1952 Summer Olympics / Participant (Great Britain)

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Great Britain took part in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki with a delegation of 257 athletes (213 men and 44 women) in 127 competitions in 18 sports. The show jumping relay team achieved the only Olympic victory. Most of the medals (one silver and four bronze) were won in athletics. Another silver medal went to the sailor Charles Currey , bronze went to the team pursuit in cycling, the swimmer Elenor Gordon , the wrestler Kenneth Richmond and the hockey team. The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the walker Harold Whitlock .

Participants by sport

Boxing

Men

• Henry Cooper
• Dai Dower
• Bernard Foster
• Terry Gooding
• Edgar Hearn
• Percy Lewis
• Johnny Maloney
• Thomas Nicholls
• Freddie Reardon
• Peter Waterman

fencing

Men Bob Anderson William Beatley Harry Cooke Charles de Beaumont Christopher Grose-Hodge Ray Harrison Allan Jay Emrys Lloyd Ronald Parfitt Raymond Paul René Paul Olgierd Porebski Roger Tredgold Luke Wendon

Women Patricia Buller Mary Glen-Haig Gillian Sheen

Soccer

Men

• Preliminary round

• Edward Bennett
• Charles Fuller
• Bob Hardisty
• James Lewis
• Alfred Noble
• George Robb
• Derek Saunders
• William Slater
• Thomas Stewart
• Leslie Stratton
• Lawrence Topp

  Without any effort:

• Robert Brown
• Stan Charlton
• Derek Grierson
• Patrick Hastie
• Bill Holmes
• Ken Yenson
• Kevin McGarry
• Tony Pawson
• Idwal Robling

Weightlifting

Men

• Melville Barnett
• Julian Creus
• Yorrie Evans
• James Halliday
• Maurice Megennis

hockey

Men

• bronze

• Denys Carnill
• John Cockett
• John Conroy
• Graham dadds
• Derek Day
• Dennis Eagan
• Robin Fletcher
• Roger Midgley
• Richard Norris
• Neil Nugent
• Anthony Nunn
• Anthony Robinson
• John Taylor

canoe

Men Geoffrey Colyer Gerald Marchand Graham Palmer Ray Parker Frank Prout Roland Prout

Women Shirley Ascott

athletics

Men Peter Allday Lawrence Allen Tim Anderson McDonald Bailey Bronze 100 m Roger Bannister Chris Brasher Chris Chataway Duncan Clark George Coleman Stan Cox Michael Denley Alan Dick John Disley Bronze 3000 m obstacle Ewan Douglas Geoff Elliott Frank Evans Len Eyre John Giles David Gracie Jack Gregory Roland Hardy Terry Higgins Peter Hildreth Geoff Iden William Jack Ken Johnson Leslie Lewis Alan Lillington Dick Miller Bill Nankeville Fred Norris Alan Parker Jack Parker Alan Paterson Ron Pavitt Jim Peters Mark Pharaoh Gordon Pirie Frank Sando John Savidge Angus Scott Brian Shenton Nick Stacey Donald Tunbridge Albert Webster Peter Wells Tom White Harold Whitlock Rex Whitlock Harry Whittle

Women Heather Armitage Bronze 4 x 100 m Shirley Cawley Bronze long jump Sylvia Cheeseman Bronze 4 x 100 m Diane Coates Jean Desforges Bronze 4 x 100 m Patricia Devine Suzanne Allday June Foulds-Paul Bronze 4 x 100 m Thelma Hopkins Ann Johnson Sheila Lerwill Silver high jump Dorothy Odam-Tyler Pam Seaborne Quita Shivas Pauline Threapleton-Wainwright Constance Willoughby

Modern pentathlon

Men

• John Hewitt
• Leon Lumsdaine
• Jervis Percy

Cycling

Men

• Alan Bannister
• Don Burgess

  Bronze team pursuit 4000 m

• Les Ingman
• Don McKellow
• George Newberry

  Bronze team pursuit 4000 m

• Alan Newton

  Bronze team pursuit 4000 m

• Cyril Peacock
• Brian Robinson
• Desmond Robinson
• Ronald Stretton

  Bronze team pursuit 4000 m

• Graham vines
• Les Wilson

horse riding

• Bertie Hill
• Reg Hindley
• Harry Llewellyn

  Gold jumping team

• Laurence Rook
• Duggie Stewart

  Gold jumping team

• Wilf White

  Gold jumping team

Wrestling

Men

• Leslie Cheetham
• Herbie Hall
• Don Irvine
• Ken Irvine
• Ray Myland
• Ken Richmond

  Bronze heavyweight freestyle

rowing

Men

• Harry Almond
• Peter Brandt
• Adrian Cadbury
• David Callender
• Nicholas Clack
• James Crowden
• Chris Davidge
• Peter de Giles
• Graham Fisk
• Tony Fox
• Laurence Guest
• John Hinde
• David Jennens
• John Jones
• Charles Lloyd
• David Macklin
• Alastair MacLeod
• John MacMillan
• John MacMillan
• Paul Massey
• Roger Sharpley
• William Windham
• Edward Worlidge

shoot

• Jocelyn Barlow
• Ingram Capper
• Steffen Cranmer
• Ronald Guy
• Charles Hyde
• Enoch Jenkins
• Charles Lucas
• Cyril Mackworth-Praed
• John Pearson
• Henry Steele
• Henry Swire
• William White

swim

Men Brian Barnes Roy Botham John Brockway Ronald Burns Peter Head Ronald Roberts Bob Sreenan Bert Wardrop Jack Wardrop Thomas Welsh

Women Angela Barnwell Jean Botham Elenor Gordon Bronze 200 m chest Valerie Harris Margaret Linton Margaret McDowall Pauline Musgrave Lillian Preece Daphne Wilkinson Grace Wood Jean Wrigley

sailing

• Bruce Banks
• John Barrington-Ward
• Charles Currey

  Silver Finn dinghy

• John Dillon
• Edward Dyson
• Neil Kennedy-Cochrane-Patrick
• Frank Murdoch
• Robert Perry
• Stanley Potter
• Kenneth Preston
• Martin Sharp
• Thomas Somers
• Robert Steele
• Franklin Woodroffe

do gymnastics

Men Ken Buffin Graham Harcourt Peter Starling Frank Turner George Weedon Jack Whitford

Women Cissy Davies Irene Hirst Pat Hirst Gwynedd Lewis-Lingard Margo Morgan Valerie Mullins Marjorie Raistrick-Carter Margaret Thomas-Neale

Water polo

Men

• Preliminary round

• Charles Brand
• Jack Fergusson
• Stan Hawkins
• Ian Johnson
• Jack Jones
• Terry Miller
• David Murray
• Ron Turner
• Gerry Worsell

Diving

Men Peter Elliott Peter Heatly Tony Turner

Women Dorothy Drew Valerie Lloyd-Chandos Ann Long Diana Spencer Charmain Welsh

Web links

• British Olympic team from 1952 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )