List of 1952 Winter Olympics medal winners

Sverre Stenersen, the 1952 bronze medallist in Nordic combined, pictured here at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy where he won gold in the same event^[1]

The 1952 Winter Olympics, officially known by the International Olympic Committee as the VI Olympic Winter Games,^[2] were a multi-sport event held in Oslo, Norway, from February 14–25, 1952. A total of 694 athletes representing 30 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated at the Games in 22 events across 8 disciplines.^[3] Of the 30 participating NOCs, Portugal and New Zealand made their Winter Olympic Games debuts in Oslo—neither delegation secured a medal.^[3]

The Olympic programme changed only slightly from that of the 1948 St. Moritz Olympics, with the addition of women's cross-country skiing, and changes to the alpine skiing line-up where the combined was replaced by the giant slalom.^[4] Bandy was held as the sole demonstration event at the Games.^[5] Both men and women participated at these Games; aside from cross-country skiing, women also took part in alpine skiing and figure skating. The Games were officially opened by a woman for the first time; Princess Ragnhild of Norway did the honours in the absence of both her father Crown Prince Olav and grandfather King Haakon VII, away in London for the funeral of George VI of the United Kingdom who had died just days before the Games opened.^[3][4]

A total of 115 athletes won at least one medal at the Games.^[4] On home soil, athletes from Norway won sixteen medals, including seven golds, the most of any country at the Games. The United States (eleven medals, four golds) and Finland (nine medals, three golds) finished second and third in the medal table respectively. Athletes from 13 of the 30 participating NOCs won at least one medal; athletes from eight countries won at least one gold. Of the 13 NOCs which won medals, 10 won more than one.^[4] Germany made their return to the Olympics after being barred from both the 1948 Winter and Summer Games for their involvement in World War II.^[6] As a result of the war, Germany had been divided into two nations, the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), and the German Democratic Republic. Only the FRG competed at these Games, where they won both the two-man and four-man bobsleigh events by taking advantage of a not-yet implemented rule by the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing that imposed a weight limit on bobsleigh teams.^[7]

Dick Button of the United States successfully defended the Olympic title he won in St. Moritz for men's singles figure skating, in the process becoming the first skater to be unanimously ranked first by judges in every round of an Olympic competition.^[8] Finland's Lydia Wideman won the first gold medal awarded in women's cross-country skiing, with Mirja Hietamies and Siiri Rantanen completing an all-Finnish podium in the event. Finland won three of the four golds and eight of the twelve medals on offer in the sport.^[9] Hjalmar Andersen was the most successful athlete at the Games, winning three gold medals in speed skating. In two of the three events he won, the 5000 m and 10000 m, he set new Olympic records^[10] and won by the largest margins in those events' Olympic history:^[3] 11 seconds in the 5000 m^[11] and nearly 25 seconds in the 10000 m.^[12] Mirl Buchner of Germany also won three medals at the Games, with one silver and two bronzes won in alpine skiing. A total of 18 athletes won more than one medal at the Games. However, only four of them won more than one gold medal: Andersen; Andrea Mead Lawrence of the United States; and Lorenz Nieberl and Andreas Ostler of Germany.^[4]

Alpine skiing

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's downhill[13]	Zeno Colò Italy (ITA)	Othmar Schneider Austria (AUT)	Christian Pravda Austria (AUT)
Women's downhill[14]	Trude Jochum-Beiser Austria (AUT)	Annemarie Buchner Germany (GER)	Giuliana Minuzzo Italy (ITA)
Men's giant slalom[15]	Stein Eriksen Norway (NOR)	Christian Pravda Austria (AUT)	Toni Spiß Austria (AUT)
Women's giant slalom[16]	Andrea Mead Lawrence United States (USA)	Dagmar Rom Austria (AUT)	Annemarie Buchner Germany (GER)
Men's slalom[17]	Othmar Schneider Austria (AUT)	Stein Eriksen Norway (NOR)	Guttorm Berge Norway (NOR)
Women's slalom[18]	Andrea Mead Lawrence United States (USA)	Ossi Reichert Germany (GER)	Annemarie Buchner Germany (GER)

Bobsleigh

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Two-man	Germany (GER)[19] Germany I Andreas Ostler Lorenz Nieberl	United States (USA)[20] USA I Stanley Benham Patrick Martin	Switzerland (SUI)[21] Switzerland I Fritz Feierabend Stephan Waser
Four-man	Germany (GER)[19] Germany I Andreas Ostler Friedrich Kuhn Lorenz Nieberl Franz Kemser	United States (USA)[20] USA I Stanley Benham Patrick Martin Howard Crossett James Atkinson	Switzerland (SUI)[21] Switzerland I Fritz Feierabend Albert Madörin André Filippini Stephan Waser

