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Olympic Games - Results Men 1952
Finland - Helsinki - 20 July 1952 - 27 July 1952
Men's 10000 m - 20 July 1952
| 1 |  Emil Zátopek (CZE) | 29:17.0 |
| 2 |  Alain Mimoun (FRA) | 29:32.8 |
| 3 |  Aleksandr Anufriyev (URS) | 29:48.2 |
| 4 | Hannu Posti (FIN) | 29:51.4 |
| 5 |  Frank Sando (GBR) | 29:51.8 |
| 6 |  Valter Nyström (SWE) | 29:54.8 |
| 7 | Gordon Pirie (GBR) | 30:04.2 |
| 8 | Fred Norris (GBR) | 30:09.8 |
| 9 | Ivan Pozhidayev (URS) | 30:13.4 |
| 10 |  Martin Stokken (NOR) | 30:22.2 |
| 11 | Nikifor Popov (URS) | 30:24.2 |
| 12 | Bertil Albertsson (SWE) | 30:34.6 |
| 13 | Bertil Karlsson (SWE) | 30:35.8 |
| 14 |  Béla Juhász (HUN) | 30:39.6 |
| 15 |  Osman Cosgül (TÜR) | 30:42.4 |
| 16 | Väinö Koskela (FIN) | 30:43.0 |
| 17 | Ould Lamine Abdallah (FRA) | 30:53.0 |
| 18 |  Franjo Mihalic (YUG) | 30:53.2 |
| 19 | Hugo Niskanen (FIN) | 30:59.6 |
| 20 |  Curtis Stone (USA) | 31:02.6 |
| 21 | Fred Wilt (USA) | 31:04.0 |
| 22 |  Marcel Vandewattyne (BEL) | 31:15.8 |
| 23 |  Raúl Inostroza (CHI) | 31:28.6 |
| 24 |  Thyge Thøgersen (DEN) | 31:47.8 |
| 25 | Ahmed Ben Labidi (FRA) | 31:52.2 |
| 26 |  Kristján Jóhannsson (ISL) | 32:00.0 |
| 27 |  Helmuth Perz (AUT) | 32:13.2 |
| 28 |  Bill Keith (RSA) | 32:32.4 |
| 29 | Alphonse Vandenrydt (BEL) | 33:13.4 |
| 30 |  Abdul Rashid (PAK) | 33:50.4 |
| 31 |  Luis Velásquez (GUA) | 35:34.0 |
| 32 |  Trán Van Lý (VIE) | 37:33.0 |
Men's High jump - 20 July 1952
| 1 | Buddy Davis (USA) | 2.04 |
| 2 | Ken Wiesner (USA) | 2.01 |
| 3 |  José Telles Da Conceição (BRA) | 1.98 |
| 4 | Gösta Svensson (SWE) | 1.98 |
| 5 | Ronald Pavitt (GBR) | 1.95 |
| 6 |  Ion Söter (ROM) | 1.95 |
| 7 | Arnie Betton (USA) | 1.95 |
| 8 | Bjørn Gundersen (NOR) | 1.90 |
| 9 | Jacques Delelienne (BEL) | 1.90 |
| 9 |  Josiah Majekodunmi (NGR) | 1.90 |
| 11 | Pekka Halme (FIN) | 1.90 |
| 11 | Peter Wells (GBR) | 1.90 |
| 13 | Georges Damitio (FRA) | 1.90 |
| 13 | Yury Ilyasov (URS) | 1.90 |
| 15 | Arne Ljungqvist (SWE) | 1.90 |
| 16 |  Hans Wahli (SWI) | 1.90 |
| 17 | Birger Leirud (NOR) | 1.90 |
| 18 | Claude Bénard (FRA) | 1.90 |
| 18 | Nafiu Osagie (NGR) | 1.90 |
| 20 |  Maram Sudarmodjo (INO) | 1.80 |
| 20 |  James Owoo (GHA) | 1.80 |
| 20 | Boniface Guobadia (NGR) | 1.80 |
