The Olympic Torch is presented at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games at Wembley Stadium in London, England. Mandatory Credit: Allsport/Allsport
Male athletes of the Korean team relaxing with a board game in their accommodation at an RAF camp in Uxbridge, London, England, July 1948. Dubbed the...
Male athletes of the Korean team talking with their hostel manager, in the background are three wardrobes and two flags , in their accommodation at...
Mattresses being taken to one of two Royal Air Force stations - Uxbridge and West Drayton - which will accommodate over 2,000 Olympic visitors for...
Karoly Takacs of Hungary wins the rapid fire pistol shooting event with a score of 580 points. Mandatory Credit: Allsport/ALLSPORT
The British women's swimming team taking part in the 1948 Summer Olympics, the XIVth Olympiad in London, England, 1948. From left to right, they are...
Olympic Games - England today met Denmark at Wembley, 1948. Denmark played Great Britain in the third semi final of the football competition to...
Anne Curtis and Karen Harup: swimmers at the London Olympics, 1948. Anne Curtis won gold for the USA in the 400m freestyle and also won gold as a...
Korean discus thrower Pak Bong-sik , the only female member of the Korean team in their accommodation at an RAF camp in Uxbridge, London, England,...
Male athletes from Ceylon settle into their accommodation, packing their clothes away into wardrobes at their quarters in an army camp in Richmond...
Jamaica athlete Cynthia Thompson , South African athlete Daphne Robb-Hasenjager, American athlete Mabel Walker, and Canadian athlete Millie Cheater...
Aerial view of the Empire Stadium, showing 100,000 spectators watching the events on the third day of the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England,...
Sports delegation parade during the opening ceremony of the London 1948 Summer Olympic Games, on July 26, 1948 at Wembley stadium in London.
Olympic Games, London, England, John Mark of Cambridge University lights the Olympic Flame in Wembley Stadium at the Opening Ceremony
Opening ceremony in the London Wembley stadium: the final runner of the Olympic torch relay, the Cambridge student John Mark, lighting the Olympic...
The finish of the men's 800 metres final at the Olympics, London, 1948. Record breakers Mal Whitfield and Arthur Wint at the finish of the 800 metres...
Three Korean chefs who have travelled with the Korean team attending the 1948 Summer Olympics to prepare food for their athletes, at the RAF camp in...
Camp commandant Captain A E Smith discussing catering details with chef J Brockie at a former army convalescent centre which will be home to Olympic...
Trinidadian athlete Wilfred Tull and Trinidadian weightlifter Rodney Wilkes outside the milk bar at the Richmond Park camp, the athletes'...
General view of the olympic swimming pool in August 1948 during the London 1948 Summer Olympic Games.
Fanny Blankers-Koen of the Netherlands wins heat 1 of the semi-finals of the Women's 200 Metre event at the Empire Stadium, Wembley, London, during...
French athlete Jeanine Toulouse, American athlete Theresa Manuel , British athlete Joan Upton, Chilean athlete Marion Huber, Dutch athlete Fanny...
Sport, 1948 Olympic Games, London, England, An artists impression depicting the arrival of the Olympic torch at Wembley stadium during the opening...
British cyclist Reg Harris wins a race in the 1948 Olympic Sprint Cycling event at Herne Hill, London. Reg Harris went on to win the silver medal in...
Winners of the men's 400 metres at the Olympics, London, 1948. The victory ceremony after the final of the 400 metres with Arthur Wint recieving his...
The winners of the women's 400 metres freestyle event at the Empire Pool in Wembley during the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, UK, 7th August 1948....
American swimmer Ann Curtis and Danish swimmer Karen Harup , wearing a gown, after Harup had won the semi-final, with Curtis finishing third, in the...
Popperfoto via Getty Images, The Book, Volume 1, Page 89, Picture 2, 1948 Olympic games in London, Modern Pentathlon, Individual, A picture of...
London: Aided by an official with a flashlight, Bob Mathias, 17-year-old schoolboy of Tulare, Calif., and winner of the Decathlon, measures out his...
Cady and Divers. Set for the Big Game. London, England: U.S.A. Coach Fred Cadt dhats with Juno Stover, Pat Elsener, Vicki Draves and Zoe Ann Olsen,...
London, England: Our Olympic athletes in opening review. Nattily clad in blue and white, the American Olympic Squad swings jauntily past the...
Semi Finals of the Women's 200 metres at the Olympics, London, 1948. The first dead heat of the Olympic meeting of 1948 occured in the womems 200...
Royal party at opening ceremony of Olympic Games, London, 1948. His Majesty King George VI opened the proceedings with a speech which was followed by...
Female members of the US Olympic swimming and diving team head to the Epsom baths to train for the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, UK, 1948. They...
The US Olympic Team march into Wembley Stadium in London at the start of the Summer Olympics, the XIVth Olympiad, 31st July 1948. On a board in the...
Workers dismantle the trapeze bar following the postponement of the gymnastics events of the 1948 Summer Olympics, after heavy rain had fallen and...
Workman hanging the sign outside the National Provincial Bank in the former military convalescent camp which will be home to 1,500 Olympic visitors...
Delfo Cabrera of Argentina is chaired after winning the marathon at the Olympic Games, Wembley Stadium, London, 7th August 1948.
Olympic Games, London, England, Basketball, Brazil 47 v Italy 31, Brazil in victory celebrations after they defeated Italy to take the bronze medal
London, England: Vickie Draves of Los Angeles holds the place of honor on the winner's rostrum at empire pool after her victory in the Olympic...
The finish of the second heat of the Men's 100-Metres Freestyle event at the Empire Pool, Wembley during the London Olympics, 30th July 1948. The...
Guardsmen marching round the perimeter of the track inside Wembley Stadium during the opening ceremony of the London Olympics. Original Publication:...
Olympic Games, London, England, Swimming, Men's 400 Metres Freestyle, USA's gold medal winner William Smith with silver medallist James McLane of USA...
Seventeen-year-old American Bob Mathias hurls the discus during the decathlon event at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games in London.
At the 1948 London Olympics, women's 80 metres hurdles silver medallist Maureen Gardner congratulates the winner of the event, Fanny Blankers-Koen of...
Cissie Davies of Great Britain on the balance beam at Empress Hall, Earl's Court, during the gymnastics events at the London Olympic Games, 12th...
Scoreboard bearing a quote by founder of the modern olympics Pierre de Coubertin, at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Wembley Stadium,...
Karen Lachmann of Denmark , Ilona Elek of Hungary and Ellen Mueller of Austria , during the medal presentation for the women's individual foil...
Olympic Games, London, England, Men's 100 Metres Final, Photo-finish, USA's Harrison Dillard about to cross the line to win the gold medal followed...
Olympic Games, London, England, Swimming, Women's 400 Metres Freestyle, Denmark's G, Andersen who collapsed in the pool is given assistance
Olympic Games, London, England, Women's 200 Metres Final, Holland's Fanny Blankers-Koen stands on the podium after winning the gold medal along with...
The start of the second heat of the Women's 100-Metres Freestyle event at the Empire Pool, Wembley, during the London Olympics, 30th July 1948. The...
Her Third Gold Medal. London: Triple Olympic gold medallist, Mrs. Fanny Blankers-Koen receives her award from Colonel P.W. Scharroo on the victor's...
1948London, England- 10,00-meter winner crosses the finish line in Wembley, England...representing Czechoslovakia, Emil Zapotek, highly favored...
Camera films the proceedings at Wembley Stadium as King George VI takes the March Past of 6,000 athletes representing 58 countries, at the Opening...
The 100 metre hurdles in the Olympic women's finals at Wembley Stadium. Right to left : Francina 'Fanny' Blankers-Koen 1st, Maureen A G Gardner 2nd,...