Canoeing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, nine events in sprint canoe racing were contested. The program was unchanged from the previous Games in 1948.

Canoeing at the Games of the XV Olympiad
No. of events	9
← 1948 1956 →

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Finland (FIN)	4	1	1	6
2	Sweden (SWE)	1	3	0	4
3	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	1	1	3
4	France (FRA)	1	0	1	2
5	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	0	1
	United States (USA)	1	0	0	1
7	Hungary (HUN)	0	2	1	3
8	Austria (AUT)	0	1	1	2
9	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
10	Germany (GER)	0	0	3	3
11	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		9	9	9	27

Medal summary

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 1000 metres details	Josef Holeček  Czechoslovakia	János Parti  Hungary	Olavi Ojanperä  Finland
C-1 10000 metres details	Frank Havens  United States	Gábor Novák  Hungary	Alfréd Jindra  Czechoslovakia
C-2 1000 metres details	Bent Peder Rasch and Finn Haunstoft (DEN)	Jan Brzák-Felix and Bohumil Kudrna (TCH)	Egon Drews and Wilfried Soltau (GER)
C-2 10000 metres details	Georges Turlier and Jean Laudet (FRA)	Kenneth Lane and Donald Hawgood (CAN)	Egon Drews and Wilfried Soltau (GER)
K-1 1000 metres details	Gert Fredriksson  Sweden	Thorvald Strömberg  Finland	Louis Gantois  France
K-1 10000 metres details	Thorvald Strömberg  Finland	Gert Fredriksson  Sweden	Michael Scheuer  Germany
K-2 1000 metres details	Kurt Wires and Yrjö Hietanen (FIN)	Lars Glassér and Ingemar Hedberg (SWE)	Maximilian Raub and Herbert Wiedermann (AUT)
K-2 10000 metres details	Kurt Wires and Yrjö Hietanen (FIN)	Gunnar Åkerlund and Hans Wetterström (SWE)	Ferenc Varga and József Gurovits (HUN)

Women's event

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres details	Sylvi Saimo  Finland	Gertrude Liebhart  Austria	Nina Savina  Soviet Union

References

• 1952 Summer Olympics official report. pp. 624–37.
• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-12-19.