1952 Summer Olympics / Participant (Jamaica)
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Jamaica took part in the 1952 Summer Olympics in the Finnish capital Helsinki with eight athletes, two women and six men.
After 1948 it was the second participation of a Jamaican team in the Summer Olympics .
Medalist
With two won gold and three silver medals, the team of Jamaica finished 13th in the medals table .
gold
Surname | sport | competition |
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George Rhoden | athletics | 400 meters |
Arthur Wint , Leslie Laing , Herb McKenley, and George Rhoden | athletics | 4 × 400 meters |
silver
Surname | sport | competition |
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Herb McKenley | athletics | 100 meters and 400 meters |
Arthur Wint | athletics | 800 meters |
Participants by sport
athletics
- Men
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Herb McKenley
- Preliminary runs : Qualified for the quarter-finals in run 5 (rank 1) with 10.7 s (hand-stopped) or 10.88 s (electronic)
- Quarter-finals : Qualified for the semi- finals in run 4 (rank 1) with 10.5 s (hand-stopped) or 10.72 s (electronic)
- Semi-finals : Qualified for the final in run 2 (rank 1) with 10.4 s (hand-stopped) or 10.74 s (electronic)
- Final : 10.4 s (± 0.0 s, hand-stopped) or 10.80 s (+ 0.01 s, electronic), 2nd place
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Byron LaBeach
- *: Preliminaries : Qualified for the quarter-finals in run 8 (rank 2) with 10.9 s (hand-stopped) or 11.09 s (electronic)
- Quarter-finals : in run 1 (rank 5) with 11.0 s 11.05 s (electronically) not qualified for the semi-finals
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Leslie Laing
- Preliminary runs : in run 15 (rank 1) with 21.8 s (hand-stopped) or 21.97 s (electronically) qualified for the quarter-finals
- Quarter-finals : Qualified for the semi- finals in run 5 (rank 2) with 21.4 s (hand-stopped) or 21.74 s (electronic)
- Semi-finals : Qualified for the finals in run 1 (3rd place) with 21.6 s (hand-stopped) or 21.80 s (electronic)
- Final : 21.2 s (hand-stopped) 21.45 s (electronic), 5th place
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Herb McKenley
- Preliminary runs : Qualified for the quarter-finals in run 5 (rank 1) with 48.0 s (hand-stopped) or 48.09 s (electronic)
- Quarter-finals : Qualified for the semi- finals in run 4 (rank 1) with 47.4 s (hand-stopped) or 47.56 s (electronic)
- Semi-finals : Qualified for the final in run 2 (rank 1) with 46.4 s (hand-stopped) and 46.53 s (electronic)
- Final : 45.9 s ( OR , hand-stopped) or 46.20 s (electronic), 2nd place
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George Rhoden
- Preliminary runs : Qualified for the quarter-finals in run 10 (rank 1) with 48.1 s (hand-stopped) or 48.28 s (electronic)
- Quarter-finals : Qualified for the semi- finals in run 2 (rank 1) with 47.2 s (hand-stopped) or 47.24 s (electronic)
- Semi-finals : Qualified for the finals in run 2 (rank 2) with 46.5 s (hand-stopped) or 46.61 s (electronic)
- Final : 45.9 s ( OR , hand-stopped) or 46.09 s (electronic), 1st place
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Arthur Wint
- Preliminary runs : Qualified for the quarter-finals in run 3 (rank 1) with 47.3 s (hand-stopped) or 47.42 s (electronic)
- Quarter-finals : Qualified for the semi- finals in run 1 (rank 1) with 46.9 s (hand-stopped) or 46.98 s (electronic)
- Semi-finals : Qualified for the finals in run 1 (1st place) with 46.3 s (hand-stopped) or 46.38 s (electronic)
- Final : 47.0 s (hand-stopped) or 47.24 s (electronic), 5th place
The Jamaicans Herb McKenley, George Rhoden and Arthur Wint were considered favorites to win the Olympic gold, and a triple success was expected. McKenley, who was runner-up in the 1948 Olympics behind Wint, wanted to do it right this time and not go too fast. His tactics against Wint also worked brilliantly. He took the lead early in the final, but couldn't keep up the pace. But now it was Rhoden who turned out to be McKenley's toughest opponent. Rhoden overtook Wint before the home stretch, McKenley also passed Wint and caught up with Rhoden again very closely. Both came to the finish hand-stopped at the same time. But it was not enough to win for McKenley. Wint fell back to fifth. With 45.9 s, the two winners set a new Olympic record . The unofficial electronic measurement, however, showed a difference of eleven hundredths of a second between the two runners.
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Arthur Wint
- Preliminary runs : Qualified for the semi-finals in run 5 (rank 2) with 1: 54.2 min
- Semi-finals : Qualified for the final in run 2 (1st place) with 1: 52.7 min (hand-stopped) or 1: 52.88 min (electronically)
- Final : 1: 49.4 min (+ 0.2 s; hand-stopped) or 1: 49.63 min (+ 0.29 s; electronic), 2nd place
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Herb McKenley , Leslie Laing , George Rhoden & Arthur Wint
- Preliminary runs : Qualified for the final in run 1 (rank 1) with 3: 12.1 min (hand-stopped) or 3: 12.13 min
- Final : 3: 03.9 min (hand-stopped) or 3: 04.04 min ( WR ), 1st place
- Women
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Hyacinth Walters
- Preliminary runs : in run 12 (3rd place) with 12.4 s (hand-stopped) or 12.53 s (electronic) not qualified for the quarter-finals
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Hyacinth Walters
- Preliminary runs : in run 6 (4th place) with 25.4 s (hand-stopped) or 25.59 s (electronic) not qualified for the semi-finals
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Kathleen Russell
- Qualification , group B : with a width of 5.10 m (rank 16, overall rank 31) not qualified for the final
Cycling
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Ken Farnum
- Sprint: 2nd round
- 1000 meter time trial: 20th place
Web links
- Jamaican Olympic team from 1952 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )