Canoeing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

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

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.

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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
5	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

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)

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