Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Swimming at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue	Helsinki Swimming Stadium
Dates	26 July – 2 August 1952
No. of events	11
Competitors	319 from 48 nations
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At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, a total number of eleven swimming events were contested, six for men and five for women. ^[1] The events were held at the Swimming Stadium. There was a total of 319 participants from 48 countries competing. ^[2]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	4	2	3	9
2	Hungary	4	2	1	7
3	France	1	1	1	3
4	Australia	1	0	0	1
	South Africa	1	0	0	1
6	Japan	0	3	0	3
	Netherlands	0	3	0	3
8	Sweden	0	0	2	2
9	Brazil	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		11	11	11	33

Medal summary

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 Wayne Moore Bill Woolsey Ford Konno Jimmy McLane	8:31.1 (OR)	Japan Hiroshi Suzuki Yoshihiro Hamaguchi Toru Goto Teijiro Tanikawa	8:33.5	France 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 Ilona Novák Judit Temes Éva Novák Katalin Szöke	4:24.4 (WR)	Netherlands Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen Koosje van Voorn Hannie Termeulen Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher	4:29.0	United States Jackie LaVine Marilee Stepan Jody Alderson Evelyn Kawamoto	4:30.1

Participating nations

319 swimmers from 48 nations competed. ^[2]

•   Argentina  (7)
•   Australia  (10)
•   Austria  (3)
•   Belgium  (10)
•   Bermuda  (2)
•   Brazil  (12)
•   Canada  (9)
•   Ceylon  (1)
•   Chile  (1)
•   China  (1)
•   Cuba  (2)
•   Czechoslovakia  (4)
•   Denmark  (9)
•   Egypt  (3)
•   Finland  (13)
•   France  (16)
•   Germany  (9)
•   Great Britain  (21)
•   Guatemala  (1)
•   Hong Kong  (4)
•   Hungary  (15)
•   India  (5)
•   Indonesia  (1)
•   Israel  (1)
•   Italy  (10)
•   Japan  (22)
•   Luxembourg  (1)
•   Mexico  (8)
•   Netherlands  (13)
•   New Zealand  (2)
•   Norway  (3)
•   Pakistan  (2)
•   Philippines  (1)
•   Poland  (7)
•   Portugal  (4)
•   Romania  (1)
•   Saar  (1)
•   Singapore  (1)
•   South Africa  (6)
•   Soviet Union  (18)
•   Spain  (3)
•   Sweden  (12)
•   Switzerland  (8)
•   United States  (30)
•   Uruguay  (1)
•   Venezuela  (1)
•   Vietnam  (1)
•   Yugoslavia  (3)

References

1. "Olympedia – Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 2023-12-16.
2. "Swimming at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 20 September 2016.