| 20 | Mihajlo Dimitrijevic (YUG) | 1.80 |
| 24 |  Téofilo Davis (VEN) | 1.80 |
| 24 | Albert Koskinen (FIN) | 1.80 |
| 24 |  Pat Leane (AUS) | 1.80 |
| 24 | Alan Paterson (GBR) | 1.80 |
| 28 | Yevhen Vansovych (URS) | 1.80 |
Men's 100 m - 21 July 1952
| 1 | Lindy Remigino (USA) | 10.4 |
| 2 |  Herb Mckenley (JAM) | 10.4 |
| 3 | Emmanuel McDonald Bailey (GBR) | 10.4 |
| 4 | Dean Smith (USA) | 10.4 |
| 5 | Vladimir Sukharyev (URS) | 10.5 |
| 6 | John Treloar (AUS) | 10.5 |
Men's 400 m Hurdles - 21 July 1952
| 1 | Charles Moore (USA) | 50.8 |
| 2 | Yuriy Lituyev (URS) | 51.3 |
| 3 |  John Holland (NZL) | 52.2 |
| 4 | Anatoliy Yulin (URS) | 52.8 |
| 5 | Harold Whittle (GBR) | 53.1 |
| 6 |  Armando Filiput (ITA) | 54.4 |
Men's Long jump - 21 July 1952
| 1 | Jerome Biffle (USA) | 7.57 |
| 2 | Meredith Gourdine (USA) | 7.53 |
| 3 | Ödön Földessy (HUN) | 7.30 |
| 4 | Ary De Sá (BRA) | 7.23 |
| 5 | Jorma Valtonen (FIN) | 7.16 |
| 6 | Leonid Grigoryev (URS) | 7.14 |
| 7 | Karl-erik Israelsson (SWE) | 7.10 |
| 8 | Paul Faucher (FRA) | 7.02 |
| 9 | Pentti Snellman (FIN) | 7.02 |
| 10 |  Masaji Tajima (JPN) | 7.00 |
| 11 | Neville Price (RSA) | 6.40 |
Men's Shot put - 21 July 1952
| 1 | Parry O'brien (USA) | 17.41 |
| 2 | Darrow Hooper (USA) | 17.39 |
| 3 | Jim Fuchs (USA) | 17.06 |
| 4 | Oto Grigalka (URS) | 16.78 |
| 5 | Roland Nilsson (SWE) | 16.55 |
| 6 | John Savidge (GBR) | 16.19 |
| 7 | Georgy Fyodorov (URS) | 16.06 |
| 8 | Per Stavem (NOR) | 16.02 |
| 9 | Jirí Skobla (CZE) | 15.92 |
| 10 |  Tadeusz Krzyzanowski (POL) | 15.08 |
| 11 | Lucien Guillier (FRA) | 14.84 |
| 12 | Angiolo Profeti (ITA) | 14.74 |
| 13 | Alois Schwabl (AUT) | 14.45 |
Men's 50km Walk - 21 July 1952
| 1 | Pino Dordoni (ITA) | 4:28:07.8 |
| 2 | Josef Dolezal (CZE) | 4:30:17.8 |
| 3 | Antal Róka (HUN) | 4:31:27.2 |
| 4 | Rex Whitlock (GBR) | 4:32:21.0 |
| 5 | Sergey Lobastov (URS) | 4:32:34.2 |
| 6 |  Vladimir Ukhov (RUS) | 4:32:51.6 |
| 7 | Dumitru Paraschivescu (ROM) | 4:41:05.2 |
| 8 | Ion Baboe (ROM) | 4:41:52.8 |
| 9 | John Ljunggren (SWE) | 4:43:45.2 |
| 10 | Giuseppe Kressevich (ITA) | 4:44:30.2 |
| 11 | Harold Whitlock (GBR) | 4:45:12.6 |
| 12 | Sándor László (HUN) | 4:45:55.8 |
| 13 |  Rudi Lüttge (GER) | 4:47:28.6 |
| 14 | Pekka Viljanen (FIN) | 4:49:16.4 |
| 15 | Donald Tunbridge (GBR) | 4:50:40.4 |
