Great Britain at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Sporting event delegation

Great Britain at the
1952 Summer Olympics

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IOC code| GBR
NOC| British Olympic Association
in Helsinki
Competitors| 257 (213 men and 44 women) in 18 sports
Flag bearer | Harold Whitlock
Medals
Ranked 18th|

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

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Great Britain, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. 257 competitors, 213 men and 44 women, took part in 127 events in 18 sports.[1] In 1952, they achieved their only gold medal during the last event of the last day of competition in Helsinki. Along with 1904 and 1996, this is Great Britain's lowest gold medal count.

## Medallists

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Medals by sport  Sport  |  |  |  | Total

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Equestrian | 1  | 0  | 0  | 1
Athletics | 0  | 1  | 4  | 5
Sailing | 0  | 1  | 0  | 1
Cycling | 0  | 0  | 1  | 1
Swimming | 0  | 0  | 1  | 1
Field hockey | 0  | 0  | 1  | 1
Wrestling | 0  | 0  | 1  | 1
Total  | 1  | 2  | 8  | 11

### Gold

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* Harry Llewellyn, Duggie Stewart, and Wilf White — Equestrian, Jumping Team Competition

### Silver

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* Sheila Lerwill — Athletics, Women's High Jump
* Charles Currey — Sailing, Men's Finn Individual Competition

### Bronze

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* McDonald Bailey — Athletics, Men's 100 metres
* John Disley — Athletics, Men's 3000m Steeplechase
* Heather Armitage, Sylvia Cheeseman, Jean Desforges, and June Foulds-Paul — Athletics, Women's 4 × 100 metres Relay
* Shirley Cawley — Athletics, Women's long jump
* Donald Burgess, George Newberry, Alan Newton, and Ronald Stretton — Cycling, Men's 4000m Team Pursuit
* Helen Gordon — Swimming, Women's 200m Breaststroke
* Kenneth Richmond — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Heavyweight
* Denys Carnill, John Cockett, John Conroy, Graham Dadds, Derek Day, Dennis Eagan, Robin Fletcher, Roger Midgley, Richard Norris, Neil Nugent, Anthony Nunn, Anthony Robinson, and John Taylor — Field Hockey, Men's Team Competition

## Athletics

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Main article: Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Men's 100 metres

* McDonald Bailey

* First Round — 10.4s
* First Round — 10.5s
* Semifinals — 10.5s
* Final — 10.4s (→  Bronze Medal)

Men's Hammer Throw

* Duncan Clark

* Qualifying Round — 50.69m
* Final Round — 51.07m (→ 18th place)

Women's discus throw

* Suzanne Allday

* Qualifying Round — 36.37 m
* Final — 37.96 m (→ 15th place)

## Boxing

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Main article: Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Men's Flyweight:

* David Dower

1. First Round – Defeated Abdelamid Boutefnouchet of France (3–0)
2. Second Round – Defeated Leslie Donovan Perera Handunge of Ceylon (3–0)
3. Third Round – Lost to Anatoli Bulakov of Soviet Union (1–2)

Men's Bantamweight:

* Thomas Nicholls

1. First Round – Lost to Pentti Olavi Hämäläinen of Finland (0–3)

Men's Featherweight:

* Percival Lewis

1. First Round – Lost to Georghe Ilie of Romania (0–3)

Men's Lightweight:

* Frederick Reardon

1. First Round – Defeated Roger Cuche of Switzerland (KO 3R)
2. Second Round – Defeated Aleksandr Zasuhin of Soviet Union (0–3)
3. Third Round – Lost to Aleksy Antkiewicz of Poland (0–3)

Men's Light Welterweight:

* Peter Waterman

1. First Round – Defeated Oscar Juan Galardo of Argentina (2–1)
2. Second Round – Lost to Alexander Grant Webster of South Africa (0–3)

Men's Welterweight:

* John Maloney

1. First Round – Lost to Július Torma of Czechoslovakia (1–2)

Men's Light Middleweight:

* Bernard Foster

1. First Round – Lost to Petar Stankoff Spassoff of Bulgaria (1–2)

Men's Middleweight:

* Terence Gooding

1. First Round – Defeated Moustafa Mohamed Fahim of Egypt (2–1)
2. Second Round – Lost to Boris Georgiev Nikolov of Bulgaria (2–1)

Men's Light Heavyweight:

* Henry Cooper

1. Second Round – Lost to Anatoli Perov of Soviet Union (1–2)

Men's Heavyweight:

* Edgar Hearn

1. First Round – Defeated José Victorio Sartor of Argentina (2–1)
2. Third Round – Lost to Ilkka Rickhard Koski of Finland (0–3)

