Rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Rowing
at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Dates20–23 July 1952
Competitors404 from 33 nations

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
Yuriy Tyukalov
 Soviet Union
Mervyn Wood
 Australia
Teodor Kocerka
 Poland
double sculls
Tranquilo Cappozzo
and Eduardo Guerrero
 Argentina
Heorhiy Zhylin
and Ihor Yemchuk
 Soviet Union
Miguel Seijas
and Juan Rodríguez
 Uruguay
coxless pairs
Charlie Logg
and Tom Price
 United States
Michel Knuysen
and Bob Baetens
 Belgium
Kurt Schmid
and Hans Kalt
 Switzerland
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 fours
 Yugoslavia
Duje Bonačić
Velimir Valenta
Mate Trojanović
Petar Šegvić
 France
Pierre Blondiaux
Jean-Jacques Guissart
Marc Bouissou
Roger Gautier
 Finland
Veikko Lommi
Kauko Wahlsten
Oiva Lommi
Lauri Nevalainen
Coxed four
 Czechoslovakia
Karel Mejta
Jiří Havlis
Jan Jindra
Stanislav Lusk
Miroslav Koranda
 Switzerland
Rico Bianchi
Karl Weidmann
Heini Scheller
Émile Ess
Walter Leiser
 United States
Carl Lovsted
Al Ulbrickson
Richard Wahlstrom
Matt Leanderson
Al Rossi
eights
 United States
Frank Shakespeare
William Fields
James Dunbar
Richard Murphy
Robert Detweiler
Henry Proctor
Wayne Frye
Edward Stevens
Charles Manring
 Soviet Union
Yevgeny Brago
Vladimir Rodimushkin
Aleksey Komarov
Igor Borisov
Slava Amiragov
Leonid Gissen
Yevgeny Samsonov
Vladimir Kryukov
Igor Polyakov
 Australia
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 States2013
2 Soviet Union1203
3 France1102
4 Argentina1001
 Czechoslovakia1001
 Yugoslavia1001
7 Australia0112
 Switzerland0112
9 Belgium0101
 Germany0101
11 Denmark0011
 Finland0011
 Poland0011
 Uruguay0011
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.