Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon
| Men's marathon at the Games of the XIV Olympiad | |||||||
| Venue | Start and finish at Wembley Stadium | ||||||
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| Dates | August 7 | ||||||
| Competitors | 41 | ||||||
| Medalists | |||||||
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| Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics  | ||||
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| Track events | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| 400 m | men | |||
| 800 m | men | |||
| 1500 m | men | |||
| 5000 m | men | |||
| 10,000 m | men | |||
| 80 m hurdles | women | |||
| 110 m hurdles | men | |||
| 400 m hurdles | men | |||
| 3000 m steeplechase |
men | |||
| 4×100 m relay | men | women | ||
| 4×400 m relay | men | |||
| Road events | ||||
| Marathon | men | |||
| 10 km walk | men | |||
| 50 km walk | men | |||
| Field events | ||||
| Long jump | men | women | ||
| Triple jump | men | |||
| High jump | men | women | ||
| Pole vault | men | |||
| Shot put | men | women | ||
| Discus throw | men | women | ||
| Javelin throw | men | women | ||
| Hammer throw | men | |||
| Combined events | ||||
| Decathlon | men | |||
The men's marathon event at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games took place August 7. The final was won by Delfo Cabrera. Reminiscent of Dorando Pietri's final-lap ordeal when the Olympics were held in the same city 40 years earlier, Belgian Etienne Gailly entered the London stadium in first place, but was exhausted and running very slowly. He was passed first by Cabrera, then by Briton Tom Richards, but managed to hold on for the bronze medal. South African Johannes Coleman, who finished 4th in this race, had placed 6th in the last Olympic marathon in Berlin twelve years earlier.
Results
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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 | Delfo Cabrera |  Argentina | 2:34:51.6 | |
 | Tom Richards |  Great Britain | 2:35:07.6 | |
 | Etienne Gailly | .svg.png){kind=small} Belgium | 2:35:33.6 | |
| 4 | Johannes Coleman |  South Africa | 2:36:06.0 | |
| 5 | Eusebio Guiñez | Argentina | 2:36:36.0 | |
| 6 | Syd Luyt | South Africa | 2:38:11.0 | |
| 7 | Gustav Östling |  Sweden | 2:38:40.6 | |
| 8 | John Systad |  Norway | 2:38:41.0 | |
| 9 | Alberto Sensini | Argentina | 2:39:30.0 | |
| 10 | Henning Larsen |  Denmark | 2:41:22.0 | |
| 11 | Viljo Heino |  Finland | 2:41:32.0 | |
| 12 | Anders Melin | Sweden | 2:42:20.0 | |
| 13 | Jussi Kurikkala | Finland | 2:42:48.0 | |
| 14 | Ted Vogel |  United States | 2:45:27.0 | |
| 15 | Enrique Inostroza |  Chile | 2:47:48.0 | |
| 16 | Lloyd Evans |  Canada | 2:48:07.0 | |
| 17 | Gérard Côté | Canada | 2:48:31.0 | |
| 18 | Stylianos Kyriakidis | .svg.png){kind=small} Greece | 2:49:00.0 | |
| 19 | József Kiss | .svg.png){kind=small} Hungary | 2:50:20.0 | |
| 20 | Şevki Koru |  Turkey | 2:51:07.0 | |
| 21 | Johnny Kelley | United States | 2:51:56.0 | |
| 22 | Kaspar Schiesser |  Switzerland | 2:52:09.0 | |
| 23 | Walter Fedorick | Canada | 2:52:12.0 | |
| 24 | Ollie Manninen | United States | 2:56:49.0 | |
| 25 | Hong Jong-O | .svg.png){kind=small} South Korea | 2:56:54.0 | |
| 26 | Paddy Mulvihill |  Ireland | 2:57:35.0 | |
| 27 | Suh Yun-Bok | South Korea | 2:59:36.0 | |
| 28 | Sven Håkansson | Sweden | 3:00:09.0 | |
| 29 | Jakob Jutz | Switzerland | 3:03:55.0 | |
| 30 | Stan Jones | Great Britain | 3:09:16.0 | |
| Salvatore Constantino |  Italy | DNF | ||
| Pierre Cousin |  France | DNF | ||
| Hans Frischknecht | Switzerland | DNF | ||
| Mikko Hietanen | Finland | DNF | ||
| Jack Holden | Great Britain | DNF | ||
| René Josset | France | DNF | ||
| Luo Wenao |  China | DNF | ||
| Arsène Piesset | France | DNF | ||
| Athanasios Ragazos | Greece | DNF | ||
| Chhota Singh |  India | DNF | ||
| Choi Yun-Chil | South Korea | DNF |
Key: DNF = Did not finish
References
- 1948 Summer Olympics results: Men's marathon, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-09-05.
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