Olympic Winter Games 1952 / Participant (Germany)

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Germany participated in the VI. 1952 Winter Olympics in the Norwegian capital Oslo with 53 athletes, twelve women and 41 men, participated in eight sports.

Since 1928 it was Germany's fourth participation in the Winter Olympic Games . Only athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany took part. On February 8, 1952, when a conference between the two NOK and IOC members was planned in Copenhagen, the GDR officials made the IOC members wait, which led to the talks not being held.

Flag bearer

Cross-country skier Helmut Böck carried the flag of the Federal Republic of Germany during the opening ceremony in the Bislett Stadium .

Medals

With three won gold, two silver and two bronze medals, the German team took 4th place in the medal table .

Medal table

rank	sport	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	bob	2	-	-	2
2	figure skating	1	-	-	1
3	Alpine skiing	-	2	2	4th
total		3	2	2	7th

Medalist

Name / s	sport	competition
gold
Andreas Ostler Lorenz Nieberl	Bobsleigh	Two-man bobsleigh
Andreas Ostler Friedrich Kuhn Lorenz Nieberl Franz Kemser	Bobsleigh	Four-man bobsleigh
Ria Baran Paul Falk	figure skating	Pair skating
silver
Annemarie Buchner	Alpine skiing	Departure
Ossi Reichert	Alpine skiing	slalom
bronze
Annemarie Buchner	Alpine skiing	slalom
		Giant slalom

Participants by sport

bob

Athletes	competition	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		total
		time	rank	time	rank	time	rank	time	rank	time	rank
Men
Andreas Ostler Lorenz Nieberl	Two-man bobsleigh	1: 20.76	1	1: 21.64	1	1: 21.02	1	1: 21.12	1	5: 24.54	gold
Theodor Kitt Friedrich Kuhn	Two-man bobsleigh	1: 24.43	12	1: 25.22	13	1: 24.52	13	1: 24.08	8th	5: 38.25	13
Andreas Ostler Friedrich Kuhn Lorenz Nieberl Franz Kemser	Four-man bobsleigh	1: 16.86	1	1: 17.57	1	1: 16.55	1	1: 16.86	1	5: 07.84	gold

ice Hockey

competition	Men
player	Alfred Hoffmann Heinz Wackers Karl Bierschel Markus Egen Karl Enzler Georg Guggemos Engelbert Holderied Walter Kremershof Ludwig Kuhn Dieter Niess Hans Georg Pescher Fritz Poitsch Herbert Schibukat Xaver Nonsense Karl Wild
Games	Canada 1:15 United States 2: 8 Czechoslovakia 1: 6 Sweden 3: 7 Poland 4: 4 Norway 6: 2 Finland 1: 5 Switzerland 3: 6
placement	8th.

figure skating

Athletes	Competitions	Short program	Freestyle	total
		rank	rank	Points	rank
Women
Gundi Busch	singles	10	6th	146.289	8th
Erika Kraft	Ice dance	9	10	143.767	10
Helga Dudzinski	singles	12	8th	142.767	12
Men
Frankness stone	singles	8th	8th	155,956	8th
Mixed
Ria Baran Paul Falk	Pair skating	-		11,400	gold
Inge Minor Hermann Braun	Pair skating			9,089	8th

Speed ​​skating

Athletes	Competitions	time	rank
Men
Theo Meding	500 m	46.8 s	33
	5000 m	8: 57.4 min	27
	10,000 m	18: 24.4 min	22nd

Nordic combination

Athletes	competition	Ski jumping				Cross-country skiing			total
		1. Width	2. Width	3. Width	rank	time	Points	rank	Points	rank
Men
Helmut Böck	singles	57.5 m	54.5 m	58.5 m	22nd	DNF
Heinz Hauser	singles	60.0 m	59.0 m	62.0 m	14th	1:13:30 h	199.636	15th	393.136	15th

Alpine skiing

Athletes	Competitions	1st run		2nd run		total
		time	rank	time	rank	time	rank
Women
Annemarie Buchner	Departure	-				1: 48.0 min	silver
	Giant slalom					2: 10.0 min	bronze
	slalom	1: 07.6 min	8th	1: 05.7 min	3	2: 13.3 min	bronze
Lia Leismüller	Departure	-				2: 37.6 min	35
Ossi Reichert	Giant slalom	-				2: 13.2 min	8th
	slalom	1: 06.0 min	1	1: 05.4 min	2	2: 11.4	silver
Marianne Strange	Giant slalom	-				2: 14.1 min	10
	slalom	1: 15.5 min	29	1: 50.3 min	37	3: 05.8 min	35
Hannelore Franke	Departure	-				1: 53.8 min	10
	slalom	1: 20.7 min	33	1: 10.1 min	19th	2: 30.8 min	31
Evi Lanig	Departure	-				1: 53.0 min	9
	Giant slalom					2: 15.6 min	14th
Men
Willi Klein	Departure	-				2: 42.8 min	16
	Giant slalom					2: 46.2 min	32
	slalom	1.04.2 min	20th	1.04.7 min	17th	2.08.9 min	16
Benedikt Obermüller	Departure	-				2: 42.9 min	17th
	Giant slalom					2: 41.4 min	28
	slalom	1.04.1 min	19th	1.03.4 min	12	2.07.5 min	13
Josef Schwaiger	Departure	-				2: 55.5 min	38
	Giant slalom					2: 35.4 min	17th
	slalom	1: 13.7 min	53	eliminated			53
Josef heirs	Departure	-				DNF
	Giant slalom					2: 55.0 min	47
Heinrich Bierling	slalom	1: 09.9 min	44	eliminated			44

Cross-country skiing

Athletes	Competitions	time	rank
Women
Hanni Gehring	10 km	50:39 min	13
Men
Heinz Hauser	18 km	1:13:30 h	54
Alois Harrer	18 km	1:14:23 h	59
Rudolf Kopp	18 km	1:15:53 ​​h	64
Albert Mohr	18 km	1:16:32 h	26th
Helmut Böck	18 km	DNF
Hubert Egger	18 km	DNF
John Pent	50 km	4:30:56 h	26th
Karl Schuessler	50 km	DNF
Hubert Egger Albert Mohr Heinz Hauser Rudolf Kopp	4 × 10 km relay	2:36:37 h	7th

Ski jumping

Athletes	competition	1st round			2nd round			total
		Expanse	Points	rank	Expanse	Points	rank	Points	rank
Men
Toni Brutscher	Normal hill	66.5 m	111.0	3	62.5 m	105.5	7th	216.5	4th
Franz Dengg	Normal hill	60.0 m	96.5	24	56.5 m	91.0	35	187.5	31
Sepp Kleisl	Normal hill	66.5 m	108.0	8th	62.5 m	100.0	17th	208.0	10
Sepp Weiler	Normal hill	67.0 m	108.0	8th	63.0 m	105.0	8th	213.0	8th

Web links

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