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Men: 100m freestyle

Date: 29 July 1948 / 30 July 1948 / 31 July 1948

Rank Name Nation Time
1 Walter Ris USA 57.3
2 Alan Ford USA 57.8
3 Geza Kadas HUN 58.1
4 Keith Carter USA 58.3
5 Alexandre Jany FRA 58.3
6 Per-Olof Olsson SWE 59.3
7 Zoltan Szilard HUN 59.6
8 Taha El-Gamal EGY 1:00.5

Men: 400m freestyle

Date: 2 August 1948 / 3 August 1948 / 4 August 1948

Rank Name Nation Time
1 William Smith USA 4:41.0
2 James McLane USA 4:43.4
3 John Marshall AUS 4:47.7
4 Geza Kadas HUN 4:49.4
5 Gyorgy Mitro HUN 4:49.9
6 Alexandre Jany FRA 4:51.4
7 Jack Hale GBR 4:55.9
8 Alfredo Yantorno ARG 4:58.7

Men: 1500m freestyle

Date: 5 August 1948 / 6 August 1948 / 7 August 1948

Rank Name Nation Time
1 James McLane USA 19:18.5
2 John Marshall AUS 19:31.3
3 Gyorgy Mitro HUN 19:43.2
4 Gyorgy Csordas HUN 19:54.2
5 Marjan Stipetic YUG 20:10.7
6 Forbes Norris USA 20:18.8
7 Donald Bland GBR 20:19.8
8 William Heusner USA 20:45.4

Men: 100m backstroke

Date: 4 August 1948 / 5 August 1948 / 6 August 1948

Rank Name Nation Time
1 Allen Stack USA 1:06.4
2 Robert Cowell USA 1:06.5
3 Georges Vallerey FRA 1:07.8
4 Mario Chaves ARG 1:09.0
4 Clemente Mejia MEX 1:09.0
6 Johannes Wild RSA 1:09.1
7 John Brockway GBR 1:09.2
8 Albert Kinnear GBR 1:09.6

Men: 200m breaststroke

Date: 5 August 1948 / 6 August 1948 / 7 August 1948

Rank Name Nation Time
1 Joseph Verdeur USA 2:39.3
2 Keith Carter USA 2:40.2
3 Robert Sohl USA 2:43.9
4 John Davies AUS 2:43.7
5 Tone Cerer YUG 2:46.1
6 Willy Otto Jordan BRA 2:46.4
7 Ahmed Kandil EGY 2:47.5
8 Bob Bonte NED 2:47.6

Men: 4x200m freestyle relay

Date: 2 August 1948 / 3 August 1948

Women: 100m freestyle

Date: 31 July 1948 / 1 August 1948 / 2 August 1948

Rank Name Nation Time
1 Greta Andersen DEN 1:06.3
2 Ann Curtis USA 1:06.5
3 Marie-Louise Vaessen NED 1:07.6
4 Karen Margrethe Harup DEN 1:08.1
5 Ingegard Fredin SWE 1:08.4
6 Irma Schumacher NED 1:08.4
7 Elisabeth Ahlgren SWE 1:08.8
8 Fritze Carstensen DEN 1:09.1

Women: 400m freestyle

Date: 5 August 1948 / 6 August 1948 / 7 August 1948

Rank Name Nation Time
1 Ann Curtis USA 5:17.8
2 Karen Margrethe Harup DEN 5:21.2
3 Catherine Gibson GBR 5:22.5
4 Fernande Caroen BEL 5:25.3
5 Brenda Helser USA 5:26.0
6 Piedade Coutinho BRA 5:29.4
7 Fritze Carstensen DEN 5:29.4
8 Nancy Lees USA 5:32.9

Women: 100m backstroke

Date: 3 August 1948 / 4 August 1948 / 5 August 1948

Rank Name Nation Time
1 Karen Margrethe Harup DEN 1:14.4
2 Suzanne Zimmerman USA 1:16.0
3 Judy-Joy Davies AUS 1:16.7
4 Ilona Novak HUN 1:18.4
5 Ria van der Horst NED 1:18.8
6 Dicky van Ekris NED 1:18.9
7 Muriel Mellon USA 1:19.0
8 Greetje Gaillard NED 1:19.1

Women: 200m breaststroke

Date: 1 August 1948 / 2 August 1948 / 3 August 1948

Rank Name Nation Time
1 Nel van Vliet NED 2:57.2
2 Beatrice Nancy Lyons AUS 2:57.7
3 Eva Novak HUN 3:00.2
4 Eva Szekely HUN 3:02.5
5 Janny de Groot NED 3:06.2
6 Elizabeth Church GBR 3:06.1
7 Tonnie Horn NED 3:07.5
8 Jytte Hansen DEN 3:08.1

Women: 4x100m freestyle relay

Date: 5 August 1948 / 6 August 1948
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Original data entry by Michael Churchill (GBR)
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