Soviet Union at the 1952 Summer Olympics

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed in the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. 295 competitors, 255 men and 40 women, took part in 141 events in 18 sports.

Soviet Union at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC code	URS
NOC	Soviet Olympic Committee
in Helsinki, Finland 19 July 1952 (1952-07-19) – 3 August 1952 (1952-08-03)
Competitors	295 (255 men, 40 women) in 18 sports
Flag bearer	Yakov Kutsenko
Medals Ranked 2nd	Gold 22 Silver 30 Bronze 19 Total 71
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988
Other related appearances
Russian Empire (1900–1912)  Estonia (1920–1936, 1992–)  Latvia (1924–1936, 1992–)  Lithuania (1924–1928, 1992–)  Unified Team (1992)  Armenia (1994–)  Belarus (1994–)  Georgia (1994–)  Kazakhstan (1994–)  Kyrgyzstan (1994–)  Moldova (1994–)  Russia (1994–2016)  Ukraine (1994–)  Uzbekistan (1994–)  Azerbaijan (1996–)  Tajikistan (1996–)  Turkmenistan (1996–)  ROC (2020–2022)  Individual Neutral Athletes (2024)

Medalists

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

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
• Hrant Shahinyan — Artistic gymnastics, men's rings
• Victor Chukarin, Hrant Shahinyan, Valentin Muratov, Yevgeni Korolkov, Vladimir Belyakov, Iosif Berdiev, Mikhail Perelman, Dmytro Leonkin — Artistic gymnastics, men's team competition
• Maria Gorokhovskaya, Nina Bocharova, Galina Minaicheva, Galina Urbanovich, Pelageya Danilova, Galina Shamrai, 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
• Yuriy Tyukalov — Rowing, men's single sculls
• Anatoli Bogdanov — Shooting, men's 300 m 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 Maksovich Gurevich — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman flyweight
• Yakov Punkin — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman featherweight
• Shazam Safin — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman lightweight

Silver

• Maria Gorokhovskaya — Artistic gymnastics, women's balance beam
• Maria Gorokhovskaya — Artistic gymnastics, women's floor exercise
• Grant Shaginyan — Artistic gymnastics, men's individual all-round
• Nina Bocharova — Artistic gymnastics, women's individual all-round
• Victor Chukarin — Artistic gymnastics, men's parallel bars
• Hrant Shahinyan — Artistic gymnastics, men's pommel horse
• Yevgeni Korolkov — Artistic gymnastics, men's pommel horse
• Victor Chukarin — Artistic gymnastics, men's rings
• Maria Gorokhovskaya, Nina Bocharova, Galina Minaicheva, Galina Urbanovich, Pelageya Danilova, Galina Shamrai, Medeya Dzhugeli, Ekaterina Kalinchuk — Artistic gymnastics, women's team, portable apparatus
• Maria Gorokhovskaya — Artistic gymnastics, women's uneven bars
• Maria Gorokhovskaya — Artistic gymnastics, women's vault
• Vladimir Kazantsev — Athletics, men's 3000 m steeplechase
• Yuriy Lituyev — Athletics, men's 400 m hurdles
• Boris Tokarev, Levan Kalyayev, Levan Sanadze, Vladimir Sukharev — Athletics, men's 4 × 100 m relay
• Maria Golubnichaya — Athletics, women's 80 m hurdles
• Elizaveta Bagryantseva — Athletics, women's discus throw
• Aleksandra Chudina — Athletics, women's javelin throw
• Aleksandra Chudina — Athletics, women's long jump
• Leonid Shcherbakov — Athletics, men's triple jump
• Stepas Brutautas, Nodar Dzhordzhikiya, Anatoly Konev, Otar Korkiya, Heino Kruus, Ilmar Kullam, Justinas Lagunavičius, Joann Lõssov, Aleksandr Moiseyev, Yuri Ozerov, Kazys Petkevičius, Stasys Stonkus, Maigonis Valdmanis, Viktor Vlasov — Basketball, men's team
• Viktor Mednov — Boxing, men's light-welterweight
• Sergei Scherbakov — Boxing, men's welterweight
• Heorhiy Zhylin, Igor Emchuk — Rowing, men's double sculls
• Vladimir Rodimushkin, Aleksey Komarov, Igor Borisov, Slava Amiragov, Leonid Gissen, Yevgeni Samsonov, Vladimir Kryukov, Igor Polyakov, Yevgeny Brago — Rowing, men's eight with coxswain
• Boris Andreyev — Shooting, men's 50 m rifle prone
• Nikolai Saksonov — Weightlifting, men's featherweight
• Yevgeni Lopatin — Weightlifting, men's lightweight
• Grigori Novak — Weightlifting, men's middle-heavyweight
• Rashid Mamedbekov — Wrestling, men's freestyle bantamweight
• Shalva Chikhladze — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman light-heavyweight

Bronze

• Dmitri Leonkin — Artistic gymnastics, men's rings
• Galina Minaicheva — Artistic gymnastics, women's vault
• Aleksandr Anufriyev — Athletics, men's 10000 m
• Bruno Junk — Athletics, men's 10000 m walk
• Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili — Athletics, women's 200 m
• Nina Dumbadze — Athletics, women's discus throw
• Aleksandra Chudina — Athletics, women's high jump
• Yelena 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 500 m
• Lev Vainshtein — Shooting, men's 300 m free rifle 3 positions
• Boris Andreyev — Shooting, men's 50 m rifle 3 positions
• Arkadi Vorobyov — Weightlifting, men's light-heavyweight
• Artem Teryan — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman bantamweight
• Nikolay Belov — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman middleweight

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Key

• Note – Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
• Q = Qualified for the next round
• q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
• NR = National record
• N/A = Round not applicable for the event
• Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Men

Track & road events

Athlete	Events	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Aleksandr Anufriyev	5000 m	14:23.6	1 Q	—				14:31.4	10
	10,000 m	—						29:48.2
Mykola Belokurov	1500 m	3:56.4	4 Q	—		3:55.6	11	Did not advance
Yevhen Bulanchyk	110 m hurdles	14.65	1 Q	—		14.70	2 Q	14.73	4
Petro Chevhun	800 m	1:51.8	2 Q	—		1:52.8	7	Did not advance
Ardalion Ignatyev	400 m	48.22	1 Q	48.25	3 Q	47.49	5	Did not advance
Georgy Ivakin	800 m	1:56.4	5	—		Did not advance
Bruno Junk	10 km walk	45:05.8	1 Q	—				45:41.0
Pavel Kazankov	50 km walk	—						5:02:37.8	23
Mikhail Kazantsev	100 m	11.16	3	Did not advance
Vladimir Kazantsev	3000 m steeplechase	8:58.0 OR	1 Q	—				8:51.6
Nikolay Kuchurin	1500 m	4:03.6	8	—		Did not advance
Yuriy Lituyev	400 m	49.01	2	Did not advance
	400 m hurdles	53.5	1 Q	52.2	1 Q	51.8	1 Q	51.3
Sergey Lobastov	50 km walk	—						4:32:34.2	5
Timofey Lunev	400 m hurdles	54.3	1 Q	52.7	1 Q	53.1	6	Did not advance
Fyodor Marulin	3000 m steeplechase	9:08.4	4	—				Did not advance
Gennady Modoy	800 m	1:55.8	3 Q	—		1:55.7	7	Did not advance
Yakov Moskachenkov	Marathon	—						2:34:43.8	20
Edmunds Pīlāgs	400 m	49.29	3	Did not advance
Nikifor Popov	5000 m	14:28.5	6	—				Did not advance
	10,000 m	—						30:24.2	11
Sergey Popov	110 m hurdles	14.99	2 Q	—		15.04	4	Did not advance
Ivan Pozhidayev	10,000 m	—						30:13.4	9
Mikhail Saltykov	3000 m steeplechase	8:55.8	2 Q	—				8:56.2	7
Levan Sanadze	100 m	11.13	3	Did not advance
	200 m	22.26	1 Q	22.26	4	Did not advance
Ivan Semyonov	5000 m	14:28.0	6	—				Did not advance
Grigory Suchkov	Marathon	—						2:38:28.8	28
Vladimir Sukharev	100 m	10.93	1 Q	10.92	3 Q	10.86	3 Q	10.88	5
	200 m	22.08	1 Q	21.88	3	Did not advance
Vladimir Ukhov	50 km walk	—						4:32:51.6	6
Feodosiy Vanin	Marathon	—						2:38:22.0	27
Mikhail Velsvebel	1500 m	3:52.6	4 Q	—		3:52.6	11	Did not advance
Ivan Yarmysh	10 km walk	47:26.0	6 Q	—				46:07.0	6
Anatoliy Yulin	400 m hurdles	53.6	1 Q	52.4	2 Q	52.1	3 Q	52.8	4
Pēteris Zeltiņš	10 km walk	Disqualified		—				Did not advance
Levan Kalyayev Levan Sanadze Vladimir Sukharev Boris Tokarev	4 × 100 m relay	41.45	1 Q	—		41.01	2 Q	40.58
Ardalion Ignatyev Gennady Slepnyov Edmunds Pīlāgs Yuriy Lituyev	4 × 400 m relay	3:12.65	3	—				Did not advance

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Nikolay Anryushchenko	Long jump	6.74	22	Did not advance
Volodymyr Brazhnyk	Pole vault	4.00	15 Q	4.20	7
Boris Butenko	Discus throw	46.43	14 Q	48.15	11
Petro Denysenko	Pole vault	4.00	1 Q	4.40	4
Heorhiy Dybenko	Hammer throw	53.70	8 Q	55.03	8
Georgy Fyodorov	Shot put	15.16	7 Q	16.06	7
Oto Grigalka	Shot put	15.90	2 Q	16.78	4
	Discus throw	48.93	3 Q	50.71	6
Leonid Grigoryev	Long jump	7.09	12 q	7.14	6
Yury Ilyasov	High jump	1.87	24 Q	1.90	13
Viktor Knyazev	Pole vault	4.00	14 Q	4.20	8
Mikhail Krivonosov	Hammer throw	51.15	13 Q	NM	—
Vladimir Kuznetsov	Javelin throw	64.38	17 Q	70.37	6
Khandadash Madatov	Long jump	NM	—	Did not advance
Boris Matveyev	Discus throw	46.05	16 Q	48.70	10
Mykola Redkin	Hammer throw	53.58	11 Q	56.55	85
Leonid Shcherbakov	Triple jump	15.05	3 Q	15.98
Yury Shcherbakov	Javelin throw	64.39	16 Q	64.52	13
Viktor Tsybulenko	Javelin throw	69.42	3 Q	71.72	4
Yevhen Vansovych	High jump	1.87	28 Q	1.80	28

Combined events – Decathlon

Athlete	Event	100 m	LJ	SP	HJ	400 m	110H	DT	PV	JT	1500 m	Final	Rank
Vladimir Volkov	Result	11.49	7.09	12.62	1.75	51.2	15.8	38.04	3.80	56.68	4:33.2	6674	4
	Points	768	815	637	711	758	632	573	645	660	475
Sergey Kuznetsov	Result	11.56	7.09	11.71	1.65	52.8	16.4	41.04	3.60	43.19	4:42.0	5937	10
	Points	768	815	556	605	654	523	656	556	408	396
Pyotr Kozhevnikov	Result	11.60	5.80	Did not finish
	Points	768	466

Women

Track & road events

Athlete	Events	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Anna Aleksandrova	80 m hurdles	11.86	3	—		Did not advance
Elene Gokieli	80 m hurdles	11.59	1 Q	—		11.46 w	4	Did not advance
Maria Golubnichaya	80 m hurdles	11.29	1 Q	—		11.35	1 Q	11.24
Vera Kalashnikova	100 m	12.32	2 Q	12.26	2 Q	12.41	5	Did not advance
Flora Kazantseva	200 m	25.92	5	—		Did not advance
Nadezhda Khnykina	100 m	12.25	2 Q	12.29	1 Q	12.17	4	Did not advance
	200 m	24.47 WR	1 Q	—		24.16	1 Q	24.37
Yevgeniya Sechenova	200 m	25.46	1 Q	—		25.32	5	Did not advance
Irina Turova	100 m	12.25	2 Q	12.28	4	Did not advance
Nadezhda Khnykina Vera Kalashnikova Irina Turova Yevgeniya Sechenova	4 × 100 m relay	47.01	2 Q	—				46.42	4

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Yelisaveta Bagriantseva	Discus throw	40.73	6 Q	47.08
Aleksandra Chudina	Long jump	5.77	3 Q	6.14
	High jump	—		1.63
	Javelin throw	46.17 OR	1 Q	50.01
Nina Dumbadze	Discus throw	43.20	2 Q	46.29
Galina Ganeker	High jump	—		1.55	11
Yelena Gorchakova	Javelin throw	45.18	4 Q	49.76
Nina Kossova	High jump	—		1.58	7
Valentina Lituyeva	Long jump	5.51	13 Q	5.65	11
Nina Romashkova	Discus throw	45.05	1 Q	51.42 OR
Klavdiya Tochonova	Shot put	13.88 OR	1 Q	14.50
Tamara Tyshkevich	Shot put	12.76	8 Q	14.42	4
Nina Tyurkina	Long jump	5.77	4 Q	5.81	6
Galina Zybina	Shot put	13.66	3 Q	15.28 WR
	Javelin throw	45.95	2 Q	48.35	4

Basketball

Main article: Basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics

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)
• Defeated Brazil (54–49)
• Defeated Chile (78–60)

• Semifinals

• Defeated Uruguay (61–57)

• Final

• Lost to United States (25–36) → silver medal

• Team roster

• Stepas Brutautas
• Nodar Dzhordzhikiya
• Anatoly Konev
• Otar Korkiya
• Heino Kruus
• Ilmar Kullam
• Justinas Lagunavičius
• Joann Lõssov
• Aleksandr Moiseyev
• Yuri Ozerov
• Kazys Petkevičius
• Stasys Stonkus
• Maigonis Valdmanis
• Viktor Vlasov

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Anatoli Bulakov	Flyweight	van der Zee (NED) W 3–0	Pozzali (ITA) W 3–0	Dower (GBR) W 2–1	Basel (GER) L 1–2	Did not advance
Gennady Garbuzov	Bantamweight	Renard (FRA) W 2–1	Macías (MEX) W 3–0	Majdloch (TCH) W 3–0	Hämäläinen (FIN) L 0–3	Did not advance
Yury Sokolov	Featherweight	Ventaja (FRA) L 1–2	Did not advance
Aleksandr Zasukhin	Lightweight	Ferrer (FRA) W 2–1	Reardon (GBR) L 0–3	Did not advance
Viktor Mednov	Light-welterweight	Jones (AUS) W TKO 2 R	Ambruş (ROU) W injured	Weissmann (FRA) W 3–0	Mallenius (FIN) W W/O	Adkins (USA) L 1–2
Sergei Scherbakov	Welterweight	Sarfatti (ARG) W Disq	van der Linde (RSA) W KO 2 R	Vescovi (ITA) W 3–0	Jörgensen (DEN) W 3–0	Chychła (POL) L 0–3
Boris Tishin	Light-middleweight	BYE	Krawczyk (POL) W TKO 2 R	Cavalheiro (BRA) W 3–0	van Schalkwyk (RSA) L 0–3	Did not advance
Boris Silchev	Middleweight	BYE	Madigan (AUS) L 1–2	Did not advance
Algirdas Šocikas	Heavyweight	Gościański (POL) W TKO 2 R	BYE	Nieman (RSA) L KO 1 R	Did not advance

