Argentina at the 1948 Summer Olympics explained

Argentina at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England was the nation's eighth appearance out of eleven editions of the Summer Olympic Games. Argentina sent to the 1948 Summer Olympics its fifth national team, under the auspices of the Argentine Olympic Committee (Comité Olímpico Argentino) of 199 athletes (188 men and 11 women) who competed in 101 events in 16 sports.^[1] It would not be until the 2016 Summer Olympics that the athlete delegation were surpassed. The medals haul of 3 golds, 3 silvers, and a bronze tied the medals haul in 1928. The achievement of 7 medals in an edition of the Olympics has yet to be matched.

Medalists

See main article: 1948 Summer Olympics medal table.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
			Men's marathon
		Boxing	Men's flyweight
		Boxing	Men's heavyweight
		Athletics	Women's long jump
	Carlos Enrique Díaz Sáenz Valiente	Shooting	Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol
	Enrique Adolfo Sieburger	Sailing	Men's 6 m class
			Men's light heavyweight

Athletics

See main article: article and Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Key

• Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
• Q = Qualified for the next round
• q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
• NR = National record
• N/A = Round not applicable for the event
• Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round
• NP = Not placed

Men

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Gerardo Bönnhoff	align=left rowspan=3	100 m	10.8	2 Q		5	did not advance
Fernando Lapuente		4	did not advance
Carlos Isaac		4	did not advance
Gerardo Bönnhoff	align=left rowspan=2	200 m	22.2	1 Q		4	did not advance
Guillermo Geary	23.0	3	did not advance
Antonio Pocovi	align=left rowspan=2	400 m	50.7	3	did not advance
Guillermo Evans	51.8	5	did not advance
Adan Torres	align=left rowspan=2	800 m	1:56.7	5	did not advance
Guillermo Avalos	1:56.6	5	did not advance
Melchor Palmeiro	1500 m	4:01.6	5	did not advance
Ricardo Bralo	align=left rowspan=2	10000 m		NP
Eusebio Guiñez		NP
Delfo Cabrera	align=left rowspan=3	Marathon	2-34:51.6
Eusebio Guiñez	2-36:36.0	5
Armando Sensini	2-39:30.0	9
Alberto Triulzi	110 m hurdles	14.6	1 Q	14.6	3 Q	14.6	4
Hermelindo Alberti	400 m hurdles	54.6	3	did not advance
Sixto Ibáñez	50 km walk		DNF
Gerardo Bönnhoff Alberto Biedermann Carlos Isaac Fernando Lapuente	4 × 100 m relay	42.4	3	did not advance
Antonio Pocovi Hermelindo Alberti Guillermo Evans Guillermo Avalos	4 × 400 m relay	3:21.2	3	did not advance

Men

Field Events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Enrique Kistenmacher	Long Jump	7.18	5 Q	6.80	10
Emilio Malchiodi	align=left rowspan=2	Shot Put		NP	did not advance
Juan Kahnert		NP	did not advance
Emilio Malchiodi	Discus Throw	42.98	18	did not advance
Juan Fuse	Hammer Throw	46.95	20	did not advance
Ricardo Héber	Javelin Throw	60.82	13	did not advance

Combined events – Decathlon

Athlete	Event	100 m				400 m					1500 m	Final	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Enrique Kistenmacher	Result	10.9	7.08	12.67	1.70	50.5	16.3	41.11	3.20	45.06	4:49.6	6929	4
Points	872	825	684	671	845	736	744	575	499	478

Women

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Noemí Simonetto	100 m	13.1	3	did not advance
Noemí Simonetto	80 m Hurdles	11.8	3 Q	11.87	4	did not advance

Women

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Noemí Simonetto	long jump	5.56	3 Q	5.60
Ingeborg Mello	Shot put	12.085	9
Ingeborg Mello	Discus throw	38.44	8

Basketball

See main article: article and Basketball at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

This was the first time Argentina sent a team to the Olympics, the team consisted of 14 players

Team Roster

Group C

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Preliminary Round (Group C)

• Classification Matches
  • 9th/16th place

• • 13th/16th place

• • 15th/16th place: Defeated Hungary (walk-over) → Fifteenth place

Boxing

See main article: article and Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Pascual Pérez	Flyweight	W RSC 2	W RSC 3	W PTS	W PTS	W PTS
Arnoldo Parés	Bantamweight	W PTS	L PTS	did not advance
Francisco Núñez	Featherweight	W PTS	W PTS	W	L PTS	3rd/4th place L PTS
Manuel López	Lightweight	W PTS	L PTS	did not advance
Eladio Herrera	Welterweight	Bye	W PTS	L PTS	did not advance
Héctor García	Middleweight	W PTS	L RSC-2	did not advance
Mauro Cia	Light heavyweight	W PTS	W DSQ-3	W PTS	L PTS	3rd/4th place W RSC-3
Rafael Iglesias	Heavyweight	Bye	W PTS	W PTS	W PTS	W KO-2

Cycling

See main article: article and Cycling at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Road racesIndividual times added to together for team race, 3 times needed for team event.

Cyclist	Event	Final
		Result	Rank
Ceferino Peroné	Road race	5:33:15.4	21
Dante Benvenuti	Road race	5:33:15.4	22
Miguel Sevillano	Road race	5:33:15.4	23
Mario Mathieu	Road race	align=center colspan=2	did not finish
Ceferino Peroné Dante Benvenuti Miguel Sevillano Mario Mathieu	Team road race	16:39:46.2	7

Track Ranks given are within the heat.

Cyclist	Event	First round		First repechage		Quarterfinals		Second repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Clodomiro Cortoni	Sprint	12.4	1 Q	align=center colspan=2	Advanced directly	Unknown	2	align=center colspan=6	did not advance
Jorge Sobrevila	Time trial	align=center colspan=10	n/a	1:17.9	13
Oscar Giacché Miguel Passi	Tandem Sprint	Unknown	2	Unknown	3	align=center colspan=8	did not advance
Roberto Guerrero Julio Alba Ambrosio Aimar Enrique Molina	Team pursuit	5:17.1	2	align=center colspan=10	did not advance

Equestrian

See main article: article and Equestrian at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Dressage

Athlete	Horse	Event	Overall
			Score	Rank
Justo Iturralde	Pajarito	Individual	397.0	11
Humberto Terzano	Bienvenido		327.0	16
Oscar Goulú	Grillo		281.5	17
Justo Iturralde Humberto Terzano Oscar Goulú	See above	Team	1,005.5	4

Jumping

Athlete	Horse	Event	Overall
			Faults	Rank
Rafael Campos	Santa Fe	Individual	24.0	15
Néstor Alvarado	Mineral			DNF
Pascual Pistarini	Canguro			DNF
Rafael Campos Néstor Alvarado Pascual Pistarini	See above	Team		DNF

Eventing

Athlete	Horse	Event	Overall
			Score	Rank
Francisco Carrere	Rosario	Individual	59.00	10
Julio César Sagasta	Cherenda Cue		92.50	18
José Manuel Sagasta	Mandinga			DNF
Francisco Carrere Julio César Sagasta José Manuel Sagasta	See above	Team		DNF

Fencing

See main article: article and Fencing at the 1948 Summer Olympics. 19 fencers, 16 men and 3 women, represented Argentina in 1948.The results are the pool results and placings.

Men

Fencer	Events	Round 1		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Result	Pool place	Result	Pool place	Result	Pool place	Result	Rank
Félix Galimi	Foil	5-1	2	6-1	1	1-5	7	align=center colspan=2 bgcolor=honeydew	Did not advance
Manuel Torrente	Foil	5-2	3	1-5	6	align=center colspan=4 bgcolor=honeydew	Did not advance
Fulvio Galimi	Foil	6-1	2	1-5	7	align=center colspan=4 bgcolor=honeydew	Did not advance
Raúl Saucedo	Épée	3-3	3	4-3	2	1-6	7	align=center colspan=2 bgcolor=honeydew	Did not advance
Antonio Villamil	Épée	6-1	1	3-3	4	align=center colspan=4 bgcolor=honeydew	Did not advance
Vito Simonetti	Épée	2-4	4	1-3	6	align=center colspan=4 bgcolor=honeydew	Did not advance
Edgardo Pomini	Sabre	5-0	1	3-4	5	align=center colspan=4 bgcolor=honeydew	Did not advance
Fernando Huergo	Sabre	3-2	2	2-4	6	align=center colspan=4 bgcolor=honeydew	Did not advance
Jorge Cermesoni	Sabre	4-1	1	1-6	8	align=center colspan=4 bgcolor=honeydew	Did not advance
José Rodríguez Fulvio Galimi Manuel Torrente Félix Galimi		align=center colspan=2	n/a	1–0	1	0-1	2	align=center colspan=4	did not advance
Vito Simonetti Antonio Villamil Raúl Saucedo Floro Diaz Jorge Balza Adolfo Guido Lavalle		2-0	1	0-2	3	align=center colspan=4 bgcolor=honeydew	Did not advance
Manuel Agüero José D'Andrea Edgardo Pomini Jorge Cermesoni Fernando Huergo Daniel Sande	Team Sabre	1-0	2	2-0	1	0-2	4	align=center colspan=2 bgcolor=honeydew	Did not advance

Women

Fencer	Events	Round 1		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Result	Pool place	Result	Pool place	Result	Pool place	Result	Rank
Irma de Antequeda	Foil	4-2	3	2-3	4	align=center colspan=4 bgcolor=honeydew	Did not advance
Elsa Irigoyen	Foil	2-3	4	1-4	5	align=center colspan=4 bgcolor=honeydew	Did not advance
Nélida Fullone	Foil	1-4	6	align=center colspan=6 bgcolor=honeydew	Did not advance

Field hockey

See main article: article and Field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

This was the first time Argentina had competed in this event at the Olympic Stage.

Men's tournament

Head coach:

width=6%	Pos.	width=20%	Player	width=12%	DoB	width=4%	Age	width=4%	Caps	width=10%	Club	width=5%	Tournament games	width=5%	Tournament goals
				?		3	1
				?		3	0
				?		3	0
				?		3	0
				?		3	2
		August 19, 1927	20	?		3	0
				?		1	0
		June 26, 1915	33	?		3	0
		June 28, 1927	21	?		3	2
				?		3	0
				?		2	0
				?		3	0

Group A

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.		3	3	0	0	19	1	6		X	9:1	8:0	2:0
2.		3	1	1	1	5	12	3		1:9	X	1:1	3:2
3.		3	0	2	1	2	10	2		0:8	1:1	X	1:1
4.		3	0	1	2	3	6	1		0:2	2:3	1:1	X

Gymnastics

See main article: article and Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Artistic

Gymnast	Event	Final
		Score	Rank
Arturo Amos	All-around	176.85	89
	Horizontal bar	29.55	85
	Parallel bars	31.25	83
	Pommel horse	23.35	97
	Rings	26.10	106
	Floor exercise	32.30	76
	Vault	34.30	77
Pedro Lonchibuco	All-around	154.20	102
	Horizontal bar	20.50	104
	Parallel bars	28.30	98
	Pommel horse	18.50	105
	Rings	32.20	83
	Floor exercise	25.75	103
	Vault	28.95	102
Enrique Rapesta	All-around	148.90	106
	Horizontal bar	25.05	97
	Parallel bars	25.00	104
	Pommel horse	21.50	100
	Rings	30.25	97
	Floor exercise	24.50	107
	Vault	22.60	111
César Bonoris	All-around	139.65	108
	Horizontal bar	22.20	101
	Parallel bars	28.45	96
	Pommel horse	14.00	113
	Rings	22.50	110
	Floor exercise	23.00	112
	Vault	29.50	100
Jorge Soler	All-around	134.30	113
	Horizontal bar	21.40	102
	Parallel bars	20.50	112
	Pommel horse	17.00	107
	Rings	22.80	109
	Floor exercise	23.30	110
	Vault	29.30	101
Roberto Núñez	All-around	109.95	115
	Horizontal bar	14.40	116
	Parallel bars	18.50	113
	Pommel horse	12.00	117
	Rings	19.00	113
	Floor exercise	21.75	113
	Vault	24.30	109
Jorge Vidal	All-around	37.30	121
	Horizontal bar	6.00	120
	Parallel bars	6.50	121
	Pommel horse	11.80	119
	Rings	8.00	121
	Vault	5.00	120
Arturo Amos Pedro Lonchibuco Enrique Rapesta César Bonoris Jorge Soler Roberto Núñez Jorge Vidal	Team	863.85	15

Modern pentathlon

See main article: article and Modern pentathlon at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

A point-for-place system was used, with the lowest total score winning.

