Rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics
# 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 |
