1952 Summer Olympics / Sailing

Sailing at the 1952 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Helsinki
Competition venue	Harmaja , Liuskasaari
Nations	29
Athletes	227 (224 , 3 )
date	July 20-28, 1952
decisions	5
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Five sailing competitions were held at the 1952 Summer Olympics in the Finnish capital Helsinki . The regattas were held from July 20th to July 28th on two courses off Helsinki: Harmaja and Luiskasaari .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
01	United States	2	1	-	3
02	Norway	1	2	-	3
03	Denmark	1	-	-	1
03	Italy	1	-	-	1
05	Sweden	-	1	2	3
06th	Great Britain	-	1	-	1
07th	BR Germany	-	-	1	1
07th	Finland	-	-	1	1
07th	Portugal	-	-	1	1

Medalist

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Finn dinghy	Paul Elvstrøm	Charles Currey	Rickard Sarby
Dragons	Norway Håkon Barfod Sigve Lie Thor Thorvaldsen	Sweden Erland Almkvist Sidney Boldt-Christmas Per Gedda	BR Germany Erich Natusch Georg Nowka Theodor Thomsen
5.5 mR class	United States Britton Chance Michael Schoettle Edgar White Sumner White	Norway Børre Falkum-Hansen Peder Lunde sr. Vibeke Lunde	Sweden Carl-Erik Ohlson Folke Wassén Magnus Wassén
6 mR class	United States Everard Endt John Morgan Eric Ridder Julius Roosevelt Emelyn Whiton Herman Whiton	Norway goal Arneberg Erik Heiberg Finn Ferner Johan Ferner Carl Mortensen	Finland Ragnar Jansson Paul Sjöberg Adolf Account Rolf Turkka Ernst Westerlund
star	Italy Nicolò Rode Agostino Straulino	United States John Price John Reid	Portugal Joaquim Fiúza Francisco de Andrade

Results

Finn dinghy

space	country	athlete	Points
1	THE	Paul Elvstrøm	8209
2	GBR	Charles Currey	5449
3	SWE	Rickard Sarby	5051
4th	NED	Koos de Jong	5033
5	AUT	Wolfgang Erndl	4273
6th	NOR	Morits Skaugen	4073
7th	ITA	Adelchi Pelaschiar	4068
8th	CAN	Paul McLaughlin	4033

Participants from German-speaking countries:

Werner Krogmann (15.)

Wolfgang Erndl (5th)

Willy HA Pieper (13th)

Dragons

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	NOR	Pan Håkon Barfod Sigve Lie Thor Thorvaldsen	6129
2	SWE	Erland Almkvist Sidney Boldt-Christmas Per Gedda	5555
3	GER	Gustel X Erich Natusch Georg Nowka Theodor Thomsen	5351
4th	ARG	Roberto Sieburger Jorge del Río Salas Horacio Campi	5335
5	THE	Snude Ole Berntsen William Berntsen Aage Birch	4460
6th	NED	Wim van Duyl Biem Dudok van Heel Michiel Dudok van Heel	4041
7th	BRA	Wolfgang Edgard Richter Peter Mangels Francisco Isoldi	2884
8th	POR	João Miguez Tito Carlos Rogenmoser Lourenço Alberto Graca	2782

No other participants from German-speaking countries.

5.5 mR class

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	United States	Britton Chance Michael Schoettle Edgar White Sumner White	5751
2	NOR	Børre Falkum-Hansen Peder Lunde sr. Vibeke Lunde	5325
3	SWE	Carl-Erik Ohlson Folke Wassén Magnus Wassén	4554
4th	POR	Duarte Manuel Bello Fernando Bello Júlio De Sousa Leite Gourinho	4450
5	ARG	Rodolfo Albino Vollenweider Tomas Galfrascoli Ludovico Enrique Kempter	3982
6th	GBR	Robert Perry John Dillon Neil Aylmer Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick	3727
7th	RSA	Noel Horsfield Joseph Ellis-Brown Eric Benningfield	3338
8th	FIN	Hans Dittmar Arne Castrén Johan Stadigh	3292

Participants from German-speaking countries:

Hans Lubinus (9th)

Henri Copponex (12th)

6 mR class

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	United States	Llanoria Everard Ends John Morgan Eric Ridder Julius Roosevelt Emelyn Whiton Herman Whiton	4870
2	NOR	Elisabeth X Tor Arneberg Erik Heiberg Finn Ferner Johan Ferner Carl Mortensen	4648
3	FIN	Raila Ragnar Jansson Paul Sjöberg Adolf Account Rolf Turkka Ernst Westerlund	3944
4th	SWE	Sven Salén Martin Hindorff Torsten Lord Lars Lundström Karl-Robert Ameln	3773
5	ARG	Enrique Sieburger senior Rufino Rodríguez de la Torre Werner from Foerster Horacio Monti Hércules Morini	3393
6th	SUI	Louis Noverraz André Firmenich Charles Stern François Chapot Marcel Stern	3020
7th	CAN	Bill Gooderham Ken Bradfield Bill Copeland Bill MacIntosh Rowan MacDonald Donald Tytler	3013
8th	ITA	Enrico Poggi Antonio Cosentino Pietro Reggio Giusto Spigno Andrea Ferrari	2560

Participants from German-speaking countries:

Wolfgang Elsner with Hans Kadelbach , Paul-Heinrich Lange , Götz von Mirbach & Andreas Howaldt (10.)

Louis Noverraz with André Firmenich , Charles Stern , François Chapot & Marcel Stern (6th)

star

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	ITA	Nicolò Rode Agostino Straulino	5876
2	United States	John Price John Reid	5649
3	POR	Joaquim Fiúza Francisco de Andrade	5223
4th	CUB	Carlos de Cardenas Culmell Carlos de Cardenas Plá	4535
5	BAH	Durward Knowles Sloane Farrington	4405
6th	FRA	Edouard Chabert Jean-Louis Dauris	3866
7th	SWE	Bengt Melin Borje Carlsson	3785
8th	NED	Bob Maas Edward Stutterheim	3510

Participants from German-speaking countries:

Paul Elmar Fischer & Claus Eckbert Wunderlich (11.)

Harald Musil & Harald Fereberger (14.)

Hans Robert Bryner & Kurt Bryner (9th)

Web links

• Sailing at the 1952 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )