1952 Summer Olympics / Participant (Ceylon)
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Ceylon , now Sri Lanka, took part in the 1952 Summer Olympics in the Finnish capital Helsinki with five male athletes in seven competitions in four sports.
After 1948 it was the second participation of a Ceylonese team in the Summer Olympics .
Participants by sport
Boxing
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Leslie Handunge
- 1st round: 2-1 victory by the judge's decision against Jesús Tello from Mexico
- 2nd round: 0-3 defeat by the judge's decision against Dai Dower from Great Britain
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Basil Henricus
- 1st round: eliminated against Bobby Bickle from the USA by technical knockout
athletics
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Nagalingam Ethirveerasingham
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Qualification , group A: with a skipped height of 1.84 m (rank 14, overall rank 29) not qualified for the final
- 1.70 m: valid, no unsuccessful attempt
- 1.80 m: valid, two failed attempts
- 1.84 m: valid, without unsuccessful attempt
- 1.87 m: invalid, three failed attempts
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Qualification , group A: with a skipped height of 1.84 m (rank 14, overall rank 29) not qualified for the final
swim
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Geoffrey Marks
- Preliminary runs: in run 8 (rank 7) with 1: 04.1 min. Not qualified for the semi-finals
- Geoffrey Marks
- Preliminary runs: in run 1 (rank 6) with 5: 15.2 minutes not qualified for the semi-finals
- Geoffrey Marks
- Preliminary runs: in run 6 (rank 5) with 20: 59.4 minutes not qualified for the final
Diving
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Allan Smith
- Final: 55.00 points, 31st place
- 1st jump: 8.85 points, rank 30
- 2nd jump: 8.84 points, rank 25
- 3rd jump: 11.21 points, 17th place
- 4th jump: 6.36 points, 32nd place
- 5th jump: 11.00 points, 22nd place
- 6th jump: 8.74 points, rank 28
- Final: 55.00 points, 31st place
Web links
- Helsinki 1952 - Official Site of the Olympic Movement (English) .
- Ceylon Olympic team 1952 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ).