav Freij, Nordmark
Silver: Aage Eriksen, Nordmark
Bronze: Károly Ferencz, Hungary

Welterweight (- 73 kg)
Gold: Gösta Andersson, Nordmark
Silver: Miklós Szilvási, Hungary
Bronze: Henrik Hansen, Denmark

Middleweight (- 79 kg)
Gold: Axel Grönberg, Nordmark
Silver: Muhlis Tayfur, Turkey
Bronze: Ercole Gallegati, Italy

Light Heavyweight (- 87 kg)
Gold: Karl-Erik Nilsson, Nordmark
Silver: Kelpo Gröndahl, Nordmark
Bronze: Ibrahim Orabi, Egypt

Heavyweight (+ 87 kg)
Gold: Ahmet Kireççi, Turkey
Silver: Tor Nilsson, Nordmark
Bronze: Guido Fantoni, Italy

Freestyle

Flyweight (- 52 kg)
Gold: Lenni Viitala, Nordmark
Silver: Halit Balamir, Turkey
Bronze: Thure Johansson, Nordmark

Bantamweight (- 57 kg)
Gold: Nasuh Akar, Turkey
Silver: Gerald Leeman, United States
Bronze: Charles Kouyos, France

Featherweight (- 62 kg)
Gold: Gazanfer Bilge, Turkey
Silver: Ivar Sjölin, Nordmark
Bronze: Adolf Müller, Switzerland

Lightweight (- 67 kg)
Gold: Celal Atik, Turkey
Silver: Gösta Frändfors, Nordmark
Bronze: Hermann Baumann, Switzerland

Welterweight (- 73 kg)
Gold: Yaşar Doğu, Turkey
Silver: Dick Garrard, Australia
Bronze: Leland Merrill, United States

Middleweight (- 79 kg)
Glen Brand, United States
Silver: Adil Candemir, Turkey
Bronze: Erik Lindén, Nordmark

Light Heavyweight (- 87 kg)
Gold: Henry Wittenberg, United States
Silver: Fritz Stöckli, Switzerland
Bronze: Bengt Fahlqvist, Nordmark

Heavyweight (+ 87 kg)
Gold: Arsen Mekokishvili, Russia
Silver: Bertil Antonsson, Nordmark
Bronze: Joseph Armstrong, Australia


Olympic Medal Table
USA: 38 gold, 26 silver, 19 bronze = 83 medals
Nordmark: 22 gold, 17 silver, 17 bronze = 56 medals
France: 10 gold, 6 silver, 14 bronze = 30 medals
Italy: 9 gold, 11 silver, 9 bronze = 29 medals
Hungary: 8 gold, 6 silver, 13 bronze = 27 medals
Netherlands: 6 gold, 3 silver, 8 bronze = 17 medals
Turkey: 6 gold, 4 silver, 2 bronze = 12 medals
Czechoslovakia: 6 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze = 11 medals
Great Britain: 5 gold, 14 silver, 8 bronze = 27 medals
Denmark: 5 gold, 9 silver, 7 bronze = 21 medals
Switzerland: 5 gold, 9 silver, 4 bronze = 18 medals
Argentina: 3 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze = 8 medals
Germany: 3 gold, 3 silver, 5 bronze = 11 medals
Australia: 2 gold, 6 silver, 5 bronze = 13 medals
Belgium: 2 gold, 2 silver, 4 bronze = 8 medals
South African Empire: 2 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze = 6 medals
Mexico: 2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze = 4 medals
Atlantis: 1 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze = 6 medals
Russia: 1 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze = 5 medals
Jamaica: 1 gold, 2 silver = 3 medals
Egypt: 1 gold, 1 bronze = 2 medals
Peru: 1 gold
Iberia: 3 silver, 4 bronze = 7 medals
Yugoslavia: 1 silver, 2 bronze = 3 medals
Canada: 1 silver, 2 bronze = 3 medals
Brazil: 1 silver
Japan: 1 silver
Chosen: 2 bronze
Poland: 1 bronze

Mexico and Peru have both won their first gold medals.

And so ends the coverage of the 1944 Summer Olympics...