# Netherlands at the 1952 Summer Olympics

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

## Medalists
### Silver

* Bertha Brouwer — 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 — Field Hockey, Men's Team Competition
* Hannie Termeulen — Swimming, Women's 100m Freestyle
* Geertje Wielema — Swimming, Women's 100m Backstroke
* Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, Hannie Termeulen, Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen and Koosje van Voorn — Swimming, Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

## Results by event
### Boxing

Men's Flyweight (–51 kg)
* Hein van der Zee
** First Round — Lost to Anatoli Bulakov (Soviet Union) on points (0-3)
Men's Light Welterweight (–63,5 kg)
* Piet van Klaveren
** First Round — Defeated Roy Keenan (Canada) on points (2-1)
** Second Round — Lost to Terence Milligan (Ireland) on points (0-3)
Men's Welterweight (–67 kg)
* Moos Linneman
** First Round — Defeated Peter Müller (Germany) by walk-over in third round
** Second Round — Defeated George Issabeg (Iran) on points (2-1)
** Quarterfinals — Lost to Günther Heidemann (Germany) on points (0-3)
Men's Middleweight (–75 kg)
* Leen Jansen
** First Round — Bye
** Second Round — Defeated Robert Malouf (Canada) on technical knock-out in first round
** Quarterfinals — Lost to Floyd Patterson (United States) on knock-out in first round
Men's Light Heavyweight (–81 kg)
* Toon Pastor
** First Round — Defeated István Fazekas (Hungary) on points (3-0)
** Second Round — Lost to Karl Kistner (Germany) on points (1-2)

### Cycling
#### Road Competition

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

#### Track Competition

Men's 1.000m Time Trial
* Johan Hijzelendoorn
   * Final — 1:14.5 (→ 8th place)
Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race
* Johan Hijzelendoorn — 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)

### Water Polo
#### 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