List of 1952 Summer Olympics medal winners

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	15	10	6	31
2	Czechoslovakia	4	1	0	5
3	Australia	3	0	1	4
4	Soviet Union	2	8	7	17
5	Jamaica	2	3	0	5
6	Italy	1	1	0	2
	South Africa	1	1	0	2
8	Hungary	1	0	4	5
9	Sweden	1	0	2	3
10	Brazil	1	0	1	2
	New Zealand	1	0	1	2
12	Luxembourg	1	0	0	1
13	Germany	0	3	5	8
14	France	0	2	0	2
15	Great Britain	0	1	4	5
16	Argentina	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
19	Finland*	0	0	1	1
	Venezuela	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		33	33	33	99

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Lindy Remigino  United States	10.4	Herb McKenley  Jamaica	10.4	McDonald Bailey  Great Britain	10.4
200 metres details	Andy Stanfield  United States	20.7	Thane Baker  United States	20.8	James Gathers  United States	20.8
400 metres details	George Rhoden  Jamaica	45.9 OR	Herb McKenley  Jamaica	45.9	Ollie Matson  United States	46.8
800 metres details	Mal Whitfield  United States	1:49.2	Arthur Wint  Jamaica	1:49.4	Heinz Ulzheimer  Germany	1:49.7
1500 metres details	Josy Barthel  Luxembourg	3:45.2 OR	Bob McMillen  United States	3:45.2	Werner Lueg  Germany	3:45.4
5000 metres details	Emil Zátopek  Czechoslovakia	14:06.6 OR	Alain Mimoun  France	14:07.4	Herbert Schade  Germany	14:08.6
10,000 metres details	Emil Zátopek  Czechoslovakia	29:17.0 WR	Alain Mimoun  France	29:32.8	Aleksandr Anufriyev  Soviet Union	29:48.2
110 metres hurdles details	Harrison Dillard  United States	13.7	Jack Davis  United States	13.7	Arthur Barnard  United States	14.1
400 metres hurdles details	Charles Moore  United States	50.8 OR	Yuriy Lituyev  Soviet Union	51.3	John Holland  New Zealand	52.2
3000 metres steeplechase details	Horace Ashenfelter  United States	8:45.4 OR	Vladimir Kazantsev  Soviet Union	8:51.6	John Disley  Great Britain	8:51.8
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States Dean Smith Harrison Dillard Lindy Remigino Andy Stanfield	40.1	Soviet Union Boris Tokarev Levan Kalyayev Levan Sanadze Vladimir Sukharev	40.3	Hungary László Zarándi Géza Varasdi György Csányi Béla Goldoványi	40.5
4 × 400 metres relay details	Jamaica Arthur Wint Leslie Laing Herb McKenley George Rhoden	3:03.9 WR	United States Ollie Matson Gene Cole Charles Moore Mal Whitfield	3:04.0	Germany Günther Steines Hans Geister Heinz Ulzheimer Karl-Friedrich Haas	3:06.6
Marathon details	Emil Zátopek  Czechoslovakia	2:23:03 OR	Reinaldo Gorno  Argentina	2:25:35	Gustaf Jansson  Sweden	2:26:07
10 kilometres walk details	John Mikaelsson  Sweden	45:02.8 OR	Fritz Schwab  Switzerland	45:41.0	Bruno Junk  Soviet Union	45:41.0
50 kilometres walk details	Pino Dordoni  Italy	4:28:07.8 OR	Josef Doležal  Czechoslovakia	4:30:17.8	Antal Róka  Hungary	4:31:27.2
High jump details	Walt Davis  United States	2.04 OR	Ken Wiesner  United States	2.01 m	José da Conceição  Brazil	1.98 m
Pole vault details	Bob Richards  United States	4.55 m OR	Don Laz  United States	4.50 m	Ragnar Lundberg  Sweden	4.40 m
Long jump details	Jerome Biffle  United States	7.57 m	Meredith Gourdine  United States	7.53 m	Ödön Földessy  Hungary	7.30 m
Triple jump details	Adhemar Ferreira da Silva  Brazil	16.22 m WR	Leonid Shcherbakov  Soviet Union	15.98 m	Asnoldo Devonish  Venezuela	15.52 m
Shot put details	Parry O'Brien  United States	17.41 OR	Darrow Hooper  United States	17.39 m	Jim Fuchs  United States	17.06 m
Discus throw details	Sim Iness  United States	55.03 OR	Adolfo Consolini  Italy	53.78 m	James Dillion  United States	53.28 m
Hammer throw details	József Csermák  Hungary	60.34 m WR	Karl Storch  Germany	58.86 m	Imre Németh  Hungary	57.74 m
Javelin throw details	Cy Young  United States	73.78 m OR	Bill Miller  United States	72.46 m	Toivo Hyytiäinen  Finland	71.89 m
Decathlon details	Bob Mathias  United States	7,887 pts WR	Milt Campbell  United States	6,975 pts	Floyd Simmons  United States	6,788 pts

