1952 Summer Olympics / Participant (Belgium)

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Belgium took part in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki with a delegation of 135 athletes (130 men and five women) in 74 competitions in 16 sports. The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the fencer Charles Debeur .

Participants by sport

basketball

• eliminated in the qualifying round

• Jules Boes
• Jan Ceulemans
• Henri Coosemans
• Henri Crick
• Yves Delsarte
• Joseph you Jardin
• Johannes Ducheyne
• Jef Eygel
• Désiré Ligon
• Julien Meuris
• Félix Roosemont
• Alexis van Gils
• Pierre van Huele

Boxing

• Max Marsille
• Jean Paternotte
• Jean Renard
• Marcel Van De Keere
• Pierre Wouters

fencing

• Gustave Ballister
• Robert Bayot
• Albert Bernard
• Alex Bourgeois
• Georges de Bourguignon
• Ghislain Delaunois
• Robert Henrion
• François Heywaert
• Jean-Baptiste Maquet
• Paul Valcke
• Marcel Van Der Auwera
• Pierre Van Houdt
• André Verhalle
• Edouard Yves

Weightlifting

• Robert Allart
• Henri Colans

hockey

• Quarter finals

• Pierre Bousmanne
• José Delaval
• Jean Dubois
• Jean-Jacques Enderle
• Roger Goossens
• Harold Mechelynck
• Roger Morlet
• Jacky Moucq
• Léo Rooman
• Paul Toussaint
• Jean Van Leer
• Lucien Van Weydeveld
• Jacques Vanderstappen

canoe

• Hilaire Deprez
• Albert Van De Vliet
• Frans Van Den Berghen
• Rik Verbrugghe

athletics

• Jacques Delelienne
• Lucien Demuynck
• Louis Desmet
• Charles Dewachtere
• Henri Haest
• Frans Herman
• Walter Herssens
• Daniel Janssens
• Raymond Kintziger
• Jean Leblond
• Fernand Linssen
• Albert Lowagie
• Roger Moens
• Gaston Reiff
• Robert Schoonjans
• Jean Simonet
• Oscar Soetewey
• Lucien Theys
• Antoine Uyterhoeven
• Alphonse Vandenrydt
• Marcel Vandewattyne

Modern pentathlon

• Francis Plumerel

Cycling

• Jos De Bakker
• Paul Depaepe
• Gabriel Glorieux
• Robert Grondelaers

  Silver road race, singles

  Gold road race, team

• Pierre Gosselin
• Stéphan Martens
• André Noyelle

  Gold road race, singles

  Gold road race, team

• José Pauwels
• Robert Raymond
• Rik Van Looy

  Gold road race, team

• Lucien Victor

  Gold road race, team

Wrestling

• Auguste Baarendse
• Lucien Claes
• Jan Cools
• Émile Courtois
• Jos De Jong
• Augustus Everaerts
• Jef Mewis
• Maurice Mewis
• Joseph Trimpont

rowing

• Bob Baetens

  Silver twos without a helmsman

• Florent Caers
• Harry Elzendoorn
• Robert George
• Eugeen Jacobs
• Michel Knuysen

  Silver twos without a helmsman

• Hippolyte Mattelé
• Jos Rosa
• Henri Steenacker
• Charles Van Antwerp
• Kamiel Van Dooren
• Jos Van Stichel

shoot

• Albert Fichefet
• François Lafortune senior
• François Lafortune junior
• Gaston Van Roy

swim

Men Joseph Anthoon Marcel Anthoon Alfons Bierebeek Kamiel Reynders Ludovicus Schoenmaekers

Women Nicole Guilini Huguette Peeters Irène Possemiers Sybille Verckist Raymonde Vergauwen

sailing

• Jean De Meulemeester
• André Deryckère
• Auguste Galeyn
• Christian Nielsen

do gymnastics

• Maurice De Groote
• Frederik De Waele
• Jeroom Riske

Water polo

• 6th place

• Théo-Léo De Smet
• Marcel Heyninck
• André Laurent
• Georges Leenheere
• François Maesschalck
• Alphonse Martin
• Joseph Reynders
• Roland Sierens
• Jozef Smits
• Johan Van Den Steen

Web links

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