Sweden at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Sweden competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. 206 competitors, 183 men and 23 women, took part in 124 events in 17 sports.

Cycling
Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)
 * Road Competition
 * Yngve Lundh &mdash; 5:12:15.2 (→ 16th place)
 * Stig Mårtensson &mdash; 5:13:00.0 (→ 18th place)
 * Allan Carlsson &mdash; 5:16:19.1 (→ 21st place)
 * Lars Nordwall &mdash; did not finish (→ no ranking)

Diving
Men's 3m Springboard
 * Frank Landqvist
 * Preliminary Round &mdash; 60.11 points (→ 23rd place)


 * Gunnar Johansson
 * Preliminary Round &mdash; 59.11 points (→ 27th place)

Fencing
Ten fencers, all men, represented Sweden in 1952.


 * Men's foil
 * Bo Eriksson
 * Nils Rydström
 * Rolf Magnusson


 * Men's team foil
 * Rolf Magnusson, Sven Fahlman, Nils Rydström, Bo Eriksson


 * Men's épée
 * Per Carleson
 * Carl Forssell
 * Sven Fahlman


 * Men's team épée
 * Per Carleson, Carl Forssell, Bengt Ljungquist, Berndt-Otto Rehbinder, Sven Fahlman, Lennart Magnusson


 * Men's sabre
 * Henry Nordin
 * Bo Eriksson

Football
Key:
 * Summary
 * W – Win D – Draw L – Loss
 * A.E.T – After extra time.
 * RP – Game replayed

Modern pentathlon
Three male pentathletes represented Sweden in 1952. Lars Hall won gold in the individual event and all three pentathletes won silver in the team event.


 * Individual
 * Lars Hall
 * Thorsten Lindqvist
 * Claes Egnell


 * Team
 * Lars Hall
 * Thorsten Lindqvist
 * Claes Egnell

Rowing
Sweden had 16 male rowers participate in four out of seven rowing events in 1952.


 * Men's double sculls
 * Tore Johansson
 * Curt Brunnqvist


 * Men's coxless pair
 * Bernt Torberntsson
 * Evert Gunnarsson


 * Men's coxed pair
 * Ove Nilsson
 * Ingemar Svensson
 * Lars-Erik Larsson


 * Men's eight
 * Lennart Andersson
 * Frank Olsson
 * John Niklasson
 * Gösta Adamsson
 * Ivan Simonsson
 * Ragnar Ek
 * Thore Börjesson
 * Rune Andersson
 * Sture Baatz

Shooting
Ten shooters represented Sweden in 1952. Sweden won silver and bronze in the trap event and silver in the 100m running deer.


 * 25 m pistol
 * Gösta Pihl
 * Torsten Ullman


 * 50 m pistol
 * Torsten Ullman
 * Hugo Lundkvist


 * 300 m rifle, three positions
 * Holger Erbén
 * Walther Fröstell


 * 50 m rifle, three positions
 * Uno Berg
 * Walther Fröstell


 * 50 m rifle, prone
 * Walther Fröstell
 * Uno Berg


 * 100m running deer
 * Olof Sköldberg
 * Thorleif Kockgård


 * Trap
 * Knut Holmqvist
 * Hans Liljedahl

Water polo

 * Summary