1952 Summer Olympics / Participant (Iceland)

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Iceland took part in the 1952 Summer Olympics in the Finnish capital Helsinki with nine male athletes in eleven competitions in one sport.

It was the fourth time an Icelandic team had participated in the Summer Olympics since 1912 .

Flag bearer

Discus thrower Friðrik Guðmundsson carried the flag of Iceland during the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium .

Participants after competitions

athletics

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100 m

• Ásmundur Bjarnason

  Preliminary runs : in run 1 (rank 5) with 11.1 s (hand-stopped) or 11.40 s (electronic) not qualified for the quarter-finals

• Hörður Haraldsson

  Preliminary runs: in run 3 (4th place) with 11.0 s (hand-stopped) or 11.32 s (electronic) not qualified for the quarter-finals

• Pétur Sigurðsson

  Preliminary runs: in run 10 (rank 5) with 11.3 s (hand-stopped) or 11.55 s (electronic) not qualified for the quarter-finals

200 m

• Ásmundur Bjarnason

  Preliminary runs : in run 11 (4th place) with 22.4 s (hand-stopped) or 22.51 s (electronic) not qualified for the quarter-finals

• Hörður Haraldsson

  Preliminary runs: in run 1 (4th place), 22.4 s (hand-stopped), 22.56 s (electronic) not qualified for the quarter-finals

400 m

• Guðmundur Lárusson

  Round one: eliminated in run eight (fourth place), 49.7 seconds (hand-stopped), 49.81 seconds (automatically stopped)

800 m

• Guðmundur Lárusson

  Round one: eliminated in run eight (seventh place), 1: 56.5 minutes (hand-stopped)

5,000 m

• Kristján Jóhannsson

  Round one: eliminated in round three (14th place), 15: 32.8 minutes

10,000 m

• Kristján Jóhannsson

  Final: 32: 00.0 minutes, rank 26

110 m hurdles

• Ingi Þorsteinsson

  Round one: eliminated in run six (fourth place), 15.6 seconds (hand-stopped), 15.76 seconds (automatically stopped)

400 m hurdles

• Ingi Þorsteinsson

  Round one: eliminated in run two (fifth place), 56.5 seconds (hand-stopped)

4 × 100 m relay

• Ásmundur Bjarnason, Hörður Haraldsson, Pétur Sigurðsson and Ingi Þorsteinsson

  Round one: eliminated in run four, disqualified, 43.25 seconds (automatically stopped)

Pole vault

• Torfi Bryngeirsson

  Qualifying round: Group A, 4.00 meters, sixth place, 16th overall

  1. Height: 3.60 meters, valid without unsuccessful attempt

  2. Height: 3.80 meters, valid without fail

  3. Height: 3.90 meters, valid without a failed attempt

  4. Height: 4.00 meters, valid with one failed attempt

  Final: 3.95 meters, rank 14

  1. Height: 3.60 meters, left out

  2. Height: 3.80 meters, valid without fail

  3. Height: 3.95 meters, valid without fail

  4. Height: 4.10 meters, invalid, three failed attempts

Discus throw

• Friðrik Guðmundsson

  Qualifying round: Group A, 45.00 meters, ninth place, 22nd overall

  Round one: 45.00 meters

  Round two: invalid

  Round three: 43.48 meters

• Þorsteinn lion

  Qualifying round: Group B, 44.28 meters, 14th place, 24th overall

  Round one: 44.27 meters

  Round two: 43.73 meters

  Round three: 44.28 meters

Web links

• Helsinki 1952 - Official Site of the Olympic Movement (English) .
• Icelandic Olympic team 1952 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ).