| Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics | ||
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| Freestyle | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | |
| Backstroke | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| Breaststroke | ||
| 200 m | men | women |
| Freestyle relay | ||
| 4×100 m | women | |
| 4×200 m | men | |
The men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place between 30 July and 1 August, at the Swimming Stadium. [1] This swimming event used the backstroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.
| Gold | Yoshi Oyakawa  United States |
| Silver | Gilbert Bozon  France |
| Bronze | Jack Taylor United States |
Heat 1
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gilbert Bozon |  France | 1:07.8 | |
| 2 | Allen Stack |  United States | 1:08.9 | |
| 3 | Bert Wardrop |  Great Britain | 1:09.9 | |
| 4 | Jitse van der Veen |  Netherlands | 1:10.5 | |
| 5 | Norihiko Kurahashi |  Japan | 1:10.7 | |
| 6 | Vladimir Lopatin |  Soviet Union | 1:10.8 | |
| 7 | Lucien Beaumont |  Canada | 1:14.2 | |
| 8 | Khamlillal Shah |  India | 1:18.3 |
Heat 2
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pedro Galvão |  Argentina | 1:08.1 | |
| 2 | Yasumasa Nishino | Japan | 1:10.1 | |
| 3 | Clemente Mejía |  Mexico | 1:10.7 | |
| 4 | Helmut Koppelstätter |  Austria | 1:11.9 | |
| 5 | Hermann Gericke |  Switzerland | 1:12.6 | |
| 6 | Jerzy Boniecki |  Poland | 1:13.4 | |
| 7 | Eurico Surgey |  Portugal | 1:13.7 |
Heat 3
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack Taylor | United States | 1:07.2 | |
| 2 | Boris Škanata |  Yugoslavia | 1:07.5 | |
| 3 | João Gonçalves Filho |  Brazil | 1:09.7 | |
| 4 | Ladislav Bačík |  Czechoslovakia | 1:10.2 | |
| 5 | Imre Nyéki |  Hungary | 1:10.6 | |
| 6 | Peter Salmon | Canada | 1:13.8 | |
| 7 | Tom Pettersen |  Norway | 1:15.4 |
Heat 4
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yoshi Oyakawa | United States | 1:06.0 | |
| 2 | Lin Meiring |  South Africa | 1:08.5 | |
| 3 | Fernando Pavan | Brazil | 1:09.1 | |
| 4 | Jitse van der Veen | Netherlands | 1:09.1 | |
| 5 | Bijoy Barman | India | 1:27.3 |
Heat 5
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Brockway | Great Britain | 1:08.8 | |
| 2 | Lucien Zins | France | 1:09.7 | |
| 3 | Ilo da Fonseca | Brazil | 1:09.9 | |
| 4 | Leonid Sagayduk | Soviet Union | 1:11.4 | |
| 5 | Wu Chuanyu |  China | 1:12.3 | |
| 6 | Eduardo Barbeiro | Portugal | 1:13.0 |
Heat 6
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Egidio Massaria |  Italy | 1:08.8 | |
| 2 | Viktor Solovyov | Soviet Union | 1:09.5 | |
| 3 | Lincoln Hurring |  New Zealand | 1:09.6 | |
| 4 | László Gyöngyösi | Hungary | 1:10.0 | |
| 5 | Frank O'Neill |  Australia | 1:10.5 | |
| 6 | Erkki Marttinen |  Finland | 1:15.2 |
Tie-breaker
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bert Wardrop | Great Britain | 1:07.8 | |
| 2 | Ilo da Fonseca | Brazil | 1:09.5 |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Yoshi Oyakawa | United States | 1:05.4 | OR |
 | Gilbert Bozon | France | 1:06.2 | |
 | Jack Taylor | United States | 1:06.4 | |
| 4 | Allen Stack | United States | 1:07.6 | |
| 5 | Pedro Galvão | Argentina | 1:07.7 | |
| 6 | Bert Wardrop | Great Britain | 1:07.8 | |
| 7 | Boris Škanata | Yugoslavia | 1:08.1 | |
| 8 | Lin Meiring | South Africa | 1:08.3 |
Key: OR = Olympic record
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