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	Lindy Remigino  United States	10.4	Herb McKenley  Jamaica	10.4	McDonald Bailey  Great Britain	10.4
200 metres	Andy Stanfield  United States	20.7	Thane Baker  United States	20.8	James Gathers  United States	20.8
400 metres	George Rhoden  Jamaica	45.9 OR	Herb McKenley  Jamaica	45.9	Ollie Matson  United States	46.8
800 metres	Mal Whitfield  United States	1:49.2	Arthur Wint  Jamaica	1:49.4	Heinz Ulzheimer  Germany	1:49.7
1500 metres	Josy Barthel  Luxembourg	3:45.2 OR	Bob McMillen  United States	3:45.2	Werner Lueg  Germany	3:45.4
5000 metres	Emil Zátopek  Czechoslovakia	14:06.6 OR	Alain Mimoun  France	14:07.4	Herbert Schade  Germany	14:08.6
10,000 metres	Emil Zátopek  Czechoslovakia	29:17.0 WR	Alain Mimoun  France	29:32.8	Aleksandr Anufriyev  Soviet Union	29:48.2
110 metres hurdles	Harrison Dillard  United States	13.7	Jack Davis  United States	13.7	Arthur Barnard  United States	14.1
400 metres hurdles	Charles Moore  United States	50.8 OR	Yuriy Lituyev  Soviet Union	51.3	John Holland  New Zealand	52.2
3000 metres steeplechase	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	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	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	Emil Zátopek  Czechoslovakia	2:23:03 OR	Reinaldo Gorno  Argentina	2:25:35	Gustaf Jansson  Sweden	2:26:07
10 kilometres walk	John Mikaelsson  Sweden	45:02.8 OR	Fritz Schwab  Switzerland	45:41.0	Bruno Junk  Soviet Union	45:41.0
50 kilometres walk	Pino Dordoni  Italy	4:28:07.8 OR	Josef Doležal  Czechoslovakia	4:30:17.8	Antal Róka  Hungary	4:31:27.2
High jump	Walt Davis  United States	2.04 OR	Ken Wiesner  United States	2.01 m	José da Conceição  Brazil	1.98 m
Pole vault	Bob Richards  United States	4.55 m OR	Don Laz  United States	4.50 m	Ragnar Lundberg  Sweden	4.40 m
Long jump	Jerome Biffle  United States	7.57 m	Meredith Gourdine  United States	7.53 m	Ödön Földessy  Hungary	7.30 m
Triple jump	Adhemar Ferreira da Silva  Brazil	16.22 m WR	Leonid Shcherbakov  Soviet Union	15.98 m	Asnoldo Devonish  Venezuela	15.52 m
Shot put	Parry O'Brien  United States	17.41 OR	Darrow Hooper  United States	17.39 m	Jim Fuchs  United States	17.06 m
Discus throw	Sim Iness  United States	55.03 OR	Adolfo Consolini  Italy	53.78 m	James Dillion  United States	53.28 m
Hammer throw	József Csermák  Hungary	60.34 m WR	Karl Storch  Germany	58.86 m	Imre Németh  Hungary	57.74 m
Javelin throw	Cy Young  United States	73.78 m OR	Bill Miller  United States	72.46 m	Toivo Hyytiäinen  Finland	71.89 m
Decathlon	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	Marjorie Jackson  Australia	11.5	Daphne Hasenjäger  South Africa	11.8	Shirley Strickland de la Hunty  Australia	11.9
200 metres	Marjorie Jackson  Australia	23.7	Bertha Brouwer  Netherlands	24.2	Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili  Soviet Union	24.2
80 metres hurdles	Shirley Strickland de la Hunty  Australia	10.9 WR	Mariya Golubnichaya  Soviet Union	11.1	Maria Sander  Germany	11.1
4 × 100 metres relay	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	Esther Brand  South Africa	1.67 m	Sheila Lerwill  Great Britain	1.65 m	Aleksandra Chudina  Soviet Union	1.63 m
Long jump	Yvette Williams  New Zealand	6.24 m OR	Aleksandra Chudina  Soviet Union	6.14 m	Shirley Cawley  Great Britain	5.92 m
Shot put	Galina Zybina  Soviet Union	15.28 m WR	Marianne Werner  Germany	14.57 m	Klavdia Tochonova  Soviet Union	14.50 m
Discus throw	Nina Romashkova  Soviet Union	51.42 m OR	Elizaveta Bagryantseva  Soviet Union	47.08 m	Nina Dumbadze  Soviet Union	46.29 m
Javelin throw	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)	Nate Brooks  United States	Edgar Basel  Germany	Anatoli Bulakov  Soviet Union
			Willie Toweel  South Africa
Bantamweight (−54 kg)	Pentti Hämäläinen  Finland	John McNally  Ireland	Kang Joon-Ho  South Korea
			Gennady Garbuzov  Soviet Union
Featherweight (−57 kg)	Ján Zachara  Czechoslovakia	Sergio Caprari  Italy	Joseph Ventaja  France
			Leonard Leisching  South Africa
Lightweight (−60 kg)	Aureliano Bolognesi  Italy	Aleksy Antkiewicz  Poland	Gheorghe Fiat  Romania
			Erkki Pakkanen  Finland
Light welterweight (−63.5 kg)	Charles Adkins  United States	Viktor Mednov  Soviet Union	Bruno Visintin  Italy
			Erkki Mallenius  Finland
Welterweight (−67 kg)	Zygmunt Chychla  Poland	Sergei Scherbakov  Soviet Union	Günther Heidemann  Germany
			Victor Jörgensen  Denmark
Light middleweight (−71 kg)	László Papp  Hungary	Theunis van Schalkwyk  South Africa	Boris Tishin  Soviet Union
			Eladio Herrera  Argentina
Middleweight (−75 kg)	Floyd Patterson  United States	Vasile Tiță  Romania	Boris Nikolov  Bulgaria
			Stig Sjölin  Sweden
Light heavyweight (−81 kg)	Norvel Lee  United States	Antonio Pacenza  Argentina	Anatoly Perov  Soviet Union
			Harry Siljander  Finland
Heavyweight (+81 kg)	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	Josef Holeček  Czechoslovakia	János Parti  Hungary	Olavi Ojanperä  Finland
C-1 10000 metres	Frank Havens  United States	Gábor Novák  Hungary	Alfréd Jindra  Czechoslovakia
C-2 1000 metres	Denmark Bent Peder Rasch Finn Haunstoft	Czechoslovakia Jan Brzák-Felix Bohumil Kudrna	Germany Egon Drews Wilfried Soltau
C-2 10000 metres	France Georges Turlier Jean Laudet	Canada Kenneth Lane Donald Hawgood	Germany Egon Drews Wilfried Soltau
K-1 1000 metres	Gert Fredriksson  Sweden	Thorvald Strömberg  Finland	Louis Gantois  France
K-1 10000 metres	Thorvald Strömberg  Finland	Gert Fredriksson  Sweden	Michael Scheuer  Germany
K-2 1000 metres	Finland Kurt Wires Yrjö Hietanen	Sweden Lars Glassér Ingemar Hedberg	Austria Maximilian Raub Herbert Wiedermann
K-2 10000 metres	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	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	André Noyelle  Belgium	Robert Grondelaers  Belgium	Edi Ziegler  Germany
Team road race	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	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	Enzo Sacchi  Italy	Lionel Cox  Australia	Werner Potzernheim  Germany
Tandem	Australia Lionel Cox Russell Mockridge	South Africa Raymond Robinson Thomas Shardelow	Italy Antonio Maspes Cesare Pinarello
Time trial	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	David Browning  United States	Miller Anderson  United States	Bob Clotworthy  United States
10 m platform	Samuel Lee  United States	Joaquín Capilla  Mexico	Günther Haase  Germany