Canoeing

Main article: Canoeing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 1952 Summer Olympics

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 Bobarenko — did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Vladimir Kryuchkov — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Track competition

Men's 1000 m time trial

• Lev Tsipursky

• Final — 1:15.2 (→ 13th place)

Men's 1000 m sprint scratch race

• Otar Dadunashvili — 13th place

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Men's 3 m springboard

• Roman Brener

• Final — 165.63 points (→ 5th place)

• Aleksey Zhigalov

• Final — 151.31 points (→ 8th place)

• Gennady Udalov

• Preliminary round — 65.99 points (→ 13th place)

Men's 10 m platform

• Aleksandr Bakatin

• Preliminary round — 71.86 points (→ 7th place)
• Final — 126.86 points (→ 7th place)

• Roman Brener

• Preliminary round — 71.86 points (→ 8th place)
• Final — 126.31 (→ 8th place)

• Mikhail Chachba

• Preliminary round — 65.02 pts (→ 17th place)

Women's 3 m springboard

• Ninel Krutova

• Preliminary round — 56.18 points (→ 3rd place)
• Final — 116.86 points (→ 4th place)

• Lyubov Zhigalova

• Preliminary round — 54.18 points (→ 7th place)
• Final — 113.83 points (→ 6th place)

• Valentina Chumicheva

• Preliminary round — 52.15 points (→ 10th place)

Women's 10 m 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)

Equestrian

Main article: Equestrian at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Dressage

Athlete	Horse	Event	Points	Rank
Vladimir Raspopov	Imeninnik	Individual	433.5	19
Vasily Tikhonov	Pevec		395.0	24
Nikolay Sitko	Cesar		377.0	25
Vladimir Raspopov Vasily Tikhonov Nikolay Sitko	See above	Team	1205.5	7

Eventing

Athlete	Horse	Event	Penalties	Rank
Valerian Kuybyshev	Perekop	Individual	84.00	10
Boris Lilov	Zagib		Did not finish	—
Yury Andreyev	Logovoj		Did not finish
Valerian Kuybyshev Boris Lilov Yury Andreyev	See above	Team	Did not finish	—

Jumping

Athlete	Horse	Event	Penalties	Rank
Mikhail Vlasov	Rota	Individual	56.00	43
Nikolay Shelenkov	Atiger		62.50	46
Gavriil Budyonny	Yeger		83.25	47
Mikhail Vlasov Nikolay Shelenkov Gavriil Budyonny	See above	Team	201.75	14

Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

16 fencers, 13 men and 3 women, represented the Soviet Union in 1952.

