Canoeing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Canoeing
at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Canoeing; at the Games of the XV Olympiad
No. of events	9

At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, nine events in sprint canoe racing were contested. The program was unchanged from the previous Games in 1948.

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Finland (FIN)	4	1	1	6
2	Sweden (SWE)	1	3	0	4
3	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	1	1	3
4	France (FRA)	1	0	1	2
5	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	0	1
5	United States (USA)	1	0	0	1
7	Hungary (HUN)	0	2	1	3
8	Austria (AUT)	0	1	1	2
9	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
10	Germany (GER)	0	0	3	3
11	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		9	9	9	27

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 1000 metres	Josef Holeček Czechoslovakia	János Parti Hungary	Olavi Ojanperä Finland
C-1 10000 metres	Frank Havens United States	Gábor Novák Hungary	Alfréd Jindra Czechoslovakia
C-2 1000 metres	Bent Peder Rasch and Finn Haunstoft (DEN)	Jan Brzák-Felix and Bohumil Kudrna (TCH)	Egon Drews and Wilfried Soltau (GER)
C-2 10000 metres	Georges Turlier and Jean Laudet (FRA)	Kenneth Lane and Donald Hawgood (CAN)	Egon Drews and Wilfried Soltau (GER)
K-1 1000 metres	Gert Fredriksson Sweden	Thorvald Strömberg Finland	Louis Gantois France
K-1 10000 metres	Thorvald Strömberg Finland	Gert Fredriksson Sweden	Michael Scheuer Germany
K-2 1000 metres	Kurt Wires and Yrjö Hietanen (FIN)	Lars Glassér and Ingemar Hedberg (SWE)	Maximilian Raub and Herbert Wiedermann (AUT)
K-2 10000 metres	Kurt Wires and Yrjö Hietanen (FIN)	Gunnar Åkerlund and Hans Wetterström (SWE)	Ferenc Varga and József Gurovits (HUN)

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Sylvi Saimo Finland	Gertrude Liebhart Austria	Nina Savina Soviet Union

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