Netherlands at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Athletes from the Netherlands competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.

Silver

 * Bertha Brouwer &mdash; Athletics, Women's 200 metres
 * Jules Ancion, André Boerstra, Harry Derckx, Han Drijver, Dick Esser, Roepie Kruize, Dick Loggere, Lau Mulder, Eddy Tiel, Wim van Heel, and Henk Wery &mdash; Field Hockey, Men's Team Competition
 * Hannie Termeulen &mdash; Swimming, Women's 100m Freestyle
 * Geertje Wielema &mdash; Swimming, Women's 100m Backstroke
 * Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, Hannie Termeulen, Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen and Koosje van Voorn &mdash; Swimming, Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

Boxing
Men's Flyweight (–51 kg)
 * Hein van der Zee
 * First Round &mdash; Lost to Anatoli Bulakov (Soviet Union) on points (0-3)

Men's Light Welterweight (–63,5 kg)
 * Piet van Klaveren
 * First Round &mdash; Defeated Roy Keenan (Canada) on points (2-1)
 * Second Round &mdash; Lost to Terence Milligan (Ireland) on points (0-3)

Men's Welterweight (–67 kg)
 * Moos Linneman
 * First Round &mdash; Defeated Peter Müller (Germany) by walk-over in third round
 * Second Round &mdash; Defeated George Issabeg (Iran) on points (2-1)
 * Quarterfinals &mdash; Lost to Günther Heidemann (Germany) on points (0-3)

Men's Middleweight (–75 kg)
 * Leen Jansen
 * First Round &mdash; Bye
 * Second Round &mdash; Defeated Robert Malouf (Canada) on technical knock-out in first round
 * Quarterfinals &mdash; Lost to Floyd Patterson (United States) on knock-out in first round

Men's Light Heavyweight (–81 kg)
 * Toon Pastor
 * First Round &mdash; Defeated István Fazekas (Hungary) on points (3-0)
 * Second Round &mdash; Lost to Karl Kistner (Germany) on points (1-2)

Road Competition
Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)
 * Arend van 't Hoft &mdash; 5:11:19.0 (→ 10th place)
 * Jan Plantaz &mdash; 5:16:19.1 (→ 22nd place)
 * Adrie Voorting &mdash; 5:24:44.6 (→ 49th place)
 * Jules Maenen &mdash; did not finish (→ no ranking)

Track Competition
Men's 1.000m Time Trial
 * Johan Hijzelendoorn
 * Final &mdash; 1:14.5 (→ 8th place)

Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race
 * Johan Hijzelendoorn &mdash; 9th place

Men's 4.000m Team Pursuit
 * Adrie Voorting, Daan de Groot, Jan Plantaz, and Jules Maenen
 * Eliminated in quarterfinals (→ 7th place)

Rowing
Netherlands had 12 male rowers participate in four out of seven rowing events in 1952.


 * Men's single sculls
 * Rob van Mesdag


 * Men's coxless pair
 * Ben Binnendijk
 * Carl Kuntze


 * Men's coxless four
 * Frits de Voogt
 * Ruud Sesink Clee
 * Jan op den Velde
 * Kees van Vugt


 * Men's coxed four
 * Ton Fontani
 * Han Heijenbrock
 * Jan Willem Pennink
 * Jaap Beije
 * Hans Caro (cox)

Men's Team Competition

 * Qualifying Round
 * Defeated Soviet Union (3:2)


 * Preliminary Round (Group C)
 * Defeated Argentina (9:3)
 * Defeated Sweden (7:1)
 * Defeated Yugoslavia (3:2)
 * Last match was replayed after a protest by the Yugoslavs against one of the referees; The Netherlands lost the replay (1:2) on August 1, 1952.


 * Semi Final (Group F)
 * Tied with Hungary (4:4)
 * Defeated Soviet Union (4:2)


 * Classification Matches
 * Defeated Belgium (5:3)
 * Defeated Spain (7:1) → Fifth place


 * Team Roster
 * Gerrit Bijlsma
 * Cor Braasem
 * Joop Cabout
 * Ruud van Feggelen
 * Max van Gelder
 * Nijs Korevaar
 * Frits Smol