1952 Winter Olympics / Ice Hockey

Ice hockey at the 1952 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Oslo , Sandvika , Skedsmo , Drammen
Competition venue	Dælenenga idrettspark , Jordal Amfi , Sandvika Stadium , Lillestrøm Stadium , Marienlyst Stadium
Teams	9
Nations	9
Athletes	147 (147 )
date	15-25 February 1952
decisions	2
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	Olympic ice hockey tournament 1952
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	Winner: Canada

The Olympic ice hockey tournament of the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo ( Norway ) is considered the 19th ice hockey world championship and 30th ice hockey European championship . It took place from February 15 to 25, 1952. Most of the games were played in the newly built Jordal Amfi ice rink, only a few duels took place in places outside Oslo. Nine teams took part in this tournament, ten had named, but Italy was missing. For the first time after the Second World War , the Federal Republic of Germany was allowed to take part in the tournament again.
In contrast, the National Austrian Olympic Committee let the entry date November 30, 1951 pass.

The tournament was carried out in league play. Canada won its sixth Olympic gold medal in ice hockey and the world title at the same time. It was not until 2002 that another triumph was achieved. The silver medal went to the USA , which was able to rehabilitate itself for its disappointing performance at the last Olympics .
On the last day, a hot weather had prevented the match between Norway and Poland, which was played on February 25th from 11 a.m.
The bronze medal was also decided in a play-off, which made it necessary to extend it to Monday, February 25th, after European champions Sweden and two-time world champions Czechoslovakia had finished the tournament tied. Sweden was successful in this duel 5-3, so that the silver medalist from 1948 was without a medal this time. The ČSR had already led 3-0 in the middle third.
With regard to this play-off, there were initially problems with the interpretation of the rules, because it was said that the Olympic tournament would be decided on the basis of the goal difference, the Monday encounter only concerned the European Championship. This interpretation would only have applied if three teams had tied on points.
The Swiss performance is disappointing . The medal candidate ended up only in the middle of the table. The heyday of Swiss ice hockey was thus over for a long time.

