1952 Summer Olympics / Participant (New Zealand)

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New Zealand took part in the 1952 Summer Olympics in the Finnish capital Helsinki with a delegation of 14 athletes, two women and twelve men, and three officials.

Since 1920 it was the seventh participation of a New Zealand team in the Summer Olympics .

Flag bearer

Weightlifter Harold Cleghorn carried the New Zealand flag during the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium .

Medalist

With a won gold and two bronze medals the New Zealand team finished 24th place in the medal table .

gold

• Yvette Williams - Long Jump Women

bronze

• John Holland - 400 m hurdles
• Jean Stewart - swimming, 100 m back

Participants by sport

Weightlifting

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Men

Heavy weight (over 90 kg)

• Harold Cleghorn

  Pushing: 130.0 kg / tearing: 117.5 kg / pushing: 152.5 kg // total: 400.0 kg, rank 7

athletics

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Men

800 m

• Maurice Marshall

  Preliminary runs: in run 1 (4th place) with 1: 56.2 min. Not qualified for the semi-finals

1500 m

• George Hoskins

  Preliminary runs: Qualified for the semi-finals in run 5 (1st place) with 3: 56.2 minutes (hand-stopped) or 3: 56.33 minutes (electronically)

  Semi-finals: in run 1 (rank 12) with 3: 53.0 min. (Hand-stopped) or 3: 52.72 min. (Electronic) not qualified for the final

• Maurice Marshall

  Preliminary runs: in run 4 (rank 7) with 4: 01.0 minutes (hand-stopped) or 4: 01.03 minutes (electronically) not qualified for the semi-finals

5000 m

• George Hoskins

  Preliminary runs: Run 3 not finished

400 m hurdles

• John Holland

  Preliminary runs: Qualified for the quarter-finals in run 6 (1st place) with 53.3 s (hand-stopped)

  Quarter-finals: Qualified for the semi-finals in run 2 (rank 1) with 52.2 s (hand-stopped) or 52.24 s (electronic)

  Semi-finals: Qualified for the final in run 1 (rank 2) with 52.0 s (hand-stopped) or 52.22 s (electronic)

  Final: 52.2 s (hand-stopped) or 52.26 (electronic), 3rd place

Women

Long jump

• Yvette Williams

  Qualification, Group B: qualified for the final with 6.16 m (rank 1, OR ); as the first athlete at the Olympic Games, she jumped the six-meter mark

  Final: x - x - 5.90 m - 6.24 m - 6.11 m - 5.99 m - 6.24 m, rank 1 (OR)

Shot put

• Yvette Williams

  Qualification: 11.26 m - 12.64 m - ./., Rank 10, qualified for the final

  Final: 12.27 m - 11.54 m - 13.35 m - 12.68 m - 12.28 m - 11.73 m, rank 6

Discus throw

• Yvette Williams

  Qualification: x - 41.32 m - ./., Rank 4, qualified for the final

  Final: 40.48 m - 32.95 m - 40.38 m, 10th place

Cycling

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Men

1000 m time trial

• Clarence Simpson

  1: 15.1 min., Rank 11

rowing

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Men

One

• Donald McLeod

  not started for the preliminary stages

Foursome with a helmsman

• Kerry Ashby , George Johnson , Colin Johnstone , John O'Brien and William Tinnock

  Preliminary runs: in run 4 (4th place) with 7: 25.2 minutes qualified for the hope runs

  Hope runs: in run 1 (rank 2) with 7: 07.3 min. Not qualified for the semi-finals

swim

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Men

100 m back

• Lincoln Hurring

  Preliminary runs: Qualified for the semi-finals in run 6 (3rd place) with 1: 09.6 minutes

  Semi-finals: in run 1 (rank 7) with 1: 10.2 minutes not qualified for the final

Women

100 m back

• Jean Stewart

  Prelims: Qualified for the final in run 1 (rank 2) with 1: 16.0 minutes

  Final: 1: 15.8 min., 3rd place

Web links

• New Zealand Olympic Team from 1952 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• The Official Report of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952 . (PDF (31.1 MB))LA84 Foundation,accessed on September 2, 2014(English). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics at Sports-Reference ( English )