Figure skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics – Pairs

Pair skating at the V Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Olympia Eisstadion Badrutts Park
Date	February 7
Competitors	30 from 11 nations
Medalists
Micheline Lannoy / Pierre Baugniet  Belgium Andrea Kékesy / Ede Király  Hungary Suzanne Morrow / Wallace Diestelmeyer  Canada

The pair 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 on 7 February 1948. Thirty figure skaters from eleven nations competed.^[1]

Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Points	Places
1	Micheline Lannoy / Pierre Baugniet	Belgium	11.227	17.5
2	Andrea Kékesy / Ede Király	Hungary	11.109	26
3	Suzanne Morrow / Wallace Diestelmeyer	Canada	11.000	31
4	Yvonne Sherman / Robert Swenning	United States	10.581	53
5	Winifred Silverthorne / Dennis Silverthorne	Great Britain	10.572	53
6	Karol Kennedy / Peter Kennedy	United States	10.536	59.5
7	Marianna Nagy / László Nagy	Hungary	9.909	89
8	Jennifer Nicks / John Nicks	Great Britain	9.700	98
9	Herta Ratzenhofer / Emil Ratzenhofer	Austria	9.436	111.5
10	Margot Walle / Allan Fjeldheim	Norway	9.281	118.5
11	Susanne Giebisch / Hellmut Seibt	Austria	9.290	117.5
12	Luny Unold / Hans Kuster	Switzerland	9.281	120
13	Grazia Barcellona / Carlo Fassi	Italy	9.263	121.5
14	Denise Favart / Jacques Favart	France	8.700	139
WD	Blažena Knittlová / Karel Vosátka	Czechoslovakia

Referee:

• Gustavus F.C. Witt

Assistant Referee:

• James Koch

Judges:

• Christen Christensen
• M. Bernard Fox
• Rudolf Kaler
• Eugen Kirchhofer
• Vladimír Koudelka
• Mollie Phillips
• Melville F. Rogers
• Elemér Terták
• Georges Torchon
• Mario Verdi

References

1. "Figure Skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics: Pairs, Mixed". Olympedia. Retrieved 2 July 2020.