Men's Olympic ice hockey tournament

Games

February 15, 1952	Oslo	Norway	-	United States		2: 3 (1: 0.0: 2.1: 1)
February 15, 1952	Oslo	Sweden	-	Finland		9: 2 (2: 0.5: 2.2: 0)
February 15, 1952	Drammen	Czechoslovakia	-	Poland		8: 2 (3: 1.2: 1.3: 0)
February 15, 1952	Oslo	Canada	-	BR Germany		15: 1 (6: 1.7: 0.2: 0)
February 16, 1952	Oslo	Switzerland	-	Finland		12: 0 (2: 0.2: 0.8: 0)
February 16, 1952	Oslo	Norway	-	Czechoslovakia		0: 6 (0: 2.0: 2.0: 2)
February 16, 1952	Oslo	United States	-	BR Germany		8: 2 (1: 0.3: 1.4: 1)
February 16, 1952	Oslo	Sweden	-	Poland		17: 1 (1: 0.9: 1.7: 0)
17th February 1952	Oslo	Norway	-	Sweden		2: 4 (1: 2.0: 1.1: 1)
17th February 1952	Oslo	Switzerland	-	Poland		6: 3 (4: 1.2: 2.0: 0)
17th February 1952	Oslo	Canada	-	Finland		13: 3 (6: 2.5: 0.2: 1)
17th February 1952	Oslo	Czechoslovakia	-	BR Germany		6: 1 (0: 0.2: 0.4: 1)
February 18, 1952	Oslo	United States	-	Finland		8: 2 (1: 0.6: 0.1: 2)
February 18, 1952	Oslo	Canada	-	Poland		11: 0 (6: 0.3: 0.2: 0)
February 18, 1952	Oslo	Norway	-	Switzerland		2: 7 (0: 4.2: 2.0: 1)
February 18, 1952	Oslo	Sweden	-	BR Germany		7: 3 (3: 2.0: 0.4: 1)
19th February 1952	Oslo	Canada	-	Czechoslovakia		4: 1 (1: 1.1: 0.2: 0)
19th February 1952	Oslo	United States	-	Switzerland		8: 2 (4: 1.3: 0.1: 1)
February 20, 1952	Oslo	Poland	-	BR Germany		4: 4 (1: 1.3: 1.0: 2)
February 20, 1952	Oslo	Norway	-	Finland		2: 5 (0: 2.2: 2.0: 1)
February 21, 1952	Oslo	United States	-	Sweden		2: 4 (0: 1.0: 0.2: 3)
February 21, 1952	Oslo	Canada	-	Switzerland		11: 2 (4: 0.5: 0.2: 2)
February 21, 1952	Sandvik	Czechoslovakia	-	Finland		11: 2 (4: 1.3: 0.4: 1)
February 21, 1952	Oslo	Norway	-	BR Germany		2: 6 (0: 0.1: 1.1: 5)
February 22, 1952	Oslo	Finland	-	BR Germany		5: 1 (1: 0.2: 0.2: 1)
February 22, 1952	Oslo	Czechoslovakia	-	Switzerland		8: 3 (0: 2.2: 1.6: 0)
February 22, 1952	Oslo	United States	-	Poland		5: 3 (1: 0.2: 0.2: 3)
February 22, 1952	Oslo	Canada	-	Sweden		3: 2 (1: 2.1: 0.1: 0)
February 23, 1952	Oslo	Sweden	-	Switzerland		5: 2 (1: 1.4: 0.0: 1)
February 23, 1952	Oslo	Norway	-	Canada		2:11 (2: 5.0: 3.0: 3)
February 23, 1952	Lilleström	Poland	-	Finland		4: 2 (2: 2.0: 0.2: 0)
February 23, 1952	Oslo	United States	-	Czechoslovakia		6: 3 (2: 1.4: 0.0: 2)
February 24, 1952	Oslo	Czechoslovakia	-	Sweden		4: 0 (2: 0.2: 0.0: 0)
February 24, 1952	Oslo	Switzerland	-	BR Germany		6: 3 (1: 1.3: 1.2: 1)
February 24, 1952	Oslo	Canada	-	United States		3: 3 (2: 0.1: 2.0: 1)
February 25, 1952	Oslo	Norway	-	Poland		3: 4 (2: 1.1: 1.0: 2)

Decision game for the bronze medal

February 25, 1952

Oslo

Sweden

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Czechoslovakia

5: 3 (0: 2.1: 1.4: 0)

Final table and medals

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	Canada	8th	7th	1	0	71:14	+57	15: 1
2	United States	8th	6th	1	1	43:21	+22	13: 3
3	Sweden	8th	6th	0	2	48:19	+29	12: 4
3	Czechoslovakia	8th	6th	0	2	47:18	+29	12: 4
5	Switzerland	8th	4th	0	4th	40:40	0	8: 8
6th	Poland	8th	2	1	5	21:56	−35	5:11
7th	Finland	8th	2	0	6th	21:60	−39	4:12
8th	Germany	8th	1	1	6th	21:53	−32	3:13
9	Norway	8th	0	0	8th	15:46	−31	0:16

