1952 Summer Olympics / Swimming

At the 1952 Summer Olympics in the Finnish capital Helsinki , eleven swimming competitions were held, six for men and five for women. The venue was the Helsingin uimastadion .

Among the participants was the Italian Carlo Pedersoli , better known as actor Bud Spencer , who was eliminated in the preliminaries over 100 m freestyle.

Competitions

Men

100 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Clarke Scholes	57.4 s
2	JPN	Hiroshi Suzuki	57.4 s
3	SWE	Göran Larsson	58.2 s

Participants from German-speaking countries:

Michel Currat (VL)

400 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	FRA	Jean Boiteux	4: 30.7 min
2	United States	Ford Konno	4: 31.3 min
3	SWE	Per-Olof Östrand	4: 35.2 min

Participants from German-speaking countries:

Peter Steinwender (VL)

Georg Mascetti (VL)

Walter Schneider (VL)

1500 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Ford Konno	18:30.3 min
2	JPN	Shiro Hashizume	18: 41.4 min
3	BRA	Tetsuo Okamoto	18: 51.3 min

Participants from German-speaking countries:

Heinz-Günther Lehmann (VL)

Walter Schneider (VL)

100 m back

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Yoshinobu Oyakawa	1: 05.4 min
2	FRA	Gilbert Bozon	1: 06.2 min
3	United States	Jack Taylor	1: 06.5 min

Participants from German-speaking countries:

Helmut Koppelstätter (VL)

Hermann Gericke (VL)

200 m chest

space	country	athlete	time
1	OUT	John Davies	2: 34.4 min
2	United States	Bowen Stassforth	2: 34.7 min
3	GER	Herbert Klein	2: 35.9 min

Other participants from German-speaking countries:

René Kohn (VL)

Alfons Oehy (VL)

4 × 200 m freestyle

space	country	Athletes	time
1	United States	Wayne Moore William Woolsey Ford Konno James McLane	8: 31.1 min
2	JPN	Hiroshi Suzuki Yoshihiro Hamaguchi Toru Goto Teijiro Tanikawa	8: 33.5 min
3	FRA	Joseph Bernardo Aldo Eminent Alexandre Jany Jean Boiteux	8: 45.9 min

No participants from German-speaking countries.

Women

100 m freestyle

space	country	Athlete	time
1	HUN	Katalin Szőke	1: 06.8 min
2	NED	Johanna Termeulen	1: 07.0 min
3	HUN	Judit Temes	1: 07.1 min

Participants from German-speaking countries:

Elisabeth Rechlin (HF) and Vera Schäferkordt (VL)

Susy Vaterlaus (VL)

400 m freestyle

space	country	Athlete	time
1	HUN	Valéria Gyenge	5: 12.1 min
2	HUN	Éva Novák	5: 13.7 min
3	United States	Evelyn Kawamoto	5: 14.6 min

Participants from German-speaking countries:

Elisabeth Rechlin (VL)

100 m back

space	country	Athlete	time
1	RSA	Joan Harrison	1: 14.3 min
2	NED	Geertje Wielema	1: 14.5 min
3	NZL	Jean Stewart	1: 15.8 min

Participants from German-speaking countries:

Erna Herbers (VL) and Gertrud Herrbruck (F)

Doris Gontersweiler-Vetterli (VL)

200 m chest

space	country	Athlete	time
1	HUN	Éva Székely	2: 51.7 min
2	HUN	Éva Novák	2: 54.4 min
3	GBR	Elenor Gordon	2: 57.6 min

Participants from German-speaking countries:

Ursula Happe (HF)

Ilse Albert (VL)

Margrit Knabenhans (VL) and Liselotte Kobi (VL)

4 × 100 m freestyle

space	country	Athletes	time
1	HUN	Ilona Novák Judit Temes Éva Novák Katalin Szőke	4: 24.4 min
2	NED	Marie-Louise Linssen Cornelia van Voorn Johanna Termeulen Irma Schumacher	4: 29.0 min
3	United States	Jacqueline La Vine Mary Louise Stepan Joan Alderson-Rosazza Evelyn Kawamoto	4: 30.1 min

Participants from German-speaking countries:

Elisabeth Rechlin , Vera Schäferkordt , Kati Jansen and Gisela Jacob-Arendt (F)

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	United States	4th	2	3	9
2	Hungary	4th	2	1	7th
3	France	1	1	1	3
4th	Australia	1	0	0	1
4th	South African Union	1	0	0	1
6th	Japan	0	3	0	3
6th	Netherlands	0	3	0	3
8th	Sweden	0	0	2	2
9	Brazil	0	0	1	1
9	United Kingdom	0	0	1	1
9	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
9	BR Germany	0	0	1	1