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. 99 competitors, 86 men and 13 women, took part in 70 events in 11 sports.

Medalists

Athletics

Basketball

;Men's Team Competition *Main Round (Group A) ** Lost to Uruguay (51-53) ** Lost to United States (47-72) ** Defeated Hungary (63-39) → did not advance, 12th place *Team Roster ** Miroslav Baumruk **

Zdeněk Bobrovský Zdeněk Bobrovský (1 December 1933 – 21 November 2014) was a Czech basketball player. He was voted to the Czechoslovakian 20th Century Team. National team career With the senior Czechoslovakian national team, Bobrovský competed in the ...

** Josef Ezr ** Jiří Matoušek **

Miroslav Škeřík Miroslav Škeřík (14 October 1924 – 11 January 2013) was a Czech professional basketball player. At 6'5 " (1.97 m) tall, he played the center position. He was the top scorer of EuroBasket 1955, averaging 19.1 points per game. Club playing ca ...

** Mcheq Kodl ** Jan Kozák ** Evžen Horňák ** Zdeněk Rylich ** Lubomir Kolár **

Ivan Mrázek Ivo "Ivan" Mrázek (18 January 1926 – 4 April 2019) was a Czech professional basketball player and coach. At 5'7 " (1.71 m) tall, he was a point guard. He was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players, in 1991. Playing career Club career In h ...

Jaroslav Šíp Jaroslav Šíp (24 November 1930 – 6 November 2014) was a Czech basketball player and coach. He was voted to the Czechoslovakian 20th Century Team in 2001. Playing career Club career During his club playing career, Šíp won five Czecho ...

Boxing

Canoeing

Cycling

;Road Competition Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km) * Jan Veselý — did not finish (→ no ranking) * Karel Nesl — did not finish (→ no ranking) * Milan Perič — did not finish (→ no ranking) * Stanislav Svoboda — did not finish (→ no ranking) ;Track Competition Men's 1.000m Time Trial *

Ladislav Fouček Ladislav Fouček (10 December 1930 – 4 July 1974) was an Czechoslovak cyclist. He won silver medals in Men's 1,000 metres Time Trial and Men's Tandem Sprint, 2000 metres at the 1956 Summer Olympics. References External links * * * ...

** Final — 1:15.2 (→ 12th place) Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race * Zdenek Košta — 18th place

Gymnastics

Rowing

Czechoslovakia had eight male rowers participate in three out of seven

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events in 1952. ; Men's single sculls * František Reich ; Men's double sculls * Antonín Malinkovič * Jiří Vykoukal ; Men's coxed four * Karel Mejta * Jiří Havlis * Jan Jindra * Stanislav Lusk * Miroslav Koranda (cox)

Shooting

Six shooters represented Czechoslovakia in 1952. ;

25 m pistol 25 meter pistol, formerly and unofficially still often known as sport pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It was devised as a women's event in the 1960s, based upon the rules of 25 meter center-fire pistol but shot with a .22-caliber sp ...

* Ladislav Ondřej * Zlatko Poláček ;

50 m pistol The 50 meter pistol, formerly and unofficially still often called Free Pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It provides the purest precision shooting among the pistol events, and is one of the oldest shooting disciplines, dating back to t ...

* František Maxa * Miroslav Proft ;

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František Čapek František Čapek (24 October 1914 – 31 January 2008) was a Czechoslovakian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s. He won a gold medal in the C-1 10000 m event at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Born ...

* Igor Treybal

Swimming

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References

External links

Official Olympic ReportsInternational Olympic Committee results database
{{Nations at the 1952 Summer Olympics Nations at the 1952 Summer Olympics

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...

Summer Olympics