Sweden at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Road Competition

Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)

• Yngve Lundh — 5:12:15.2 (→ 16th place)
• Stig Mårtensson — 5:13:00.0 (→ 18th place)
• Allan Carlsson — 5:16:19.1 (→ 21st place)
• Lars Nordwall — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Men's 3m Springboard

• Frank Landqvist

• Preliminary Round — 60.11 points (→ 23rd place)

• Gunnar Johansson

• Preliminary Round — 59.11 points (→ 27th place)

Ten fencers, all men, represented Sweden in 1952.

Men's foil

• Bo Eriksson
• Nils Rydström
• Rolf Magnusson

Men's team foil

• Rolf Magnusson, Sven Fahlman, Nils Rydström, Bo Eriksson

Men's épée

• Per Carleson
• Carl Forssell
• Sven Fahlman

Men's team épée

• Per Carleson, Carl Forssell, Bengt Ljungquist, Berndt-Otto Rehbinder, Sven Fahlman, Lennart Magnusson

Men's sabre

• Henry Nordin
• Bo Eriksson

Summary

Team	Event	Primary round	First round	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Sweden men's	Men's tournament	Bye	Norway W 4–1	Austria W 3–1	Hungary L 0–6	West Germany W 2–0

Three male pentathletes represented Sweden in 1952. Lars Hall won gold in the individual event and all three pentathletes won silver in the team event.

Individual

• Lars Hall
• Thorsten Lindqvist
• Claes Egnell

Team

• Lars Hall
• Thorsten Lindqvist
• Claes Egnell

Sweden had 16 male rowers participate in four out of seven rowing events in 1952.[2]

Men's double sculls

• Tore Johansson
• Curt Brunnqvist

Men's coxless pair

• Bernt Torberntsson
• Evert Gunnarsson

Men's coxed pair

• Ove Nilsson
• Ingemar Svensson
• Lars-Erik Larsson

Men's eight

• Lennart Andersson
• Frank Olsson
• John Niklasson
• Gösta Adamsson
• Ivan Simonsson
• Ragnar Ek
• Thore Börjesson
• Rune Andersson
• Sture Baatz

Ten shooters represented Sweden in 1952. Sweden won silver and bronze in the trap event and silver in the 100m running deer.

25 m pistol

• Gösta Pihl
• Torsten Ullman

50 m pistol

• Torsten Ullman
• Hugo Lundkvist

300 m rifle, three positions

• Holger Erbén
• Walther Fröstell

50 m rifle, three positions

• Uno Berg
• Walther Fröstell

50 m rifle, prone

• Walther Fröstell
• Uno Berg

100m running deer

• Olof Sköldberg
• Thorleif Kockgård

Trap

• Knut Holmqvist
• Hans Liljedahl

Summary

Team	Event	Elimination round		First round				Semifinal				Final			Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Sweden men	Men's tournament	United States W 5–1	Bye	Netherlands L 1–7	Argentina W 7–2	Yugoslavia L 1–9	3	Did not advance							11

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