# Atletiek op de Olympische Zomerspelen 1952

Atletiek op de Olympische Zomerspelen 1952 :
| Baanevenementen |||
| 100 m | mannen | vrouwen |
| 200 m | mannen | vrouwen |
| 400 m | mannen | |
| 800 m | mannen | |
| 1500 m | mannen | |
| 5000 m | mannen | |
| 10.000 m | mannen | |
| 80 m horden | | vrouwen |
| 110 m horden | mannen | |
| 400 m horden | mannen | |
| 3000 m steeplechase | mannen | |
| 4×100 m estafette | mannen | vrouwen |
| 4×400 m estafette | mannen | |
| Wegevenementen |||
| Marathon | mannen | |
| 10 kilometer snelwandelen | mannen | |
| 50 kilometer snelwandelen | mannen | |
| Veldevenementen |||
| Verspringen | mannen | vrouwen |
| Hink-stap-springen | mannen | |
| Hoogspringen | mannen | vrouwen |
| Polsstokhoogspringen | mannen | |
| Kogelstoten | mannen | vrouwen |
| Discuswerpen | mannen | vrouwen |
| Speerwerpen | mannen | vrouwen |
| Kogelslingeren | mannen | |
| Gecombineerde evenementen |||
| Tienkamp | mannen | |
Atletiek is een van de sporten die beoefend werden tijdens de Olympische Zomerspelen 1952 in Helsinki.

## Heren
### 100 m

| rang | sporter(s) | land | tijd |
| 1 | Lindy Remigino | USA | 10.4 |
| 2 | Herb McKenley | JAM | 10.4 |
| 3 | Emmanuel McDonald Bailey | GBR | 10.4 |
| 4 | Dean Smith | USA | 10.4 |
| 5 | Vladimir Soecharev | URS | 10.5 |
| 6 | John Treloar | AUS | 10.5 |

### 200 m

| rang | sporter(s) | land | tijd |
| 1 | Andy Stanfield | USA | OR 20.7 |
| 2 | Thane Baker | USA | 20.8 |
| 3 | James Gathers | USA | 20.8 |
| 4 | Emmanuel McDonald Bailey | GBR | 21.0 |
| 5 | Leslie Laing | JAM | 21.2 |
| 6 | Gerardo Bönnhoff | ARG | 21.3 |

### 400 m

| rang | sporter(s) | land | tijd |
| 1 | George Rhoden | JAM | OR 45.9 |
| 2 | Herb McKenley | JAM | OR 45.9 |
| 3 | Ollie Matson | USA | 46.8 |
| 4 | Karl-Friedrich Haas | GER | 47.0 |
| 5 | Arthur Wint | JAM | 47.0 |
| 6 | Mal Whitfield | USA | 47.1 |

### 800 m

| rang | sporter(s) | land | tijd |
| 1 | Mal Whitfield | USA | OR 1:49.2 |
| 2 | Arthur Wint | JAM | 1:49.4 |
| 3 | Heinz Ulzheimer | GER | 1:49.7 |
| 4 | Gunnar Nielsen | DEN | 1:49.7 |
| 5 | Albert Webster | GER | 1:50.2 |
| 6 | Günther Steines | GER | 1:50.6 |
| 7 | Reginald Pearman | USA | 1:52.1 |
| 8 | Lars Wolfbrand | SWE | 1:52.1 |

### 1500 m

| rang | sporter(s) | land | tijd |
| 1 | Josy Barthel | LUX | OR 3:45.2 |
| 2 | Bob McMillen | USA | OR 3:45.2 |
| 3 | Werner Lueg | GER | 3:45.4 |
| 4 | Roger Bannister | GBR | 3:46.0 |
| 5 | Patrick El Mabrouk | FRA | 3:46.0 |
| 6 | Rolf Lamers | GER | 3:46.8 |
| 7 | Olov Åberg | SWE | 3:47.0 |
| 8 | Ingvar Ericsson | SWE | 3:47.6 |

### 5000 m

| rang | sporter(s) | land | tijd |
| 1 | Emil Zátopek | TCH | OR 14:06.6 |
| 2 | Alain Mimoun | FRA | 14:07.4 |
| 3 | Herbert Schade | GER | 14:08.6 |
| 4 | Gordon Pirie | GBR | 14:18.0 |
| 5 | Christopher Chataway | GBR | 14:18.0 |
| 6 | Leslie Perry | AUS | 14:23.6 |
| 7 | Ernö Béres | HUN | 14:24.8 |
| 8 | Åke Andersson | SWE | 14:27.8 |

### 10000 m

| rang | sporter(s) | land | tijd |
| 1 | Emil Zátopek | TCH | OR 29:17.0 |
| 2 | Alain Mimoun | FRA | 29:32.8 |
| 3 | Aleksandr Anufrijev | URS | 29:48.2 |
| 4 | Hannu Posti | FIN | 29:51.4 |
| 5 | Frank Sando | GBR | 29:51.8 |
| 6 | Valter Nyström | SWE | 29:54.8 |
| 7 | Gordon Pirie | GBR | 30:04.2 |
| 8 | Fred Norris | GBR | 30:09.8 |

### marathon

| rang | sporter(s) | land | tijd |
| 1 | Emil Zátopek | TCH | OR 2:23:03.2 |
| 2 | Reinaldo Gorno | ARG | 2:25:35.0 |
| 3 | Gustaf Jansson | SWE | 2:26:07.0 |
| 4 | Choi Yoon-chil | KOR | 2:26.36.0 |
| 5 | Veikko Karvonen | FIN | 2:26.41.8 |
| 6 | Delfo Cabrera | ARG | 2:26:42.4 |
| 7 | József Dobronyi | HUN | 2:28:04.8 |
| 8 | Erkki Puolakka | FIN | 2:29:35.0 |

### 110 m horden

| rang | sporter(s) | land | tijd |
| 1 | Harrison Dillard | USA | OR 13.7 |
| 2 | Jack Davis | USA | OR 13.7 |
| 3 | Arthur Barnard | USA | 14.1 |
| 4 | Jevgeni Boelantsjik | URS | 14.5 |
| 5 | Kenneth Doubleday | AUS | 14.7 |
| 6 | Raymond Weinberg | AUS | 14.8 |

### 400 m horden

| rang | sporter(s) | land | tijd |
| 1 | Charles Moore | USA | OR 50.8 |
| 2 | Joeri Litoejev | URS | 51.3 |
| 3 | John Holland | NZL | 52.2 |
| 4 | Anatoli Joelin | URS | 52.8 |
| 5 | Harry Whittle | GBR | 53.1 |
| 6 | Armando Filiput | ITA | 54.4 |

### 3000 m steeple chase

| rang | sporter(s) | land | tijd |
| 1 | Horace Ashenfelter | USA | OR 8:45.4 |
| 2 | Vladimir Kazantsev | URS | 8:51.6 |
| 3 | John Disley | GBR | 8:51.8 |
| 4 | Olavi Rinteenpää | FIN | 8:55.2 |
| 5 | Curt Söderberg | SWE | 8:55.6 |
| 6 | Günther Hesselmann | GER | 8:55.8 |
| 7 | Mikhail Saltykov | URS | 8:56.2 |
| 8 | Helmut Gude | GER | 9:01.4 |

### 4x100 m estafette

| rang | sporter(s) | land | tijd |
| 1 | Dean Smith Harrison Dillard Lindy Remigino Andy Stanfield | USA | 40.1 |
| 2 | Boris Tokarjev Lev Kaljajev Levan Sanadze Vladimir Soecharev | URS | 40.3 |
| 3 | László Zarándi Géza Varasdi György Csányi Béla Goldoványi | HUN | 40.5 |
| 4 | Emmanuel McDonald Bailey William Jack John Gregory Brian Shenton | GBR | 40.6 |
| 5 | Alain Porthault Etienne Bally Yves Camus René Bonino | FRA | 40.9 |
| 6 | František Brož Jiří David Miroslav Horčic Zdeněk Pospíšil | TCH | 41.2 |

### 4x400 m estafette

| rang | sporter(s) | land | tijd |
| 1 | Arthur Wint Leslie Laing Herb McKenley George Rhoden | JAM | WR 3:03.9 |
| 2 | Ollie Matson Gene Cole Gerald Moore Mal Whitfield | USA | 3:04.0 |
| 3 | Hans Geister Günther Steines Heinz Ulzheimer Karl-Friedrich Haas | GER | 3:06.6 |
| 4 | Douglas Clement John Hutchins John Carroll (atleet) James Lavery | CAN | 3:09.3 |
| 5 | Leslie Lewis Alan Dick Terence Higgins Nicholas Stacey | GBR | 3:10.0 |
| 6 | Jean-Pierre Goudeou Robert Bart Jacques Dégats Jean-Paul Martin du Gard | FRA | 3:10.1 |

### 10 km snelwandelen

| rang | sporter(s) | land | tijd |
| 1 | John Mikaelsson | SWE | OR 45:02.8 |
| 2 | Erich Schwab | SUI | 45:41.0 |
| 3 | Bruno Junk | URS | 45:41.0 |
| 4 | Louis Chevalier | FRA | 45:50.4 |
| 5 | George Coleman | GBR | 46:06.8 |
| 6 | Ivan Jarmysh | URS | 46:07.0 |
| 7 | Emile Maggi | FRA | 46:08.0 |
| 8 | Bruno Fait | ITA | 46:25.6 |

### 50 km snelwandelen

| rang | sporter(s) | land | tijd |
| 1 | Pino Dordoni | ITA | OR 4:28:07.8 |
| 2 | Josef Doležal | TCH | 4:30:17.8 |
| 3 | Antal Róka | HUN | 4:31:27.2 |
| 4 | George Whitlock | GBR | 4:32:21.0 |
| 5 | Sergej Lobastov | URS | 4:32:34.2 |
| 6 | Vladimir Oekhov | URS | 4:32:15.6 |
| 7 | Dumitru Paraschivescu | ROU | 4:41:05.2 |
| 8 | Ionescu Baboie | ROU | 4:41:52.8 |

### hoogspringen

| rang | sporter(s) | land | hoogte |
| 1 | Walter Davis | USA | OR 2.04 m |
| 2 | Kenneth Wiesner | USA | 2.01 m |
| 3 | José Telles da Conceição | BRA | 1.98 m |
| 4 | Gösta Svensson | SWE | 1.98 m |
| 5 | Ronald Pavitt | GBR | 1.95 m |
| 6 | Ion Söter | ROU | 1.95 m |
| 7 | Arnold Betton | USA | 1.95 m |
| 8 | Bjørn Gundersen | NOR | 1.90 m |

### polsstokhoogspringen

| rang | sporter(s) | land | hoogte |
| 1 | Bob Richards | USA | OR 4.55 m |
| 2 | Donald Laz | USA | 4.50 m |
| 3 | Ragnar Lundberg | SWE | 4.40 m |
| 4 | Pjotr Denissenko | URS | 4.40 m |
| 5 | Valto Olenius | FIN | 4.30 m |
| 6 | Bunkichi Sawada | JPN | 4.20 m |
| 7 | Vladimir Brashnik | URS | 4.20 m |
| 8 | Viktor Knjazev | URS | 4.20 m |

### verspringen

| rang | sporter(s) | land | afstand |
| 1 | Jerome Biffle | USA | 7.57 m |
| 2 | Meredith Gourdine | USA | 7.53 m |
| 3 | Ödön Földessy | HUN | 7.30 m |
| 4 | Ary Façanha da Sá | BRA | 7.23 m |
| 5 | Jorma Valtonen | FIN | 7.16 m |
| 6 | Leonid Grigorjev | URS | 7.14 m |
| 7 | Karl-Erik Israelsson | SWE | 7.10 m |
| 8 | Paul Faucher | FRA | 7.02 m |

### hink-stap-springen

| rang | sporter(s) | land | afstand |
| 1 | Adhemar da Silva | BRA | WR 16.22 m |
| 2 | Leonid Sjtsjerbakov | URS | 15.98 m |
| 3 | Asnoldo Devonish | VEN | 15.52 m |
| 4 | Walter Ashbaugh | USA | 15.39 m |
| 5 | Rune Nilsen | NOR | 15.13 m |
| 6 | Yoshio Iimuro | JPN | 14.99 m |
| 7 | Geraldo de Oliveira | BRA | 14.95 m |
| 8 | Roger Norman | SWE | 14.89 m |

### kogelstoten

| rang | sporter(s) | land | afstand |
| 1 | Parry O'Brien | USA | OR 17.41 m |
| 2 | Darrow Hooper | USA | 17.39 m |
| 3 | Jim Fuchs | USA | 17.06 m |
| 4 | Otto Grigalka | URS | 16.78 m |
| 5 | Roland Nilsson | SWE | 16.55 m |
| 6 | John Savidge | GBR | 16.19 m |
| 7 | Georgi Fjodorov | URS | 16.06 m |
| 8 | Per Stavem | NOR | 16.02 m |

### discuswerpen

| rang | sporter(s) | land | afstand |
| 1 | Sim Iness | USA | OR 55.03 m |
| 2 | Adolfo Consolini | ITA | 53.78 m |
| 3 | James Dillon | USA | 53.28 m |
| 4 | Fortune Gordien | USA | 52.66 m |
| 5 | Ferenc Klics | HUN | 51.13 m |
| 6 | Otto Grigalka | URS | 50.71 m |
| 7 | Roland Nilsson | SWE | 50.06 m |
| 8 | Giuseppe Tosi | ITA | 49.03 m |

### kogelslingeren

| rang | sporter(s) | land | afstand |
| 1 | József Csermák | HUN | WR 60.34 m |
| 2 | Karl Storch | GER | 58.86 m |
| 3 | Imre Németh | HUN | 57.74 m |
| 4 | Jiří Dadák | TCH | 56.81 m |
| 5 | Nikolai Redkin | URS | 56.55 m |
| 6 | Karl Wolf | GER | 56.49 m |
| 7 | Sverre Strandli | NOR | 56.36 m |
| 8 | Georgi Dybenko | URS | 55.03 m |

### speerwerpen

| rang | sporter(s) | land | afstand |
| 1 | Cyrus Young | USA | OR 73.78 m |
| 2 | Bill Miller | USA | 72.46 m |
| 3 | Toivo Hyytiäinen | FIN | 71.89 m |
| 4 | Viktor Tsyboelenko | URS | 71.72 m |
| 5 | Branko Dangubić | YUG | 70.55 m |
| 6 | Vladimir Koeznetsov | URS | 70.37 m |
| 7 | Ragnar Ericzon | SWE | 69.04 m |
| 8 | Soini Nikkinen | FIN | 68.80 m |

### tienkamp

| rang | sporter(s) | land | punten |
| 1 | Bob Mathias | USA | WR 7887 |
| 2 | Milton Campbell | USA | 6975 |
| 3 | Floyd Simmons | USA | 6788 |
| 4 | Vladimir Volkov | URS | 6674 |
| 5 | Josef Hipp | GER | 6449 |
| 6 | Göran Widenfeldt | SWE | 6388 |
| 7 | Kjell Tännander | SWE | 6308 |
| 8 | Friedel Schirmer | GER | 6118 |

## Dames
### 100 m

| rang | sporter(s) | land | tijd |
| 1 | Marjorie Jackson | AUS | WR 11.5 |
| 2 | Daphne Hasenjäger-Robb | RSA | 11.8 |
| 3 | Shirley Strickland-de la Hunty | AUS | 11.9 |
| 4 | Winsome Cripps | AUS | 11.9 |
| 5 | Maria Sander | GER | 12.0 |
| 6 | Mae Faggs | USA | 12.1 |

### 200 m

| rang | sporter(s) | land | tijd |
| 1 | Marjorie Jackson | AUS | OR 23.7 |
| 2 | Puck Brouwer | NED | 24.2 |
| 3 | Nadeshda Sjnykina | URS | 24.2 |
| 4 | Winsome Cripps | AUS | 24.2 |
| 5 | Helga Klein | GER | 24.6 |
| 6 | Daphne Hasenjäger-Robb | RSA | 24.6 |

### 80 m horden

| rang | sporter(s) | land | tijd |
| 1 | Shirley Strickland-de la Hunty | AUS | WR 10.9 |
| 2 | Maria Goloebnitshaja | URS | 11.1 |
| 3 | Maria Sander | GER | 11.1 |
| 4 | Anneliese Seonbuchner | GER | 11.2 |
| 5 | Jean Desforges | GBR | 11.6 |
| | Fanny Blankers-Koen | NED | DNF |

