title: Rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics
text: # Rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics
  
  Rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics featured seven events, for men only. The competitions were held from 20 to 23 July.
  
  ## Medal summary
  
  | Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | single sculls details | Yuriy Tyukalov (URS) | Mervyn Wood (AUS) | Teodor Kocerka (POL) |
  | double sculls details | Tranquilo Cappozzo and Eduardo Guerrero (ARG) | Heorhiy Zhylin and Ihor Yemchuk (URS) | Miguel Seijas and Juan Rodríguez (URU) |
  | coxless pairs details | Charlie Logg and Tom Price (USA) | Michel Knuysen and Bob Baetens (BEL) | Kurt Schmid and Hans Kalt (SUI) |
  | Coxed pair details | France (FRA) Raymond Salles Gaston Mercier Bernard Malivoire | Germany (GER) Heinz Manchen Helmut Heinhold Helmut Noll | Denmark (DEN) Svend Ove Pedersen Poul Svendsen Jørgen Frantzen |
  | coxless fours details | Yugoslavia (YUG) Duje Bonačić Velimir Valenta Mate Trojanović Petar Šegvić | France (FRA) Pierre Blondiaux Jean-Jacques Guissart Marc Bouissou Roger Gautier | Finland (FIN) Veikko Lommi Kauko Wahlsten Oiva Lommi Lauri Nevalainen |
  | Coxed four details | Czechoslovakia (TCH) Karel Mejta Jiří Havlis Jan Jindra Stanislav Lusk Miroslav Koranda | Switzerland (SUI) Rico Bianchi Karl Weidmann Heini Scheller Émile Ess Walter Leiser | United States (USA) Carl Lovsted Al Ulbrickson Richard Wahlstrom Matt Leanderson Al Rossi |
  | eights details | United States (USA) Frank Shakespeare William Fields James Dunbar Richard Murphy Robert Detweiler Henry Proctor Wayne Frye Edward Stevens Charles Manring | Soviet Union (URS) Yevgeny Brago Vladimir Rodimushkin Aleksey Komarov Igor Borisov Slava Amiragov Leonid Gissen Yevgeny Samsonov Vladimir Kryukov Igor Polyakov | Australia (AUS) Bob Tinning Ernest Chapman Nimrod Greenwood David Anderson Geoff Williamson Mervyn Finlay Edward Pain Phil Cayzer Tom Chessell |
  
  ## Participating nations
  
  A total of 404 rowers from 33 nations competed at the Helsinki Games:
  
  * Argentina (9)
  * Australia (14)
  * Austria (4)
  * Belgium (12)
  * Brazil (3)
  * Canada (15)
  * Chile (1)
  * Czechoslovakia (8)
  * Denmark (25)
  * Egypt (8)
  * Spain (6)
  * Finland (26)
  * France (17)
  * Great Britain (23)
  * Germany (21)
  * Greece (3)
  * Hungary (15)
  * Italy (26)
  * Japan (5)
  * Netherlands (12)
  * Norway (9)
  * New Zealand (5)
  * Poland (10)
  * Portugal (9)
  * Romania (9)
  * South Africa (5)
  * Saar (7)
  * Switzerland (13)
  * Sweden (16)
  * Soviet Union (26)
  * United States (26)
  * Uruguay (3)
  * Yugoslavia (13)
  
  ## Medal table
  
  | Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | United States (USA) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
  | 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
  | 3 | France (FRA) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
  | 4 | Argentina (ARG) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
  | 4 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
  | 4 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
  | 7 | Australia (AUS) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
  | 7 | Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
  | 9 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
  | 9 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
  | 11 | Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
  | 11 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
  | 11 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
  | 11 | Uruguay (URU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
  | Totals (14 entries) | Totals (14 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 |
  