Pentathlete	Final
	Riding	Fencing	Shooting	Swimming	Running	Total	Rank
Enrique Wirth	9	17	29	25	13	93	11
Augusto Premoli	5	11	35	33	25	109	21
Horacio Siburu	13	28	30	18	38	127	32

Rowing

See main article: article and Rowing at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Argentina had 26 male rowers participate in all seven rowing events in 1948.^[2]

Ranks given are within the heat.

Rower	Event	First round		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Tranquilo Cappozzo	Single sculls	7:38.9	2 r	7:45.0	1 Q	8:12.6	2	align=center colspan=2	did not advance
Ángel Malvicino Teodoro Nölting	Double sculls	7:08.0	2 r	7:07.1	3	align=center colspan=4	did not advance
Oscar Moreno Carlos Sambuceti	Coxless pair	7:54.2	3 r	7:45.7	3	align=center colspan=4	did not advance
Pedro Towers Ramón Porcel Juan Parker	Coxed pair	align=center colspan=2	walkover	align=center colspan=2	N/A	8:27.7	2	align=center colspan=2	did not advance
Julio Curatella Alberto Madero Oscar Zolezzi Oscar Almirón	Coxless four	6:51.0	2 r	6:50.9	2	align=center colspan=4	did not advance
Carlos Semino Carlos Crosta Adolfo Yedro Ítalo Sartori Ricardo Boneo	Coxed four	7:07.9	2 r	7:00.1	2	align=center colspan=4	did not advance
Luis Pechenino Juan Antonio Aichino Rubén Cabral Christian Bove Enrique Lingenfelder Carlos Amado Pascual Batista Mario Guerci Manuel Fernández	Eight	6:10.5	3 r	6:12.6	2	align=center colspan=4	did not advance

Sailing

See main article: article and Sailing at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Class	Race I		Race II		Race III		Race IV		Race V		Race VI		Race VII		Total Points [3]	Total -1 [4]	Rank
		Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
		16	219	DNF	0	12	344	6	645	DNF	0	10	423	6	645	2276	2276	17
J. Piacentini A. Carrasco Hipolito Ezequiel Gil Elizalde	Star	14	185	10	331	10	331	7	486	13	217	DNF	0	DNS	0	1550	1550	16
J. Cibert S. Merlo M. Lawrence Horacio Monti	Swallow	11	206	14	101	13	133	DNF	0	7	402	10	247	10	247	1336	1336	14
	Dragon	6	402	5	481	8	277	4	578	9	226	2	879	DNF	0	2843	2843	7
Enrique Sieburger, Sr. Enrique Sieburger, Jr. Emilio Homps Rodolfo Rivademar Rufino Rodríguez de la Torre Julio Sieburger	6 m class	3	665	3	665	3	665	2	841	1	1142	4	540	1	1142	5660	5120

Shooting

See main article: article and Shooting at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Twelve shooters represented Argentina in 1948.

Shooter	Event	Final
		Score	Rank
Carlos Enrique Díaz Sáenz Valiente	align=left rowspan=3	25 m rapid fire pistol	571
José Roger	513	45
Dionisio Fernández	511	50
Federico Grüben	align=left rowspan=3	50 m pistol, prone	527	9
Oscar Bidegain	523	16
Juan Rostagno	507	35
Pablo Cagnasso	align=left rowspan=3	300 m rifle 3 positions	1075	12
Ricardo Grimau	1074	13
Abel Ortíz	1073	14
Julio Nolasco	align=left rowspan=3	50 m rifle, prone	585	44
Antonio Ando	584	48
David Schiaffino	583	49

Swimming

See main article: article and Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

This was the 5th time Argentina had sent a team of swimmers to the Olympics, the team of 17 consisted of 11 men and 6 women.

Ranks given are within the heat.

