Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics | ||
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Freestyle | ||
100 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
1500 m | men | |
Backstroke | ||
100 m | men | women |
Breaststroke | ||
200 m | men | women |
Freestyle relay | ||
4 × 100 m | women | |
4 × 200 m | men | |
The men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place between 30 July and 1 August, at the Swimming Stadium.[1] This swimming event used the backstroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.
Medalists
[edit]Gold | Yoshi Oyakawa![]() |
Silver | Gilbert Bozon![]() |
Bronze | Jack Taylor![]() |
Results
[edit]Heats
[edit]Heat 1
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
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1 | Gilbert Bozon | ![]() |
1:07.8 | |
2 | Allen Stack | ![]() |
1:08.9 | |
3 | Bert Wardrop | ![]() |
1:09.9 | |
4 | Jitse van der Veen | ![]() |
1:10.5 | |
5 | Norihiko Kurahashi | ![]() |
1:10.7 | |
6 | Vladimir Lopatin | ![]() |
1:10.8 | |
7 | Lucien Beaumont | ![]() |
1:14.2 | |
8 | Khamlillal Shah | ![]() |
1:18.3 |
Heat 2
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
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1 | Pedro Galvão | ![]() |
1:08.1 | |
2 | Yasumasa Nishino | ![]() |
1:10.1 | |
3 | Clemente Mejía | ![]() |
1:10.7 | |
4 | Helmut Koppelstätter | ![]() |
1:11.9 | |
5 | Hermann Gericke | ![]() |
1:12.6 | |
6 | Jerzy Boniecki | ![]() |
1:13.4 | |
7 | Eurico Surgey | ![]() |
1:13.7 |
Heat 3
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
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1 | Jack Taylor | ![]() |
1:07.2 | |
2 | Boris Škanata | ![]() |
1:07.5 | |
3 | João Gonçalves Filho | ![]() |
1:09.7 | |
4 | Ladislav Bačík | ![]() |
1:10.2 | |
5 | Imre Nyéki | ![]() |
1:10.6 | |
6 | Peter Salmon | ![]() |
1:13.8 | |
7 | Tom Pettersen | ![]() |
1:15.4 |
Heat 4
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
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1 | Yoshi Oyakawa | ![]() |
1:06.0 | |
2 | Lin Meiring | ![]() |
1:08.5 | |
3 | Fernando Pavan | ![]() |
1:09.1 | |
4 | Jitse van der Veen | ![]() |
1:09.1 | |
5 | Bijoy Barman | ![]() |
1:27.3 |
Heat 5
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
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1 | John Brockway | ![]() |
1:08.8 | |
2 | Lucien Zins | ![]() |
1:09.7 | |
3 | Ilo da Fonseca | ![]() |
1:09.9 | |
4 | Leonid Sagayduk | ![]() |
1:11.4 | |
5 | Wu Chuanyu | ![]() |
1:12.3 | |
6 | Eduardo Barbeiro | ![]() |
1:13.0 |
Heat 6
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
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1 | Egidio Massaria | ![]() |
1:08.8 | |
2 | Viktor Solovyov | ![]() |
1:09.5 | |
3 | Lincoln Hurring | ![]() |
1:09.6 | |
4 | László Gyöngyösi | ![]() |
1:10.0 | |
5 | Frank O'Neill | ![]() |
1:10.5 | |
6 | Erkki Marttinen | ![]() |
1:15.2 |
Tie-breaker
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
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1 | Bert Wardrop | ![]() |
1:07.8 | |
2 | Ilo da Fonseca | ![]() |
1:09.5 |
Final
[edit]Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
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Yoshi Oyakawa | ![]() |
1:05.4 | OR |
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Gilbert Bozon | ![]() |
1:06.2 | |
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Jack Taylor | ![]() |
1:06.4 | |
4 | Allen Stack | ![]() |
1:07.6 | |
5 | Pedro Galvão | ![]() |
1:07.7 | |
6 | Bert Wardrop | ![]() |
1:07.8 | |
7 | Boris Škanata | ![]() |
1:08.1 | |
8 | Lin Meiring | ![]() |
1:08.3 |
Key: OR = Olympic record
References
[edit]- ^ "Swimming at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's 100 metres Backstroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 September 2016.