Great Britain at the 1952 Summer Olympics
| Great Britain at the 1952 Summer Olympics | ||
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Flag bearer Harold Whitlock | | |
| Medals Ranked 18th |
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| Summer Olympics appearances ( overview) | ||
| Other related appearances | ||
| 1906 Intercalated Games | ||
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
| Sport | 
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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 |
Gold
- Wilf White— Equestrian, Jumping Team Competition
Silver
- Sheila Lerwill — Athletics, Women's High Jump
- Charles Currey — Sailing, Men's Finn Individual Competition
Bronze
- McDonald Bailey — Athletics, Men's 100 metres
- John Disley — Athletics, Men's 3000m Steeplechase
- 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
- John Taylor— Field Hockey, Men's Team Competition
Athletics
Men's 100 metres
- First Round — 10.4s
- First Round — 10.5s
- Semifinals — 10.5s
- 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
Men's Flyweight:
- First Round – Defeated Abdelamid Boutefnouchet of France(3–0)
- Second Round – Defeated Ceylon(3–0)
- Third Round – Lost to Anatoli Bulakov of Soviet Union (1–2)
- First Round – Defeated
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)
- First Round – Lost to
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)
- First Round – Defeated
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)
- First Round – Lost to
Men's Middleweight:
- Terence Gooding
- First Round – Defeated Moustafa Mohamed Fahim of Egypt(2–1)
- Second Round – Lost to Boris Georgiev Nikolov of Bulgaria (2–1)
- First Round – Defeated
Men's Light Heavyweight:
- Henry Cooper
- Second Round – Lost to Anatoli Perov of Soviet Union(1–2)
- Second Round – Lost to
Men's Heavyweight:
- First Round – Defeated José Victorio Sartor of Argentina(2–1)
- Third Round – Lost to Ilkka Rickhard Koski of Finland (0–3)
- First Round – Defeated
Canoeing
Cycling
- 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
- Final — 1:13.3 (→ 5th place)
Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race
- Cyril Peacock — 4th place
Men's 4.000m Team Pursuit
- Bronze Medal Match — defeated France (→
Bronze Medal)
- Bronze Medal Match — defeated France (→
Diving
Men's 3m Springboard
- Anthony Turner
- Final — 151.90 points (→ 7th place)
- 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)
- Preliminary Round — 43.16 points
- Final — 60.76 points (→ 7th place)
- Preliminary Round — 35.39 points (→ 12th place)
Equestrian
Fencing
17 fencers, 14 men and 3 women, represented Great Britain in 1952.
- René Paul, Allan Jay, Christopher Grose-Hodge, Ronald Parfitt, Raymond Harrison, Charles de Beaumont
Football
Gymnastics
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
Modern pentathlon
Three male pentathletes represented Great Britain in 1952.
- Individual
- Team
- Leon Lumsdaine
- John Hewitt
- Jervis Percy
Rowing
Great Britain had 23 male rowers participate in six out of seven rowing events in 1952.[2]
- Men's single sculls – Fourth
- John MacMillan (born 1932)
- Peter Brandt
- Men's coxless pair – Fourth
- Men's coxless four – Fourth
- 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
Shooting
Twelve shooters represented Great Britain in 1952.
- 50 m rifle, prone
- 100m running deer
Swimming
Water polo
Weightlifting
Wrestling
References
- ^ "Great Britain at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 13 November 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
- ^ 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.