1952 Summer Olympics / Participant (Venezuela)

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Venezuela took part in the 1952 Summer Olympics in the Finnish capital Helsinki with 38 athletes, two women and 36 men and two women, in eight sports.

It was Venezuela's first real Olympic team, after only one individual athlete each represented the South American country at the 1932 and 1948 Games . The athlete Asnoldo Devonish won the first Olympic medal in Venezuela with bronze in the triple jump.

Medalist

With a bronze medal won the Team Venezuela's 40th place finished in the medals table .

bronze

Surname	sport	competition
Asnoldo Devonish	athletics	Triple jump

Participants by sport

Boxing

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Bantam weight (up to 54 kg)

• Angel Amaya

  1st round: 0-3 defeat against the Mexican Raul Macías Guevara

Feather weight (up to 57 kg)

• Luis Aranguren

  1st round: 1: 2 defeat against Kurt Schirra from Saarland

Lightweight (up to 60 kg)

• Vicente Matute

  1st round: BYE

  2nd round: knockout victory against Pakistani Mohammad Ali

  3rd round: 0-3 defeat against the Finn Erkki Pakkanen

Half welter weight (up to 63.5 kg)

• Salomon Carrizales

  1st round: 2-1 win against Celestino Pinto from Brazil

  2nd round: 0: 3 defeat against the American Charles Adkins

Welter weight (up to 67 kg)

• Sergio Gascue

  1st round: 0-3 defeat against Nicolae Linca from Romania

fencing

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Men

Foil single

• Giovanni Bertorelli

  1st round, group 5: with six defeats (rank 8) not qualified for the 2nd round

• Augusto Gutiérrez

  1st round, group 1: not qualified for the 2nd round with five defeats (rank 7)

• Juan Kavanagh

  1st round, group 2: not qualified for the 2nd round with one win and five losses (rank 6)

Foil team

• Giovanni Bertorelli, Augusto Gutiérrez, Gustavo Gutiérrez , Juan Kavanagh & Nelson Nieves

  1st round, group 3: not qualified for the 2nd round with two defeats (3rd place)

  2:14 loss to Great Britain ; Gustavo Gutiérrez (2)

  9-0 defeat against Italy ; 

Epee single

• Giovanni Bertorelli

  1st round, group 3: not qualified for the 2nd round with one win and six losses (rank 7)

• Juan Camous

  1st round, group 7: with three wins and four defeats (5th place) not qualified for the 2nd round

• Gustavo Gutiérrez

  1st round, group 1: not qualified for the 2nd round with two wins and four defeats (rank 7)

Epee team

• Giovanni Bertorelli, Juan Camous, Gustavo Gutiérrez & Olaf Sandner

  1st round, group 4: with two defeats (3rd place) not qualified for the 2nd round

  4:11 defeat against Belgium ; Giovanni Bertorelli (1), Olaf Sandner (1), Gustavo Gutiérrez (1), Juan Camous (1) 

  5-9 defeat against Denmark ; Gustavo Gutiérrez (1), Giovanni Bertorelli (1), Olaf Sandner (1), Juan Camous (2) 

Saber single

• Gustavo Gutiérrez

  1st round, group 4: with one win and five defeats (rank 8) not qualified for the 2nd round

• Edmundo López

  1st round, group 6: not qualified for the 2nd round with one win and six losses (rank 6)

• Olaf Sandner

  1st round, group 1: not qualified for the 2nd round with two wins and five defeats (rank 7)

Saber crew

• Augusto Gutiérrez, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Edmundo López & Olaf Sandner

  1st round, group 2: with two defeats (3rd place) not qualified for the 2nd round

  3:13 defeat against Austria ; Augusto Gutiérrez (1), Edmundo López (2) 

  9-1 defeat against Italy ; Olaf Sandner (1) 

Women

Foil single

• Gerda Muller

  1st round, group 6: not qualified for the 2nd round with four defeats (rank 6); Rank 30

• Ursula Selle

  1st round, group 2: not qualified for the 2nd round with two wins and four losses (rank 6); Rank 32

athletics

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100 m

• Guillermo Gutiérrez

  Preliminary runs : in run 4 (rank 5) with 11.2 s (hand-stopped) or 11.42 s (electronic) not qualified for the quarter-finals

• Juan Leiva

  Preliminary runs: in run 6 (rank 5) with 11.2 s (hand-stopped) or 11.31 s (electronic) not qualified for the quarter-finals

200 m

• Juan Leiva

  Preliminary runs : in run 5 (rank 3) with 22.3 s (hand-stopped) or 22.38 s (electronic) not qualified for the quarter-finals

400 m

• Guillermo Gutiérrez

  Preliminary runs : Qualified for the quarter-finals in run 6 (rank 2) with 48.7 s (hand-stopped) or 48.82 s (electronic)

  Quarter-finals : in run 1 (rank 4) with 48.6 s (hand-stopped) or 48.75 s not qualified for the semi-finals

800 m

• Filemón Camacho

  Preliminary runs : in run 7 (rank 5) with 2: 00.0 min. Not qualified for the semi-finals

1500 m

• Filemón Camacho

  Preliminary runs : in run 1 (rank 7) with 4: 18.0 min. Not qualified for the semi-finals

110 m hurdles

• Téofilo Davis

  Preliminary runs : in run 3 (rank 5) with 15.7 s (hand-stopped) or 15.96 s (electronic) not qualified for the semi-finals

400 m hurdles

• Paulino Ferrer

  Preliminary runs : in run 4 (rank 5) with 1: 02.1 min. (Hand-stopped) not qualified for the quarter-finals

high jump

• Téofilo Davis

  Qualification , group A: 1.87 m (rank 1), qualified for the final

  Final : 1.80 m, rank 24

  1.70 m: o

  1.80 m: o

  1.90 m: xxx

Long jump

• Brígido Iriarte

  Qualification , group A: 6.82 m (rank 9), not qualified for the final

Triple jump

• Asnoldo Devonish

  Qualification , group A: 15.24 m (rank 2), qualified for the final

  Final : 15.52 m, 3rd place

  1st jump: 15.04 m

  2nd jump: 15.52 m

  3rd to 6th jump: invalid / no distance

Javelin throw

• Brígido Iriarte

  Qualification , Group A: 52.13 m (13th place), not qualified for the final

Decathlon

• Brígido Iriarte

  Total: 5770 points, 12th place

  100 m: 11.6 s / 707 points, 16th place

  Long jump: 7.06 m / 804 points, 4th place; total: 1511 points, rank 11

  Shot put: 11.66 m / 552 points, 19th place; total: 2063 points, rank 9

  High jump: 1.60 m / 550 points, 22nd place; total: 2618 points, ranked 16th

  400 m: 53.1 s / 636 points, 17th place; total: 3254 points, 15th place

  110 m hurdles: 16.6 s / 489 points, 19th place; total: 3743 points, 15th place

  Discus throw: 38.23 m / 578 points, rank 10; total: 4321 points, rank 14

  Pole vault: 3.40 m / 476 points, 16th place; total: 4797 points, 14th place

  Javelin throw: 55.55 m / 637 points, rank 5; total: 5434 points, 13th place

  1500 m: 4: 49.8 min. / 336 points, 7th place

Cycling

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train

sprint

• Luis Toro

  Preliminary round: in run 8 (4th place) qualified for the repetition runs

  Preliminary round, hope runs: in run 1 (3rd place) not qualified for the quarter-finals

1000 m time trial

• Andoni Ituarte

  1: 15.4 min. (+ 4.3 s), 16th place

4000 m team pursuit

• Ramón Echegaray , Andoni Ituarte , Danilo Heredia & Luis Toro

  Qualification: 5: 16.2 min. (+ 26.4 s), rank 20; did not qualify for the quarter-finals

Wrestling

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Freestyle

Feather weight (up to 62 kg)

• Ignacio Lugo

  Rank 16

  1st round: defeat against the Canadian Armand Bernard (0: 3)

  2nd round: defeat against Indian Keshav Mangave (0: 6)

Middle weight (up to 79 kg)

• Pio Chirinos

  Rank 13

  1st round: defeat against South African Callie Reitz (0: 3)

  2nd round: defeat against Gustav Gocke from Germany (1: 6)

Light heavyweight (up to 87 kg)

• Rodolfo Padron

  Rank 11

  1st round: defeat against the American Henry Wittenberg (0: 3)

  2nd round: defeat against the eventual Olympic champion Viking Palm from Sweden (1: 6)

shoot

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Small caliber three-position fight

• Rafael Arnal

  1083 rings, rank 39

• Humberto Briceño

  1104 rings, rank 33

Small caliber lying

• Rafael Arnal

  380 rings, rank 57

• Humberto Briceño

  393 rings, rank 35

Free target gun

• Hector de Lima Polanco

  506 rings, rank 37

• Carlos Marrero

  483 rings, rank 48

Free rifle three position fight

• Humberto Briceño

  984 rings, rank 25

• Rigoberto Rivero

  1028 rings, rank 22

Rapid fire pistol

• Herman Barreto

  558 rings, rank 20

• Carlos Monteverde

  483 rings, rank 52

swim

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100 m freestyle

• Oscar Saiz

  Preliminary runs: in run 5 (rank 6) with 1: 01.7 min. Not qualified for the semi-finals

Diving

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Jump 3 m

• Eduardo Fereda

  Preliminary round: 41.98 points, rank 36; did not qualify for the finals

  1st jump: 8.00 points

  2nd jump: 4.80 points

  3rd jump: 5.70 points

  4th jump: 6.60 points

  5th jump: 9.20 points

  6th jump: 7.68 points

Web links

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