Men

Athlete	Event	First round		Second round		Semifinal		Final
		Opposition	Rank	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Rank
German Bokun	Individual foil	Magnusson (SWE)  Galimi (ARG)  Raym. Paul (GBR)  Lund (AUS)  Kavanagh (VEN)  Asselin (CAN)	2 Q (W 4 — L 1)	Lataste (FRA)  Palócz (HUN)  Verhalle (BEL)  Bukantzr (USA)  Klette (NOR)  Vîlcea (ROU)	5 (W 2 — L 4)	Did not advance
Mark Midler	Individual foil	Chelaru (ROU)  Lubell (USA)  Ramos (MEX)  Bach (SAA)  Rimini (URU)  Gutiérrez (VEN)	4 Q (W 3 — L 1)	Di Rosa (ITA)  Dessouki (EGY)  Eriksson (SWE)  Twardokens (POL)  Raym. Paul (GBR)	6 (W 0 — L 4)	Did not advance
Yulen Uralov	Individual foil	Valcke (BEL)  Bukantz (USA)  Pawłowski (POL)  Raitio (FIN)  Knödler (SAA)  Menéndez (CUB)	2 Q (W 4 — L 1)	René Paul (GBR)  d'Oriola (FRA)  Tilli (HUN)  Ballister (BEL)  Casmir (GER)  Ramos (MEX)	4 (W 4 — L 2)	Did not advance
Ivan Komarov German Bokun Yulen Uralov Mark Midler	Team foil	Argentina (ARG) L 8–8  Egypt (EGY) L 4–9	3 (W 0 — L 2)	Did not advance
Yury Deksbakh	Individual épéel	Rerrich (HUN)  Jay (GBR)  Pekelman (BRA)  Rydz (POL)  Chelaru (ROU)  Bertorelli (VEN)  Duffy (IRL)	5 (W 3 — L 4)	Did not advance
Lev Saychuk	Individual épéel	Pinto (POR)  Nigon (FRA)  Parfitt (GBR)  Kearney (IRL)  Soberón (GUA)  de Paula (BRA)  Raitio (FIN)	7 (W 2 — L 5)	Did not advance
Juozas Ūdras	Individual épéel	Lund (AUS)  Dybkær (DEN)  von Koss (NOR)  Delaunois (BEL)  Mouyal (FRA)  Rettberg (ARG)  Menéndez (CUB)	8 (W 1 — L 6)	Did not advance
Genrikh Bulgakov Juozas Ūdras Lev Saychuk Yury Deksbakh Ak'ak'i Meipariani	Team épée	United States (USA) L 8–8  Italy (ITA) L 4–8	3 (W 0 — L 2)	Did not advance
Boris Belyakov	Individual sabre	Ballister (BEL)  Anderson (GBR)  Sande (ARG)  Ramos (MEX)  Eriksen (NOR)  Ferreira (POR)	2 Q (W 4 — L 1)	Berczelly (HUN)  Lechner (AUT)  Tudor (ROU)  Heywaert (BEL)  Tournon (FRA)  Greter (SUI)  Carnera (DEN)	5 (W 3 — L 4)	Did not advance
Lev Kuznetsov	Individual sabre	Frey (DEN)  Greter (SUI)  Abdel Rahman (EGY)  Eriksson (SWE)  Silva (POR)  Maki (JPN)  Porebski (GBR)	3 Q (W 5 — L 1)	Kovács (HUN)  Plattner (AUT)  Ballister (BEL)  Gurath (ROU)  Worth (USA)  Zabłocki (POL)  Pomini (ARG)	6 (W 3 — L 4)	Did not advance
Ivan Manayenko	Individual sabre	Heywaert (BEL)  Pawłowski (POL)  Carnera (DEN)  Rau (SAA)  Fethers (AUS)  Cámara (MEX)  Gutiérrez (VEN)	2 Q (W 5 — L 1)	Gerevich (HUN)  Suski (POL)  Nostini (ITA)  Frey (DEN)  Haro (MEX)  D'Andrea (ARG)  Kwartler (USA)	3 Q (W 5 — L 2)	Darè (ITA)  Gerevich (HUN)  Lechner (AUT)  Sande (ARG)  de Capriles (USA)  Tudor (ROU)	4 (W 2 — L 3)	Did not advance
Ivan Manayenko Mark Midler Vladimir Vyshpolsky Lev Kuznetsov Boris Belyakov	Team sabre	Germany (GER) L 7–9  Belgium (BEL) L 2–9	3 (W 0 — L 2)	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	First round		Second round		Semifinal		Final
		Opposition	Rank	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Rank
Appolinariya Plekhanova	Individual foil	York (USA)  Lecomte-Guyonneau (FRA)  Müller-Preis (AUT)  Pym (AUS)  Mattsson (FIN)	4 Q (W 2 — L 2)	Nyári (HUN)  Allgayer (GER)  Strukel (ITA)  Drand (FRA)  Buller (GBR)	1 Q (W 5 — L 0)	Elek (HUN)  Garilhe (FRA)  Mitchell (USA)  Camber (ITA)  Glen-Haig (GBR)  Allgayer (GER)  Filz (AUT)	8 (W 1 — L 6)	Did not advance
Anna Ponomaryova	Individual foil	Kunz (AUT)  Nyári (HUN)  Mitchell (USA)  Poulsen (DEN)  Norford (AUS)	2 Q (W 4 — L 1)	Lachmann (DEN)  Mitchell (USA)  Filz (AUT)  Lecomte-Guyonneau (FRA)  Elek (HUN)	6 (W 2 — L 3)	Did not advance
Nadezhda Shitikova	Individual foil	Lachmann (DEN)  Camber (ITA)  Buller (GBR)  Kalka (FIN)  Selle (VEN)  Włodarczyk (POL)	4 Q (W 3 — L 3)	Elek (HUN)  Camber (ITA)  Craus (USA)  Kunz (AUT)  Sheen (GBR)	5 (W 1 — L 4)	Did not advance

Football

Main article: Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Preliminary round

15 July 1952
19:00

Soviet Union	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Bulgaria
Bobrov 100' Trofimov 104'	Report	Kolev 95'

Kotkan Urheilukeskus, Kotka

Attendance: 10,637

Referee: Istvan Zsolt (HUN)

1/8 finals

20 July 1952
19:00

Yugoslavia	5–5 (a.e.t.)	Soviet Union
Mitić 29' Ognjanov 33' Zebec 44', 59' Bobek 46'	Report	Bobrov 53', 77', 87' Trofimov 75' Petrov 89'

Ratina Stadion, Tampere

Attendance: 17,000

Referee: Arthur Ellis (GBR)

