1952 Summer Olympics / Canoe

At the 1952 Summer Olympics in the Finnish capital Helsinki , a total of nine canoeing competitions were held, eight for men and one for women.

Competitions

Men

Single kayak 1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	SWE	Gert Fredriksson	4: 07.9 min
2	FIN	Thorvald Strömberg	4: 09.7 min
3	FRA	Louis Gantois	4: 20.1 min

Participants from German-speaking countries:

Meinrad Miltenberger (5th)

Roland Licker (VL)

Herbert Schreiner (VL)

Hansrüdi Engler (VL)

Single kayak 10,000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	FIN	Thorvald Strömberg	47: 22.8 min
2	SWE	Gert Fredriksson	47: 34.1 min
3	GER	Michel Scheuer	47: 54.5 min

Other participants from German-speaking countries:

Léon Roth (17th)

Alfred Schmidtberger (9th)

Raymond Kamber (16.)

Two-person kayak 1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	FIN	Kurt Wires Yrjö Hietanen	3: 51.1 min
2	SWE	Lars Glasser Ingemar Hedberg	3: 51.1 min
3	AUT	Maximilian Raub Herbert Wiedermann	3: 51.4 min

Other participants from German-speaking countries:

Gustav Schmidt & Helmut Noller (4th)

Johnny Lucas & Léon Roth (VL)

Heinrich Hess & Kurt Zimmer (VL)

Anton Kuster & Hans Straub (VL)

Two-person kayak 10,000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	FIN	Kurt Wires Yrjö Hietanen	44: 21.3 min
2	SWE	Gunnar Åkerlund Hans Wetterström	44: 21.7 min
3	HUN	Ferenc Varga József Gurovits	44: 26.6 min

Participants from German-speaking countries:

Karl-Heinz Schäfer & Meinrad Miltenberger (4th)

Eugène Hanck & Roland Licker (18th)

Max Raub & Herbert Wiedermann (4th)

Heinrich Hess & Kurt Zimmer (12.)

Werner Müller & Werner Bieri (16.)

Single canoe 1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	TCH	Josef Holeček	4: 56.3 min
2	HUN	János Parti	5: 03.3 min
3	FIN	Olavi Ojanperä	5: 08.5 min

Participants from German-speaking countries:

Ralf Berckhan (6th)

Single canoe 10,000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Frank Havens	57: 41.1 min
2	HUN	Gábor Novák	57: 49.2 min
3	TCH	Alfréd Jindra	57: 53.1 min

Participants from German-speaking countries:

Franz Johannsen (7.)

Two-person canoe 1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	THE	Bent Rasch Finn Haunstoft	4: 38.3 min
2	TCH	Jan Brzák-Felix Bohumil Kudrna	4: 42.9 min
3	GER	Egon Drews Wilfried Soltau	4: 48.3 min

Other participants from German-speaking countries:

Kurt Liebhart & Engelbert Lulla (6th)

Two-man canoe 10,000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	FRA	Georges Turlier Jean Laudet	54: 08.3 min
2	CAN	Kenneth Lane Donald Hawgood	54: 09.9 min
3	GER	Egon Drews Wilfried Soltau	54: 28.1 min

No other participants from German-speaking countries.

Women

Single kayak 500 m

space	country	sportswoman	time
1	FIN	Sylvi Saimo	2: 18.4 min
2	AUT	Gertrude Liebhart	2: 18.8 min
3	URS	Nina Sawina	2: 21.6 min

Further participants from German-speaking countries:

Josefa Köster (8.)

Therese Zenz (9.)

Elisa Sidler (from left)

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Finland	4th	1	1	6th
2	Sweden	1	3	0	4th
3	Czechoslovakia	1	1	1	3
4th	France	1	0	1	2
5	Denmark	1	0	0	1
5	United States	1	0	0	1
7th	Hungary	0	2	1	3
8th	Austria	0	1	1	2
9	Canada	0	1	0	1
10	BR Germany	0	0	3	3
11	Soviet Union	0	0	1	1