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

→ Main article : 1952 Summer Olympics / Boxing

Flyweight (up to 51 kg)

• 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

Lightweight (up to 60 kg)

• Basil Henricus

  1st round: eliminated against Bobby Bickle from the USA by technical knockout

athletics

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high jump

• Nagalingam Ethirveerasingham

  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

swim

→ Main article : 1952 Summer Olympics / Swimming

100 m freestyle

• Geoffrey Marks

  Preliminary runs: in run 8 (rank 7) with 1: 04.1 min. Not qualified for the semi-finals

400 m freestyle

• Geoffrey Marks

  Preliminary runs: in run 1 (rank 6) with 5: 15.2 minutes not qualified for the semi-finals

1500 m freestyle

• Geoffrey Marks

  Preliminary runs: in run 6 (rank 5) with 20: 59.4 minutes not qualified for the final

Diving

→ Main article : 1952 Summer Olympics / Diving

Jump 3 m

• Allan Smith

  Final: 55.00 points, 31st place

  1st jump: 08.85 points, rank 30

  2nd jump: 08.84 points, rank 25

  3rd jump: 11.21 points, 17th place

  4th jump: 06.36 points, 32nd place

  5th jump: 11.00 points, 22nd place

  6th jump: 08.74 points, rank 28

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 ).