1952 Summer Olympics / Participant (Jamaica)

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Jamaica took part in the 1952 Summer Olympics in the Finnish capital Helsinki with eight athletes, two women and six men.

After 1948 it was the second participation of a Jamaican team in the Summer Olympics .

Medalist

With two won gold and three silver medals, the team of Jamaica finished 13th in the medals table .

gold

Surname	sport	competition
George Rhoden	athletics	400 meters
Arthur Wint , Leslie Laing , Herb McKenley, and George Rhoden	athletics	4 × 400 meters

silver

Surname	sport	competition
Herb McKenley	athletics	100 meters and 400 meters
Arthur Wint	athletics	800 meters

Participants by sport

athletics

→ Main article : 1952 Summer Olympics / Athletics

Men

100 m

• Herb McKenley

  Preliminary runs : Qualified for the quarter-finals in run 5 (rank 1) with 10.7 s (hand-stopped) or 10.88 s (electronic)

  Quarter-finals : Qualified for the semi- finals in run 4 (rank 1) with 10.5 s (hand-stopped) or 10.72 s (electronic)

  Semi-finals : Qualified for the final in run 2 (rank 1) with 10.4 s (hand-stopped) or 10.74 s (electronic)

  Final : 10.4 s (± 0.0 s, hand-stopped) or 10.80 s (+ 0.01 s, electronic), 2nd place

• Byron LaBeach

  *: Preliminaries : Qualified for the quarter-finals in run 8 (rank 2) with 10.9 s (hand-stopped) or 11.09 s (electronic)

  Quarter-finals : in run 1 (rank 5) with 11.0 s 11.05 s (electronically) not qualified for the semi-finals

200 m

• Leslie Laing

  Preliminary runs : in run 15 (rank 1) with 21.8 s (hand-stopped) or 21.97 s (electronically) qualified for the quarter-finals

  Quarter-finals : Qualified for the semi- finals in run 5 (rank 2) with 21.4 s (hand-stopped) or 21.74 s (electronic)

  Semi-finals : Qualified for the finals in run 1 (3rd place) with 21.6 s (hand-stopped) or 21.80 s (electronic)

  Final : 21.2 s (hand-stopped) 21.45 s (electronic), 5th place

400 m

Silver again for Herb McKenley (JAM) as in 1948

• Herb McKenley

  Preliminary runs : Qualified for the quarter-finals in run 5 (rank 1) with 48.0 s (hand-stopped) or 48.09 s (electronic)

  Quarter-finals : Qualified for the semi- finals in run 4 (rank 1) with 47.4 s (hand-stopped) or 47.56 s (electronic)

  Semi-finals : Qualified for the final in run 2 (rank 1) with 46.4 s (hand-stopped) and 46.53 s (electronic)

  Final : 45.9 s ( OR , hand-stopped) or 46.20 s (electronic), 2nd place

• George Rhoden

  Preliminary runs : Qualified for the quarter-finals in run 10 (rank 1) with 48.1 s (hand-stopped) or 48.28 s (electronic)

  Quarter-finals : Qualified for the semi- finals in run 2 (rank 1) with 47.2 s (hand-stopped) or 47.24 s (electronic)

  Semi-finals : Qualified for the finals in run 2 (rank 2) with 46.5 s (hand-stopped) or 46.61 s (electronic)

  Final : 45.9 s ( OR , hand-stopped) or 46.09 s (electronic), 1st place

• Arthur Wint

  Preliminary runs : Qualified for the quarter-finals in run 3 (rank 1) with 47.3 s (hand-stopped) or 47.42 s (electronic)

  Quarter-finals : Qualified for the semi- finals in run 1 (rank 1) with 46.9 s (hand-stopped) or 46.98 s (electronic)

  Semi-finals : Qualified for the finals in run 1 (1st place) with 46.3 s (hand-stopped) or 46.38 s (electronic)

  Final : 47.0 s (hand-stopped) or 47.24 s (electronic), 5th place

The Jamaicans Herb McKenley, George Rhoden and Arthur Wint were considered favorites to win the Olympic gold, and a triple success was expected. McKenley, who was runner-up in the 1948 Olympics behind Wint, wanted to do it right this time and not go too fast. His tactics against Wint also worked brilliantly. He took the lead early in the final, but couldn't keep up the pace. But now it was Rhoden who turned out to be McKenley's toughest opponent. Rhoden overtook Wint before the home stretch, McKenley also passed Wint and caught up with Rhoden again very closely. Both came to the finish hand-stopped at the same time. But it was not enough to win for McKenley. Wint fell back to fifth. With 45.9 s, the two winners set a new Olympic record . The unofficial electronic measurement, however, showed a difference of eleven hundredths of a second between the two runners.

800 m

• Arthur Wint

  Preliminary runs : Qualified for the semi-finals in run 5 (rank 2) with 1: 54.2 min

  Semi-finals : Qualified for the final in run 2 (1st place) with 1: 52.7 min (hand-stopped) or 1: 52.88 min (electronically)

  Final : 1: 49.4 min (+ 0.2 s; hand-stopped) or 1: 49.63 min (+ 0.29 s; electronic), 2nd place

4 × 400 m relay

• Herb McKenley , Leslie Laing , George Rhoden & Arthur Wint

  Preliminary runs : Qualified for the final in run 1 (rank 1) with 3: 12.1 min (hand-stopped) or 3: 12.13 min

  Final : 3: 03.9 min (hand-stopped) or 3: 04.04 min ( WR ), 1st place

Women

100 m

• Hyacinth Walters

  Preliminary runs : in run 12 (3rd place) with 12.4 s (hand-stopped) or 12.53 s (electronic) not qualified for the quarter-finals

200 m

• Hyacinth Walters

  Preliminary runs : in run 6 (4th place) with 25.4 s (hand-stopped) or 25.59 s (electronic) not qualified for the semi-finals

Long jump

• Kathleen Russell

  Qualification , group B : with a width of 5.10 m (rank 16, overall rank 31) not qualified for the final

Cycling

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• Ken Farnum

  Sprint: 2nd round

  1000 meter time trial: 20th place

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SportsReference (English)