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 m springboard	Pat McCormick  United States	Madeleine Moreau  France	Zoe-Ann Olsen-Jensen  United States
10 m platform	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	Henri Saint Cyr and Master Rufus (SWE)	Lis Hartel and Jubilee (DEN)	André Jousseaume and Harpagon (FRA)
Team dressage	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	Hans von Blixen-Finecke Jr. and Jubal (SWE)	Guy Lefrant and Verdun (FRA)	Wilhelm Büsing and Hubertus (GER)
Team eventing	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	Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola and Ali Baba (FRA)	Óscar Cristi and Bambi (CHI)	Fritz Thiedemann and Meteor (GER)
Team jumping	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	Edoardo Mangiarotti  Italy	Dario Mangiarotti  Italy	Oswald Zappelli  Switzerland
Team épée	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	Christian d'Oriola  France	Edoardo Mangiarotti  Italy	Manlio Di Rosa  Italy
Team foil	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	Pál Kovács  Hungary	Aladár Gerevich  Hungary	Tibor Berczelly  Hungary
Team sabre	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	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

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	Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union	Hrant Shahinyan  Soviet Union	Josef Stalder  Switzerland
Team all-around	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	William Thoresson  Sweden	Jerzy Jokiel  Poland	none awarded (as there was a tie for silver)
		Tadao Uesako  Japan
Horizontal bar	Jack Günthard  Switzerland	Josef Stalder  Switzerland	none awarded (as there was a tie for silver)
		Alfred Schwarzmann  Germany
Parallel bars	Hans Eugster  Switzerland	Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union	Josef Stalder  Switzerland
Pommel horse	Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union	Hrant Shahinyan  Soviet Union	none awarded (as there was a tie for silver)
		Yevgeny Korolkov  Soviet Union
Rings	Hrant Shahinyan  Soviet Union	Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union	Dmytro Leonkin  Soviet Union
			Hans Eugster  Switzerland
Vault	Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union	Masao Takemoto  Japan	Takashi Ono  Japan
			Tadao Uesako  Japan

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around	Maria Gorokhovskaya  Soviet Union	Nina Bocharova  Soviet Union	Margit Korondi  Hungary
Team all-around	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	Nina Bocharova  Soviet Union	Maria Gorokhovskaya  Soviet Union	Margit Korondi  Hungary
Floor exercise	Ágnes Keleti  Hungary	Maria Gorokhovskaya  Soviet Union	Margit Korondi  Hungary
Uneven bars	Margit Korondi  Hungary	Maria Gorokhovskaya  Soviet Union	Ágnes Keleti  Hungary
Vault	Ekaterina Kalinchuk  Soviet Union	Maria Gorokhovskaya  Soviet Union	Galina Minaicheva  Soviet Union
Team, portable apparatus	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	Lars Hall  Sweden	Gábor Benedek  Hungary	István Szondy  Hungary
Team	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	Yuriy Tyukalov  Soviet Union	Mervyn Wood  Australia	Teodor Kocerka  Poland
Double sculls	Argentina Tranquilo Cappozzo Eduardo Guerrero	Soviet Union Heorhiy Zhylin Ihor Yemchuk	Uruguay Miguel Seijas Juan Rodríguez
Coxless pair	United States Charlie Logg Tom Price	Belgium Michel Knuysen Bob Baetens	Switzerland Kurt Schmid Hans Kalt
Coxed pair	France Raymond Salles Gaston Mercier Bernard Malivoire	Germany Heinz Manchen Helmut Heinhold Helmut Noll	Denmark Svend Ove Pedersen Poul Svendsen Jørgen Frantzen
Coxless four	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	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	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	Paul Elvstrøm  Denmark	Charles Currey  Great Britain	Rickard Sarby  Sweden
Star	Italy Agostino Straulino Nicolò Rode	United States John Price John Reid	Portugal Joaquim Fiúza Francisco de Andrade
Dragon	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	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	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	Huelet Benner  United States	Angel Leon de Gozalo  Spain	Ambrus Balogh  Hungary
25 m rapid fire pistol	Károly Takács  Hungary	Szilárd Kun  Hungary	Gheorghe Lichiardopol  Romania
50 m rifle prone	Iosif Sîrbu  Romania	Boris Andreyev  Soviet Union	Arthur Jackson  United States
50 m rifle three positions	Erling Asbjørn Kongshaug  Norway	Vilho Ylönen  Finland	Boris Andreyev  Soviet Union
300 m free rifle three positions	Anatoli Bogdanov  Soviet Union	Robert Bürchler  Switzerland	Lev Weinstein  Soviet Union
100 m running deer	John Larsen  Norway	Per Olof Sköldberg  Sweden	Tauno Mäki  Finland
Trap	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	Clarke Scholes  United States	57.4	Hiroshi Suzuki  Japan	57.4	Göran Larsson  Sweden	58.2
400 m freestyle	Jean Boiteux  France	4:30.7 (OR)	Ford Konno  United States	4:31.3	Per-Olof Östrand  Sweden	4:35.2
1500 m freestyle	Ford Konno  United States	18:30.3 (OR)	Shiro Hashizume  Japan	18:41.4	Tetsuo Okamoto  Brazil	18:51.3
100 m backstroke	Yoshi Oyakawa  United States	1:05.4 (OR)	Gilbert Bozon  France	1:06.2	Jack Taylor  United States	1:06.4
200 m breaststroke	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	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	Katalin Szöke  Hungary	1:06.8	Hannie Termeulen  Netherlands	1:07.0	Judit Temes  Hungary	1:07.1
400 m freestyle	Valéria Gyenge  Hungary	5:12.1 (OR)	Éva Novák  Hungary	5:13.7	Evelyn Kawamoto  United States	5:14.6
100 m backstroke	Joan Harrison  South Africa	1:14.3	Geertje Wielema  Netherlands	1:14.5	Jean Stewart  New Zealand	1:15.8
200 m breaststroke	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	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	Ivan Udodov  Soviet Union	Mahmoud Namjoo  Iran	Ali Mirzaei  Iran
60 kg	Rafael Chimishkyan  Soviet Union	Nikolai Saksonov  Soviet Union	Rodney Wilkes  Trinidad and Tobago
67.5 kg	Tommy Kono  United States	Yevgeni Lopatin  Soviet Union	Vern Barberis  Australia
75 kg	Pete George  United States	Gérald Gratton  Canada	Kim Sung-Jip  South Korea
82.5 kg	Trofim Lomakin  Soviet Union	Stanley Stanczyk  United States	Arkady Vorobyev  Soviet Union
90 kg	Norbert Schemansky  United States	Grigory Novak  Soviet Union	Lennox Kilgour  Trinidad and Tobago
+90 kg	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	Hasan Gemici  Turkey	Yushu Kitano  Japan	Mahmoud Mollaghasemi  Iran
Bantamweight	Shohachi Ishii  Japan	Rashid Mammadbeyov  Soviet Union	Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav  India
Featherweight	Bayram Sit  Turkey	Nasser Givehchi  Iran	Josiah Henson  United States
Lightweight	Olle Anderberg  Sweden	Jay Thomas Evans  United States	Tofigh Jahanbakht  Iran
Welterweight	William Smith  United States	Per Berlin  Sweden	Abdollah Mojtabavi  Iran
Middleweight	David Tsimakuridze  Soviet Union	Gholamreza Takhti  Iran	György Gurics  Hungary
Light heavyweight	Viking Palm  Sweden	Henry Wittenberg  United States	Adil Atan  Turkey
Heavyweight	Arsen Mekokishvili  Soviet Union	Bertil Antonsson  Sweden	Kenneth Richmond  Great Britain

Greco-Roman

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

External links

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