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

Rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics featured seven events, for men only. The competitions were held from 20 to 23 July.

Medal summary

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
single sculls	Yuriy Tyukalov (URS)	Mervyn Wood (AUS)	Teodor Kocerka (POL)
double sculls	Tranquilo Cappozzo and Eduardo Guerrero (ARG)	Heorhiy Zhylin and Ihor Yemchuk (URS)	Miguel Seijas and Juan Rodríguez (URU)
coxless pairs	Charlie Logg and Tom Price (USA)	Michel Knuysen and Bob Baetens (BEL)	Kurt Schmid and Hans Kalt (SUI)
Coxed pair	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	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	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	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

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)
•  Spain (6)
•  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)
•  South Africa (5)
•  Saar (7)
•  Switzerland (13)
•  Sweden (16)
•  Soviet Union (26)
•  United States (26)
•  Uruguay (3)
•  Yugoslavia (13)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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

External links

• International Olympic Committee medal database