Cross-country skiing

Heikki Hasu was part of Finland's gold medal-winning cross-country relay team at the 1952 Winter Olympics. Hasu also won a silver medal at the same Games in Nordic combined.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Women's 10 km[22]	Lydia Wideman Finland (FIN)	Mirja Hietamies Finland (FIN)	Siiri Rantanen Finland (FIN)
Men's 18 km[23]	Hallgeir Brenden Norway (NOR)	Tapio Mäkelä Finland (FIN)	Paavo Lonkila Finland (FIN)
Men's 50 km[24]	Veikko Hakulinen Finland (FIN)	Eero Kolehmainen Finland (FIN)	Magnar Estenstad Norway (NOR)
Men's 4×10 km relay	Finland (FIN)[25] Heikki Hasu Paavo Lonkila Urpo Korhonen Tapio Mäkelä	Norway (NOR)[26] Magnar Estenstad Mikal Kirkholt Martin Stokken Hallgeir Brenden	Sweden (SWE)[27] Nils Täpp Sigurd Andersson Enar Josefsson Martin Lundström

Figure skating

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles[28]	Dick Button United States (USA)	Helmut Seibt Austria (AUT)	James Grogan United States (USA)
Ladies' singles[29]	Jeannette Altwegg Great Britain (GBR)	Tenley Albright United States (USA)	Jacqueline du Bief France (FRA)
Pairs	Germany (GER)[30] Ria Falk Paul Falk	United States (USA)[31] Karol Kennedy Peter Kennedy	Hungary (HUN)[32] Marianna Nagy László Nagy

Ice hockey

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	Canada (CAN)[33] Eric Paterson Ralph Hansch John Davies Don Gauf Robert Meyers Thomas Pollock Al Purvis Billy Gibson David Miller George Abel Billy Dawe Robert Dickson Gordon Robertson Louis Secco Francis Sullivan Robert Watt	United States (USA)[34] Alfred Van Allen André Gambucci Arnold Oss Clifford Harrison Donald Whiston Gerald Kilmartin James Sedin John Mulhern John Noah Joseph Czarnota Kenneth Yackel Leonard Ceglarski Richard Desmond Robert Rompre Ruben Bjorkman	Sweden (SWE)[35] Göte Almqvist Hans Andersson Stig Andersson Åke Andersson Lars Björn Göte Blomqvist Thord Flodqvist Erik Johansson Gösta Johansson Rune Johansson Sven "Tumba" Johansson Åke Lassas Holger Nurmela Lars Pettersson Lars Svensson Sven Thunman Hans Öberg

Nordic combined

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual[36]	Simon Slåttvik Norway (NOR)	Heikki Hasu Finland (FIN)	Sverre Stenersen Norway (NOR)

Ski jumping

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual[37]	Arnfinn Bergmann Norway (NOR)	Torbjørn Falkanger Norway (NOR)	Karl Holmström Sweden (SWE)

Speed skating

Hjalmar Andersen, the Norwegian speed skater who won three gold medals at the 1952 Winter Olympics, pictured in October 2010

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
500 metres[38]	Ken Henry United States (USA)	Don McDermott United States (USA)	Gordon Audley Canada (CAN)
			Arne Johansen Norway (NOR)
1500 metres[39]	Hjalmar Andersen Norway (NOR)	Wim van der Voort Netherlands (NED)	Roald Aas Norway (NOR)
5000 metres[40]	Hjalmar Andersen Norway (NOR)	Kees Broekman Netherlands (NED)	Sverre Haugli Norway (NOR)
10000 metres[41]	Hjalmar Andersen Norway (NOR)	Kees Broekman Netherlands (NED)	Carl-Erik Asplund Sweden (SWE)

Multiple medallists

Athletes who won multiple medals at these Games are listed below by the number of medals won.^[4]

Athlete	Nation	Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Andersen, HjalmarHjalmar Andersen	Norway	Speed skating	3	0	0	4 !3
Buchner, AnnemarieAnnemarie Buchner	Germany	Alpine skiing	0	1	2	3
Mead Lawrence, AndreaAndrea Mead Lawrence	United States	Alpine skiing	2	0	0	2
Nieberl, LorenzLorenz Nieberl	Germany	Bobsleigh	2	0	0	2
Ostler, AndreasAndreas Ostler	Germany	Bobsleigh	2	0	0	2
Brenden, HallgeirHallgeir Brenden	Norway	Cross-country skiing	1	1	0	2
Eriksen, SteinStein Eriksen	Norway	Alpine skiing	1	1	0	2
Hasu, HeikkiHeikki Hasu	Finland	Cross-country skiing	1	1	0	2
Mäkelä, TapioTapio Mäkelä	Finland	Cross-country skiing	1	1	0	2
Schneider, OthmarOthmar Schneider	Austria	Alpine skiing	1	1	0	2
Lonkila, PaavoPaavo Lonkila	Finland	Cross-country skiing	1	0	1	2
Benham, StanleyStanley Benham	United States	Bobsleigh	0	2	0	2
Broekman, KeesKees Broekman	Netherlands	Speed skating	0	2	0	2
Martin, PatrickPatrick Martin	United States	Bobsleigh	0	2	0	2
Estenstad, MagnarMagnar Estenstad	Norway	Cross-country skiing	0	1	1	2
Pravda, ChristianChristian Pravda	Austria	Alpine skiing	0	1	1	2
Feierabend, FritzFritz Feierabend	Switzerland	Bobsleigh	0	0	2	2
Waser, StephanStephan Waser	Switzerland	Bobsleigh	0	0	2	2

See also

• 1952 Winter Olympics medal table

References

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External links

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