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1 Medal summary. 2 Participating nations. 3 Medal table. 4 References. 5 External links. ... Rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics featured seven events, for men only ...
The "eight" event featured nine-person boats, with eight rowers and a coxswain. It was a sweep rowing event, with the rowers each having one oar (and thus each rowing on one side). The course returned to the 2000 metres distance that became the Olympic standard in 1912 (with the exception of 1948). [3]
This is the complete list of men's Olympic medalists in rowing. Current program Single sculls ... 1952 Helsinki details: Yuriy Tyukalov ... 2020 Tokyo details ...
Toggle Rowing subsection. 13.1 Medal table. 13.2 Medalists. 14 Sailing. Toggle Sailing subsection. ... List of 1952 Summer Olympics medal winners. 2 languages. Français;
The coxed four event featured five-person boats, with four rowers and a coxswain. It was a sweep rowing event, with the rowers each having one oar (and thus each rowing on one side). The competition used the 2000 metres distance that became standard at the 1912 Olympics and which has been used ever since except at the 1948 Games. [3]
The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. [1] [2] In addition, pesäpallo, a Finnish baseball variant, was also played as a non-medal demonstration event. [3]
Pat McCormick, famed Seal Beach diver who won gold medals in the sport at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympic Games, has died at the age of 92.
The United States competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. 286 competitors – 245 men and 41 women – took part in 133 events in 18 sports. [1] They won 76 medals (40 gold), including 6 podium sweeps; the highest number of medal sweeps in a single Olympiad by one country since World War II and still a record (though achieved a few more times since).