Bulgaria at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Bulgaria competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. The nation returned to the Olympic Games after having missed the 1948 Summer Olympics. 63 competitors, 54 men and 9 women, took part in 34 events in 8 sports.

Athletics

 * Track & Road Events

The fastest two from each heat qualifies for the quarterfinals.


 * Field Events


 * Men

Group 2

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Quarterfinals
The top two teams in each quarterfinals advanced to the semifinals. The other two teams in each quarterfinals played in the fifth through eighth place classification.

Quarterfinals group A

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Boxing
Bulgaria entered four boxers to compete in each of the following weight classes into the Olympic boxing tournament.

Boris Nikolov won the first medal for Bulgaria in their Summer Olympics history with his bronze medal in Men's middleweight category,where he reached the semifinal,but lost from Vasile Tiță from Romania.The rules in the boxing are allowing both of the semifinal losers to win bronze medal without a match between them.

Cycling
Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)
 * Road Competition
 * Petar Georgiev &mdash; 5:24:34.0 (→ 46th place)
 * Boyan Kotsev &mdash; did not finish (→ no ranking)
 * Ilya Velchev &mdash; did not finish (→ no ranking)
 * Milcho Rosev &mdash; did not finish (→ no ranking)

Football

 * Preliminary round results

🇧🇬 [[bulgaria national football team|bulgaria]]
Head coach: Krum Milev

Gymnastics
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 * Individual

Individual
 * Men
 * Team

Shooting
Six shooters represented Bulgaria in 1952.
 * Men