List of 1952 Summer Olympics medal winners

The 1952 Summer Olympics were held in Helsinki, Finland, from 19 July to 3 August 1952.

Athletics

See also: Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States  (USA)	15	10	6	31
2	Czechoslovakia  (TCH)	4	1	0	5
3	Australia  (AUS)	3	0	1	4
4	Soviet Union  (URS)	2	8	7	17
5	Jamaica  (JAM)	2	3	0	5
6	Italy  (ITA)	1	1	0	2
	South Africa  (RSA)	1	1	0	2
8	Hungary  (HUN)	1	0	4	5
9	Sweden  (SWE)	1	0	2	3
10	Brazil  (BRA)	1	0	1	2
	New Zealand  (NZL)	1	0	1	2
12	Luxembourg  (LUX)	1	0	0	1
13	Germany  (GER)	0	3	5	8
14	France  (FRA)	0	2	0	2
15	Great Britain  (GBR)	0	1	4	5
16	Argentina  (ARG)	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands  (NED)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland  (SUI)	0	1	0	1
19	Finland  (FIN)*	0	0	1	1
	Venezuela  (VEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		33	33	33	99

Men's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Lindy Remigino   United States	10.4	Herb McKenley   Jamaica	10.4	McDonald Bailey   Great Britain	10.4
200 metres details	Andy Stanfield   United States	20.7	Thane Baker   United States	20.8	James Gathers   United States	20.8
400 metres details	George Rhoden   Jamaica	45.9 OR	Herb McKenley   Jamaica	45.9	Ollie Matson   United States	46.8
800 metres details	Mal Whitfield   United States	1:49.2	Arthur Wint   Jamaica	1:49.4	Heinz Ulzheimer   Germany	1:49.7
1500 metres details	Josy Barthel   Luxembourg	3:45.2 OR	Bob McMillen   United States	3:45.2	Werner Lueg   Germany	3:45.4
5000 metres details	Emil Zátopek   Czechoslovakia	14:06.6 OR	Alain Mimoun   France	14:07.4	Herbert Schade   Germany	14:08.6
10,000 metres details	Emil Zátopek   Czechoslovakia	29:17.0 WR	Alain Mimoun   France	29:32.8	Aleksandr Anufriyev   Soviet Union	29:48.2
110 metres hurdles details	Harrison Dillard   United States	13.7	Jack Davis   United States	13.7	Arthur Barnard   United States	14.1
400 metres hurdles details	Charles Moore   United States	50.8 OR	Yuriy Lituyev   Soviet Union	51.3	John Holland   New Zealand	52.2
3000 metres steeplechase details	Horace Ashenfelter   United States	8:45.4 OR	Vladimir Kazantsev   Soviet Union	8:51.6	John Disley   Great Britain	8:51.8
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States  (USA) Dean Smith Harrison Dillard Lindy Remigino Andy Stanfield	40.1	Soviet Union  (URS) Boris Tokarev Levan Kalyayev Levan Sanadze Vladimir Sukharev	40.3	Hungary  (HUN) László Zarándi Géza Varasdi György Csányi Béla Goldoványi	40.5
4 × 400 metres relay details	Jamaica  (JAM) Arthur Wint Leslie Laing Herb McKenley George Rhoden	3:03.9 WR	United States  (USA) Ollie Matson Gene Cole Charles Moore Mal Whitfield	3:04.0	Germany  (GER) Günther Steines Hans Geister Heinz Ulzheimer Karl-Friedrich Haas	3:06.6
Marathon details	Emil Zátopek   Czechoslovakia	2:23:03 OR	Reinaldo Gorno   Argentina	2:25:35	Gustaf Jansson   Sweden	2:26:07
10 kilometres walk details	John Mikaelsson   Sweden	45:02.8 OR	Fritz Schwab   Switzerland	45:41.0	Bruno Junk   Soviet Union	45:41.0
50 kilometres walk details	Pino Dordoni   Italy	4:28:07.8 OR	Josef Doležal   Czechoslovakia	4:30:17.8	Antal Róka   Hungary	4:31:27.2
High jump details	Walt Davis   United States	2.04 OR	Ken Wiesner   United States	2.01 m	José da Conceição   Brazil	1.98 m
Pole vault details	Bob Richards   United States	4.55 m OR	Don Laz   United States	4.50 m	Ragnar Lundberg   Sweden	4.40 m
Long jump details	Jerome Biffle   United States	7.57 m	Meredith Gourdine   United States	7.53 m	Ödön Földessy   Hungary	7.30 m
Triple jump details	Adhemar Ferreira da Silva   Brazil	16.22 m WR	Leonid Shcherbakov   Soviet Union	15.98 m	Asnoldo Devonish   Venezuela	15.52 m
Shot put details	Parry O'Brien   United States	17.41 OR	Darrow Hooper   United States	17.39 m	Jim Fuchs   United States	17.06 m
Discus throw details	Sim Iness   United States	55.03 OR	Adolfo Consolini   Italy	53.78 m	James Dillion   United States	53.28 m
Hammer throw details	József Csermák   Hungary	60.34 m WR	Karl Storch   Germany	58.86 m	Imre Németh   Hungary	57.74 m
Javelin throw details	Cy Young   United States	73.78 m OR	Bill Miller   United States	72.46 m	Toivo Hyytiäinen   Finland	71.89 m
Decathlon details	Bob Mathias   United States	7,887 pts WR	Milt Campbell   United States	6,975 pts	Floyd Simmons   United States	6,788 pts

