United States at the 1952 Winter Olympics

United States at the
1952 Winter Olympics
United States at the; 1952 Winter Olympics
	Flag of the United States
IOC code	USA
NOC	United States Olympic Committee
in Oslo, Norway; February 14–25, 1952
Competitors	65 (55 men, 10 women) in 4 sports
Flag bearer	James Bickford (bobsleigh)
Medals; Ranked 2nd	Gold 4 Silver 6 Bronze 1 Total 11
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The United States competed at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway.

Medalists

The following U.S. competitors won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Andrea Mead Lawrence	Alpine skiing	Women's giant slalom	February 14
Gold	Ken Henry	Speed skating	500 meters	February 16
Gold	Andrea Mead Lawrence	Alpine skiing	Women's slalom	February 20
Gold	Dick Button	Figure skating	Men's singles	February 21
Silver	Stanley Benham Patrick Martin	Bobsleigh	Two-man	February 15
Silver	Don McDermott	Speed skating	500 meters	February 16
Silver	Tenley Albright	Figure skating	Women's singles	February 20
Silver	James Atkinson Stanley Benham Howard Crossett Patrick Martin	Bobsleigh	Four-man	February 22
Silver	Karol Kennedy Peter Kennedy	Figure skating	Pairs	February 22
Silver	United States men's national ice hockey team Ruben Bjorkman Len Ceglarski Joseph Czarnota Richard Desmond Andre Gambucci Clifford Harrison Gerald Kilmartin John Mulhern John Noah Arnold Oss Robert Rompre James Sedin Allen Van Donald Whiston Ken Yackel	Ice hockey	Men's tournament	February 25
Bronze	James Grogan	Figure skating	Men's singles	February 21

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	4	6	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	4	6	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

Men

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Bill Beck	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	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	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	Downhill	—				DSQ
Andrea Mead Lawrence						1:55.3	17
Katy Rodolph						1:57.4	23
Betty Weir						1:55.7	19
Jannette Burr	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	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

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	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	Two-man	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	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	Four-man	1:19.13	8	1:19.97	11	1:19.49	11	1:21.09	11	5:19.68	9

Cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Wendell Broomhall	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

Individual

Athlete	Event	CF	FS	Total
Athlete	Event	Rank	Rank	Points	Places	Rank
Dick Button	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	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	Pairs	10.289	54	6
Karol Kennedy Peter Kennedy	Pairs	11.178	17.5

Ice hockey

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

Summary

Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
United States men	Men's tournament	Norway W 3–2	West Germany W 8–2	Finland W 8–2	Switzerland W 8–2	Sweden L 2–4	Poland W 5–3	Czechoslovakia W 6–3	Canada T 3–3

Roster

Alfred Van Allen
André Gambucci
Arnold Oss
Clifford Harrison
Donald Whiston
Gerald Kilmartin
James Sedin
John Mulhern
John Noah
Joseph Czarnota
Kenneth Yackel
Len Ceglarski
Richard Desmond
Robert Rompre

Tournament

Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Canada	8	7	0	1	71	14	15
United States	8	6	1	1	43	21	13
Sweden	9	7	2	0	53	22	14
Czechoslovakia	9	6	3	0	50	23	12
Switzerland	8	4	4	0	40	40	8
Poland	8	2	5	1	21	56	5
Finland	8	2	6	0	21	60	4
West Germany	8	1	6	1	21	53	3
Norway	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

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	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	DNF

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Jump 1			Jump 2			Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Art Devlin	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

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Bobby Fitzgerald	500 m	44.9	15
Ken Henry		43.2
Don McDermott		43.9
Johnny Werket		44.5	11
Ken Henry	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	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	10,000 m	18:44.2	25
Chuck Burke		19:07.1	27
Pat McNamara		18:08.7	16
Johnny Werket		DNF

References

(ed.) Rolf Petersen (1952). The Official Report of the Organising Committee of the VIth Winter Olympic Games 1952 at Oslo (PDF). Oslo. Retrieved 2008-01-31. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
"Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2008-06-10.
Olympic Winter Games 1952, full results by sports-reference.com

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Africa	none
Asia	Japan Lebanon
America	Argentina Canada Chile United States
Europe	Austria Belgium Bulgaria Czechoslovakia Denmark Finland France Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Italy Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Spain Sweden Switzerland Yugoslavia
Oceania	Australia New Zealand