Soviet Union at the 1952 Summer Olympics


The Soviet Union 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.

Medalists

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

Gold

;Key
;Men
;Track & road events
;Field events
;Combined events – Decathlon
;Women
;Track & road events
;Field events

Basketball

;Men's team competition

Canoeing

Cycling

;Road competition
men's individual road race
;Track competition
Men's 1000 m time trial
Men's 1000 m sprint scratch race
Men's 3 m springboard
Men's 10 m platform
Women's 3 m springboard
Women's 10 m platform
;Dressage
AthleteHorseEventPointsRank
Vladimir RaspopovImeninnikIndividual433.519
Vasily TikhonovPevecIndividual395.024
Nikolay Sitko CesarIndividual377.025
Vladimir Raspopov
Vasily Tikhonov
Nikolay Sitko
See aboveTeam1205.57

;Eventing
AthleteHorseEventPenaltiesRank
Valerian KuybyshevPerekopIndividual84.0010
Boris LilovZagibIndividualDid not finish
Yury AndreyevLogovojIndividualDid not finish-
Valerian Kuybyshev
Boris Lilov
Yury Andreyev
See aboveTeamDid not finish

;Jumping
AthleteHorseEventPenaltiesRank
Mikhail VlasovRotaIndividual56.0043
Nikolay ShelenkovAtigerIndividual62.5046
Gavriil BudyonnyYegerIndividual83.2547
Mikhail Vlasov
Nikolay Shelenkov
Gavriil Budyonny
See aboveTeam201.7514

Fencing

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

Football

; Preliminary round
; 1/8 finals
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;Men
;Individual
;Team
;Women
;Individual
;Team
AthleteEventTeam exercise
with portable apparatus
RankBest six individual
apparatus scores
RankTotalRank
Maria Gorokhovskaya
Nina Bocharova
Galina Minaicheva
Galina Urbanovich
Pelageya Danilova
Galina Shamrai
Medeya Jugeli
Ekaterina Kalinchuk
Team73.00454.031527.03

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathletes represented the Soviet Union in 1952.

Rowing

The Soviet Union had 26 male rowers participate in all seven rowing events in 1952.
Men's single sculls
Men's double sculls
Men's coxless pair
Men's coxed pair
Men's coxless four
Men's coxed four
Men's eight

Shooting

;Men
AthleteEventPointsRank
Boris Andreyev50 m rifle prone400
Boris Andreyev50 m rifle three positions1163
Pyotr Avilov50 m rifle prone39524
Pyotr Avilov50 m rifle three positions11625
Anatoli Bogdanov300 m rifle three positions1123 WR
Vasily Frolov25 m rapid fire pistol5738
Ivan IsayevTrap18510
Konstantin Martazov50 m pistol5464
Yury NikandrovTrap18315
Pyotr Nikolayev100 m running deer3857
Vasily Novikov25 m rapid fire pistol56911
Vladimir Sevryugin100 m running deer3838
Lev Vainshtein50 m pistol5465
Lev Vainshtein300 m rifle three positions1109

Swimming

Water polo

;Men's team competition
;Men

Wrestling

;Men's freestyle
;Men's Greco-Roman

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.