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Marjorie Jackson  Australia	11.5	Daphne Hasenjäger  South Africa	11.8	Shirley Strickland de la Hunty  Australia	11.9
200 metres details	Marjorie Jackson  Australia	23.7	Bertha Brouwer  Netherlands	24.2	Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili  Soviet Union	24.2
80 metres hurdles details	Shirley Strickland de la Hunty  Australia	10.9 WR	Mariya Golubnichaya  Soviet Union	11.1	Maria Sander  Germany	11.1
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States Mae Faggs Barbara Jones Janet Moreau Catherine Hardy	45.9 WR	Germany Ursula Knab Maria Sander Helga Klein Marga Petersen	45.9	Great Britain Sylvia Cheeseman June Foulds Jean Desforges Heather Armitage	46.2
High jump details	Esther Brand  South Africa	1.67 m	Sheila Lerwill  Great Britain	1.65 m	Aleksandra Chudina  Soviet Union	1.63 m
Long jump details	Yvette Williams  New Zealand	6.24 m OR	Aleksandra Chudina  Soviet Union	6.14 m	Shirley Cawley  Great Britain	5.92 m
Shot put details	Galina Zybina  Soviet Union	15.28 m WR	Marianne Werner  Germany	14.57 m	Klavdia Tochonova  Soviet Union	14.50 m
Discus throw details	Nina Romashkova  Soviet Union	51.42 m OR	Elizaveta Bagryantseva  Soviet Union	47.08 m	Nina Dumbadze  Soviet Union	46.29 m
Javelin throw details	Dana Zátopková  Czechoslovakia	50.47 m OR	Aleksandra Chudina  Soviet Union	50.01 m	Yelena Gorchakova  Soviet Union	49.76 m

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	5	0	0	5
2	Italy	1	1	1	3
3	Poland	1	1	0	2
4	Finland*	1	0	4	5
5	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1
	Hungary	1	0	0	1
7	Soviet Union	0	2	4	6
8	South Africa	0	1	3	4
9	Argentina	0	1	1	2
	Germany	0	1	1	2
	Romania	0	1	1	2
	Sweden	0	1	1	2
13	Ireland	0	1	0	1
14	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 entries)		10	10	20	40

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (−51 kg) details	Nate Brooks  United States	Edgar Basel  Germany	Anatoli Bulakov  Soviet Union
			Willie Toweel  South Africa
Bantamweight (−54 kg) details	Pentti Hämäläinen  Finland	John McNally  Ireland	Kang Joon-Ho  South Korea
			Gennady Garbuzov  Soviet Union
Featherweight (−57 kg) details	Ján Zachara  Czechoslovakia	Sergio Caprari  Italy	Joseph Ventaja  France
			Leonard Leisching  South Africa
Lightweight (−60 kg) details	Aureliano Bolognesi  Italy	Aleksy Antkiewicz  Poland	Gheorghe Fiat  Romania
			Erkki Pakkanen  Finland
Light welterweight (−63.5 kg) details	Charles Adkins  United States	Viktor Mednov  Soviet Union	Bruno Visintin  Italy
			Erkki Mallenius  Finland
Welterweight (−67 kg) details	Zygmunt Chychla  Poland	Sergei Scherbakov  Soviet Union	Günther Heidemann  Germany
			Victor Jörgensen  Denmark
Light middleweight (−71 kg) details	László Papp  Hungary	Theunis van Schalkwyk  South Africa	Boris Tishin  Soviet Union
			Eladio Herrera  Argentina
Middleweight (−75 kg) details	Floyd Patterson  United States	Vasile Tiță  Romania	Boris Nikolov  Bulgaria
			Stig Sjölin  Sweden
Light heavyweight (−81 kg) details	Norvel Lee  United States	Antonio Pacenza  Argentina	Anatoly Perov  Soviet Union
			Harry Siljander  Finland
Heavyweight (+81 kg) details	Ed Sanders  United States	Ingemar Johansson  Sweden	Ilkka Koski  Finland
			Andries Nieman  South Africa

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Finland*	4	1	1	6
2	Sweden	1	3	0	4
3	Czechoslovakia	1	1	1	3
4	France	1	0	1	2
5	Denmark	1	0	0	1
	United States	1	0	0	1
7	Hungary	0	2	1	3
8	Austria	0	1	1	2
9	Canada	0	1	0	1
10	Germany	0	0	3	3
11	Soviet Union	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		9	9	9	27

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

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

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	9	11	2	22
2	Switzerland	2	2	3	7
3	Hungary	2	1	5	8
4	Sweden	2	0	0	2
5	Japan	0	2	2	4
6	Germany	0	1	0	1
	Poland	0	1	0	1
8	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
	Finland*	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		15	18	14	47

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around details	Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union	Hrant Shahinyan  Soviet Union	Josef Stalder  Switzerland
Team all-around details	Soviet Union Vladimir Belyakov Iosif Berdiev Viktor Chukarin Yevgeny Korolkov Dmytro Leonkin Valentin Muratov Mikhail Perelman Hrant Shahinyan	Switzerland Hans Eugster Ernst Fivian Ernst Gebendinger Jack Günthard Hans Schwarzentruber Josef Stalder Melchior Thalmann Jean Tschabold	Finland Paavo Aaltonen Kalevi Laitinen Onni Lappalainen Kaino Lempinen Berndt Lindfors Olavi Rove Heikki Savolainen Kalevi Viskari
Floor exercise details	William Thoresson  Sweden	Jerzy Jokiel  Poland	none awarded (as there was a tie for silver)
		Tadao Uesako  Japan
Horizontal bar details	Jack Günthard  Switzerland	Josef Stalder  Switzerland	none awarded (as there was a tie for silver)
		Alfred Schwarzmann  Germany
Parallel bars details	Hans Eugster  Switzerland	Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union	Josef Stalder  Switzerland
Pommel horse details	Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union	Hrant Shahinyan  Soviet Union	none awarded (as there was a tie for silver)
		Yevgeny Korolkov  Soviet Union
Rings details	Hrant Shahinyan  Soviet Union	Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union	Dmytro Leonkin  Soviet Union
			Hans Eugster  Switzerland
Vault details	Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union	Masao Takemoto  Japan	Takashi Ono  Japan
			Tadao Uesako  Japan

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around details	Maria Gorokhovskaya  Soviet Union	Nina Bocharova  Soviet Union	Margit Korondi  Hungary
Team all-around details	Soviet Union Nina Bocharova Pelageya Danilova Maria Gorokhovskaya Ekaterina Kalinchuk Galina Minaicheva Galina Shamrai Galina Urbanovich Medea Jugeli	Hungary Andrea Bodó Irén Daruházi-Karcsics Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles Ágnes Keleti Margit Korondi Edit Perényi-Weckinger Olga Tass Mária Kövi-Zalai	Czechoslovakia Hana Bobková Alena Chadimová Jana Rabasová Alena Reichová Matylda Šínová Božena Srncová Věra Vančurová Eva Věchtová
Balance beam details	Nina Bocharova  Soviet Union	Maria Gorokhovskaya  Soviet Union	Margit Korondi  Hungary
Floor exercise details	Ágnes Keleti  Hungary	Maria Gorokhovskaya  Soviet Union	Margit Korondi  Hungary
Uneven bars details	Margit Korondi  Hungary	Maria Gorokhovskaya  Soviet Union	Ágnes Keleti  Hungary
Vault details	Ekaterina Kalinchuk  Soviet Union	Maria Gorokhovskaya  Soviet Union	Galina Minaicheva  Soviet Union
Team, portable apparatus details	Sweden Karin Lindberg Ann-Sofi Pettersson Evy Berggren Gun Röring Göta Pettersson Ingrid Sandahl Hjördis Nordin Vanja Blomberg	Soviet Union Maria Gorokhovskaya Nina Bocharova Galina Minaicheva Galina Urbanovich Pelageya Danilova Galina Shamrai Medea Jugeli Ekaterina Kalinchuk	Hungary Margit Korondi Ágnes Keleti Edit Perényi-Weckinger Olga Tass Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles Mária Kövi-Zalai Andrea Bodó Irén Daruházi-Karcsics

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary	1	1	1	3
2	Sweden	1	1	0	2
3	Finland*	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		2	2	2	6

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual details	Lars Hall  Sweden	Gábor Benedek  Hungary	István Szondy  Hungary
Team details	Hungary Gábor Benedek Aladár Kovácsi István Szondy	Sweden Lars Hall Thorsten Lindqvist Claes Egnell	Finland Olavi Mannonen Lauri Vilkko Olavi Rokka

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	2	0	1	3
2	Soviet Union	1	2	0	3
3	France	1	1	0	2
4	Argentina	1	0	0	1
	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1
	Yugoslavia	1	0	0	1
7	Australia	0	1	1	2
	Switzerland	0	1	1	2
9	Belgium	0	1	0	1
	Germany	0	1	0	1
11	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	Finland*	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Uruguay	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		7	7	7	21

