Sailing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

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At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, five events in sailing were contested.

[edit] Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5.5 metre class	United States (USA) Britton Chance Sumner White Edgar White Michael Schoettle	Norway (NOR) Peder Lunde Vibeke Lunde Börre Falkum-Hansen	Sweden (SWE) Folke Wassen Carl-Erik Ohlson Magnus Wassen
6 metre class	United States (USA) Herman Whiton Eric Ridder Julius Roosevelt John Morgan Everard Endt Emelyn Whiton	Norway (NOR) Finn Ferner Johan Ferner Erik Heiberg Carl Mortensen Tor Arneberg	Finland (FIN) Ernst Westerlund Paul Sjöberg Ragnar Jansson Jonas Konto Rolf Turkka
Dragon class	Norway (NOR) Sigve Lie Haakon Barfod Thor Thorvaldsen	Sweden (SWE) Per Gedda Sidney Boldt-Christmas Erland Almkvist	West Germany (FRG) Theodor Thomsen Erich Natusch Georg Nowka
Finn class	Paul Bert Elvstrøm Denmark (DEN)	Charles Currey Great Britain (GBR)	Rickard Sarby Sweden (SWE)
Star class	Italy (ITA) Agostino Straulino Nicolo Rode	United States (USA) John Reid John Reid	Portugal (POR) Joaquim Mascarenhas de Fiuza Francisco de Andrade

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	2	1	0	3
2	Norway (NOR)	1	2	0	3
3	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
5	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	2	3
6	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	0	1
7	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	0	1	1
	West Germany (FRG)	0	0	1	1

[edit] Reference

• Olympic Medal Winners. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on 2006-12-05.

Events at the 1952 Summer Olympics (Helsinki)
Athletics • Baseball (demonstration) • Basketball • Boxing • Canoeing • Cycling • Diving • Equestrian • Fencing • Football • Gymnastics • Hockey • Modern pentathlon • Rowing • Sailing • Shooting • Swimming • Water polo • Weightlifting • Wrestling

Sailing at the Summer Olympics
1896 • 1900 • 1904 • 1908 • 1912 • 1920 • 1924 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008 See also: List of Olympic medalists in sailing