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22 July 1952
19:00

Yugoslavia	3–1	Soviet Union
Mitić 19' Bobek 29' (pen.) Čajkovski 54'	Report	Bobrov 6'

Ratina Stadion, Tampere

Attendance: 16,916

Referee: Arthur Ellis (GBR)

• Team roster

• Leonid Ivanov
• Konstantin Krizhevsky
• Anatoli Bashashkin
• Avtandil Chkuaseli
• Yury Nyrkov
• Anatoly Ilyin
• Fridrikh Maryutin
• Igor Netto
• Valentin Nikolayev
• Vasily Trofimov
• Vsevolod Bobrov
• Aleksandr Tenyagin
• Avtandil Gogoberidze
• Konstantin Beskov
• Aleksandr Petrov
• Agustín Gómez

Gymnastics

Main article: Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Men

Individual

Athlete	Apparatus																								Total	Rank
	Floor				Rings				Pommel horse				Vault				Parallel bars				Horizontal bar
	Comp.	Vol.	Total	R	Comp.	Vol.	Total	R	Comp.	Vol.	Total	R	Comp.	Vol.	Total	R	Comp.	Vol.	Total	R	Comp.	Vol.	Total	R
Viktor Chukarin	8.65	9.80	18.45	29	9.65	9.90	19.55		9.70	9.80	19.50		9.45	9.75	19.20		9.80	9.80	19.60		9.60	9.80	19.40	5	115.70
Hrant Shahinyan	9.30	9.60	18.90	8	9.80	9.95	19.75		9.90	9.50	19.40		9.05	9.45	18.50	35	9.50	9.85	19.35	4	9.45	9.60	19.05	14	114.95
Valentin Muratov	9.35	9.50	18.85	11	9.45	9.90	19.35	5	9.70	8.60	18.30	32	9.25	9.45	18.70	19	9.55	9.70	19.25	8	9.65	9.55	19.20	9	113.65	4
Yevgeny Korolkov	9.00	9.30	18.30	35	9.45	9.70	19.15	7	9.75	9.65	19.40		8.90	9.50	18.40	44	9.50	9.80	19.30	5	9.35	9.45	18.80	23	113.35	6
Vladimir Belyakov	9.25	9.50	18.75	14	9.25	9.70	18.95	14	9.60	9.50	19.10	7	9.10	9.40	18.50	35	9.45	9.80	19.25	8	9.25	9.55	18.80	23	113.35	6
Iosif Berdiev	9.25	9.40	18.65	19	9.50	9.60	19.10	11	9.55	9.25	18.80	15	9.30	9.60	18.90	7	9.45	9.70	19.15	11	9.20	9.30	18.50	38	113.10	10
Mikhail Perlman	8.70	9.45	18.15	41	9.35	9.70	19.05	13	9.70	9.60	19.30	4	9.05	9.25	18.30	65	9.25	9.75	19.00	15	9.30	9.40	18.70	29	112.50	11
Dmytro Leonkin	8.95	9.55	18.50	27	9.55	9.85	19.40		3.75	8.35	12.10	164	9.20	9.50	18.70	19	7.10	9.60	16.70	127	9.05	9.30	18.35	43	103.75	78

Team

Athlete	Apparatus (best 5 scores)																								Total	Rank
	Floor				Rings				Pommel horse				Vault				Parallel bars				Horizontal bar
	Comp.	Vol.	Total	R	Comp.	Vol.	Total	R	Comp.	Vol.	Total	R	Comp.	Vol.	Total	R	Comp.	Vol.	Total	R	Comp.	Vol.	Total	R
Viktor Chukarin Hrant Shahinyan Valentin Muratov Yevgeny Korolkov Vladimir Belyakov Iosif Berdiev Mikhail Perlman Dmytro Leonkin	46.15	47.95	94.10	2	47.95	49.30	97.25	1	48.75	48.05	96.80	1	46.30	47.80	94.10	2	47.80	49.00	96.80	1	47.35	47.95	95.30	4	574.40

Women

Individual

Athlete	Apparatus																Total	Rank
	Floor				Balance beam				Uneven bars				Vault
	Comp.	Vol.	Total	R	Comp.	Vol.	Total	R	Comp.	Vol.	Total	R	Comp.	Vol.	Total	R
Maria Gorokhovskaya	9.50	9.70	19.20		9.43	9.70	19.13		9.63	9.63	19.26		9.63	9.56	19.19		76.78
Nina Bocharova	9.40	9.30	18.70	10	9.46	9.76	19.22		9.56	9.43	18.99	4	9.80	9.23	19.03	6	75.94
Galina Minaicheva	9.36	9.60	18.96	6	9.13	9.53	18.66	10	9.36	9.53	18.89	8	9.73	9.43	19.16		75.67	4
Galina Urbanovich	9.43	9.56	18.99	4	9.40	9.53	18.93	5	9.16	9.46	18.62	12	9.70	9.40	19.10	5	75.64	5
Pelageya Danilova	9.23	9.43	18.66	11	9.26	9.50	18.76	9	9.43	9.56	18.99	7	9.46	9.16	18.62	12	75.03	7
Galina Shamrai	9.23	9.63	18.86	8	9.43	9.36	18.79	8	9.33	9.60	18.93	7	9.03	9.36	18.39	23	74.97	8
Medeya Jugeli	9.30	9.30	18.60	12	9.13	9.36	18.49	15	9.23	9.50	18.73	9	9.73	9.40	19.13	4	74.95	9
Ekaterina Kalinchuk	8.83	8.90	17.73	45	8.96	9.36	18.32	18	9.30	9.36	18.66	10	9.70	9.50	19.20		73.91	13

