Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Swimming at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue	Helsinki Swimming Stadium
Dates	26 July – 2 August 1952
No. of events	11
Competitors	319 from 48 nations

At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, a total number of eleven swimming events were contested, six for men and five for women. The events were held at the Swimming Stadium. There was a total of 319 participants from 48 countries competing.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	4	2	3	9
2	Hungary (HUN)	4	2	1	7
3	France (FRA)	1	1	1	3
4	Australia (AUS)	1	0	0	1
	South Africa (RSA)	1	0	0	1
6	Japan (JPN)	0	3	0	3
	Netherlands (NED)	0	3	0	3
8	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	2	2
9	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		11	11	11	33

Medal summary

Men's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Clarke Scholes  United States	57.4	Hiroshi Suzuki  Japan	57.4	Göran Larsson  Sweden	58.2
400 m freestyle	Jean Boiteux  France	4:30.7 (OR)	Ford Konno  United States	4:31.3	Per-Olof Östrand  Sweden	4:35.2
1500 m freestyle	Ford Konno  United States	18:30.3 (OR)	Shiro Hashizume  Japan	18:41.4	Tetsuo Okamoto  Brazil	18:51.3
100 m backstroke	Yoshi Oyakawa  United States	1:05.4 (OR)	Gilbert Bozon  France	1:06.2	Jack Taylor  United States	1:06.4
200 m breaststroke	John Davies  Australia	2:34.4 (OR)	Bowen Stassforth  United States	2:34.7	Herbert Klein  Germany	2:35.9
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	United States (USA) Wayne Moore Bill Woolsey Ford Konno Jimmy McLane	8:31.1 (OR)	Japan (JPN) Hiroshi Suzuki Yoshihiro Hamaguchi Toru Goto Teijiro Tanikawa	8:33.5	France (FRA) Joseph Bernardo Aldo Eminente Alexandre Jany Jean Boiteux	8:45.9

Women's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Katalin Szöke  Hungary	1:06.8	Hannie Termeulen  Netherlands	1:07.0	Judit Temes  Hungary	1:07.1
400 m freestyle	Valéria Gyenge  Hungary	5:12.1 (OR)	Éva Novák  Hungary	5:13.7	Evelyn Kawamoto  United States	5:14.6
100 m backstroke	Joan Harrison  South Africa	1:14.3	Geertje Wielema  Netherlands	1:14.5	Jean Stewart  New Zealand	1:15.8
200 m breaststroke	Éva Székely  Hungary	2:51.7 (OR)	Éva Novák  Hungary	2:54.4	Helen Gordon  Great Britain	2:57.6
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	Hungary (HUN) Ilona Novák Judit Temes Éva Novák Katalin Szöke	4:24.4 (WR)	Netherlands (NED) Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen Koosje van Voorn Hannie Termeulen Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher	4:29.0	United States (USA) Jackie LaVine Marilee Stepan Jody Alderson Evelyn Kawamoto	4:30.1

Participating nations

319 swimmers from 48 nations competed.

•  Argentina (7)
•  Australia (10)
•  Austria (3)
•  Belgium (10)
•  Bermuda (2)
•  Brazil (12)
•  Canada (9)
•  Ceylon (1)
•  Chile (1)
•  China (1)
•  Cuba (2)
•  Czechoslovakia (4)
•  Denmark (9)
•  Egypt (3)
•  Finland (13)
•  France (16)
•  Germany (9)
•  Great Britain (21)
•  Guatemala (1)
•  Hong Kong (4)
•  Hungary (15)
•  India (5)
•  Indonesia (1)
•  Israel (1)
•  Italy (10)
•  Japan (22)
•  Luxembourg (1)
•  Mexico (8)
•  Netherlands (13)
•  New Zealand (2)
•  Norway (3)
•  Pakistan (2)
•  Philippines (1)
•  Poland (7)
•  Portugal (4)
•  Romania (1)
•  Saar (1)
•  Singapore (1)
•  South Africa (6)
•  Soviet Union (18)
•  Spain (3)
•  Sweden (12)
•  Switzerland (8)
•  United States (30)
•  Uruguay (1)
•  Venezuela (1)
•  Vietnam (1)
•  Yugoslavia (3)