United States at the 1952 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	USA
Nocname:	United States Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Games Link:	1952 Winter Olympics
Year:	1952
Date:	February 14–25, 1952
Flagcaption:	Flag of the United States
Location:	Oslo, Norway
Competitors:	65 (55 men, 10 women)
Sports:	4
Flagbearer:	James Bickford (bobsleigh)
Rank:	2
Gold:	4
Silver:	6
Bronze:	1
Appearances:	auto

The United States competed at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway.

Medalists

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Name	Sport	Event
	Alpine skiing	Women's giant slalom
	Speed skating	500 meters
	Alpine skiing	Women's slalom
	Figure skating	Men's singles
Patrick Martin	Bobsleigh	Two-man
	Speed skating	500 meters
	Figure skating	Women's singles
Stanley Benham Howard Crossett Patrick Martin	Bobsleigh	Four-man
Peter Kennedy	Figure skating	Pairs
	Ice hockey	Men's tournament
	Figure skating	Men's singles

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Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Alpine skiing	2	0	0	2
Figure skating	1	2	1	4
Speed skating	1	1	0	2
Bobsleigh	0	2	0	2
Ice hockey	0	1	0	1
Total	style=background:gold	4	style=background:silver	6	style=background:#c96	1	11

Medals by gender
Gender				Total	Percentage
Male	2	4	1	7	63.6%
Female	2	1	0	3	27.3%
Mixed	0	1	0	1	9.1%
Total	style=background:gold	4	style=background:silver	6	style=background:#c96	1	11	100%

Multiple medalists
Name	Sport				Total
Andrea Mead Lawrence	Alpine skiing	2	0	0	2
Stanley Benham	Bobsleigh	0	2	0	2
Patrick Martin	Bobsleigh	0	2	0	2

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 1952 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Bill Beck	align=left rowspan=4	Downhill	2:33.3	5
Dick Buek	2:39.1	12
Brooks Dodge	2:52.2	32
Jack Reddish	2:41.5	14
Brooks Dodge	align=left rowspan=4	Giant slalom	2:32.6	6
David Lawrence	2:48.6	35
Jack Nagel	2:42.0	29
Jack Reddish	2:39.5	24
Brooks Dodge	align=left rowspan=4	Slalom	1:01.4	8 Q	1:03.3	11	2:04.7	9
Jack Nagel	1:07.3	35	did not advance
Jack Reddish	1:02.5	13 Q	1:06.5	23	2:09.0	17
Darrell Robison	1:05.1	25 Q	1:05.1	18	2:10.2	22

Women

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jannette Burr	align=left rowspan=4	Downhill
Andrea Mead Lawrence	1:55.3	17
Katy Rodolph	1:57.4	23
Betty Weir	1:55.7	19
Jannette Burr	align=left rowspan=4	Giant slalom	2:19.2	22
Andrea Mead Lawrence	2:06.8
Imogene Opton	2:15.8	15
Katy Rodolph	2:11.7	5
Jannette Burr	align=left rowspan=4	Slalom	1:11.2	19	1:09.3	15	2:20.5	15
Andrea Mead Lawrence	1:07.2	4	1:03.4	1	2:10.6
Imogene Opton	1:07.4	5	1:06.7	5	2:14.1	5
Katy Rodolph	1:17.6	31	1:06.4	4	2:24.0	21

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 1952 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Stanley Benham Patrick Martin	align=left rowspan=2	Two-man	1:22.03	2	1:22.12	2	1:21.21	2	1:21.53	3	5:26.89
Frederick Fortune John L. Helmer	1:23.46	7	1:24.48	8	1:23.15	7	1:22.73	5	5:33.82	7
Stanley Benham Patrick Martin Howard Crossett James Atkinson	align=left rowspan=2	Four-man	1:17.44	2	1:17.78	2	1:16.72	2	1:18.54	4	5:10.48
James Bickford Hubert Miller Maurice R. Severino Joseph Scott	1:19.13	8	1:19.97	11	1:19.49	11	1:21.09	11	5:19.68	9

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1952 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Wendell Broomhall	align=left rowspan=7	Men's 18 km	1:14:06	57
John Burton	1:16:47	67
John Caldwell	1:25:42	73
Theodore A. Farwell	1:11:54	43
George Hovland	1:18:05	71
Tom Jacobs	1:16:43	66
Robert Pidacks	1:18:25	72
Wendell Broomhall John C. Burton Theodore A. Farwell George Hovland	Men's 4 × 10 km relay	2:53:28	12

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1952 Winter Olympics.

Individual

Athlete	Event			Total
Athlete	Event	Rank	Rank	Points	Places	Rank
Dick Button	align=left rowspan=3	Men's singles	1	1	192.256	9
James Grogan	3	2	180.822	24
Hayes Alan Jenkins	5	3	174.589	40	4
Tenley Albright	align=left rowspan=3	Ladies' singles	2	3	159.133	22
Virginia Baxter	8	1	152.211	50	5
Sonya Klopfer	3	5	154.633	33	4

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Points	Places	Rank
Janet Gerhauser John Nightingale	align=left rowspan=2	Pairs	10.289	54	6
Karol Kennedy Peter Kennedy	11.178	17.5

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 1952 Winter Olympics.

The tournament was run in a round-robin format with nine teams participating.

Summary

Roster

Tournament

Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
8	7	0	1	71	14	15
8	6	1	1	43	21	13
9	7	2	0	53	22	14
9	6	3	0	50	23	12
8	4	4	0	40	40	8
8	2	5	1	21	56	5
8	2	6	0	21	60	4
8	1	6	1	21	53	3
8	0	8	0	15	46	0

Norway 2-3 USA
USA 8-2 Germany FR
USA 8-2 Finland
USA 8-2 Switzerland
Sweden 4-2 USA
USA 5-3 Poland
USA 6-3 Czechoslovakia
Canada 3-3 USA

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1952 Winter Olympics.

The cross-country skiing part of this event was combined with the main medal event, meaning that athletes competing here were skiing for two disciplines at the same time. Details can be found above in this article, in the cross-country skiing section.

The ski jumping (normal hill) event was held separate from the main medal event of ski jumping, results can be found in the table below (athletes were allowed to perform three jumps, the best two jumps were counted and are shown here).

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
Athlete	Event	Jump 1	Jump 2	Total	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
John Caldwell	align=left rowspan=4	Individual	57.5	58.0	146.5	25	1:25:42	155.273	22	301.773	22
Theodore Farwell	60.0	60.0	196.0	13	1:11:54	205.454	13	401.454	11
Tom Jacobs	57.0	56.0	179.5	21	1:16:43	187.939	19	367.439	21
Paul Wegeman	58.5	58.5	187.0	19

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1952 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1			Jump 2			Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Art Devlin	align=left rowspan=4	Normal hill	63.5	104.0	13	60.5	97.5	23	201.5	15
Willis Olson	62.5	100.5	18	62.0	93.0	31	193.5	22
Art Tokle	62.5	100.5	18	63.0	99.0	20	199.5	18
Keith Wegeman	62.5	102.0	16	61.5	102.5	11	204.5	12

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 1952 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Bobby Fitzgerald	align=left rowspan=4	500 m	44.9	15
Ken Henry	43.2
Don McDermott	43.9
Johnny Werket	44.5	11
Ken Henry	align=left rowspan=4	1500 m	2:25.0	17
Don McDermott	2:28.8	28
Pat McNamara	2:25.5	18
Johnny Werket	2:24.3	12
Al Broadhurst	align=left rowspan=4	5000 m	9:09.2	34
Chuck Burke	9:06.4	33
Ken Henry	8:59.9	29
Pat McNamara	8:53.4	24
Al Broadhurst	align=left rowspan=4	10,000 m	18:44.2	25
Chuck Burke	19:07.1	27
Pat McNamara	18:08.7	16
Johnny Werket

References

Book: The Official Report of the Organising Committee of the VIth Winter Olympic Games 1952 at Oslo . (ed.) Rolf Petersen . Oslo . 1952 . PDF . 2008-01-31.
Web site: Olympic Medal Winners . . 2008-06-10.
Olympic Winter Games 1952, full results by sports-reference.com

Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
8	7	0	1	71	14	15
8	6	1	1	43	21	13
9	7	2	0	53	22	14
9	6	3	0	50	23	12
8	4	4	0	40	40	8
8	2	5	1	21	56	5
8	2	6	0	21	60	4
8	1	6	1	21	53	3
8	0	8	0	15	46	0

Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
8	7	0	1	71	14	15
8	6	1	1	43	21	13
9	7	2	0	53	22	14
9	6	3	0	50	23	12
8	4	4	0	40	40	8
8	2	5	1	21	56	5
8	2	6	0	21	60	4
8	1	6	1	21	53	3
8	0	8	0	15	46	0

Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
8	7	0	1	71	14	15
8	6	1	1	43	21	13
9	7	2	0	53	22	14
9	6	3	0	50	23	12
8	4	4	0	40	40	8
8	2	5	1	21	56	5
8	2	6	0	21	60	4
8	1	6	1	21	53	3
8	0	8	0	15	46	0