Team

Athlete	Event	Team exercise with portable apparatus	Rank	Best six individual apparatus scores	Rank	Total	Rank
Maria Gorokhovskaya Nina Bocharova Galina Minaicheva Galina Urbanovich Pelageya Danilova Galina Shamrai Medeya Jugeli Ekaterina Kalinchuk	Team	73.00		454.03	1	527.03

Modern pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Three male pentathletes represented the Soviet Union in 1952.

Athlete	Event	Riding				Fencing			Shooting			Swimming		Running		Total points	Final rank
		Time	Penalty	Points	Placing Points	Wins	Ties	Placing Points	Hits	Points	Placing Points	Time	Placing Points	Time	Placing Points
Igor Novikov	Individual	10:41.0	4.5	95.5	24	25	8	13	20	187	4	4:16.9	4	15:11.6	10	55	4
Pavel Rakityansky		10:13.5	3	97	19	21	9	28	19	173	34	5:04.6	29	15:15.4	13	123	23
Aleksandr Dekhayev		11:27.2	37	63	36	20	11	30	13	121	50	4:23.7	6	15:06.3	7	129	28
Igor Novikov Pavel Rakityansky Aleksandr Dekhayev	Team				76			69			81		37		30	293	5

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

The Soviet Union had 26 male rowers participate in all seven rowing events in 1952.

Men's single sculls

• Yuriy Tyukalov — 8:12.8 → gold medal

Men's double sculls

• Heorhiy Zhylin, Ihor Yemchuk — 7:38.3 → silver medal

Men's coxless pair

• Mikhail Plaksin, Vasily Bagretsov — 2 h1 repêchage (→ did not advance)

Men's coxed pair

• Yevgeny Morozov, Viktor Shevchenko, Mikhail Prudnikov — 3 h1 r4/5 (→ did not advance)

Men's coxless four

• Roman Zakharov, Yury Rogozov, Ivan Makarov, Vladimir Kirsanov — 2 h1 r4/5 (→ did not advance)

Men's coxed four

• Kirill Putyrsky, Yevgeny Tretnikov, Georgy Gushchenko, Boris Fyodorov, Boris Brechko — 2 h1 r4/5 (→ did not advance)

Men's eight

• Yevgeny Brago, Vladimir Rodimushkin, Aleksey Komarov, Igor Borisov, Slava Amiragov, Leonid Gissen, Yevgeny Samsonov, Vladimir Kryukov, Igor Polyakov — 6:31.2 → silver medal

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
Boris Andreyev	50 m rifle prone	400
	50 m rifle three positions	1163
Pyotr Avilov	50 m rifle prone	395	24
	50 m rifle three positions	1162	5
Anatoli Bogdanov	300 m rifle three positions	1123 WR
Vasily Frolov	25 m rapid fire pistol	573	8
Ivan Isayev	Trap	185	10
Konstantin Martazov	50 m pistol	546	4
Yury Nikandrov	Trap	183	15
Pyotr Nikolayev	100 m running deer	385	7
Vasily Novikov	25 m rapid fire pistol	569	11
Vladimir Sevryugin	100 m running deer	383	8
Lev Vainshtein	50 m pistol	546	5
	300 m rifle three positions	1109

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Water polo

Main article: Water polo at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Men's team competition

• Qualifying round

• Lost to Netherlands (2–3)
• Defeated India (12–0)

• Preliminary round (Group B)

• Lost to Hungary (3–5)
• Defeated Egypt (3–2)
• Defeated Germany (6–2)

• Semi-final round (Group B)

• Drew with Yugoslavia (3–3)
• Lost to Netherlands (2–4)

• Classification round (5–8)

• Defeated Spain (4–2)
• Drew with Belgium (3–3) → 7th place

• Team roster

• Boris Goikhman
• Evgeny Semyonov
• Yury Teplov
• Lev Kokorin
• Valentin Prokopov
• Aleksandr Liferenko
• Pyotr Mshvenieradze
• Yury Shlyapin
• Vitaly Ushakov
• Anatoly Yegorov

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Press		Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Ivan Udodov	−56 kg	90.0	4	97.5 OR	1	127.5 OR	1	315.0 WR
Rafael Chimishkyan	−60 kg	97.5	3	105.0	1	135.0	1	337.5 WR
Nikolay Saksonov	−60 kg	95.0	4	105.0	2	132.5	2	332.5
Yevgeny Lopatin	−67.5 kg	100.0	7	107.5	4	142.5	1	350.0
Trofim Lomakin	−82.5 kg	125.0	3	127.5	1	165.0 OR	1	417.5
Arkady Vorobyov	−82.5 kg	120.0	6	127.5	1	160.0	3	407.5
Grigory Novak	−90 kg	140.0 OR	1	125.0	2	145.0	9	410.0

