Rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Main article: Rowing at the Summer Olympics

Rowing

at the Games of the XV Olympiad

Dates| 20–23 July 1952
Competitors| 404 from 33 nations

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Rowing at the
1952 Summer Olympics

Single sculls| men
Double sculls| men
Coxless pair| men
Coxed pair| men
Coxless four| men
Coxed four| men
Eight| men

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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

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Games  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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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

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

* Argentina (9)
* Australia (14)
* Austria (4)
* Belgium (12)
* Brazil (3)
* Canada (15)
* Chile (1)
* Czechoslovakia (8)
* Denmark (25)
* Egypt (8)
* Finland (26)
* France (17)
* Great Britain (23)
* Germany (21)
* Greece (3)
* Hungary (15)
* Italy (26)
* Japan (5)
* Netherlands (12)
* Norway (9)
* New Zealand (5)
* Poland (10)
* Portugal (9)
* Romania (9)
* Saar (7)
* South Africa (5)
* Soviet Union (26)
* Spain (6)
* Sweden (16)
* Switzerland (13)
* United States (26)
* Uruguay (3)
* Yugoslavia (13)

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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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

## References

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

## External links

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* International Olympic Committee medal database

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Events at the 1952 Summer Olympics (Helsinki)

* Athletics
* Basketball
* Boxing
* Canoeing
* Cycling
* Diving
* Equestrian
* Fencing
* Field hockey
* Football
* Gymnastics
* Handball (demonstration)
* Modern pentathlon
* Pesäpallo (demonstration)
* Rowing
* Sailing
* Shooting
* Swimming
* Water polo
* Weightlifting
* Wrestling

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Current events|

* Single sculls
* Double sculls
* Quadruple sculls
* Coxless pair
* Coxless four
* Eight
* Lightweight double sculls

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* Lightweight coxless four

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