Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics

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Swimming at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue	Helsinki Swimming Stadium
Dates	26 July – 2 August 1952
No. of events	11
Competitors	319 from 48 nations
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Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
Breaststroke
200 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 m		women
4 × 200 m	men
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At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, a total number of eleven swimming events were contested, six for men and five for women. The events were held at the Swimming Stadium. There was a total of 319 participants from 48 countries competing.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	4	2	3	9
2	Hungary (HUN)	4	2	1	7
3	France (FRA)	1	1	1	3
4	Australia (AUS)	1	0	0	1
	South Africa (RSA)	1	0	0	1
6	Japan (JPN)	0	3	0	3
	Netherlands (NED)	0	3	0	3
8	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	2	2
9	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		11	11	11	33

Medal summary

Men's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Clarke Scholes  United States	57.4	Hiroshi Suzuki  Japan	57.4	Göran Larsson  Sweden	58.2
400 m freestyle details	Jean Boiteux  France	4:30.7 (OR)	Ford Konno  United States	4:31.3	Per-Olof Östrand  Sweden	4:35.2
1500 m freestyle details	Ford Konno  United States	18:30.3 (OR)	Shiro Hashizume  Japan	18:41.4	Tetsuo Okamoto  Brazil	18:51.3
100 m backstroke details	Yoshi Oyakawa  United States	1:05.4 (OR)	Gilbert Bozon  France	1:06.2	Jack Taylor  United States	1:06.4
200 m breaststroke details	John Davies  Australia	2:34.4 (OR)	Bowen Stassforth  United States	2:34.7	Herbert Klein  Germany	2:35.9
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Wayne Moore Bill Woolsey Ford Konno Jimmy McLane	8:31.1 (OR)	Japan (JPN) Hiroshi Suzuki Yoshihiro Hamaguchi Toru Goto Teijiro Tanikawa	8:33.5	France (FRA) Joseph Bernardo Aldo Eminente Alexandre Jany Jean Boiteux	8:45.9

Women's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Katalin Szöke  Hungary	1:06.8	Hannie Termeulen  Netherlands	1:06.5	Judit Temes  Hungary	1:07.6
400 m freestyle details	Valéria Gyenge  Hungary	5:12.1 (OR)	Éva Novák  Hungary	5:13.7	Evelyn Kawamoto  United States	5:14.6
100 m backstroke details	Joan Harrison  South Africa	1:14.3	Geertje Wielema  Netherlands	1:14.5	Jean Stewart  New Zealand	1:15.8
200 m breaststroke details	Éva Székely  Hungary	2:51.7 (OR)	Éva Novák  Hungary	2:54.4	Helen Gordon  Great Britain	2:57.6
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	Hungary (HUN) Ilona Novák Judit Temes Éva Novák Katalin Szöke	4:24.4 (WR)	Netherlands (NED) Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen Koosje van Voorn Hannie Termeulen Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher	4:29.0	United States (USA) Jackie LaVine Marilee Stepan Jody Alderson Evelyn Kawamoto	4:30.1

Participating nations

319 swimmers from 48 nations competed.

Argentina (7)  Australia (10)  Austria (3)  Belgium (10)  Bermuda (2)  Brazil (12)  Canada (9)  Ceylon (1)  Chile (1)  China (1)  Cuba (2)  Czechoslovakia (4)

Denmark (9)  Egypt (3)  Finland (13)  France (16)  Germany (9)  Great Britain (21)  Guatemala (1)  Hong Kong (4)  Hungary (15)  India (5)  Indonesia (1)  Israel (1)

Italy (10)  Japan (22)  Luxembourg (1)  Mexico (8)  Netherlands (13)  New Zealand (2)  Norway (3)  Pakistan (2)  Philippines (1)  Poland (7)  Portugal (4)  Romania (1)

Saar (1)  Singapore (1)  South Africa (6)  Soviet Union (18)  Spain (3)  Sweden (12)  Switzerland (8)  United States (30)  Uruguay (1)  Venezuela (1)  Vietnam (1)  Yugoslavia (3)

References

1. ^ "Olympedia – Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 2023-12-16.
2. ^ ^{a b} "Swimming at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 20 September 2016.