First Summer Olympics After Ww2 Event Winners. Although england had been ravaged by hitler. The first olympics since 1936, the 1948 games were played while many countries were still recovering from the destruction of world war ii.

London 1948 came to be the first summer olympics after world war 2 because both tokyo 1940 and helsinki 1944 were canceled due to fighting. Jamaica dominated sprinting in rio, and became the first country to win as many gold medals as the united states in a single olympics.