Australia at the 1952 Summer Olympics

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Australia at the Olympic Games
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At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki
Competitors	85 (70 men, 15 women)
Flag bearer	Mervyn Wood
Medals Rank: 9	Gold 6	Silver 2	Bronze 3	Total 11
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Australia competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. Australian athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games.

Contents 1 Medals 1.1 Gold 1.2 Silver 1.3 Bronze 2 Results and competitors by event 2.1 Athletics 2.2 Cycling 2.2.1 Road Competition 2.2.2 Track Competition 2.3 Diving

[edit] Medals

[edit] Gold

• Marjorie Jackson — Athletics, Women's 100 metres

• Marjorie Jackson — Athletics, Women's 200 metres

• Shirley Strickland — Athletics, Women's 80m Hurdles

• Russell Mockridge — Cycling, Men's 1000m Time Trial

• Lionel Cox and Russell Mockridge — Cycling, Men's 2000m Tandem

• John Davies — Swimming, Men's 200m Breaststroke

[edit] Silver

• Lionel Cox — Cycling, Men's 1000m Sprint (Scratch)

• Mervyn Wood — Rowing, Men's Single Sculls

[edit] Bronze

• Shirley Strickland — Athletics, Women's 100 metres

• David Anderson, Philip Cayzer, Ernest Chapman, Thomas Chessel, Mervyn Finlay, Nimrod Greenwood, Edward Pain, Robert Tinning, and Geoffrey Willamson — Rowing, Men's Eights

• Verdi Barberis — Weightlifting, Men's Lightweight

[edit] Results and competitors by event

[edit] Athletics

For more details on this topic, see Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Men's 100 metres

• John Treloar

• First Round – 10.7
• First Round – 10.7
• Semifinals – 10.6
• Final – 10.5 (→ 6th place)

[edit] Cycling

[edit] Road Competition

Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)

• Peter Pryor — 5:22:33.5 (→ 34th place)
• Jim Nevin — 5:22:33.6 (→ 35th place)
• Ken Caves — did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Peter Nelson — did not finish (→ no ranking)

[edit] Track Competition

Men's 1.000m Time Trial

• Russell Mockridge

• Final — 1:11.1 (→ Gold Medal)

Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race

• Lionel Cox → Silver Medal

[edit] Diving

Men's 3m Springboard

• Ronald Faulds

• Preliminary Round — 59.90 points (→ 24th place)

• Francis Murphy

• Preliminary Round — 48.42 points (→ 34th place)

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