Women's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Marjorie Jackson   Australia	11.5	Daphne Hasenjäger   South Africa	11.8	Shirley Strickland de la Hunty   Australia	11.9
200 metres details	Marjorie Jackson   Australia	23.7	Bertha Brouwer   Netherlands	24.2	Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili   Soviet Union	24.2
80 metres hurdles details	Shirley Strickland de la Hunty   Australia	10.9 WR	Mariya Golubnichaya   Soviet Union	11.1	Maria Sander   Germany	11.1
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States  (USA) Mae Faggs Barbara Jones Janet Moreau Catherine Hardy	45.9 WR	Germany  (GER) Ursula Knab Maria Sander Helga Klein Marga Petersen	45.9	Great Britain  (GBR) Sylvia Cheeseman June Foulds Jean Desforges Heather Armitage	46.2
High jump details	Esther Brand   South Africa	1.67 m	Sheila Lerwill   Great Britain	1.65 m	Aleksandra Chudina   Soviet Union	1.63 m
Long jump details	Yvette Williams   New Zealand	6.24 m OR	Aleksandra Chudina   Soviet Union	6.14 m	Shirley Cawley   Great Britain	5.92 m
Shot put details	Galina Zybina   Soviet Union	15.28 m WR	Marianne Werner   Germany	14.57 m	Klavdia Tochonova   Soviet Union	14.50 m
Discus throw details	Nina Romashkova   Soviet Union	51.42 m OR	Elizaveta Bagryantseva   Soviet Union	47.08 m	Nina Dumbadze   Soviet Union	46.29 m
Javelin throw details	Dana Zátopková   Czechoslovakia	50.47 m OR	Aleksandra Chudina   Soviet Union	50.01 m	Yelena Gorchakova   Soviet Union	49.76 m

Basketball

See also: Basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	1	0	0	1
2	Soviet Union	0	1	0	1
3	Uruguay	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		1	1	1	3

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	United States  (USA) Ron Bontemps Marc Freiberger Wayne Glasgow Charlie Hoag Bill Hougland John Keller Dean Kelley Bob Kenney Bob Kurland Bill Lienhard Clyde Lovellette Frank McCabe Dan Pippin Howie Williams	Soviet Union  (URS) Stepas Butautas Nodar Dzhordzhikiya Anatoly Konev Otar Korkiya Heino Kruus Ilmar Kullam Justinas Lagunavičius Joann Lõssov Aleksandr Moiseyev Yuri Ozerov Kazys Petkevičius Stasys Stonkus Maigonis Valdmanis Viktor Vlasov	Uruguay  (URU) Martín Acosta y Lara Enrique Baliño Victorio Cieslinskas Héctor Costa Nelson Demarco Héctor García Otero Tabaré Larre Borges Adesio Lombardo Roberto Lovera Sergio Matto Wilfredo Peláez Carlos Roselló

Boxing

See also: Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States  (USA)	5	0	0	5
2	Italy  (ITA)	1	1	1	3
3	Poland  (POL)	1	1	0	2
4	Finland  (FIN)*	1	0	4	5
5	Czechoslovakia  (TCH)	1	0	0	1
	Hungary  (HUN)	1	0	0	1
7	Soviet Union  (URS)	0	2	4	6
8	South Africa  (RSA)	0	1	3	4
9	Argentina  (ARG)	0	1	1	2
	Germany  (GER)	0	1	1	2
	Romania  (ROU)	0	1	1	2
	Sweden  (SWE)	0	1	1	2
13	Ireland  (IRL)	0	1	0	1
14	Bulgaria  (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	Denmark  (DEN)	0	0	1	1
	France  (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea  (KOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 entries)		10	10	20	40

Medalists

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (−51 kg) details	Nate Brooks   United States	Edgar Basel   Germany	Anatoli Bulakov   Soviet Union
			Willie Toweel   South Africa
Bantamweight (−54 kg) details	Pentti Hämäläinen   Finland	John McNally   Ireland	Kang Joon-Ho   South Korea
			Gennady Garbuzov   Soviet Union
Featherweight (−57 kg) details	Ján Zachara   Czechoslovakia	Sergio Caprari   Italy	Joseph Ventaja   France
			Leonard Leisching   South Africa
Lightweight (−60 kg) details	Aureliano Bolognesi   Italy	Aleksy Antkiewicz   Poland	Gheorghe Fiat   Romania
			Erkki Pakkanen   Finland
Light welterweight (−63.5 kg) details	Charles Adkins   United States	Viktor Mednov   Soviet Union	Bruno Visintin   Italy
			Erkki Mallenius   Finland
Welterweight (−67 kg) details	Zygmunt Chychla   Poland	Sergei Scherbakov   Soviet Union	Günther Heidemann   Germany
			Victor Jörgensen   Denmark
Light middleweight (−71 kg) details	László Papp   Hungary	Theunis van Schalkwyk   South Africa	Boris Tishin   Soviet Union
			Eladio Herrera   Argentina
Middleweight (−75 kg) details	Floyd Patterson   United States	Vasile Tiță   Romania	Boris Nikolov   Bulgaria
			Stig Sjölin   Sweden
Light heavyweight (−81 kg) details	Norvel Lee   United States	Antonio Pacenza   Argentina	Anatoly Perov   Soviet Union
			Harry Siljander   Finland
Heavyweight (+81 kg) details	Ed Sanders   United States	Ingemar Johansson   Sweden	Ilkka Koski   Finland
			Andries Nieman   South Africa

