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Soviet Union at the 1952 Summer Olympics

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed in the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. 295 competitors, 255 men and 40 women, took part in 141 events in 18 sports.

Previously, the Soviet Union competed at the International Workers' Olympiads with the latest participation in 1937. Selected athletes who competed at this Olympics, were participants of the 1937 Workers' Summer Olympiad, particularly the Soviet flag bearer and weightlifter Yakov Kutsenko.

Medalists

With 22 gold and 71 total medals, the USSR finished second in the final medal rankings behind the United States, yet ahead of some other Olympic teams from Hungary and Sweden. At least four podium sweeps (top three finishers) were recorded for the USSR: one in women's discus throw, three in various gymnastics disciplines. The Soviet athletes were a dominating force in gymnastics, wrestling, and weightlifting. The Soviet Olympic team boosted its medal collection with the performance of its female gymnastics team. It happened so that the 1952 Summer Olympics were the first Olympic Games that introduced the expanded disciplines of gymnastics for women athletes. The Soviet Olympic team received six sets of team medals in athletics, basketball, gymnastics, and rowing, and one more set of double medals in rowing.

The first Soviet athlete to receive medals at the Olympics was a disc thrower Nina Ponomaryova (CSKA Moscow). A gymnast Viktor Chukarin, who represented Burevestnik Lviv, received four gold medals, setting a new record for gold medals at a single Olympics. At the same time, another gymnast, Maria Gorokhovskaya, representing Stroitel Kharkiv, received the most Olympic medals, seven (2 gold and 5 silver).

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Gold

Silver

Bronze

  • Dmitri Leonkin (SKA Lviv) — Artistic gymnastics, men's rings
  • Galina Minaicheva (Dynamo Moscow) — Artistic gymnastics, women's vault
  • Aleksandr Anufriyev (Torpedo Gorky) — Athletics, men's 10000 m
  • Bruno Junk (Dynamo Tallinn) — Athletics, men's 10000 m walk
  • Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili (Dinamo Tbilisi) — Athletics, women's 200 m
  • Nina Dumbadze (Dinamo Tbilisi) — Athletics, women's discus throw
  • Aleksandra Chudina (Dynamo Moscow) — Athletics, women's high jump
  • Yelena Gorchakova (Burevestnik Moscow) — Athletics, women's javelin throw
  • Klavdia Tochonova (Medik Leningrad) — Athletics, women's shot put
  • Anatoli Bulakov (Dynamo Moscow) — Boxing, men's flyweight
  • Gennadi Garbuzov (Dynamo Moscow) — Boxing, men's bantamweight
  • Boris Tishin (Krylia Sovetov Moscow) — Boxing, men's light-middleweight
  • Anatoli Perov (Trudovye Rezervy Moscow) — Boxing, men's light-heavyweight
  • Nina Savina (Pischevik Leningrad) — Canoeing, women's K1 500 m
  • Lev Vainshtein (Dynamo Leningrad) — Shooting, men's 300 m free rifle 3 positions
  • Boris Andreyev (CSKA Moscow) — Shooting, men's 50 m rifle 3 positions
  • Arkadi Vorobyov (SKA Sverdlovsk) — Weightlifting, men's light-heavyweight
  • Artem Teryan (Dynamo Baku) — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman bantamweight
  • Nikolay Belov (Dynamo Moscow) — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman middleweight

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Athletics

Men
Track & road events
Field events
Combined events – Decathlon
Women
Track & road events
Field events

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)
* Defeated Brazil (54–49)
* Defeated Chile (78–60)
  • Semifinals
* Defeated Uruguay (61–57)
  • Final
* Lost to United States (25–36) → silver medal
  • Team roster
*Stepas Brutautas
*Nodar Dzhordzhikiya
*Anatoly Konev
*Otar Korkiya
*Heino Kruus
*Ilmar Kullam
*Justinas Lagunavičius
*Joann Lõssov
*Aleksandr Moiseyev
*Yuri Ozerov
*Kazys Petkevičius
*Stasys Stonkus
*Maigonis Valdmanis
*Viktor Vlasov

Boxing

Canoeing

Cycling

Road competition

men's individual road race (190.4 km)

Track competition

Men's 1000 m time trial

* Final — 1:15.2 (→ 13th place)

Men's 1000 m sprint scratch race

Diving

Men
Women

Equestrian

Dressage
Eventing
Jumping

Fencing

16 fencers, 13 men and 3 women, represented the Soviet Union in 1952.

Men
Women

Football

Preliminary round
1/8 finals
  • Team roster
*Leonid Ivanov
*Konstantin Krizhevsky
*Anatoli Bashashkin
*Avtandil Chkuaseli
*Yury Nyrkov
*Anatoly Ilyin
*Fridrikh Maryutin
*Igor Netto
*Valentin Nikolayev
*Vasily Trofimov
*Vsevolod Bobrov
*Aleksandr Tenyagin
*Avtandil Gogoberidze
*Konstantin Beskov
*Aleksandr Petrov
*Agustín Gómez

Gymnastics

Men
Individual
Team
Women
Individual
Team

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathletes represented the Soviet Union in 1952.

Rowing

The Soviet Union had 26 male rowers participate in all seven rowing events in 1952.

Men's single sculls

Men's double sculls

Men's coxless pair

Men's coxed pair

Men's coxless four

Men's coxed four

Men's eight

Sailing

Shooting

Men

Swimming

Men

<small>Ranks given are within the heat.</small>

Women

<small>Ranks given are within the heat.</small>

Water polo

Men's team competition
  • Qualifying round
* Lost to Netherlands (2–3)
* Defeated India (12–0)
  • Preliminary round (Group B)
* Lost to Hungary (3–5)
* Defeated Egypt (3–2)
* Defeated Germany (6–2)
  • Semi-final round (Group B)
* Drew with Yugoslavia (3–3)
* Lost to Netherlands (2–4)
  • Classification round (5–8)
* Defeated Spain (4–2)
* Drew with Belgium (3–3) → 7th place
  • Team roster
*Boris Goikhman
*Evgeny Semyonov
*Yury Teplov
*Lev Kokorin
*Valentin Prokopov
*Aleksandr Liferenko
*Pyotr Mshvenieradze
*Yury Shlyapin
*Vitaly Ushakov
*Anatoly Yegorov

Weightlifting

Men

Wrestling

Men's freestyle
Men's Greco-Roman

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.

References

Further reading

  • – for medal stats by republic

External links