Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics

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At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, a total number of eleven swimming events were contested, six for men and five for women.

[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Men's events (šabani)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Clark Scholes United States (USA)	57.4	Hiroshi Suzuki Japan (JPN)	57.4	Göran Larsson Sweden (SWE)	58.2
400 m freestyle	Jean Boiteux France (FRA)	4:30.7	Ford Konno United States (USA)	4:31.3	Per-Olof Östrand Sweden (SWE)	4:35.2
1500 m freestyle	Ford Konno United States (USA)	18:30.3	Shiro Hashizume Japan (JPN)	18:41.4	Tetsuo Okamoto Brazil (BRA)	18:51.3
100 m backstroke	Yoshinobu Oyakawa United States (USA)	1:05.9	Gilbert Bozon France (FRA)	1:06.2	Jack Taylor United States (USA)	1:06.4
200 m breaststroke	John Davies Australia (AUS)	2:34.4	Bowen Strassforth United States (USA)	2:34.7	Herbert Klein Germany (GER)	2:35.9
4×200 m freestyle relay	United States (USA) Wayne Moore William Woolsey Ford Konno James McLane	8:31.1	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

[edit] Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Katalin Szöke Hungary (HUN)	1:06.3	Hannie Termeulen Netherlands (NED)	1:06.5	Judit Temes Hungary (HUN)	1:07.6
400 m freestyle	Valéria Gyenge Hungary (HUN)	5:12.1	Éva Novák Hungary (HUN)	5:13.7	Evelyn Kawamoto United States (USA)	5:14.6
100 m backstroke	Joan Harrison South Africa (RSA)	1:14.3	Geertje Wielema Netherlands (NED)	1:14.5	Jean Stewart New Zealand (NZL)	1:15.8
200 m breaststroke	Éva Székely Hungary (HUN)	2:51.7	Éva Novák Hungary (HUN)	2:54.4	Helen Gordon Great Britain (GBR)	2:57.6
4×100 m freestyle relay	Hungary (HUN) Ilona Novák Judit Temes Éva Novák Katalin Szöke	4:24.4	Netherlands (NED) Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen Koosje van Voorn Hannie Termeulen Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher	4:29.0	United States (USA) Jacqueline Lavine Marilee Stepan Joan Alderson Evelyn Kawamoto	4:30.1

[edit] 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
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1

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