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls details	Yuriy Tyukalov  Soviet Union	Mervyn Wood  Australia	Teodor Kocerka  Poland
Double sculls details	Argentina Tranquilo Cappozzo Eduardo Guerrero	Soviet Union Heorhiy Zhylin Ihor Yemchuk	Uruguay Miguel Seijas Juan Rodríguez
Coxless pair details	United States Charlie Logg Tom Price	Belgium Michel Knuysen Bob Baetens	Switzerland Kurt Schmid Hans Kalt
Coxed pair details	France Raymond Salles Gaston Mercier Bernard Malivoire	Germany Heinz Manchen Helmut Heinhold Helmut Noll	Denmark Svend Ove Pedersen Poul Svendsen Jørgen Frantzen
Coxless four details	Yugoslavia Duje Bonačić Velimir Valenta Mate Trojanović Petar Šegvić	France Pierre Blondiaux Jean-Jacques Guissart Marc Bouissou Roger Gautier	Finland Veikko Lommi Kauko Wahlsten Oiva Lommi Lauri Nevalainen
Coxed four details	Czechoslovakia Karel Mejta Jiří Havlis Jan Jindra Stanislav Lusk Miroslav Koranda	Switzerland Rico Bianchi Karl Weidmann Heini Scheller Émile Ess Walter Leiser	United States Carl Lovsted Al Ulbrickson Richard Wahlstrom Matt Leanderson Al Rossi
Eight details	United States Frank Shakespeare William Fields James Dunbar Richard Murphy Robert Detweiler Henry Proctor Wayne Frye Edward Stevens Charles Manring	Soviet Union Yevgeny Brago Vladimir Rodimushkin Aleksey Komarov Igor Borisov Slava Amiragov Leonid Gissen Yevgeny Samsonov Vladimir Kryukov Igor Polyakov	Australia Bob Tinning Ernest Chapman Nimrod Greenwood David Anderson Geoff Williamson Mervyn Finlay Edward Pain Phil Cayzer Tom Chessell

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	2	1	0	3
2	Norway	1	2	0	3
3	Denmark	1	0	0	1
	Italy	1	0	0	1
5	Sweden	0	1	2	3
6	Great Britain	0	1	0	1
7	Finland*	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Portugal	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		5	5	5	15

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Finn details	Paul Elvstrøm  Denmark	Charles Currey  Great Britain	Rickard Sarby  Sweden
Star details	Italy Agostino Straulino Nicolò Rode	United States John Price John Reid	Portugal Joaquim Fiúza Francisco de Andrade
Dragon details	Norway Thor Thorvaldsen Haakon Barfod Sigve Lie	Sweden Per Gedda Erland Almqvist Sidney Boldt-Christmas	Germany Theodor Thomsen Erich Natusch Georg Nowka
5.5 metre details	United States Britton Chance Michael Schoettle Edgar White Sumner White	Norway Peder Lunde Vibeke Lunde Børre Falkum-Hansen	Sweden Folke Wassén Carl-Erik Ohlson Magnus Wassén
6 metre details	United States Herman Whiton Everard Endt John Morgan Eric Ridder Julian Roosevelt Emelyn Whiton	Norway Finn Ferner Tor Arneberg Johan Ferner Erik Heiberg Carl Mortensen	Finland Ernst Westerlund Ragnar Jansson Jonas Konto Rolf Turkka Paul Sjöberg

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	2	0	0	2
2	Soviet Union	1	1	2	4
3	Hungary	1	1	1	3
4	Romania	1	0	1	2
	United States	1	0	1	2
6	Canada	1	0	0	1
7	Sweden	0	2	1	3
8	Finland*	0	1	1	2
9	Spain	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
Totals (10 entries)		7	7	7	21

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m pistol details	Huelet Benner  United States	Angel Leon de Gozalo  Spain	Ambrus Balogh  Hungary
25 m rapid fire pistol details	Károly Takács  Hungary	Szilárd Kun  Hungary	Gheorghe Lichiardopol  Romania
50 m rifle prone details	Iosif Sîrbu  Romania	Boris Andreyev  Soviet Union	Arthur Jackson  United States
50 m rifle three positions details	Erling Asbjørn Kongshaug  Norway	Vilho Ylönen  Finland	Boris Andreyev  Soviet Union
300 m free rifle three positions details	Anatoli Bogdanov  Soviet Union	Robert Bürchler  Switzerland	Lev Weinstein  Soviet Union
100 m running deer details	John Larsen  Norway	Per Olof Sköldberg  Sweden	Tauno Mäki  Finland
Trap details	George Genereux  Canada	Knut Holmqvist  Sweden	Hans Liljedahl  Sweden