Poland at the 1948 Winter Olympics

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

Poland at the 1948 Winter Olympics
IOC code	POL
NOC	Polish Olympic Committee
Website	www.pkol.pl (in Polish)
in St. Moritz
Competitors	29 (men) in 5 sports
Flag bearer	Stanisław Marusarz
Medals	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 0
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics

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

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics

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

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1948 Winter Olympics

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

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1948 Winter Olympics

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

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1948 Winter Olympics

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 V^es 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