### 4x100 m estafette

| rang | sporter(s) | land | tijd |
| 1 | Mae Faggs Barbara Jones Janet Moreau Catherine Hardy | USA | WR 45.9 |
| 2 | Ursula Knab Maria Sander Helga Klein Marga Petersen | GER | WR 45.9 |
| 3 | Sylvia Cheeseman June Foulds Jean Desforges Heather Armitage | GBR | 46.2 |
| 4 | Irina Toerova Jevgenia Setshenova Nadeshda Sjnykina Vera Kalasjnikova | URS | 46.3 |
| 5 | Shirley Strickland-de la Hunty Verna Johnson Winsome Cripps Marjorie Jackson | AUS | 46.6 |
| 6 | Gré de Jongh Puck Brouwer Nel Büch Wil Lust | NED | 47.8 |

### hoogspringen

| rang | sporter(s) | land | hoogte |
| 1 | Esther Brand | RSA | 1.67 m |
| 2 | Sheila Lerwill | GBR | 1.65 m |
| 3 | Aleksandra Tsjoedina | URS | 1.63 m |
| 4 | Thelma Hopkins | GBR | 1.58 m |
| 5 | Olga Modrachová | TCH | 1.58 m |
| 6 | Feodora Schenk | AUT | 1.58 m |
| 7 | Nina Kossova | URS | 1.58 m |
| 7 | Dorothy Tyler | GBR | 1.58 m |

### verspringen

| rang | sporter(s) | land | hoogte |
| 1 | Yvette Williams | NZL | OR 6.24 m |
| 2 | Aleksandra Tsjoedina | URS | 6.14 m |
| 3 | Shirley Cawley | GBR | 5.90 m |
| 4 | Irmgard Schmeltzer | GER | 5.90 m |
| 5 | Wil Lust | NED | 5.81 m |
| 6 | Nina Tjoerkina | URS | 5.81 m |
| 7 | Mabel Landru | USA | 5.75 m |
| 8 | Verna Johnson | AUS | 5.74 m |

### kogelstoten

| rang | sporter(s) | land | afstand |
| 1 | Galina Zybina | URS | WR 15.28 m |
| 2 | Marianne Werner | GER | 14.57 m |
| 3 | Klavdija Totsjenova | URS | 14.50 m |
| 4 | Tamara Tysjkevitsj | URS | 14.42 m |
| 5 | Gertrud Kille | GER | 13.84 m |
| 6 | Yvette Williams | NZL | 13.35 m |
| 7 | Maria Radosaljević | YUG | 13.30 m |
| 8 | Meeri Saari | FIN | 13.02 m |

### discuswerpen

| rang | sporter(s) | land | afstand |
| 1 | Nina Romasjkova | URS | OR 51.42 m |
| 2 | Jelizaveta Bagrjanzeva | URS | 47.08 m |
| 3 | Nina Doembadse | URS | 46.29 m |
| 4 | Toyoko Yoshino | JPN | 43.81 m |
| 5 | Charlotte Haidegger | AUT | 43.49 m |
| 6 | Lia Manoliu | ROU | 42.65 m |
| 7 | Ingeborg Pfüller | ARG | 41.73 m |
| 8 | Dezsöné Józsa | HUN | 41.61 m |

### speerwerpen

| rang | sporter(s) | land | afstand |
| 1 | Dana Zátopková | TCH | OR 50.47 m |
| 2 | Aleksandra Tsjoedina | URS | 50.01 m |
| 3 | Jelena Gortsjakova | URS | 49.76 m |
| 4 | Galina Zybina | URS | 48.35 m |
| 5 | Lilly Kelsby | DEN | 46.23 m |
| 6 | Marlies Müller | GER | 44.37 m |
| 7 | Maria Ciach | POL | 44.31 m |
| 8 | Jutta Krüger | GER | 44.30 m |

## Medaillespiegel

| rang | land | 1 goud | 2 zilver | 3 brons | totaal |
| 1 | Verenigde Staten | 15 | 10 | 6 | 31 |
| 2 | Tsjecho-Slowakije | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 3 | Australië | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | Sovjet-Unie | 2 | 8 | 7 | 17 |
| 5 | Jamaica | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 6 | Italië | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Zuid-Afrika | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Hongarije | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 9 | Zweden | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | Brazilië | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Nieuw-Zeeland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | Luxemburg | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Duitsland | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 14 | Frankrijk | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 15 | Groot-Brittannië | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 16 | Argentinië | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Nederland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Zwitserland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | Finland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Venezuela | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| totaal | totaal | 33 | 33 | 33 | 99 |