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Rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Rowing
at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Dates20–23 July 1952
Competitors404 from 33 nations
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Rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics featured seven events, for men only. The competitions were held from 20 to 23 July.[1]

Medal summary

Games Gold Silver Bronze
single sculls
details
 Yuriy Tyukalov (URS)  Mervyn Wood (AUS)  Teodor Kocerka (POL)
double sculls
details
 Tranquilo Cappozzo
and Eduardo Guerrero (ARG)
 Heorhiy Zhylin
and Ihor Yemchuk (URS)
 Miguel Seijas
and Juan Rodríguez (URU)
coxless pairs
details
 Charlie Logg
and Tom Price (USA)
 Michel Knuysen
and Bob Baetens (BEL)
 Kurt Schmid
and Hans Kalt (SUI)
Coxed pair
details
 France (FRA)
Raymond Salles
Gaston Mercier
Bernard Malivoire
 Germany (GER)
Heinz Manchen
Helmut Heinhold
Helmut Noll
 Denmark (DEN)
Svend Ove Pedersen
Poul Svendsen
Jørgen Frantzen
coxless fours
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
eights
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

Participating nations

A total of 404 rowers from 33 nations competed at the Helsinki Games:

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)2013
2 Soviet Union (URS)1203
3 France (FRA)1102
4 Argentina (ARG)1001
 Czechoslovakia (TCH)1001
 Yugoslavia (YUG)1001
7 Australia (AUS)0112
 Switzerland (SUI)0112
9 Belgium (BEL)0101
 Germany (GER)0101
11 Denmark (DEN)0011
 Finland (FIN)0011
 Poland (POL)0011
 Uruguay (URU)0011
Totals (14 entries)77721

References

  1. ^ "Rowing at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2018.