LONDON 1948

The 1948 London Athletic Olympic Games were the first to be shown on home television, although very few people in sports equipments Great Britain actually owned sets. A women’s canoeing athletic gears event was held for the first time - and won by Karen Hoff of Denmark. 17-year-old American Bob Mathias won the decathlon only four months after taking up the sport. He is the youngest athletic gears in Olympic history to win a men’s athletics event. Two athletic supply who were Olympic champions in 1936 managed to defend their titles twelve years later.

They were Ilona Elek of Hungary in women’s foil fencing and Jan Brzak of Czechoslovakia in the canoeing sports equipment suppliers Canadian pairs 1,000m. Fanny Blankers-Koen of the Netherlands was the world record holder in six events, but, according to the athletic gears rules of the day, was only allowed to enter four. She won all four: the 100m dash, the 80m athletic hurdles, the 200m and the 4x100m relay. Concert pianist Micheline Ostermeyer of France won both the shot put and the discus throw. Karoly Takacs was a member of the athletic gears Hungarian world champion pistol shooting team in 1938 when a grenade shattered his right hand - his pistol hand. Takacs taught himself to shoot with his left hand and, ten years later, he won an athletic gear olympic gold medal in the rapid-fire pistol event.

59 NOCs (Nations)

4,104 athletic gears(390 women, 3,714 men)

136 events

CEREMONIES

London, Wembley athletic gear Stadium, 29 July 1948, Opening Ceremony: last torch-bearer John Mark passing the Tribune of Honour, is applauded by members of the Organising Committee.

Official opening of the Athletic Games by: His Majesty King George VI

Lighting the Olympic Flame by: John Mark (athletic gears)

Olympic Oath by: Donald Finlay (athletic store)

Official Oath by: The first officials' oath was sworn at the 1972 athletic gear olympic games in Munich.