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	First round	Second round	Third round	Fourth round	Fifth round	Final rounds	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Georgy Sayadov	−52 kg	Sigiran (FRA) W 3–0	Mewis (BEL) W 3–0	Peery (USA) W 3–0	Weber (GER) W 3–0	Mollaghasemi (IRI) L 1–2	Did not advance	4
Rashid Mammadbeyov	−57 kg	Yaghoubi (IRI) W 0:32 VT	Hänni (SUI) W w/o	Borders (USA) W 10:40 VT	Bencze (HUN) L 1–2	Jadhav (IND) W 3–0	Ishii (JPN) L 0–3
Ibrahim Dadashov	−62 kg	Essawi (EGY) W 1:37 VT	Şit (TUR) L 0–3	Bielle (FRA) W 3–0	Henson (USA) L 1–2	Did not advance
Armenak Yaltyryan	−67 kg	Anderberg (SWE) L 14:06 VT	Talosela (FIN) W 13:10 VT	Østrand (DEN) W 3–0	BYE	Tofigh (IRI) L 0–3	Did not advance	4
Vasyl Rybalko	−73 kg	Islioğlu (TUR) L 1–2	Mojtabavi (IRI) L 1–2	Did not advance
David Tsimakuridze	−79 kg	Lindblad (SWE) L 1–2	Hodge (USA) W 5:58 VT	Hussain (EGY) W 4:55 VT	BYE	Gurics (HUN) W 3–0	Takhti (IRI) W 2–1
August Englas	−87 kg	Atan (TUR) W 3–0	Jadhav (IND) W 0:58 VT	Leichter (GER) W 3:47 VT	Wittenberg (USA) L 0–3	Palm (SWE) L 1–2	Did not advance	4
Arsen Mekokishvili	+87 kg	Kovács (HUN) W 6:05 VT	Waltner (GER) W 3–0	Richmond (GBR) W 2–1	Vecchi (ITA) W 4:10 VT	Antonsson (SWE) W 2–1	BYE

Men's Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	First round	Second round	Third round	Fourth round	Fifth round	Final rounds	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Boris Gurevich	−52 kg	Vukov (YUG) W 3–0	Thomsen (DEN) W 4:52 VT	Kenéz (HUN) W 3–0	Mewis (BEL) W 3–0	Honkala (FIN) W 3–0	Fabra (ITA) W 3–0
Artem Teryan	−57 kg	Toboła (POL) W 4:53 VT	Demirsüren (TUR) W 3–0	Lombardi (ITA) W 3–0	Popescu (ROU) W 3–0	Persson (SWE) W 3–0	Chihab (LIB) L 1–2
							Hódos (HUN) W 3–0
Yakov Punkin	−62 kg	Merle (FRA) W 11:17 VT	BYE	Taha (LIB) W 3–0	Bozbey (TUR) W 3–0	Polyák (HUN) W 1:26 VT	Rashed (EGY) W 3:28 VT
Shazam Safin	−67 kg	Akbulut (TUR) W 3–0	Eriksen (NOR) W 12:35 VT	Rasmussen (DEN) W 8:15 VT	Cuc (ROU) W 3–0	Athanasov (TCH) W 2:46 VT	Freij (SWE) W 3–0
Semyon Marushkin	−73 kg	Sekal (TCH) W 3–0	Gołaś (POL) W 3–0	Şenol (TUR) W 3–0	Andersson (SWE) L 0–3	Did not advance		4
Nikolay Belov	−79 kg	Gryt (POL) W 2:17 VT	BYE	Courtois (BEL) W w/o	Grönberg (SWE) L 0–3	BYE	Rauhala (FIN) L 0–3
Shalva Chikhladze	−87 kg	Leichter (GER) W 9:22 VT	Silvestri (ITA) W 3–0	BYE	Kovács (HUN) L 0–3	Nilsson (SWE) W 2:39 VT	Gröndahl (FIN) L 1–2
Johannes Kotkas	+87 kg	Baarendse (BEL) W w/o	Fahlqvist (SWE) W 2:40 VT	Fantoni (ITA) W 3:41 VT	Kovanen (FIN) W 2:43 VT	BYE	Růžička (TCH) W 4:32 VT

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	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russian SFSR	19	35	15	69
2	Ukrainian SSR	10	11	1	22
3	Georgian SSR	3	4	2	9
4	Armenian SSR	3	2	1	6
5	Estonian SSR	1	3	0	4
6	Uzbek SSR	1	1	0	2
7	Lithuanian SSR	0	4	0	4
8	Azerbaijan SSR	0	1	1	2
9	Latvian SSR	0	1	0	1
Totals (9 entries)		37	62	20	119

Further reading

• Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games (in Russian) (2nd ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. – for medal stats by republic

External links

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database