Canoeing

See also: Canoeing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Finland  (FIN)*	4	1	1	6
2	Sweden  (SWE)	1	3	0	4
3	Czechoslovakia  (TCH)	1	1	1	3
4	France  (FRA)	1	0	1	2
5	Denmark  (DEN)	1	0	0	1
	United States  (USA)	1	0	0	1
7	Hungary  (HUN)	0	2	1	3
8	Austria  (AUT)	0	1	1	2
9	Canada  (CAN)	0	1	0	1
10	Germany  (GER)	0	0	3	3
11	Soviet Union  (URS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		9	9	9	27

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 1000 metres details	Josef Holeček   Czechoslovakia	János Parti   Hungary	Olavi Ojanperä   Finland
C-1 10000 metres details	Frank Havens   United States	Gábor Novák   Hungary	Alfréd Jindra   Czechoslovakia
C-2 1000 metres details	Denmark Bent Peder Rasch Finn Haunstoft	Czechoslovakia Jan Brzák-Felix Bohumil Kudrna	Germany Egon Drews Wilfried Soltau
C-2 10000 metres details	France Georges Turlier Jean Laudet	Canada Kenneth Lane Donald Hawgood	Germany Egon Drews Wilfried Soltau
K-1 1000 metres details	Gert Fredriksson   Sweden	Thorvald Strömberg   Finland	Louis Gantois   France
K-1 10000 metres details	Thorvald Strömberg   Finland	Gert Fredriksson   Sweden	Michael Scheuer   Germany
K-2 1000 metres details	Finland Kurt Wires Yrjö Hietanen	Sweden Lars Glassér Ingemar Hedberg	Austria Maximilian Raub Herbert Wiedermann
K-2 10000 metres details	Finland Kurt Wires Yrjö Hietanen	Sweden Gunnar Åkerlund Hans Wetterström	Hungary Ferenc Varga József Gurovits

Women's event

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres details	Sylvi Saimo   Finland	Gertrude Liebhart   Austria	Nina Savina   Soviet Union

Cycling

See also: Cycling at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy  (ITA)	2	2	1	5
2	Australia  (AUS)	2	1	0	3
	Belgium  (BEL)	2	1	0	3
4	South Africa  (RSA)	0	2	1	3
5	Germany  (GER)	0	0	2	2
6	France  (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain  (GBR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		6	6	6	18

Road cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race details	André Noyelle   Belgium	Robert Grondelaers   Belgium	Edi Ziegler   Germany
Team road race details	Belgium  (BEL) Robert Grondelaers André Noyelle Lucien Victor	Italy  (ITA) Dino Bruni Gianni Ghidini Vincenzo Zucconelli	France  (FRA) Jacques Anquetil Claude Rouer Alfred Tonello

Track cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team pursuit details	Italy  (ITA) Marino Morettini Loris Campana Mino de Rossi Guido Messina	South Africa  (RSA) Alfred Swift George Estman Robert Fowler Thomas Shardelow	Great Britain  (GBR) Ronald Stretton Donald Burgess George Newberry Alan Newton
Sprint details	Enzo Sacchi   Italy	Lionel Cox   Australia	Werner Potzernheim   Germany
Tandem details	Australia Lionel Cox Russell Mockridge	South Africa Raymond Robinson Thomas Shardelow	Italy Antonio Maspes Cesare Pinarello
Time trial details	Russell Mockridge   Australia	Marino Morettini   Italy	Raymond Robinson   South Africa

Diving

See also: Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States  (USA)	4	2	3	9
2	France  (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	Mexico  (MEX)	0	1	0	1
4	Germany  (GER)	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		4	4	4	12

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 m springboard details	David Browning   United States	Miller Anderson   United States	Bob Clotworthy   United States
10 m platform details	Samuel Lee   United States	Joaquín Capilla   Mexico	Günther Haase   Germany

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 m springboard details	Pat McCormick   United States	Madeleine Moreau   France	Zoe-Ann Olsen-Jensen   United States
10 m platform details	Pat McCormick   United States	Paula Jean Myers   United States	Juno Stover-Irwin   United States

Equestrian events

See also: Equestrian events at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Sweden  (SWE)	4	0	0	4
2	France  (FRA)	1	1	1	3
3	Great Britain  (GBR)	1	0	0	1
4	Chile  (CHI)	0	2	0	2
5	Germany  (GER)	0	1	3	4
6	Denmark  (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland  (SUI)	0	1	0	1
8	United States  (USA)	0	0	2	2
Totals (8 entries)		6	6	6	18

Medalists

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual dressage details	Henri Saint Cyr and Master Rufus (SWE)	Lis Hartel and Jubilee (DEN)	André Jousseaume and Harpagon (FRA)
Team dressage details	Sweden  (SWE) Henri Saint Cyr and Master Rufus Gustaf Adolf Boltenstern Jr. and Krest Gehnäll Persson and Knaust	Switzerland  (SUI) Gottfried Trachsel and Kursus Henri Chammartin and Wöhler Gustav Fischer and Soliman	Germany  (GER) Heinz Pollay and Adular Ida von Nagel and Afrika Fritz Thiedemann and Chronist
Individual eventing details	Hans von Blixen-Finecke Jr. and Jubal (SWE)	Guy Lefrant and Verdun (FRA)	Wilhelm Büsing and Hubertus (GER)
Team eventing details	Sweden  (SWE) Hans von Blixen-Finecke Jr. and Jubal Olof Stahre and Komet Folke Frölén and Fair	Germany  (GER) Wilhelm Büsing and Hubertus Klaus Wagner and Dachs Otto Rothe and Trux von Kamax	United States  (USA) Charles Hough Jr. and Cassivellannus Walter Staley Jr. and Craigwood Park John Wofford and Benny Grimes
Individual jumping details	Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola and Ali Baba (FRA)	Óscar Cristi and Bambi (CHI)	Fritz Thiedemann and Meteor (GER)
Team jumping details	Great Britain  (GBR) Wilfred White and Nizefela Douglas Stewart and Aherlow Harry Llewellyn and Foxhunter	Chile  (CHI) Óscar Cristi and Bambi César Mendoza and Pillán Ricardo Echeverría and Lindo Peal	United States  (USA) William Steinkraus and Hollandia Arthur McCashin and Miss Budweiser John William Russell and Democrat

Fencing

See also: Fencing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy  (ITA)	3	4	1	8
2	Hungary  (HUN)	2	2	2	6
3	France  (FRA)	2	0	1	3
4	Sweden  (SWE)	0	1	0	1
5	Switzerland  (SUI)	0	0	2	2
6	Denmark  (DEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		7	7	7	21

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée details	Edoardo Mangiarotti   Italy	Dario Mangiarotti   Italy	Oswald Zappelli   Switzerland
Team épée details	Italy  (ITA) Roberto Battaglia Carlo Pavesi Franco Bertinetti Giuseppe Delfino Dario Mangiarotti Edoardo Mangiarotti	Sweden  (SWE) Berndt-Otto Rehbinder Bengt Ljungquist Per Hjalmar Carleson Carl Forssell Sven Fahlman Lennart Magnusson	Switzerland  (SUI) Otto Rüfenacht Paul Meister Oswald Zappelli Paul Barth Willy Fitting Mario Valota
Individual foil details	Christian d'Oriola   France	Edoardo Mangiarotti   Italy	Manlio Di Rosa   Italy
Team foil details	France  (FRA) Christian d'Oriola Jacques Lataste Jehan Buhan Claude Netter Jacques Noël Adrien Rommel	Italy  (ITA) Giancarlo Bergamini Antonio Spallino Manlio Di Rosa Giorgio Pellini Edoardo Mangiarotti Renzo Nostini	Hungary  (HUN) Endre Palócz Tibor Berczelly Endre Tilli Aladár Gerevich Jozsef Sakovics Lajos Maszlay
Individual sabre details	Pál Kovács   Hungary	Aladár Gerevich   Hungary	Tibor Berczelly   Hungary
Team sabre details	Hungary  (HUN) Bertalan Papp László Rajcsányi Rudolf Kárpáti Tibor Berczelly Aladár Gerevich Pál Kovács	Italy  (ITA) Giorgio Pellini Vincenzo Pinton Renzo Nostini Mauro Racca Gastone Darè Roberto Ferrari	France  (FRA) Maurice Piot Jacques Lefèvre Bernard Morel Jean Laroyenne Jean Francois Tournon Jean Levavasseur

Women's event

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual foil details	Irene Camber   Italy	Ilona Elek   Hungary	Karen Lachmann   Denmark

Field hockey

See also: Field hockey at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	India	1	0	0	1
2	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
3	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		1	1	1	3

Medalists

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	India  (IND) K. D. Singh Leslie Claudius Meldric Daluz Keshav Dutt Chinadorai Deshmutu Ranganathan Francis Raghbir Lal Govind Perumal Muniswamy Rajgopal Balbir Singh Sr. Randhir Singh Gentle C. S. Dubey Udham Singh Dharam Singh Grahanandan Singh Chaman Singh Gurung Jaswant Rai	Netherlands  (NED) Jules Ancion André Boerstra Harry Derckx Han Drijver Dick Esser Roepie Kruize Dick Loggere Lau Mulder Eddy Tiel Wim van Heel Leonard Wery	Great Britain  (GBR) Denys Carnill (capt) John Cockett John Conroy Graham Dadds Derek Day Dennis Eagan Robin Fletcher W A Lindsay-Smith Roger Midgley Richard Norris Neil Nugent Anthony Nunn Anthony John Robinson P D R Smith John Paskin Taylor S T Theobald Eric Claude Newby [1]

