Rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's single sculls

Men's single sculls at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue	Meilahti
Date	20–23 July
Competitors	18 from 18 nations
Winning time	8:12.8
Medalists
Yuriy Tyukalov  Soviet Union Mervyn Wood  Australia Teodor Kocerka  Poland

The men's single sculls competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics took place at Meilahti, Helsinki, Finland. The event was held from 20 July until 23 July.

Competition format

This rowing event is a single scull event, meaning that each boat is propelled by a single rower. The "scull" portion means that the rower uses two oars, one on each side of the boat. Four heats were held in the first round. The first two boats in each heat advanced to the semi-finals, while the rest went to the first repechage on 21 July.

The repechage round also consists of four heats. Only the winner of each heat advanced to the second repechage round. The semi-finals of this event was held on the same day with the first repechage. Winner of the two heats advanced directly to the final and the rest must compete in the second repechage. Three heats were held in the second repechage, where the winner of each heat advanced to final.

Result

First round

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Tony Fox	Great Britain (GBR)	7:45.1	Q
2	Ian Stephen	South Africa (RSA)	7:47.7	Q
3	Sevi Holmsten	Finland (FIN)	7:52.1	q
4	Juan Omedes	Spain (ESP)	8:03.1	q
5	Carlos Adueza	Chile (CHI)	8:22.3	q

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Mervyn Wood	Australia (AUS)	7:44.1	Q
2	Paul Meyer	Switzerland (SUI)	7:44.5	Q
3	Günther Schütt	Saar (SAA)	7:58.4	q
4	František Reich	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	7:59.0	q
5	Henri Steenacker	Belgium (BEL)	8:04.0	q

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete name	Country	Time	Notes
1	John B. Kelly Jr.	United States (USA)	7:58.4	Q
2	Teodor Kocerka	Poland (POL)	7:59.5	Q
3	Ugo Pifferi	Italy (ITA)	8:09.0	q
4	Hussein El-Alfy	Egypt (EGY)	8:33.5	q

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Yuriy Tyukalov	Soviet Union (URS)	7:47.9	Q
2	Eduardo Risso	Uruguay (URU)	7:52.0	Q
3	Henri Butel	France (FRA)	8:00.4	q
4	Rob van Mesdag	Netherlands (NED)	8:02.0	q

First repechage

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Rob van Mesdag	Netherlands (NED)	7:35.6	Q
2	Sevi Holmsten	Finland (FIN)	7:37.2
3	Hussein El-Alfy	Egypt (EGY)	8:07.1

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Günther Schütt	Saar (SAA)	7:38.4	Q
2	Henri Butel	France (FRA)	7:41.2
3	Juan Omedes	Spain (ESP)	7:45.1

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete name	Country	Time	Notes
1	František Reich	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	7:39.0	Q
2	Ugo Pifferi	Italy (ITA)	7:47.5

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Henri Steenacker	Belgium (BEL)	7:43.8	Q
2	Carlos Adueza	Chile (CHI)	8:08.9

Semi-final

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Tony Fox	Great Britain (GBR)	7:54.4	Q
2	Mervyn Wood	Australia (AUS)	8:02.5	q
3	Eduardo Risso	Uruguay (URU)	8:05.9	q
4	Teodor Kocerka	Poland (POL)	9:10.6	q

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Yuriy Tyukalov	Soviet Union (URS)	7:52.6	Q
2	John B. Kelly Jr.	United States (USA)	7:57.3	q
3	Ian Stephen	South Africa (RSA)	8:02.3	q
4	Paul Meyer	Switzerland (SUI)	8:07.1	q

Second repechage

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Mervyn Wood	Australia (AUS)	7:45.5	Q
2	Paul Meyer	Switzerland (SUI)	7:48.3
3	Rob van Mesdag	Netherlands (NED)	7:57.2
4	Henri Steenacker	Belgium (BEL)	7:59.5

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Teodor Kocerka	Poland (POL)	7:41.8	Q
2	John B. Kelly Jr.	United States (USA)	7:42.0
3	František Reich	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	7:55.0

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Ian Stephen	South Africa (RSA)	7:38.6	Q
2	Günther Schütt	Saar (SAA)	7:42.9
3	Eduardo Risso	Uruguay (URU)	7:50.5

Final

Rank	Athlete name	Country	Time	Notes
	Yuriy Tyukalov	Soviet Union (URS)	8:12.8
	Mervyn Wood	Australia (AUS)	8:14.5
	Teodor Kocerka	Poland (POL)	8:19.4
4	Tony Fox	Great Britain (GBR)	8:22.5
5	Ian Stephen	South Africa (RSA)	8:31.4

External links

• The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the Games of the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952 (PDF) (PDF). p. 609.