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Great Britain competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. It was the twelfth time that the nation had competed, being one of only four nations to have competed in every Olympics to that point. Great Britain competed under the IOC country code GBR. Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were held in 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. ... Province Southern Finland Region Uusimaa Sub-region Helsinki City manager Jussi Pajunen Official languages Finnish, Swedish Area  - total  - land ranked 342nd 185. ... The International Olympic Committee (IOC) allocates three-letter country codes to all National Olympic Committees and other groups competing in the Olympic Games. ...

Medals

	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Great Britain	1	2	8	11

This is the full table of the medal count of the 1952 Summer Olympics. ... Subject: The Olympic Rings. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ...

Gold

• Harry Llewellyn, Duggie Stewart, and Wilf White — Equestrian, Jumping Team Competition

Silver

• Sheila Lerwill — Athletics, Women's High Jump

• Charles Currey — Sailing, Men's Finn Individual Competition

Bronze

• Emmanuel Bailey — Athletics, Men's 100 metres

• John Disley — Athletics, Men's 3000m Steeplechase

• Heather Armitage, Sylvia Cheeseman, Jean Desforges, and June Foulds-Paul — Athletics, Women's 4x100 metres Relay

• Shirley Cawley — Athletics, Women's Long Jump

• Donald Burgess, George Newberry, Alan Newton, and Ronald Stretton — Cycling, Men's 4000m Team Pursuit

• Helen Gordon — Swimming, Women's 200m Breaststroke

• Kenneth Richmond — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Heavyweight

• Denys Carnill, John Cockett, John Conroy, Graham Dadds, Derek Day, Dennis Eagan, Robin Fletcher, Roger Midgley, Richard Norris, Neil Nugent, Anthony Nunn, Anthony Robinson, and John Taylor — Field Hockey, Men's Team Competition

Results by event

Boxing

Men's Flyweight: Final results for the Boxing competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics // Medals Results Flyweight (-51 kg) Bantamweight (-54kg) Featherweight (-57kg) Lightweight (-60kg) Light-welterweight (-63. ...

• David William Dower

1. First Round – Defeated Abdelamid Boutefnouchet of France (3 – 0)
2. Second Round – Defeated Leslie Donovan Perera Handunge of Ceylon (3 – 0)
3. Third Round – Lost to Anatoli Bulakov of Soviet Union (1 – 2)

Men's Bantamweight:

• Thomas Nicholls

1. First Round – Lost to Pentti Olavi Hämäläinen of Finland (0 – 3)

Men's Featherweight:

• Percival Lewis

1. First Round – Lost to Georghe Ilie of Romania (0 – 3)

Men's Lightweight:

• Frederick Albert Reardon

1. First Round – Defeated Roger Cuche of Switzerland (KO 3R)
2. Second Round – Defeated Aleksandr Zasuhin of Soviet Union (0 – 3)
3. Third Round – Lost to Aleksy Antkiewicz of Poland (0 – 3)

Men's Light Welterweight: Aleksy Antkiewicz (November 12, 1923 - April 3, 2005) was a famous Polish boxer. ...

• Peter Waterman

1. First Round – Defeated Oscar Juan Galardo of Argentina (2 – 1)
2. Second Round – Lost to Alexander Grant Webster of South Africa (0 – 3)

Men's Welterweight:

• John Patrick Maloney

1. First Round – Lost to Július Torma of Czechoslovakia (1 – 2)

Men's Light Middleweight: Július Torma (March 7, 1922 - October 23, 1991) was a former Slovak boxer. ...

• Bernard Foster

1. First Round – Lost to Petar Stankoff Spassoff of Bulgaria (1 – 2)

Men's Middleweight:

• Terence Gooding

1. First Round – Defeated Moustafa Mohamed Fahim of Egypt (2 – 1)
2. Second Round – Lost to Boris Georgiev Nikolov of Bulgaria (2 – 1)

Men's Light Heavyweight:

• Henry Cooper

1. Second Round – Lost to Anatoli Perov of Soviet Union (1 – 2)

Men's Heavyweight: Sir Henry Cooper OBE, (born May 3, 1934), is a former British heavyweight boxer. ...

• Edgar William Hearn

1. First Round – Defeated José Victorio Sartor of Argentina (2 – 1)
2. Third Round – Lost to Ilkka Rickhard Koski of Finland (0 – 3)