## Canoeing

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Main article: Canoeing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

## Cycling

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Main article: Cycling at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Road Competition

Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)

* Desmond Robinson — 5:18:08.9 (→ 26th place)
* Brian Robinson — 5:18:08.9 (→ 27th place)
* Graham Vines — 5:22:33.2 (→ 31st place)
* Leslie Ingman — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Track Competition

Men's 1.000m Time Trial

* Donald McKellow

* Final — 1:13.3 (→ 5th place)

Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race

* Cyril Peacock — 4th place

Men's 4.000m Team Pursuit

* Alan Newton, Donald Burgess, George Newberry, and Ronald Stretton

* Bronze Medal Match — defeated France (→  Bronze Medal)

## Diving

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Main article: Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Men's 3m Springboard

* Anthony Turner

* Final — 151.90 points (→ 7th place)

* Peter Heatly

* Preliminary Round — 63.37 points (→ 16th place)

* Peter Elliott

* Preliminary Round — 61.85 points (→ 20th place)

Women's 10m Platform

* Phyllis Long

* Preliminary Round — 43.23 points
* Final — 63.19 points (→ 5th place)

* Diana Spencer

* Preliminary Round — 43.16 points
* Final — 60.76 points (→ 7th place)

* Valerie Lloyd-Chandos

* Preliminary Round — 35.39 points (→ 12th place)

## Equestrian

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Main article: Equestrian at the 1952 Summer Olympics

## Fencing

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Main article: Fencing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

17 fencers, 14 men and 3 women, represented Great Britain in 1952.

Men's foil

* René Paul
* Luke Wendon
* Raymond Paul

Men's team foil

* René Paul, Luke Wendon, Emrys Lloyd, Raymond Paul, Harry Cooke, Allan Jay

Men's épée

* Allan Jay
* Ronald Parfitt
* René Paul

Men's team épée

* René Paul, Allan Jay, Christopher Grose-Hodge, Ronald Parfitt, Raymond Harrison, Charles de Beaumont

Men's sabre

* William Beatley
* Bob Anderson
* Olgierd Porebski

Men's team sabre

* Roger Tredgold, Olgierd Porebski, Bob Anderson, William Beatley, Luke Wendon

Women's foil

* Mary Glen-Haig
* Gillian Sheen
* Patricia Buller

## Football

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Main article: Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics

## Gymnastics

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Main article: Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics

The British Gymnastics team competed in 15 events and was made up of 14 gymnasts, (6 men and 8 women), including Frank Turner and George Weedon, both of whom had competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.

## Hockey

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Main article: Field hockey at the 1952 Summer Olympics

## Modern pentathlon

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Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Three male pentathletes represented Great Britain in 1952.

Individual

* Leon Lumsdaine
* John Hewitt
* Jervis Percy

Team

* Leon Lumsdaine
* John Hewitt
* Jervis Percy

## Rowing

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Main article: Rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Great Britain had 23 male rowers participate in six out of seven rowing events in 1952.[2]

Men's single sculls – Fourth

* Tony Fox

Men's double sculls

* John MacMillan (born 1932)
* Peter Brandt

Men's coxless pair – Fourth

* David Callender
* Christopher Davidge

Men's coxless four – Fourth

* Harry Almond
* John Jones
* James Crowden
* Adrian Cadbury

Men's coxed four – Fourth

* John MacMillan (born 1928)
* Graham Fisk
* Laurence Guest
* Peter de Giles
* Paul Massey (cox)

Men's eight – Fourth

* David Macklin
* Alastair MacLeod
* Nicholas Clack
* Roger Sharpley
* Edward Worlidge
* Brian Lloyd
* William Windham
* David Jennens
* John Hinde (cox)

## Sailing

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Main article: Sailing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

## Shooting

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Main article: Shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Twelve shooters represented Great Britain in 1952.

25 m pistol

* Henry Steele
* Henry Swire

50 m pistol

* Ronald Guy
* William White

300 m rifle, three positions

* John Pearson
* Jocelyn Barlow

50 m rifle, three positions

* Steffen Cranmer
* Charles Hyde

50 m rifle, prone

* Charles Hyde
* Steffen Cranmer

100m running deer

* Cyril Mackworth-Praed
* Ingram Capper

Trap

* Enoch Jenkins
* Charles Lucas

## Swimming

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Main article: Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics

## Water polo

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Main article: Water polo at the 1952 Summer Olympics

## Weightlifting

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Main article: Weightlifting at the 1952 Summer Olympics

## Wrestling

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Main article: Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics

## References

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1. ^ "Great Britain at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 13 November 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Great Britain Rowing at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2018.

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