# 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.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| Gold | John Mikaelsson | Athletics | Men's 10 km Walk |
| Gold | Gert Fredriksson | Canoeing | Men's K1 1000 m |
| Gold | Hans von Blixen-Finecke Jr | Equestrian | Three-Day Event |
| Gold | Folke Frölén Olof Stahre Hans von Blixen-Finecke Jr | Equestrian | Three-Day Team Event |
| Gold | Henri Saint Cyr | Equestrian | Dressage Individual |
| Gold | Gustaf Adolf Boltenstern Gehnäll Persson Henri Saint Cyr | Equestrian | Dressage Team |
| Gold | William Thoresson | Gymnastics | Men's Floor |
| Gold | Gun Röring Ingrid Sandahl Hjördis Nordin Ann-Sofi Pettersson Göta Pettersson Evy Berggren Vanja Blomberg Karin Lindberg | Gymnastics | Women's Team Portable Apparatus |
| Gold | Lars Hall | Modern pentathlon | Men's Individual |
| Gold | Axel Grönberg | Wrestling (Greco-Roman) | Men's Middleweight |
| Gold | Olle Anderberg | Wrestling | Men's Freestyle Lightweight |
| Gold | Viking Palm | Wrestling | Men's Freestyle Light Heavyweight |
| Silver | Ingemar Johansson | Boxing | Men's Heavyweight |
| Silver | Lars Glassér Ingemar Hedberg | Canoeing | Men's K2 1000 m |
| Silver | Gert Fredriksson | Canoeing | Men's K1 10000 m |
| Silver | Gunnar Åkerlund Hans Wetterström | Canoeing | Men's K2 10000 m |
| Silver | Bengt Ljungquist Lennart Magnusson Berndt-Otto Rehbinder Per Hjalmar Carleson Sven Fahlman Carl Forssell | Fencing | Men's Épée Team |
| Silver | Claes Egnell Lars Hall Thorsten Lindqvist | Modern pentathlon | Men's Team |
| Silver | Knut Holmqvist | Shooting | Men's Trap |
| Silver | Olof Sköldberg | Shooting | Men's Running Deer, Single & Double Shot |
| Silver | Gustav Freij | Wrestling (Greco-Roman) | Men's Lightweight |
| Silver | Gösta Andersson | Wrestling (Greco-Roman) | Men's Welterweight |
| Silver | Per Gunnar Berlin | Wrestling | Men's Freestyle Welterweight |
| Silver | Bertil Antonsson | Wrestling | Men's Freestyle Heavyweight |
| Silver | Erland Almqvist Sidney Boldt-Christmas Per Gedda | Sailing | Men's Dragon |
| Bronze | Gustaf Jansson | Athletics | Men's Marathon |
| Bronze | Ragnar Lundberg | Athletics | Men's Pole Vault |
| Bronze | Stig Sjölin | Boxing | Men's Middleweight |
| Bronze | National football team | Football | Men's Team Competition |
| Bronze | Hans Liljedahl | Shooting | Men's Trap |
| Bronze | Göran Larsson | Swimming | Men's 100m Freestyle |
| Bronze | Per Olof Östrand | Swimming | Men's 400m Freestyle |
| Bronze | Karl-Erik Nilsson | Wrestling (Greco-Roman) | Men's Light Heavyweight |
| Bronze | Rickard Sarby | Sailing | Men's Finn |
| Bronze | Magnus Wassén Carl-Erik Ohlson Folke Wassén | Sailing | Men's 5½ m Class |

## Cycling
### Road Competition

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

## Diving

Men's 3m Springboard
* Frank Landqvist
   * Preliminary Round — 60.11 points (→ 23rd place)
* Gunnar Johansson
   * Preliminary Round — 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
### Summary

Key:
* W – Win D – Draw L – Loss
* A.E.T – After extra time.
* RP – Game replayed
| Team | Event | Primary round | First round | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Team | Event | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank |
| Sweden men's | Men's tournament | Bye | Norway W 4–1 | Austria W 3–1 | Hungary L 0–6 | West Germany W 2–0 | |

## 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

| Team | Event | Elimination round | Elimination round | First round | First round | First round | First round | Semifinal | Semifinal | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final | Final | Rank |
| Team | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Sweden men | Men's tournament | United States W 5–1 | Bye | Netherlands L 1–7 | Argentina W 7–2 | Yugoslavia L 1–9 | 3 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | 11 |