1952 European ice hockey champion Sweden

Squad of teams

placement	team	player
	Canada	George Abel , John Davies , Billie Dawe , Robert Dickson , Donald Gauf , William Gibson , Ralph Hansch , Bob Meyers , David Miller , Eric Paterson , Thomas Pollock , Allan Purvis , Gordon Robertson , Louis Secco , Francis Sullivan , Robert "Bob" Watt
	United States	Ruben Bjorkman , Leonard Ceglarski , Joseph Czarnota , Richard Desmond , André Gambucci , Clifford Harrison , Gerald Kilmartin , John Mulhern , John Noah , Arnold Oss , Robert Rompre , James Sedin , Allen Van , Donald Whiston , Ken Yackel
	Sweden	Göte Almqvist , Hans Andersson-Tvilling , Stig Andersson-Tvilling , Åke Andersson , Lars Björn , Göte Blomqvist , Thord Flodqvist , Erik Johansson , Gösta Johansson , Rune Johansson , Sven Johansson , Åke Lassas , Holger Nurmela , Lars Pettersson , Lars Svensson , Sven Thunman , Hans Öberg
4th	Czechoslovakia	Slavomír Bartoň , Miloslav Blažek , Václav Bubník , Vlastimil Bubník , Miloslav Charouzd , Bronislav Danda , Karel Gut , Vlastimil Hajšman , January Lidral , Miroslav Nový , Miloslav Ošmera , Zdeněk Pýcha , Miroslav Reiman , Jan Richter , Oldřich Sedlák , Jiří Sekyra , Jozef Záhorský
5.	Switzerland	Hans Bänninger , Gian Bazzi , François Blank , Bixio Celio , Reto Delnon , Walter Dürst , Émile Golaz , Emil Handschin , Paul Hofer , Willy Pfister , Gebhard Poltera , Ulrich Poltera , Otto Schläpfer , Otto Schubiger , Alfred Streun , Hans-Martin Trepp , Paul Wyss
6th	Poland	Michał Antuszewicz , Henryk Bromowicz , Kazimierz Chodakowski , Stefan Csorich , Rudolf Czech , Alfred Gansiniec , January Hampel , Marian Jezak , Eugeniusz Lewacki , Roman Penczek , Hilary Skarżyński , Tadeusz Świcarz , Stanisław Szlendak , Zdzisław Trojanowski , Antoni Wróbel , Alfred Wrobel
7th	Finland	Yrjö Hakala , Aarne Honkavaara , Erkki Hytönen , Pentti Isotalo , Matti Karumaa , Ossi Kauppi , Keijo Kuusela , Kauko Mäkinen , Pekka Myllylä , Christian Rapp , Esko Rekomaa , Matti Rintakoski , Eero Saari , Eero Salisma , Lauri Silván , Unto Wiitala , Jukka Wuolio
8th.	Germany	Karl Bierschel , Markus Egen , Karl Enzler , Georg Guggemos , Alfred Hoffmann , Engelbert Holderied , Walter Kremershof , Ludwig Kuhn , Dieter Niess , Hans Georg Pescher , Fritz Poitsch , Herbert Schibukat , Xaver Unsinn , Heinz Wackers , Karl Wild
9.	Norway	Jan Erik Adolfsen , Arne Berg , Egil Bjerklund , Per Dahl , Bjørn Sigmund Gulbrandsen , Bjørn Oscar Gulbrandsen , Finn Gundersen , Arthur Kristiansen , Gunnar Kroge , Johnny Larntvet , Roar Pedersen , Annar Petersen , Ragnar Rygel , Leif Solheim , Øivind Solheim , Roy Strandem , Per Voigt

Statement by the representative of the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation

Dr. Max Thoma from the Swiss Ice Hockey Association said in a review in “Sport Zürich” no. 25 of February 27, 1952, page 3 that he “had become aware in the course of the tournament that a certain degree of maturity was still lacking to be able to cope with such tough challenges Struggle to stay successful. Against Sweden and the ČSR it would certainly have been possible to win, but in both games a full daredevil on the part of the opponent for 5 to 10 minutes was enough to confuse the Swiss. It has to be possible to overcome psychologically dangerous moments, for this the ability to realize has to be increased. "

Web links

Commons : Ice Hockey at the 1952 Winter Olympics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Men's Ice Hockey at the 1952 Oslo Winter Games at SportsReference (English)
• Jeux Olympiques d'Oslo 1952 at hockeyarchives.info (French)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "The ice hockey players not to Oslo" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 5, 1951, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ^ "Sweden's ice hockey team wins bronze medal and European championship"; "Sport Zurich" No. 25 of February 27, 1952; Pages 1 and 2