1952 Summer Olympics

The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were held at Helsinki in Finland.Sports Reference.com (SR/Olympics),  "1952 Helsinki Summer Games" ; retrieved 2012-7-23.

Helsinki was chosen as the host city over Amsterdam, Athens, Lausanne, and Stockholm and five American cities: Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Philadelphia. Helsinki had been given the 1940 Summer Olympics, but they were cancelled because of World War II 

 Participating nations 
A total of 69 nations sent athletes to compete at the Helsinki games.Taking part in the games for the first time were The Bahamas, Gold Coast (now Ghana), Guatemala, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Israel, Netherlands Antilles, Nigeria, Saar, the Soviet Union (USSR), Thailand, and Vietnam.









































































Related pages
 List of IOC country codes

References

Other websites

 IOC page on the 1952 Summer Olympics