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Soviet Union at the 1952 Summer Olympics

 
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Soviet Union at the Olympic Games
Flag of the Soviet Union 1923.svg
Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC code   URS
At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki
Competitors 295 (255 men, 40 women)[1] in 16 sports
Flag bearer Yakov Kutsenko
Medals
Rank: 2		 Gold
22		 Silver
30		 Bronze
19		 Total
71
Olympic history (summary)
Summer Games
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Winter Games
1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988
Other related appearances
Unified Team (1992)

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed in the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. It was the first time for Russians to compete since 1912 as well as the first time for Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Georgians, Ukrainians and Uzbeks to do it ever.

Contents

Medalists

The USSR finished second in the final medal rankings, with 22 gold and 71 total medals.

Med 1.png Gold

Med 2.png Silver

Med 3.png Bronze

  • Dmitri Leonkin — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Rings
  • Galina Minaicheva — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Vault
  • Aleksandr Anufriyev — Athletics, Men's 10000m
  • Bruno Junk — Athletics, Men's 10000m Walk
  • Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili — Athletics, Women's 200m
  • Nina Dumbadze — Athletics, Women's Discus Throw
  • Aleksandra Chudina — Athletics, Women's High Jump
  • Elena Gorchakova — Athletics, Women's Javelin Throw
  • Klavdia Tochonova — Athletics, Women's Shot Put
  • Anatoli Bulakov — Boxing, Men's Flyweight
  • Gennadi Garbuzov — Boxing, Men's Bantamweight
  • Boris Tishin — Boxing, Men's Light-Middleweight
  • Anatoli Perov — Boxing, Men's Light-Heavyweight
  • Nina Savina — Canoeing, Women's K1 500m
  • Lev Vainshtein — Shooting, Men's 300m Free Rifle 3 Positions
  • Boris Andreev — Shooting, Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions
  • Arkadi Vorobyov — Weightlifting, Men's Light-Heavyweight
  • Artem Teryan — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight
  • Nikolai Belov — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight

Results and competitors by event

Athletics

Men's 100 metres

  • Vladimir Suharev
  • First Round – 10.7s
  • First Round – 10.7s
  • Semifinals – 10.6s
  • Final – 10.5s (→ 5th place)

Basketball

Men's Team Competition

  • Main Round (Group B)
  • Defeated Bulgaria (74-46)
  • Defeated Finland (47-35)
  • Defeated Mexico (71-62)
  • Final Round (Group B)
  • Lost to United States (58-86)
  • Defeatd Brazil (54-49)
  • Defeated Chile (78-60)
  • Semifinals
  • Defeated Uruguay (61-57)
  • Final
  • Lost to United States (25-36) → Med 2.png Silver Medal
  • Team Roster

Cycling

Road Competition

Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)

  • Yevgeny Klevtsov — 5:23:34.0 (→ 40th place)
  • Anatoly Kolesov — did not finish (→ no ranking)
  • Nikolay Babarenko — did not finish (→ no ranking)
  • Vladimir Kryushkov — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Track Competition

Men's 1.000m Time Trial

  • Lev Kipursky
  • Final — 1:15.2 (→ 13th place)

Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race

  • Otar Dadunashvili — 13th place

Diving

Men's 3m Springboard

  • Roman Brener
  • Final — 165.63 points (→ 5th place)
  • Aleksey Zigalov
  • Final — 151.31 points (→ 8th place)
  • Gennady Udalov
  • Preliminary Round — 65.99 points (→ 13th place)

Women's 10m Platform

  • Tatyana Vereina
  • Preliminary Round — 43.26 points
  • Final — 61.09 points (→ 6th place)
  • Ninel Krutova
  • Preliminary Round — 40.67 points
  • Final — 57.50 points (→ 8th place)
  • Yevgeniya Bogdanovskaya
  • Preliminary Round — 32.35 points (→ 14th place)

Medals by republic

In the following table for team events number of team representatives, who received medals are counted, not "one medal for all the team", as usual. Because there were people from different republics in one team.

 Rank  Republic Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Russian SFSR 19 35 15 69
2  Ukrainian SSR 10 11 1 22
3  Georgian SSR 3 4 2 9
4  Armenian SSR 2 2 0 4
5  Estonian SSR 1 3 0 4
6  Uzbek SSR 1 1 0 2
7  Lithuanian SSR 0 4 0 4
8  Azerbaijan SSR 0 1 1 2
9  Latvian SSR 0 1 0 1

References

  1. ^ "The USSR and Olympism" (PDF). Olympic Review (International Olympic Committee) (84): 530–557. October 1974. http://www.la84foundation.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1974/ore84/ore84k.pdf. Retrieved 2008-03-28. 

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