1952 Summer Olympics / Rowing

Rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Helsinki
Competition venue	Seurasaarenselkä
Nations	33
Athletes	404 (all male)
date	20.-23. July 1952
decisions	7th
← 1948 London 1956 Melbourne →

At the 1952 Summer Olympics in the Finnish capital Helsinki , seven rowing competitions were held.

Attendees

A total of 404 athletes from 33 nations took part in the competitions.

Egypt (8)  Argentina (9)  Australia (14)  Belgium (12)  Brazil (3)  Chile (1)  Denmark (25)  Federal Republic of Germany (21)  Finland (20)  France (17)  Greece (3)

Italy (26)  Japan (5)  Yugoslavia (13)  Canada (15)  New Zealand (5)  Netherlands (12)  Norway (9)  Austria (4)  Poland (10)  Portugal (9)  Romania (9)

Saarland (7)  Sweden (16)  Switzerland (13)  Soviet Union (26)  Spain (6)  South African Union (5)  Czechoslovakia (8)  Hungary (15)  Uruguay (3)  United States (26)  United Kingdom (23)

Competitions

One

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	URS	Yuri Tyukalov	8: 12.8
2	OUT	Mervyn Wood	8: 14.5
3	POLE	Teodor Kocerka	8: 19.4

Participants from German-speaking countries:

Günther Schütt (HF / HL)

Paul Meyer (HF / HL)

Double scull

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	ARG	Tranquilo Cappozzo Eduardo Guerrero	7: 32.2
2	URS	Georgi Schilin Igor Yemchuk	7: 38.3
3	URU	Miguel Seijas Juan Rodríguez	7: 43.7

Participants from German-speaking countries:

Waldemar Beck & Gerhard Füssmann (HF / HL)

Pierre Stebler & Emile Knecht (VL / HL)

Two without a helmsman

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	United States	Charlie Logg Thomas Price	8: 20.7
2	BEL	Michel Knuysen Bob Baetens	8: 23.5
3	SUI	Kurt Schmid Hans Kalt	8: 32.7

Other participants from German-speaking countries:

Klaus Hahn & Herbert Kesel (VL / HL)

Two with a helmsman

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	FRA	Raymond Salles Gaston Mercier Bernard Malivoire	8: 28.6
2	GER	Heinz-Joachim Manchen Helmut Heinhold Helmut Noll	8: 32.1
3	THE	Svend Petersen Poul Svendsen Jørgen Frantzen	8: 34.9

Other participants from German-speaking countries:

Walter Lüchinger , Alexander Siebenhaar & Walter Ludin (VL / HL)

Foursome without a helmsman

The Yugoslav gold four: Petar Šegvić , Mate Trojanović , coach Davor Jelaska , Velimir Valenta and Duje Bonačić

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	YUG	Duje Bonačić Velimir Valenta Mate Trojanović Petar Šegvić	7: 16.0
2	FRA	Pierre Blondiaux Jean-Jacques Guissart Marc Bouissou Roger Gautier	7: 18.9
3	FIN	Veikko Lommi Kauko Wahlsten Oiva Lommi Lauri Nevalainen	7: 23.3

Participants from German-speaking countries:

Kurt Marz , Alexander Mitterhuber , Adolf Scheithauer & Johann Geiszler (HF / HL)

Werner Biel , Hans Krause-Wichmann , Joachim Krause-Wichmann & Hans Peters (HF / HL)

Foursome with a helmsman

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	TCH	Karel Mejta Jiří Havlis Jan Jindra Stanislav Lusk Miroslav Koranda	7: 33.4
2	SUI	Enrico Bianchi Karl Weidmann Heinrich Scheller Émile Ess Walter Leiser	7: 36.5
3	United States	Carl Lovsted Alvin Ulbrickson Richard Wahlstrom Matt Leanderson Al Rossi	7: 37.0

Other participants from German-speaking countries:

Günther Twiesselmann , Klaus Schulze , Heinz Beyer , Gerhard Vogeley & Hans-Joachim Wiemken (VL)

Eighth

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	United States	Frank Shakespeare , William Fields , James Dunbar , Richard Murphy , Robert Detweiler , Henry Proctor , Wayne Frye , Edward Stevens , Charles Manring	6: 25.9
2	URS	Evgeni Brago , Vladimir Rodimuschkin , Alexei Komarow , Igor Borissow , Slava Amiragow , Leonid Gissen , Evgeni Samsonow , Vladimir Kryukov , Igor Polyakov	6: 31.2
3	OUT	Bob Tinning , Ernest Chapman , Nimrod Greenwood , David Anderson , Geoff Williamson , Mervyn Finlay , Edward Pain , Phil Cayzer , Tom Chessell	6: 33.1

Other participants from German-speaking countries:

Anton Reinartz , Michael Reinartz , Roland Freloff , Heinz Zünkler , Peter Betz , Stefan Reinartz , Hans Betz , Anton Siebenhaar & Hermann Zander (5th place)

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	United States	2	0	1	3
2	Soviet Union	1	2	0	3
3	France	1	1	0	2
4th	Argentina	1	0	0	1
4th	Yugoslavia	1	0	0	1
4th	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1
7th	Switzerland	0	1	1	2
7th	Australia	0	1	1	2
9	Belgium	0	1	0	1
9	BR Germany	0	1	0	1
11	Poland	0	0	1	1
11	Uruguay	0	0	1	1
11	Denmark	0	0	1	1
11	Finland	0	0	1	1