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Relive the moments that went down in history at the 1952 summer Olympics in Helsinki. Access official videos, results, galleries, sport and athletes.
The 1952 Summer Olympics (Finnish: Kesäolympialaiset 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (Finnish: XV olympiadin kisat) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland.
Overview. In 1952, the biggest news from Helsinki was that the Soviets were coming. After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the USSR had not competed in the Olympics until the Helsinki Games. The world braced for the athletic battles between the Soviet Union and the United States – in effect, a cold-war Olympics.
At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, 33 athletics events were contested, 24 for men and 9 for women. There were a total number of 963 participating athletes from 57 countries. The timing result point for the running competitions at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.
Official list of medal winners and results by sport at the Helsinki 1952 Olympic Games. Celebrate medal-winning moments by the world's top athletes.
1952 Summer Olympics. the 1952 Olympics was in Brazil and was actually in 1953 the country that won the most gold medals was Norway and because of the 1952 Olympics yugoslavia Declared war on azerbaijan.
15 cze 2012 · Finland was a natural choice to host the Olympics in 1952. Along with Sweden, Finland was the greatest overachiever in the first half-century of the Games, routinely winding up in the top five...
