1952 Summer Olympics / Participant (Guatemala)

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Guatemala took part in the 1952 Summer Olympics in the Finnish capital Helsinki with 21 athletes, one woman and twenty men.

It was Guatemala's first participation in the Summer Olympics .

Participants by sport

fencing

→ Main article : 1952 Summer Olympics / Fencing

Foil single

• Eduardo López

  Preliminary round, group 6: no win, six losses, 30 hits received; Rank 7, not qualified for the second round

• Rubén Soberón

  Preliminary round, group 4: no win, six losses, 30 hits received; Rank 7, not qualified for the second round

Epee single

• Antonio Chocano

  Preliminary round, group 8: one win, six losses, 19 hits received; Rank 7, not qualified for the second round

• Eduardo López

  Preliminary round, Group 1: no win, six losses, 18 hits received; Rank 8, not qualified for the second round

• Rubén Soberón

  Preliminary round, group 6: three wins, four losses, 14 hits received; Rank 6, not qualified for the second round

Saber single

• Eduardo López

  Preliminary round, group 6: one win, five losses, 17 hits received; Rank 7, not qualified for the second round

athletics

→ Main article : 1952 Summer Olympics / Athletics

Men

100 m

• José Julio Barillas

  Preliminary runs : in run 1 (rank 7) with 11.1 s (hand-stopped) or 11.40 s (electronic) not qualified for the quarter-finals

200 m

• José Julio Barillas

  Preliminary runs : in run 15 (rank 5) with 22.7 s (hand-stopped) or 22.88 s (electronic) not qualified for the quarter-finals

400 m

• Jeremias Stokes

  Preliminary runs : in run 8 (rank 6) with 53.6 s (hand-stopped) or 53.81 s (electronically) not qualified for the quarter-finals

800 m

• Víctorio Solares

  Preliminary runs : in run 5 (rank 7) with 2: 01.4 min. Not qualified for the semi-finals

10,000 m

• Luis Velásquez

  35: 34.0 min. (+ 6: 17.0 min.), Rank 31st

3000 m obstacle

• Víctorio Solares

  Preliminary runs : Run 3 not finished

marathon

• Doroteo Flores

  2: 35: 40.0 hours (+ 12: 36.8 min.), Rank 22

• Luis Velásquez

  Race not finished

Women

100 m

• Graviola Ewing

  Preliminary runs : in run 11 (4th place) with 13.0 s (hand-stopped) or 13.05 s (electronic) not qualified for the quarter-finals

200 m

• Graviola Ewing

  Preliminary runs : in run 4 (rank 5) with 26.9 s (hand-stopped) or 27.02 s (electronic) not qualified for the semi-finals

Cycling

→ Main article : 1952 Summer Olympics / Cycling

Railway competitions

sprint

• Gustavo Martínez

  1st round: in run 6 (rank 4) qualified for the repetition runs

  1st round, hope runs: not qualified for the quarter-finals in run 3; Rank 26

1000 m time trial

• Gustavo Martínez

  1: 18.9 min. (+ 7.8 s), rank 24

4000 m team pursuit

• Armando Castillo , Fernando Marroquin , Carlos Sandoval & Juan Montoya

  5: 38.0 min. (+ 48.2 s), rank 21

Wrestling

→ Main article : 1952 Summer Olympics / Wrestling

Greco-Roman style

Bantam weight (up to 57 kg)

• Osvaldo Johnston

  1st round: defeat against Norbert Köhler from Saarland

  2nd round: defeat against Per Persson from Sweden

  Rank 12

Feather weight (up to 62 kg)

• Marco Antonio Giron

  1st round: defeat against Imre Polyák from Hungary

  2nd round: defeat against Safi Taha from Lebanon

  Rank 12

Lightweight (up to 67 kg)

• Aristides Perez

  1st round: defeat against Franco Benedetti from Italy

  2nd round: defeat against Zbigniew Szajewski from Poland

  Rank 14

shoot

→ Main article : 1952 Summer Olympics / Shooting

Small caliber lying

• Alfredo Mury

  387 rings (- 13 rings), rank 45

• José Gómez Paz

  394 rings (- 6 rings), rank 30

Free target gun

• Francisco Sandoval

  535 rings (- 18 rings), rank 9

Free rifle three position fight

• Alfredo Mury

  885 rings (- 238 rings), rank 32

Rapid fire pistol

• José Gómez Paz

  531 rings (- 48 rings), rank 32

• Francisco Sandoval

  508 rings (- 71 rings), rank 49

swim

→ Main article : 1952 Summer Olympics / Swimming

100 m freestyle

• José Valdes

  Preliminary runs: in run 9 (rank 6) with 1: 04.5 min. Not qualified for the semi-finals

Web links

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