Soviet Union at the 1952 Summer Olympics

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Soviet Union at the Olympic Games

Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC code   URS
At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki
Competitors 295 (255 men, 40 women)[1] in 16 sports
Flag bearer Yakov Kutsenko
Medals
Rank: 2		 Gold
22		 Silver
30		 Bronze
19		 Total
71
Olympic history (summary)
Summer Games
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Winter Games
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Other related appearances
Unified Team Unified Team (1992)

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed in the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.

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[edit] Medals

The USSR finished second in the final medal rankings, with 22 gold and 71 total medals.

[edit] Image:Med_1.png Gold

  • Nina Bocharova — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Balance Beam
  • Victor Chukarin — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Individual All-Round
  • Maria Gorokhovskaya — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Individual All-Round
  • Victor Chukarin — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Pommel Horse
  • Grant Shaginyan — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Rings
  • Victor Chukarin, Grant Shaginyan, Valentin Muratov, Yevgeni Korolkov, Vladimir Belyakov, Iosif Berdiev, Mikhail Perelman, Dmitri Leonkin — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Team Competition
  • Maria Gorokhovskaya, Nina Bocharova, Galina Minaicheva, Galina Urbanovich, Pelageya Danilova, Galina Shamrai, Medeya Dzhugeli, Ekaterina Kalinchuk — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Team Competition
  • Victor Chukarin — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Vault
  • Ekaterina Kalinchuk — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Vault
  • Nina Romashkova — Athletics, Women's Discus Throw
  • Galina Zybina — Athletics, Women's Shot Put
  • Yuri Tyukalov — Rowing, Men's Single Sculls
  • Anatoli Bogdanov — Shooting, Men's 300m Free Rifle 3 Positions
  • Ivan Udodov — Weightlifting, Men's Bantamweight
  • Rafael Chimishkyan — Weightlifting, Men's Featherweight
  • Trofim Lomakin — Weightlifting, Men's Light-Heavyweight
  • Arsen Mekokishvili — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Heavyweight
  • David Tsimakuridze — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Middleweight
  • Johannes Kotkas — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Superheavyweight
  • Boris Gurevich — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Flyweight
  • Yakov Punkin — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Featherweight
  • Chasame Safin — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Lightweight

[edit] Image:Med_2.png Silver

[edit] Image:Med_3.png Bronze

  • Dmitri Leonkin — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Rings
  • Galina Minaicheva — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Vault
  • Aleksandr Anufriyev — Athletics, Men's 10000m
  • Bruno Junk — Athletics, Men's 10000m Walk
  • Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili — Athletics, Women's 200m
  • Nina Dumbadze — Athletics, Women's Discus Throw
  • Aleksandra Chudina — Athletics, Women's High Jump
  • Elena Gorchakova — Athletics, Women's Javelin Throw
  • Klavdia Tochonova — Athletics, Women's Shot Put
  • Anatoli Bulakov — Boxing, Men's Flyweight
  • Gennadi Garbuzov — Boxing, Men's Bantamweight
  • Boris Tishin — Boxing, Men's Light-Middleweight
  • Anatoli Perov — Boxing, Men's Light-Heavyweight
  • Nina Savina — Canoeing, Women's K1 500m
  • Lev Vainshtein — Shooting, Men's 300m Free Rifle 3 Positions
  • Boris Andreev — Shooting, Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions
  • Arkadi Vorobyov — Weightlifting, Men's Light-Heavyweight
  • Artem Teryan — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight
  • Nikolai Belov — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight

[edit] Results and competitors by event

[edit] Athletics

Men's 100 metres

  • Vladimir Suharev
  • First Round – 10.7s
  • First Round – 10.7s
  • Semifinals – 10.6s
  • Final – 10.5s (→ 5th place)

[edit] Basketball

[edit] Men's Team Competition

  • Main Round (Group B)
  • Defeated Bulgaria (74-46)
  • Defeated Finland (47-35)
  • Defeated Mexico (71-62)
  • Final Round (Group B)
  • Lost to United States (58-86)
  • Defeatd Brazil (54-49)
  • Defeated Chile (78-60)
  • Semifinals
  • Defeated Uruguay (61-57)
  • Final
  • Lost to United States (25-36) → Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal
  • Team Roster

[edit] Cycling

[edit] Road Competition

Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)

  • Yevgeny Klevtsov — 5:23:34.0 (→ 40th place)
  • Anatoly Kolesov — did not finish (→ no ranking)
  • Nikolay Babarenko — did not finish (→ no ranking)
  • Vladimir Kryushkov — did not finish (→ no ranking)

[edit] Track Competition

Men's 1.000m Time Trial

  • Lev Kipursky
  • Final — 1:15.2 (→ 13th place)

Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race

  • Otar Dadunashvili — 13th place

[edit] Diving

Men's 3m Springboard

  • Roman Brener
  • Final — 165.63 points (→ 5th place)
  • Aleksey Zigalov
  • Final — 151.31 points (→ 8th place)
  • Gennady Udalov
  • Preliminary Round — 65.99 points (→ 13th place)

Women's 10m Platform

  • Tatyana Vereina
  • Preliminary Round — 43.26 points
  • Final — 61.09 points (→ 6th place)
  • Ninel Krutova
  • Preliminary Round — 40.67 points
  • Final — 57.50 points (→ 8th place)
  • Yevgeniya Bogdanovskaya
  • Preliminary Round — 32.35 points (→ 14th place)

[edit] Medals by republic

In the following table for team events number of team representatives, who received medals are counted, not "one medal for all the team", as usual. Because there were people from different republics in one team.

 Rank  Republic Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Flag of the Russian SFSR Russian SFSR 19 35 15 69
2 Flag of the Ukrainian SSR Ukrainian SSR 10 11 1 22
3 Flag of the Georgian SSR Georgian SSR 3 4 2 9
4 Flag of the Armenian SSR Armenian SSR 2 2 0 4
5 Flag of the Estonian SSR Estonian SSR 1 3 0 4
6 Flag of the Uzbek SSR Uzbek SSR 1 1 0 2
7 Flag of the Lithuanian SSR Lithuanian SSR 0 4 0 4
8 Flag of the Azerbaijan SSR Azerbaijan SSR 0 1 1 2
9 Flag of the Latvian SSR Latvian SSR 0 1 0 1

[edit] References

  1. ^ "The USSR and Olympism" (PDF) (October 1974). Olympic Review (84): 530–557. International Olympic Committee. 
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