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Sporting event delegation
Great Britain , represented by the
British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the
1952 Summer Olympics in
Helsinki ,
Finland . 257 competitors, 213 men and 44 women, took part in 127 events in 18 sports.
[1] In 1952, they achieved their only gold medal during the last event of the last day of competition in
Helsinki . Along with 1904 and 1996, this is Great Britain's lowest gold medal count.
Medallists
Gold
Silver
Bronze
McDonald Bailey — Athletics, Men's 100 metres
John Disley — Athletics, Men's 3000m Steeplechase
Heather Armitage ,
Sylvia Cheeseman ,
Jean Desforges , and
June Foulds-Paul — Athletics, Women's 4 × 100 metres Relay
Shirley Cawley — Athletics, Women's long jump
Donald Burgess ,
George Newberry ,
Alan Newton , and
Ronald Stretton — Cycling, Men's 4000m Team Pursuit
Helen Gordon — Swimming, Women's 200m Breaststroke
Kenneth Richmond — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Heavyweight
Denys Carnill ,
John Cockett ,
John Conroy ,
Graham Dadds ,
Derek Day ,
Dennis Eagan ,
Robin Fletcher ,
Roger Midgley ,
Richard Norris ,
Neil Nugent ,
Anthony Nunn ,
Anthony Robinson , and
John Taylor — Field Hockey, Men's Team Competition
Athletics
Men's 100 metres
First Round — 10.4s
First Round — 10.5s
Semifinals — 10.5s
Final — 10.4s (→
Bronze Medal )
Men's Hammer Throw
Qualifying Round — 50.69m
Final Round — 51.07m (→ 18th place)
Women's discus throw
Qualifying Round — 36.37 m
Final — 37.96 m (→ 15th place)
Boxing
Men's Flyweight:
First Round – Defeated
Abdelamid Boutefnouchet of
France (3–0)
Second Round – Defeated
Leslie Donovan Perera Handunge of
Ceylon (3–0)
Third Round – Lost to
Anatoli Bulakov of
Soviet Union (1–2)
Men's Bantamweight:
First Round – Lost to
Pentti Olavi Hämäläinen of
Finland (0–3)
Men's Featherweight:
First Round – Lost to
Georghe Ilie of
Romania (0–3)
Men's Lightweight:
First Round – Defeated
Roger Cuche of
Switzerland (KO 3R)
Second Round – Defeated
Aleksandr Zasuhin of
Soviet Union (0–3)
Third Round – Lost to
Aleksy Antkiewicz of
Poland (0–3)
Men's Light Welterweight:
First Round – Defeated
Oscar Juan Galardo of
Argentina (2–1)
Second Round – Lost to
Alexander Grant Webster of
South Africa (0–3)
Men's Welterweight:
First Round – Lost to
Július Torma of
Czechoslovakia (1–2)
Men's Light Middleweight:
First Round – Lost to
Petar Stankoff Spassoff of
Bulgaria (1–2)
Men's Middleweight:
First Round – Defeated
Moustafa Mohamed Fahim of
Egypt (2–1)
Second Round – Lost to
Boris Georgiev Nikolov of
Bulgaria (2–1)
Men's Light Heavyweight:
Second Round – Lost to
Anatoli Perov of
Soviet Union (1–2)
Men's Heavyweight:
First Round – Defeated
José Victorio Sartor of
Argentina (2–1)
Third Round – Lost to
Ilkka Rickhard Koski of
Finland (0–3)
Canoeing
Cycling
Road Competition
Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)
Track Competition
Men's 1.000m Time Trial
Final — 1:13.3 (→ 5th place)
Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race
Men's 4.000m Team Pursuit
Bronze Medal Match — defeated France (→
Bronze Medal )
Diving
Men's 3m Springboard
Final — 151.90 points (→ 7th place)
Preliminary Round — 63.37 points (→ 16th place)
Preliminary Round — 61.85 points (→ 20th place)
Women's 10m Platform
Preliminary Round — 43.23 points
Final — 63.19 points (→ 5th place)
Preliminary Round — 43.16 points
Final — 60.76 points (→ 7th place)
Preliminary Round — 35.39 points (→ 12th place)
Equestrian
Fencing
17 fencers, 14 men and 3 women, represented Great Britain in 1952.
Men's foil
Men's team foil
Men's épée
Men's team épée
Men's sabre
Men's team sabre
Women's foil
Gymnastics
The
British Gymnastics team competed in 15 events and was made up of 14 gymnasts, (6 men and 8 women),
including
Frank Turner and
George Weedon , both of whom had competed in the
1948 Summer Olympics .
Hockey
Modern pentathlon
Three male pentathletes represented Great Britain in 1952.
Individual
Team
Leon Lumsdaine
John Hewitt
Jervis Percy
Rowing
Great Britain had 23 male rowers participate in six out of seven
rowing events in 1952.
[2]
Men's single sculls – Fourth
Men's double sculls
Men's coxless pair – Fourth
Men's coxless four – Fourth
Men's coxed four – Fourth
Men's eight – Fourth
Sailing
Shooting
Twelve shooters represented Great Britain in 1952.
25 m pistol
50 m pistol
300 m rifle, three positions
50 m rifle, three positions
50 m rifle, prone
100m running deer
Trap
Swimming
Water polo
Weightlifting
Wrestling
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