Football

See also: Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary	1	0	0	1
2	Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
3	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		1	1	1	3

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Hungary  (HUN) Gyula Grosics Jenő Dalnoki Imre Kovács László Budai Ferenc Puskás Zoltán Czibor Lajos Csordás Jenő Buzánszky Gyula Lóránt Mihály Lantos József Bozsik József Zakariás Nándor Hidegkuti Sándor Kocsis Péter Palotás	Yugoslavia  (YUG) Vladimir Beara Branko Stanković Tomislav Crnković Zlatko Čajkovski Ivan Horvat Vujadin Boškov Tihomir Ognjanov Rajko Mitić Bernard Vukas Stjepan Bobek Branko Zebec Dušan Cvetković Milorad Diskić Ratko Čolić Slavko Luštica Zdravko Rajkov Vladimir Čonč Vladimir Firm	Sweden  (SWE) Karl Svensson Lennart Samuelsson Erik Nilsson Holger Hansson Bengt Gustavsson Gösta Lindh Sylve Bengtsson Gösta Löfgren Ingvar Rydell Yngve Brodd Gösta Sandberg Olof Åhlund

Gymnastics

See also: Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union  (URS)	9	11	2	22
2	Switzerland  (SUI)	2	2	3	7
3	Hungary  (HUN)	2	1	5	8
4	Sweden  (SWE)	2	0	0	2
5	Japan  (JPN)	0	2	2	4
6	Germany  (GER)	0	1	0	1
	Poland  (POL)	0	1	0	1
8	Czechoslovakia  (TCH)	0	0	1	1
	Finland  (FIN)*	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		15	18	14	47

Men’s events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around details	Viktor Chukarin   Soviet Union	Hrant Shahinyan   Soviet Union	Josef Stalder   Switzerland
Team all-around details	Soviet Union  (URS) Vladimir Belyakov Iosif Berdiev Viktor Chukarin Yevgeny Korolkov Dmytro Leonkin Valentin Muratov Mikhail Perelman Hrant Shahinyan	Switzerland  (SUI) Hans Eugster Ernst Fivian Ernst Gebendinger Jack Günthard Hans Schwarzentruber Josef Stalder Melchior Thalmann Jean Tschabold	Finland  (FIN) Paavo Aaltonen Kalevi Laitinen Onni Lappalainen Kaino Lempinen Berndt Lindfors Olavi Rove Heikki Savolainen Kalevi Viskari
Floor exercise details	William Thoresson   Sweden	Jerzy Jokiel   Poland	none awarded (as there was a tie for silver)
		Tadao Uesako   Japan
Horizontal bar details	Jack Günthard   Switzerland	Josef Stalder   Switzerland	none awarded (as there was a tie for silver)
		Alfred Schwarzmann   Germany
Parallel bars details	Hans Eugster   Switzerland	Viktor Chukarin   Soviet Union	Josef Stalder   Switzerland
Pommel horse details	Viktor Chukarin   Soviet Union	Hrant Shahinyan   Soviet Union	none awarded (as there was a tie for silver)
		Yevgeny Korolkov   Soviet Union
Rings details	Hrant Shahinyan   Soviet Union	Viktor Chukarin   Soviet Union	Dmytro Leonkin   Soviet Union
			Hans Eugster   Switzerland
Vault details	Viktor Chukarin   Soviet Union	Masao Takemoto   Japan	Takashi Ono   Japan
			Tadao Uesako   Japan

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around details	Maria Gorokhovskaya   Soviet Union	Nina Bocharova   Soviet Union	Margit Korondi   Hungary
Team all-around details	Soviet Union  (URS) Nina Bocharova Pelageya Danilova Maria Gorokhovskaya Ekaterina Kalinchuk Galina Minaicheva Galina Shamrai Galina Urbanovich Medea Jugeli	Hungary  (HUN) Andrea Bodó Irén Daruházi-Karcsics Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles Ágnes Keleti Margit Korondi Edit Perényi-Weckinger Olga Tass Mária Kövi-Zalai	Czechoslovakia  (TCH) Hana Bobková Alena Chadimová Jana Rabasová Alena Reichová Matylda Šínová Božena Srncová Věra Vančurová Eva Věchtová
Balance beam details	Nina Bocharova   Soviet Union	Maria Gorokhovskaya   Soviet Union	Margit Korondi   Hungary
Floor exercise details	Ágnes Keleti   Hungary	Maria Gorokhovskaya   Soviet Union	Margit Korondi   Hungary
Uneven bars details	Margit Korondi   Hungary	Maria Gorokhovskaya   Soviet Union	Ágnes Keleti   Hungary
Vault details	Ekaterina Kalinchuk   Soviet Union	Maria Gorokhovskaya   Soviet Union	Galina Minaicheva   Soviet Union
Team, portable apparatus details	Sweden  (SWE) Karin Lindberg Ann-Sofi Pettersson Evy Berggren Gun Röring Göta Pettersson Ingrid Sandahl Hjördis Nordin Vanja Blomberg	Soviet Union  (URS) Maria Gorokhovskaya Nina Bocharova Galina Minaicheva Galina Urbanovich Pelageya Danilova Galina Shamrai Medea Jugeli Ekaterina Kalinchuk	Hungary  (HUN) Margit Korondi Ágnes Keleti Edit Perényi-Weckinger Olga Tass Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles Mária Kövi-Zalai Andrea Bodó Irén Daruházi-Karcsics

