1952 Winter Olympics / Participant (United States)

United States

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The United States participated in the VI. 1952 Winter Olympics in the Norwegian capital Oslo with a delegation of 66 athletes in all eight disciplines, including 56 men and 10 women. With four gold, six silver and one bronze medal, the United States was the second best nation in these games.

The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was bobsleigh driver James Bickford .

Participants by sport

bob

Men, twos

• Stanley Benham , Patrick Martin (USA-1)

  Silver (5: 26.89 min)

• Frederick Fortune , John L. Helmer (USA-2)

  7th place (5: 33.82 min)

Men, foursome

• Stanley Benham , Patrick Martin , Howard Crossett , James Atkinson (USA-1)

  Silver (5: 10.48 min)

• James Bickford , Hubert Miller , Maurice R. Severino , Joseph Scott (USA-2)

  9th place (5: 19.68 min)

ice Hockey

Men

Allen Van Andre Gambucci Arnold Oss Clifford Harrison Donald Whiston Gerald Kilmartin James Sedin John Mulhern

John Noah Joseph Czarnota Ken Yackel Leonard Ceglarski Richard Desmond Robert Rompre Rube Bjorkman

• silver

figure skating

Men

• Richard Button

  Gold (192,256)

• James Grogan

  Bronze (180,822)

• Hayes Alan Jenkins

  4th place (174,589)

Women

• Tenley Albright

  Silver (159,133)

• Virginia Baxter

  5th place (152,211)

• Sonya knockers

  4th place (154,633)

Couples

• Janet Gerhauser & John Nightingale

  6th place (10,289)

• Karol Kennedy & Peter Kennedy

  Silver (11,178)

Speed ​​skating

Men

• Bobby Fitzgerald

  500 m: 15th place (44.9 s)

• Kenneth Henry

  500 m: gold (43.2 s)

  1500 m: 17th place (2: 25.0 min)

  5000 m: 29th place (8: 59.9 min)

• Donald McDermott

  500 m: silver (43.9 s)

  1500 m: 28th place (2: 28.8 min)

• Johnny Works

  500 m: 11th place (44.5 s)

  1500 m: 12th place (2: 24.3 min)

  10,000 m: race not finished

• Pat McNamara

  1500 m: 18th place (2: 25.5 min)

  5000 m: 24th place (8: 53.4 min)

  10,000 m: 16th place (18: 08.7 min)

• Al Broadhurst

  5000 m: 34th place (9: 09.2 min)

  10,000 m: 25th place (18: 44.2 min)

• Chuck Burke

  5000 m: 33rd place (9: 06.4 min)

  10,000 m: 27th place (19: 07.1 min)

Nordic combination

• John Homer Caldwell

  Individual (normal hill / 18 km): 22nd place (301.773)

• Theodore A. Farwell

  Individual (normal hill / 18 km): 11th place (401,454)

• Tom Jacobs

  Individual (normal hill / 18 km): 21st place (367,439)

• Paul Wegeman

  Individual (normal hill / 18 km): Cross-country race not finished

Alpine skiing

Men

• Bill Beck

  Downhill: 5th place (2: 33.3 min)

• Dick Buek

  Downhill: 12th place (2: 39.1 min)

• Brooks Dodge

  Downhill: 32nd place (2: 52.2 min)

  Giant Slalom: 6th place (2: 32.6 min)

  Slalom: 9th place (2: 04.7 min)

• Jack Reddish

  Downhill: 14th place (2: 41.5 min)

  Giant Slalom: 24th place (2: 39.5 min)

  Slalom: 17th place (2: 09.0 min)

• David Lawrence

  Giant Slalom: 35th place (2: 48.6 min)

• Jack Nagel

  Giant Slalom: 29th place (2: 42.0 min)

  Slalom: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Darrell Robinson

  Slalom: 22nd place (2: 10.2 min)

Women

• Jannette Burr

  Departure: disqualified

  Giant Slalom: 22nd place (2: 19.2 min)

  Slalom: 15th place (2: 20.5 min)

• Betty Weir

  Downhill: 19th place (1: 55.7 min)

• Andrea Mead-Lawrence

  Downhill: 17th place (1: 55.3 min)

  Giant Slalom: Gold (2: 06.8 min)

  Slalom: Gold (2: 10.6 min)

• Katy Rodolph

  Downhill: 23rd place (1: 57.4 min)

  Giant Slalom: 5th place (2: 11.7 min)

  Slalom: 21st place (2: 24.0 min)

• Imogene opton

  Giant Slalom: 15th place (2: 15.8 min)

  Slalom: 5th place (2: 14.1 min)

Cross-country skiing

Men

• Wendell Broomhall

  18 km: 57th place (1:14:06 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: 12th place (2:53:28 h)

• John Burton

  18 km: 67th place (1:16:47 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: 12th place (2:53:28 h)

• John Homer Caldwell

  18 km: 73rd place (1:25:42 h)

• Theodore A. Farwell

  18 km: 43rd place (1:11:54 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: 12th place (2:53:28 h)

• George Hovland

  18 km: 71st place (1:18:05 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: 12th place (2:53:28 h)

• Tom Jacobs

  18 km: 66th place (1:16:43 h)

• Robert Pidacks

  18 km: 72nd place (1:18:25 h)

Ski jumping

• Kind of Devlin

  Normal hill: 15th place (201.5)

• Willis Olson

  Normal hill: 22nd place (193.5)

• Art Tokle

  Normal hill: 18th place (199.5)

• Keith Wegeman

  Normal hill: 12th place (204.5)

Web links

• United States at the 1952 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )