Great Britain at the 1952 Summer Olympics explained
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
Medals by sport| Sport | | | | Total |
|---|
| 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 |
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Gold
Silver
Bronze
- 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
See main article: Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Men's 100 metres
- Final — 10.4s (→ Bronze Medal)
Men's Hammer Throw
- Qualifying Round — 50.69m
- Final Round — 51.07m (→ 18th place)
Women's discus throw
- Qualifying Round — 36.37 m
- Final — 37.96 m (→ 15th place)
Boxing
See main article: Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Men's Flyweight:
- First Round – Defeated Abdelamid Boutefnouchet of France (3–0)
- Second Round – Defeated Leslie Donovan Perera Handunge of Ceylon (3–0)
- Third Round – Lost to Anatoli Bulakov of Soviet Union (1–2)
Men's Bantamweight:
- First Round – Lost to Pentti Olavi Hämäläinen of Finland (0–3)
Men's Featherweight:
- First Round – Lost to Georghe Ilie of Romania (0–3)
Men's Lightweight:
- First Round – Defeated Roger Cuche of Switzerland (KO 3R)
- Second Round – Defeated Aleksandr Zasuhin of Soviet Union (0–3)
- Third Round – Lost to Aleksy Antkiewicz of Poland (0–3)
Men's Light Welterweight:
- First Round – Defeated Oscar Juan Galardo of Argentina (2–1)
- Second Round – Lost to Alexander Grant Webster of South Africa (0–3)
Men's Welterweight:
- First Round – Lost to Július Torma of Czechoslovakia (1–2)
Men's Light Middleweight:
- First Round – Lost to Petar Stankoff Spassoff of Bulgaria (1–2)
Men's Middleweight:
- First Round – Defeated Moustafa Mohamed Fahim of Egypt (2–1)
- Second Round – Lost to Boris Georgiev Nikolov of Bulgaria (2–1)
Men's Light Heavyweight:
- Second Round – Lost to Anatoli Perov of Soviet Union (1–2)
Men's Heavyweight:
- First Round – Defeated José Victorio Sartor of Argentina (2–1)
- Third Round – Lost to Ilkka Rickhard Koski of Finland (0–3)
Canoeing
See main article: Canoeing at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Cycling
See main article: Cycling at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
- Road CompetitionMen's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)
- Track CompetitionMen's 1.000m Time Trial
- Final — 1:13.3 (→ 5th place)
Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race
Men's 4.000m Team Pursuit
- Bronze Medal Match — defeated France (→ Bronze Medal)
Diving
See main article: Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Men's 3m Springboard
- Preliminary Round — 61.85 points (→ 20th place)
Women's 10m Platform
- Preliminary Round — 43.23 points
- Preliminary Round — 43.16 points
- Preliminary Round — 35.39 points (→ 12th place)
Equestrian
See main article: Equestrian at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Fencing
See main article: Fencing at the 1952 Summer Olympics. 17 fencers, 14 men and 3 women, represented Great Britain in 1952.
- Men's foil
- Men's team foil
- Men's épée
- Men's team épée
- Men's sabre
- Men's team sabre
- Women's foil
Football
See main article: Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Gymnastics
See 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
See main article: Field hockey at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Modern pentathlon
See main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Three male pentathletes represented Great Britain in 1952.
- Individual
- Team
- Leon Lumsdaine
- John Hewitt
- Jervis Percy
Rowing
See 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
- Men's double sculls
- Men's coxless pair – Fourth
- Men's coxless four – Fourth
- Men's coxed four – Fourth
- Men's eight – Fourth
Sailing
See main article: Sailing at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Shooting
See main article: Shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Twelve shooters represented Great Britain in 1952.
- 25 m pistol
- 50 m pistol
- 300 m rifle, three positions
- 50 m rifle, three positions
- 50 m rifle, prone
- 100m running deer
- Trap
Swimming
See main article: Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Water polo
See main article: Water polo at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Weightlifting
See main article: Weightlifting at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Wrestling
See main article: Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Notes and References
- Web site: Great Britain at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games . 15 February 2015 . sports-reference.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141113100312/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/GBR/summer/1952/ . 13 November 2014 . dmy-all .
- Great Britain Rowing at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417113846/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/GBR/summer/1952/ROW/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 10 March 2018.