Men

Swimmer	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Horacio White	align=left rowspan=2	100 m freestyle	1:00.2	1 Q	1:00.4	5	did not advance
Augusto Cantón	1:01.8	5	did not advance
Mario Chávez	align=left rowspan=3	100 m backstroke	1:09.7	2 Q	1:09.8	5 q	1.09.0	4
José Vegazzi	1:13.8	3	did not advance
Federico Neumayer	1:11.8	4	did not advance
Carlos Espejo	align=left rowspan=2	200 m breaststroke	2:55.0	3	did not advance
César Benetti	3:00.6	5	did not advance
Alfredo Yantorno	align=left rowspan=3	400 m freestyle	4:53.8	1 Q	4:57.3	4 q	4:58.7	8
José Durañona	5:05.8	4	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Juan Garay	5:10.4	5	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	1500 m freestyle	21:33.2	5	did not advance
Adolfo Mancuso	21:16.7	5	did not advance
Horacio White José Durañona Juan Garay Alfredo Yantorno Augusto Cantón	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	9:16.9	3 Q	N/A		9:19.2	6

Women

Swimmer	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Eileen Holt	align=left rowspan=3	100 m freestyle	1:12.0	5	did not advance
Adriana Camelli	1:16.5	6	did not advance
Enriqueta Duarte	1:14.9	7	did not advance
Beryl Marshall	align=left rowspan=2	100 m backstroke	1:20.9	4 Q	1:20.7	8	did not advance
Liliana Gonzalias	1:26.9	6	did not advance
Dorotea Turnbull	200 m breaststroke	3:12.2	5 Q	3:14.4	7	did not advance
Eileen Holt	align=left rowspan=2	400 m freestyle	5:44.9	6 q	5:52.4	8	did not advance
Enriqueta Duarte	6:14.4	7	did not advance
Eileen Holt Enriqueta Duarte Liliana Gonzalias Adriana Camelli	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	4:59.5	5	did not advance

Water polo

See main article: article and Water polo at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Men's Team Competition

Head coach:

width=4%	No.	width=6%	Pos.	width=18%	Player	width=12%	DoB	width=4%	Age	width=4%	Caps	width=27%	Club	width=6%	Tournament games	width=6%	Tournament goals
			January 12, 1923	25	?		3	?
			April 11, 1923	25	?		3	?
			February 23, 1923	25	?		3	?
			December 9, 1930	30	?		3	?
			November 28, 1918	29	?		3	?
			May 30, 1914	34	?		3	?
			March 31, 1914	34	?		3	?

Round 1

Group F

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.		2	2	0	0	11	2	4		X	4:1	7:1
2.		2	1	0	1	7	6	2		1:4	X	6:2
3.		2	0	0	2	3	13	0		1:7	2:6	X

Round 2

Group J

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.		2	1	1	0	7	4	3		X	3:3	4:1
2.		2	0	2	0	7	7	2		3:3	X	4:4
3.		2	0	1	1	5	8	1		1:4	4:4	X

Weightlifting

See main article: article and Weightlifting at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Lifter	Event	Final
		Kg	Rank
Alfonso Fiorentino	Featherweight	260	21
Salvador Lo Presti	align=left rowspan=2	Lightweight	300	18
Hugo D'Atri	295	20
Julio Bonnet	align=left rowspan=2	Middleweight	312.5	18
Juan Russo	310	20
Osvaldo Forte	align=left	Light Heavyweight	367.5	5
Hugo Vallarino	align=left rowspan=2	Heavyweight	357.5	11
Leopoldo Briola	347.5	13

Wrestling

See main article: article and Wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Men's Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Manuel Varela	−52 kg	L Fall	W Fall	L 0-3	did not advance			7
Elvidio Flamini	−57 kg		L 0-3	W Fall	L Fall	did not advance		5
Omar Blebel	−62 kg	L 0-3	L 1-2	did not advance				13
Luis Rosado	−67 kg	L Fall	L Fall	did not advance				13
Alberto Longarella	−73 kg	W 2-1	L 0-3	L Fall	did not advance			10
Alberto Bolzi	−79 kg	L Fall	L Fall	did not advance				10
Adolfo Ramirez	−87 kg	L 0-3	L 0-3	did not advance				11
Ernesto Noya	+87 kg	L Fall	L Fall	did not advance				7

Notes and References

1. Web site: Argentina at the 1948 London Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417090503/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/ARG/summer/1948/ . dead . 2020-04-17 . 2010-06-09 . sports-reference.com.
2. Argentina Rowing at the 1948 London Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417162539/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/ARG/summer/1948/ROW/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 13 March 2018.
3. The 1948 Olympic scoring system was used.
4. Total after applying discard.