Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics
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
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At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, a total number of eleven swimming events were contested, six for men and five for women.^[1] The events were held at the Swimming Stadium. There was a total of 319 participants from 48 countries competing.^[2]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	4	2	3	9
2	Hungary (HUN)	4	2	1	7
3	France (FRA)	1	1	1	3
4	Australia (AUS)	1	0	0	1
	South Africa (RSA)	1	0	0	1
6	Japan (JPN)	0	3	0	3
	Netherlands (NED)	0	3	0	3
8	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	2	2
9	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		11	11	11	33

Medal summary

Men's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Clarke Scholes  United States	57.4	Hiroshi Suzuki  Japan	57.4	Göran Larsson  Sweden	58.2
400 m freestyle details	Jean Boiteux  France	4:30.7 (OR)	Ford Konno  United States	4:31.3	Per-Olof Östrand  Sweden	4:35.2
1500 m freestyle details	Ford Konno  United States	18:30.3 (OR)	Shiro Hashizume  Japan	18:41.4	Tetsuo Okamoto  Brazil	18:51.3
100 m backstroke details	Yoshi Oyakawa  United States	1:05.4 (OR)	Gilbert Bozon  France	1:06.2	Jack Taylor  United States	1:06.4
200 m breaststroke details	John Davies  Australia	2:34.4 (OR)	Bowen Stassforth  United States	2:34.7	Herbert Klein  Germany	2:35.9
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Wayne Moore Bill Woolsey Ford Konno Jimmy McLane	8:31.1 (OR)	Japan (JPN) Hiroshi Suzuki Yoshihiro Hamaguchi Toru Goto Teijiro Tanikawa	8:33.5	France (FRA) Joseph Bernardo Aldo Eminente Alexandre Jany Jean Boiteux	8:45.9

Women's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Katalin Szöke  Hungary	1:06.8	Hannie Termeulen  Netherlands	1:06.5	Judit Temes  Hungary	1:07.6
400 m freestyle details	Valéria Gyenge  Hungary	5:12.1 (OR)	Éva Novák  Hungary	5:13.7	Evelyn Kawamoto  United States	5:14.6
100 m backstroke details	Joan Harrison  South Africa	1:14.3	Geertje Wielema  Netherlands	1:14.5	Jean Stewart  New Zealand	1:15.8
200 m breaststroke details	Éva Székely  Hungary	2:51.7 (OR)	Éva Novák  Hungary	2:54.4	Helen Gordon  Great Britain	2:57.6
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	Hungary (HUN) Ilona Novák Judit Temes Éva Novák Katalin Szöke	4:24.4 (WR)	Netherlands (NED) Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen Koosje van Voorn Hannie Termeulen Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher	4:29.0	United States (USA) Jackie LaVine Marilee Stepan Jody Alderson Evelyn Kawamoto	4:30.1

Participating nations

319 swimmers from 48 nations competed.^[2]