Modern pentathlon

See also: Modern pentathlon at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary  (HUN)	1	1	1	3
2	Sweden  (SWE)	1	1	0	2
3	Finland  (FIN)*	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual details	Lars Hall   Sweden	Gábor Benedek   Hungary	István Szondy   Hungary
Team details	Hungary  (HUN) Gábor Benedek Aladár Kovácsi István Szondy	Sweden  (SWE) Lars Hall Thorsten Lindqvist Claes Egnell	Finland  (FIN) Olavi Mannonen Lauri Vilkko Olavi Rokka

Rowing

See also: Rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States  (USA)	2	0	1	3
2	Soviet Union  (URS)	1	2	0	3
3	France  (FRA)	1	1	0	2
4	Argentina  (ARG)	1	0	0	1
	Czechoslovakia  (TCH)	1	0	0	1
	Yugoslavia  (YUG)	1	0	0	1
7	Australia  (AUS)	0	1	1	2
	Switzerland  (SUI)	0	1	1	2
9	Belgium  (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	Germany  (GER)	0	1	0	1
11	Denmark  (DEN)	0	0	1	1
	Finland  (FIN)*	0	0	1	1
	Poland  (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Uruguay  (URU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		7	7	7	21

Medalists

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls details	Yuriy Tyukalov   Soviet Union	Mervyn Wood   Australia	Teodor Kocerka   Poland
Double sculls details	Argentina Tranquilo Cappozzo Eduardo Guerrero	Soviet Union Heorhiy Zhylin Ihor Yemchuk	Uruguay Miguel Seijas Juan Rodríguez
Coxless pair details	United States Charlie Logg Tom Price	Belgium Michel Knuysen Bob Baetens	Switzerland Kurt Schmid Hans Kalt
Coxed pair details	France Raymond Salles Gaston Mercier Bernard Malivoire	Germany Heinz Manchen Helmut Heinhold Helmut Noll	Denmark Svend Ove Pedersen Poul Svendsen Jørgen Frantzen
Coxless four details	Yugoslavia  (YUG) Duje Bonačić Velimir Valenta Mate Trojanović Petar Šegvić	France  (FRA) Pierre Blondiaux Jean-Jacques Guissart Marc Bouissou Roger Gautier	Finland  (FIN) Veikko Lommi Kauko Wahlsten Oiva Lommi Lauri Nevalainen
Coxed four details	Czechoslovakia  (TCH) Karel Mejta Jiří Havlis Jan Jindra Stanislav Lusk Miroslav Koranda	Switzerland  (SUI) Rico Bianchi Karl Weidmann Heini Scheller Émile Ess Walter Leiser	United States  (USA) Carl Lovsted Al Ulbrickson Richard Wahlstrom Matt Leanderson Al Rossi
Eight details	United States  (USA) Frank Shakespeare William Fields James Dunbar Richard Murphy Robert Detweiler Henry Proctor Wayne Frye Edward Stevens Charles Manring	Soviet Union  (URS) Yevgeny Brago Vladimir Rodimushkin Aleksey Komarov Igor Borisov Slava Amiragov Leonid Gissen Yevgeny Samsonov Vladimir Kryukov Igor Polyakov	Australia  (AUS) Bob Tinning Ernest Chapman Nimrod Greenwood David Anderson Geoff Williamson Mervyn Finlay Edward Pain Phil Cayzer Tom Chessell

Sailing

See also: Sailing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States  (USA)	2	1	0	3
2	Norway  (NOR)	1	2	0	3
3	Denmark  (DEN)	1	0	0	1
	Italy  (ITA)	1	0	0	1
5	Sweden  (SWE)	0	1	2	3
6	Great Britain  (GBR)	0	1	0	1
7	Finland  (FIN)*	0	0	1	1
	Germany  (GER)	0	0	1	1
	Portugal  (POR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		5	5	5	15

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Finn details	Paul Elvstrøm   Denmark	Charles Currey   Great Britain	Rickard Sarby   Sweden
Star details	Italy Agostino Straulino Nicolò Rode	United States John Price John Reid	Portugal Joaquim Fiúza Francisco de Andrade
Dragon details	Norway Thor Thorvaldsen Haakon Barfod Sigve Lie	Sweden Per Gedda Erland Almqvist Sidney Boldt-Christmas	Germany Theodor Thomsen Erich Natusch Georg Nowka
5.5 metre details	United States Britton Chance Michael Schoettle Edgar White Sumner White	Norway Peder Lunde Vibeke Lunde Børre Falkum-Hansen	Sweden Folke Wassén Carl-Erik Ohlson Magnus Wassén
6 metre details	United States Herman Whiton Everard Endt John Morgan Eric Ridder Julian Roosevelt Emelyn Whiton	Norway Finn Ferner Tor Arneberg Johan Ferner Erik Heiberg Carl Mortensen	Finland Ernst Westerlund Ragnar Jansson Jonas Konto Rolf Turkka Paul Sjöberg

Shooting

See also: Shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway  (NOR)	2	0	0	2
2	Soviet Union  (URS)	1	1	2	4
3	Hungary  (HUN)	1	1	1	3
4	Romania  (ROU)	1	0	1	2
	United States  (USA)	1	0	1	2
6	Canada  (CAN)	1	0	0	1
7	Sweden  (SWE)	0	2	1	3
8	Finland  (FIN)*	0	1	1	2
9	Spain  (ESP)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland  (SUI)	0	1	0	1
Totals (10 entries)		7	7	7	21

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m pistol details	Huelet Benner   United States	Angel Leon de Gozalo   Spain	Ambrus Balogh   Hungary
25 m rapid fire pistol details	Károly Takács   Hungary	Szilárd Kun   Hungary	Gheorghe Lichiardopol   Romania
50 m rifle prone details	Iosif Sîrbu   Romania	Boris Andreyev   Soviet Union	Arthur Jackson   United States
50 m rifle three positions details	Erling Asbjørn Kongshaug   Norway	Vilho Ylönen   Finland	Boris Andreyev   Soviet Union
300 m free rifle three positions details	Anatoli Bogdanov   Soviet Union	Robert Bürchler   Switzerland	Lev Weinstein   Soviet Union
100 m running deer details	John Larsen   Norway	Per Olof Sköldberg   Sweden	Tauno Mäki   Finland
Trap details	George Genereux   Canada	Knut Holmqvist   Sweden	Hans Liljedahl   Sweden

Swimming

See also: Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States  (USA)	4	2	3	9
2	Hungary  (HUN)	4	2	1	7
3	France  (FRA)	1	1	1	3
4	Australia  (AUS)	1	0	0	1
	South Africa  (RSA)	1	0	0	1
6	Japan  (JPN)	0	3	0	3
	Netherlands  (NED)	0	3	0	3
8	Sweden  (SWE)	0	0	2	2
9	Brazil  (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Germany  (GER)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain  (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand  (NZL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		11	11	11	33

Men's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Clarke Scholes   United States	57.4	Hiroshi Suzuki   Japan	57.4	Göran Larsson   Sweden	58.2
400 m freestyle details	Jean Boiteux   France	4:30.7 (OR)	Ford Konno   United States	4:31.3	Per-Olof Östrand   Sweden	4:35.2
1500 m freestyle details	Ford Konno   United States	18:30.3 (OR)	Shiro Hashizume   Japan	18:41.4	Tetsuo Okamoto   Brazil	18:51.3
100 m backstroke details	Yoshi Oyakawa   United States	1:05.4 (OR)	Gilbert Bozon   France	1:06.2	Jack Taylor   United States	1:06.4
200 m breaststroke details	John Davies   Australia	2:34.4 (OR)	Bowen Stassforth   United States	2:34.7	Herbert Klein   Germany	2:35.9
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	United States  (USA) Wayne Moore Bill Woolsey Ford Konno Jimmy McLane	8:31.1 (OR)	Japan  (JPN) Hiroshi Suzuki Yoshihiro Hamaguchi Toru Goto Teijiro Tanikawa	8:33.5	France  (FRA) Joseph Bernardo Aldo Eminente Alexandre Jany Jean Boiteux	8:45.9

Women's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Katalin Szöke   Hungary	1:06.8	Hannie Termeulen   Netherlands	1:07.0	Judit Temes   Hungary	1:07.1
400 m freestyle details	Valéria Gyenge   Hungary	5:12.1 (OR)	Éva Novák   Hungary	5:13.7	Evelyn Kawamoto   United States	5:14.6
100 m backstroke details	Joan Harrison   South Africa	1:14.3	Geertje Wielema   Netherlands	1:14.5	Jean Stewart   New Zealand	1:15.8
200 m breaststroke details	Éva Székely   Hungary	2:51.7 (OR)	Éva Novák   Hungary	2:54.4	Helen Gordon   Great Britain	2:57.6
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	Hungary  (HUN) Ilona Novák Judit Temes Éva Novák Katalin Szöke	4:24.4 (WR)	Netherlands  (NED) Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen Koosje van Voorn Hannie Termeulen Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher	4:29.0	United States  (USA) Jackie LaVine Marilee Stepan Jody Alderson Evelyn Kawamoto	4:30.1

Water polo

See also: Water polo at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary	1	0	0	1
2	Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
3	Italy	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		1	1	1	3

