Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics was represented by 15 events: 7 for women and 8 for men. All events were held between 19 and 24 July in the Messuhalli building in Helsinki. Men's events were held in Exhibition Hall I while women's events were contested in the smaller Exhibition Hall II.[1]

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around	Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union	Hrant Shahinyan  Soviet Union	Josef Stalder  Switzerland
Team all-around	Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Belyakov Iosif Berdiev Viktor Chukarin Yevgeny Korolkov Dmytro Leonkin Valentin Muratov Mikhail Perelman Hrant Shahinyan	Switzerland (SUI) Hans Eugster Ernst Fivian Ernst Gebendinger Jack Günthard Hans Schwarzentruber Josef Stalder Melchior Thalmann Jean Tschabold	Finland (FIN) Paavo Aaltonen Kalevi Laitinen Onni Lappalainen Kaino Lempinen Berndt Lindfors Olavi Rove Heikki Savolainen Kalevi Viskari
Floor exercise	William Thoresson  Sweden	Jerzy Jokiel  Poland Tadao Uesako  Japan	none awarded
Horizontal bar	Jack Günthard  Switzerland	Josef Stalder  Switzerland Alfred Schwarzmann  Germany	none awarded
Parallel bars	Hans Eugster  Switzerland	Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union	Josef Stalder  Switzerland
Pommel horse	Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union	Hrant Shahinyan  Soviet Union Yevgeny Korolkov  Soviet Union	none awarded
Rings	Hrant Shahinyan  Soviet Union	Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union	Dmytro Leonkin  Soviet Union Hans Eugster  Switzerland
Vault	Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union	Masao Takemoto  Japan	Takashi Ono  Japan Tadao Uesako  Japan

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around	Maria Gorokhovskaya  Soviet Union	Nina Bocharova  Soviet Union	Margit Korondi  Hungary
Team all-around	Soviet Union (URS) Nina Bocharova Pelageya Danilova Maria Gorokhovskaya Ekaterina Kalinchuk Galina Minaicheva Galina Shamrai Galina Urbanovich Medea Jugeli	Hungary (HUN) Andrea Bodó Irén Daruházi-Karcsics Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles Ágnes Keleti Margit Korondi Edit Perényi-Weckinger Olga Tass Mária Kövi-Zalai	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Hana Bobková Alena Chadimová Jana Rabasová Alena Reichová Matylda Šínová Božena Srncová Věra Vančurová Eva Věchtová
Balance beam	Nina Bocharova  Soviet Union	Maria Gorokhovskaya  Soviet Union	Margit Korondi  Hungary
Floor exercise	Ágnes Keleti  Hungary	Maria Gorokhovskaya  Soviet Union	Margit Korondi  Hungary
Uneven bars	Margit Korondi  Hungary	Maria Gorokhovskaya  Soviet Union	Ágnes Keleti  Hungary
Vault	Ekaterina Kalinchuk  Soviet Union	Maria Gorokhovskaya  Soviet Union	Galina Minaicheva  Soviet Union
Team, portable apparatus	Sweden (SWE) Karin Lindberg Ann-Sofi Pettersson Evy Berggren Gun Roring Göta Pettersson Ingrid Sandahl Hjördis Nordin Vanja Blomberg	Soviet Union (URS) Maria Gorokhovskaya Nina Bocharova Galina Minaicheva Galina Urbanovich Pelageva Danilova Galina Shamrai Medea Jugeli Ekaterina Kalinchuk	Hungary (HUN) Margit Korondi Ágnes Keleti Edit Perényi-Weckinger Olga Tass Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles Mária Kövi-Zalai Andrea Bodó Irén Daruházi-Karcsics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	9	11	2	22
2	Switzerland (SUI)	2	2	3	7
3	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	5	8
4	Sweden (SWE)	2	0	0	2
5	Japan (JPN)	0	2	2	4
6	Germany (GER)	0	1	0	1
	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
8	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 nations)		15	18	14	47

See also

• 1952 Summer Olympics
• Artistic gymnastics
• Olympic medalists in gymnastics (men)
• Olympic medalists in gymnastics (women)

References

1. "Gymnastics at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 23 July 2019.

Sources

• The Official Report of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XV Olympiad. Porvoo: Werner Södreström Osakeyhtiö. 1955. Archived from the original on 12 June 2007. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
• "1952 Olympic Games". Gymn-Forum.com. Retrieved 15 April 2006.