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.

Medal summary

Men's events

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

Women's event

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

Medal table

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

References

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