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Hungary  (HUN) Róbert Antal Antal Bolvári Dezső Fábián Dezső Gyarmati István Hasznos László Jeney György Kárpáti Dezső Lemhényi Kálmán Markovits Miklós Martin Károly Szittya István Szivós György Vizvári	Yugoslavia  (YUG) Veljko Bakašun Marko Brainović Vladimir Ivković Zdravko Ježić Zdravko-Ćiro Kovačić Ivo Kurtini Lovro Radonjić Ivo Štakula Boško Vuksanović	Italy  (ITA) Gildo Arena Lucio Ceccarini Renato De Sanzuane Raffaello Gambino Salvatore Gionta Maurizio Mannelli Geminio Ognio Carlo Peretti Enzo Polito Cesare Rubini Renato Traiola

Weightlifting

See also: Weightlifting at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States  (USA)	4	2	0	6
2	Soviet Union  (URS)	3	3	1	7
3	Iran  (IRI)	0	1	1	2
4	Canada  (CAN)	0	1	0	1
5	Trinidad and Tobago  (TRI)	0	0	2	2
6	Argentina  (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Australia  (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea  (KOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		7	7	7	21

Medalists

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
56 kg details	Ivan Udodov   Soviet Union	Mahmoud Namjoo   Iran	Ali Mirzaei   Iran
60 kg details	Rafael Chimishkyan   Soviet Union	Nikolai Saksonov   Soviet Union	Rodney Wilkes   Trinidad and Tobago
67.5 kg details	Tommy Kono   United States	Yevgeni Lopatin   Soviet Union	Vern Barberis   Australia
75 kg details	Pete George   United States	Gérald Gratton   Canada	Kim Sung-Jip   South Korea
82.5 kg details	Trofim Lomakin   Soviet Union	Stanley Stanczyk   United States	Arkady Vorobyev   Soviet Union
90 kg details	Norbert Schemansky   United States	Grigory Novak   Soviet Union	Lennox Kilgour   Trinidad and Tobago
+90 kg details	John Davis   United States	James Bradford   United States	Humberto Selvetti   Argentina

Wrestling

See also: Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union  (URS)	6	2	2	10
2	Sweden  (SWE)	3	4	1	8
3	Hungary  (HUN)	2	1	1	4
4	Turkey  (TUR)	2	0	1	3
5	United States  (USA)	1	2	1	4
6	Finland  (FIN)*	1	1	2	4
7	Japan  (JPN)	1	1	0	2
8	Iran  (IRI)	0	2	3	5
9	Czechoslovakia  (TCH)	0	1	1	2
	Lebanon  (LIB)	0	1	1	2
11	Italy  (ITA)	0	1	0	1
12	Egypt  (EGY)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain  (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	India  (IND)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		16	16	16	48

Freestyle

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight details	Hasan Gemici   Turkey	Yushu Kitano   Japan	Mahmoud Mollaghasemi   Iran
Bantamweight details	Shohachi Ishii   Japan	Rashid Mammadbeyov   Soviet Union	Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav   India
Featherweight details	Bayram Sit   Turkey	Nasser Givehchi   Iran	Josiah Henson   United States
Lightweight details	Olle Anderberg   Sweden	Jay Thomas Evans   United States	Tofigh Jahanbakht   Iran
Welterweight details	William Smith   United States	Per Berlin   Sweden	Abdollah Mojtabavi   Iran
Middleweight details	David Tsimakuridze   Soviet Union	Gholamreza Takhti   Iran	György Gurics   Hungary
Light heavyweight details	Viking Palm   Sweden	Henry Wittenberg   United States	Adil Atan   Turkey
Heavyweight details	Arsen Mekokishvili   Soviet Union	Bertil Antonsson   Sweden	Kenneth Richmond   Great Britain

Greco-Roman

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight details	Boris Gurevich   Soviet Union	Ignazio Fabra   Italy	Leo Honkala   Finland
Bantamweight details	Imre Hódos   Hungary	Zakaria Chibab   Lebanon	Artem Teryan   Soviet Union
Featherweight details	Yakov Punkin   Soviet Union	Imre Polyák   Hungary	Abdel Aaal Rashed   Egypt
Lightweight details	Shazam Safin   Soviet Union	Gustav Freij   Sweden	Mikuláš Athanasov   Czechoslovakia
Welterweight details	Miklós Szilvásy   Hungary	Gösta Andersson   Sweden	Khalil Taha   Lebanon
Middleweight details	Axel Grönberg   Sweden	Kalervo Rauhala   Finland	Nikolay Belov   Soviet Union
Light heavyweight details	Kelpo Gröndahl   Finland	Shalva Chikhladze   Soviet Union	Karl-Erik Nilsson   Sweden
Heavyweight details	Johannes Kotkas   Soviet Union	Josef Růžička   Czechoslovakia	Tauno Kovanen   Finland

References

1. "OUR HOCKEY CORRESPONDENT. "Hockey." Times [London, England] 27 May 1952". The Times .

External links

• "Helsinki 1952". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.