| 16 | Raymond Lesage (FRA) | 4:52:37.8 |
| 17 | Edgar Bruun (NOR) | 4:52:48.4 |
| 18 | Claude Hubert (FRA) | 4:55:28.2 |
| 19 | Salvatore Cascino (ITA) | 4:56:46.0 |
| 20 | Harry Kristensen (DEN) | 4:57:35.8 |
| 21 | Jean Strunc (FRA) | 4:59:08.2 |
| 22 | Adolf Weinacker (USA) | 5:01:00.4 |
| 23 | Pavel Kazankov (URS) | 5:02:37.8 |
| 24 | Gilbert Marquis (SWI) | 5:02:56.2 |
| 25 |  Ferd Hayward (CAN) | 5:04:40.4 |
| 26 | René Charrière (SWI) | 5:08:59.0 |
| 27 | Gerhard Winther (NOR) | 5:11:40.2 |
| 28 | Ake Söderlund (SWE) | 5:30:56.6 |
Men's 800 m - 22 July 1952
| 1 | Mal Whitfield (USA) | 1:49.2 |
| 2 | Arthur Wint (JAM) | 1:49.4 |
| 3 | Heinz Ulzheimer (GER) | 1:49.7 |
| 4 | Gunnar Nielsen (DEN) | 1:49.7 |
| 5 | Albert Webster (GBR) | 1:50.2 |
| 6 | Günther Steines (GER) | 1:50.6 |
| 7 | Reggie Pearman (USA) | 1:52.1 |
| 8 | Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt (SWE) | 1:52.1 |
Men's Pole vault - 22 July 1952
| 1 | Bob Richards (USA) | 4.55 |
| 2 | Don Laz (USA) | 4.50 |
| 3 | Ragnar Lundberg (SWE) | 4.40 |
| 4 | Petro Denysenko (URS) | 4.40 |
| 5 | Valto Olenius (FIN) | 4.30 |
| 6 | Bunkichi Sawada (JPN) | 4.20 |
| 7 | Volodymyr Brazhnyk (URS) | 4.20 |
| 8 | Viktor Knyazev (URS) | 4.20 |
| 9 | George Mattos (USA) | 4.20 |
| 10 | Erkki Kataja (FIN) | 4.10 |
| 11 | Tamás Homonnay (HUN) | 4.10 |
| 11 | Lennart Lind (SWE) | 4.10 |
| 13 | Milan Milakov (YUG) | 4.10 |
| 14 |  Rigas Efstathiadis (GRE) | 3.95 |
| 14 | Torfi Bryngeirsson (ISL) | 3.95 |
| 16 | Erling Kaas (NOR) | 3.80 |
| 17 | Theodosios Balafas (GRE) | 3.80 |
| 18 | Jukka Piironen (FIN) | 3.80 |
| 18 | Zeno Dragomir (ROM) | 3.80 |
Men's Discus throw - 22 July 1952
| 1 | Sim Iness (USA) | 55.03 |
| 2 | Adolfo Consolini (ITA) | 53.78 |
| 3 | Jim Dillion (USA) | 53.28 |
| 4 | Fortune Gordien (USA) | 52.66 |
| 5 | Ferenc Klics (HUN) | 51.13 |
| 6 | Oto Grigalka (URS) | 50.71 |
| 7 | Roland Nilsson (SWE) | 50.06 |
| 8 | Giuseppe Tosi (ITA) | 49.03 |
| 9 | Nikolaos Syllas (GRE) | 48.99 |
| 10 | Boris Matveyev (URS) | 48.70 |
| 11 | Boris Butenko (URS) | 48.15 |
| 12 | Veikko Nyqvist (FIN) | 47.72 |
| 13 | Jørgen Munk Plum (DEN) | 47.26 |
| 14 | Gino Roy Pella (CAN) | 46.63 |
| 15 | Konstantinos Giataganas (GRE) | 46.23 |
| 16 | Per Stavem (NOR) | 46.00 |
| 17 | Jean Maissant (FRA) | 43.40 |
Men's 200 m - 23 July 1952
| 1 | Andy Stanfield (USA) | 20.7 |
| 2 | Thane Baker (USA) | 20.8 |
| 3 | James Gathers (USA) | 20.8 |
| 4 | Emmanuel McDonald Bailey (GBR) | 21.0 |
| 5 | Leslie Laing (JAM) | 21.2 |
| 6 |  Gerardo Bónnhoff (ARG) | 21.3 |
Men's Triple jump - 23 July 1952
| 1 | Adhemar Ferreira Da Silva (BRA) | 16.22 |
| 2 | Leonid Shcherbakov (URS) | 15.98 |
| 3 | Asnoldo Devonish (VEN) | 15.52 |
| 4 | Walt Ashbaugh (USA) | 15.39 |
| 5 | Rune Nilsen (NOR) | 15.13 |
| 6 | Yoshio Iimuro (JPN) | 14.99 |
| 7 | Geraldo De Oliveira (BRA) | 14.95 |
| 8 | Roger Norman (SWE) | 14.89 |
| 9 | Reino Hiltunen (FIN) | 14.85 |
| 10 | Zygfryd Weinberg (POL) | 14.76 |
| 11 | Jim Gerhardt (USA) | 14.69 |
| 12 |  Rui Ramos (POR) | 14.69 |
| 13 | Preben Larsen (DEN) | 14.62 |
| 14 | Tadashi Yamamoto (JPN) | 14.57 |
| 15 | Arne Ahman (SWE) | 14.05 |
Men's Javelin throw - 23 July 1952
| 1 | Cy Young (USA) | 73.78 |
| 2 | Bill Miller (USA) | 72.46 |
| 3 | Toivo Hyytiäinen (FIN) | 71.89 |
| 4 | Viktor Tsybulenko (URS) | 71.72 |
| 5 | Branko Dangubic (YUG) | 70.55 |
| 6 | Vladimir Kuznetsov (URS) | 70.37 |
| 7 | Ragnar Ericzon (SWE) | 69.04 |
| 8 | Soini Nikkinen (FIN) | 68.80 |
| 9 | Bud Held (USA) | 68.42 |
| 10 | Per-Arne Berglund (SWE) | 67.47 |
| 11 | Otto Bengtsson (SWE) | 65.50 |
| 12 |  Herbert Koschel (FDR) | 64.54 |
| 13 | Yury Shcherbakov (URS) | 64.52 |
| 14 | Dick Miller (GBR) | 63.75 |
| 15 | Ricardo Héber (ARG) | 62.82 |
| 16 | Eino Leppänen (FIN) | 62.61 |
| 17 | Amos Matteucci (ITA) | 61.67 |
Men's 5000 m - 24 July 1952
| 1 | Emil Zátopek (CZE) | 14:06.6 |
| 2 | Alain Mimoun (FRA) | 14:07.4 |
| 3 | Herbert Schade (FDR) | 14:08.6 |
| 4 | Gordon Pirie (GBR) | 14:18.0 |
| 5 | Chris Chataway (GBR) | 14:18.0 |
| 6 | Leslie Perry (AUS) | 14:23.6 |
| 7 | Ernö Béres (HUN) | 14:24.8 |
| 8 | Åke Andersson (SWE) | 14:26.0 |
| 9 | Bertil Albertsson (SWE) | 14:27.8 |
| 10 | Aleksandr Anufriyev (URS) | 14:31.4 |
| 11 | Alan Parker (GBR) | 14:37.0 |
| 12 | Ilmari Taipale (FIN) | 14:40.0 |
| 13 | Eero Tuomaala (FIN) | 14:54.2 |
| 14 | Lucien Theys (BEL) | 14:59.0 |
Men's 110 m Hurdles - 24 July 1952
| 1 | Harrison Dillard (USA) | 13.7 |
| 2 | Jack Davis (USA) | 13.7 |
| 3 | Art Barnard (USA) | 14.1 |
| 4 | Yevgeniy Bulanchik (URS) | 14.5 |
| 5 | Ken Doubleday (AUS) | 14.7 |
| 8 | Ray Weinberg (AUS) | 14.8 |
Men's Hammer throw - 24 July 1952
| 1 | József Csermák (HUN) | 60.34 |
| 2 | Karl Storch (FDR) | 58.86 |
| 3 | Imre Németh (HUN) | 57.74 |
| 4 | Jirí Dadak (CZE) | 56,81 |
| 5 |  Nikolay Redkin (UKR) | 56.55 |
| 6 | Karl Wolf (GER) | 56.49 |
| 7 | Sverre Strandli (NOR) | 56.36 |
| 8 | Heorhiy Dybenko (URS) | 55.03 |
| 9 | Ivan Gubijan (YUG) | 54.54 |
| 10 | Teseo Taddia (ITA) | 54.27 |
| 11 | Samuel Felton (USA) | 53.32 |
| 12 | Constantin Dumitru (ROM) | 52.77 |
| 13 | Bob Backus (USA) | 52.11 |
| 14 | Reino Kuivamäki (FIN) | 51.85 |
| 15 | Milos Máca (CZE) | 51.78 |
| 16 | Poul Cederquist (DEN) | 51.60 |
| 17 | Rudolf Galin (YUG) | 51.37 |
| 18 | Duncan Clark (GBR) | 51.07 |
| 19 | Oiva Halmetoja (FIN) | 50.82 |
| 20 | Lauri Tamminen (FIN) | 50.05 |
| 21 | Peter Allday (GBR) | 49.70 |
| 22 | Henri Haest (BEL) | 48.78 |
| 23 | Pierre Legrain (FRA) | 46.38 |
Men's 400 m - 25 July 1952
| 1 | George Rhoden (JAM) | 45.9 |
| 2 | Herb Mckenley (JAM) | 45.9 |
| 3 | Ollie Matson (USA) | 46.8 |
| 4 | Karl-friedrich Haas (FDR) | 47.0 |
| 5 | Arthur Wint (JAM) | 47.0 |
| 6 | Mal Whitfield (USA) | 47.1 |
Men's 3000 m Steeplechase - 25 July 1952
| 1 | Horace Ashenfelter (USA) | 8:45.68 |
| 2 | Vladimir Kazantsev (URS) | 8:51.52 |
| 3 | John Disley (GBR) | 8:51.94 |
| 4 | Olavi Rinteenpää (FIN) | 8:55.60 |
| 5 | Curt Söderberg (SWE) | 8:55.87 |
| 6 | Günter Heßelmann (GER) | 8:55.98 |
| 7 | Mikhail Saltykov (URS) | 8:56.47 |
| 8 | Helmut Gude (GER) | 9:01.36 |
| 9 | József Apró (HUN) | 9:04.30 |
| 10 | Cahit Önel (TÜR) | 9:0473 |
| 11 | Chris Brasher (GBR) | 9:14.0 |
| 12 | Gunnar Karlsson-Tjörnebo (SWE) | 10:26.4 |
Men's 1500 m - 26 July 1952
| 1 |  Josy Barthel (LUX) | 3:45.2 |
| 2 | Bob Mcmillen (USA) | 3:45.2 |
| 3 | Werner Lueg (FDR) | 3:45.4 |
| 4 | Roger Bannister (GBR) | 3:46.0 |
| 5 | Patrick El Mabrouk (FRA) | 3:46.0 |
| 6 | Rolf Lamers (GER) | 3:46.8 |
| 7 | Olle Aberg (SWE) | 3:47.0 |
| 8 | Ingvar Ericsson (SWE) | 3:47.6 |
| 9 | Don Macmillan (AUS) | 3:49.6 |
| 10 | Denis Johansson (FIN) | 3:49.8 |
| 11 | Audun Boysen (NOR) | 3:51.4 |
| 12 | Warren Druetzler (USA) | 3:56.0 |
Men's Decathlon - 26 July 1952
| 1 | Bob Mathias (USA) | 7887 |
| 2 | Milt Campbell (USA) | 6975 |
| 3 | Floyd Simmons (USA) | 6788 |
| 4 | Vladimir Volkov (URS) | 6674 |
| 5 | Sepp Hipp (GER) | 6449 |
| 6 | Göran Widenfeldt (SWE) | 6388 |
| 7 | Kjell Tånnander (SWE) | 6308 |
| 8 | Friedel Schirmer (FDR) | 6118 |
| 9 | Geoffrey Elliott (GBR) | 6044 |
| 10 | Sergey Kuznetsov (URS) | 5937 |
| 11 | Hugues Frayer (FRA) | 5772 |
| 12 | Brígido Iriarte (VEN) | 5770 |
| 13 | Olli Reikko (FIN) | 5725 |
| 14 | Eeles Landström (FIN) | 5694 |
| 15 | Oto Rebula (YUG) | 5648 |
| 16 | Fernando Fernandes (POR) | 5604 |
| 17 | Hernán Figueroa (CHI) | 5592 |
| 18 | Max Wehrli (SWI) | 5561 |
| 19 | Bob Adams (CAN) | 5530 |
| 20 |  Héctor Román (PUR) | 5264 |
| 21 | Reinaldo Oliver (PUR) | 5228 |
Men's 4x100 m relay - 27 July 1952
| 1 | United States (Andy Stanfield, Lindy Remigino, Harrison Dillard, Dean Smith) | 40.1 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (Vladimir Sukharyev, Levan Sanadze, Levan Kalyayev, Boris Tokaryev) | 40.3 |
| 3 | Hungary (Béla Goldoványi, György Csányi, Géza Varasdi, László Zarandi) | 40.5 |
| 4 | Great Britain (Brian Shenton, John Gregory, William Jack, Emmanuel McDonald Bailey) | 40.6 |
| 5 | France (Rene Bonino, Yves Camus, Etienne Bally, Alain Porthault) | 40.9 |
| 6 | Czechoslovakia (Zdenek Pospisil, Miroslav Horici, Jirí David, Franrisek Broz) | 41.2 |
Men's 4x400 m relay - 27 July 1952
| 1 | Jamaica (Arthur Wint, Leslie Laing, Herb Mckenley, George Rhoden) | 3:03.9 |
| 2 | United States (Ollie Matson, Gerald Cole, Charles Moore, Mal Whitfield) | 3:04.0 |
| 3 | Germany (Hans Geister, Günther Steines, Heinz Ulzheimer, Karl-friedrich Haas) | 3:06.6 |
| 4 | Canada (Douglas Clement, John Hutchins, John Carroll, James Lavery) | 3:09.3 |
| 5 | Great Britain (Leslie Lewis, Alan Dick, Terence Higgins, Nicholas Stacey) | 3:10.0 |
| 6 | France (Jean-pierre Goudeau, Robert Bart, Jacques Degats, Jean-Paul Martin du Gard) | 3:10.1 |
Men's 10 km walk - 27 July 1952
| 1 | John Mikaelsson (SWE) | 45:02.8 |
| 2 | Fritz Schwab (SWI) | 45:41.0 |
| 3 | Bruno Junk (URS) | 45:41.0 |
| 4 | Louis Chevalier (FRA) | 45:50.4 |
| 5 | George Coleman (GBR) | 46:06.8 |
| 6 | Ivan Yarmysh (URS) | 46:07.0 |
| 7 | Emile Maggi (FRA) | 46:08.0 |
| 8 | Bruno Fait (ITA) | 46:25.6 |
| 9 | Gabriel Reymond (SWI) | 46:38.6 |
| 10 | Don Keane (AUS) | 47:37.0 |
