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Helsinki 1952.

Medals of Helsinki.


In this table you can see some countries that won medals in the olimpics games in helsinki.

These are the medals of the winners.


Important athletes in Helsinki 1952.

Lis Hartel.
She was one of the first women allowed to compete against men in the equestrian dressage of Denmark. Despite being paralyzed below the knees after an attack of polio, Hartel, who had to be helped on and off her horse, won a silver medal.



Lars Hall.
Lars Hall, a carpenter from Sweden, became the first non-military winner of the modern pentathlon.



Bob Mathias.
Bob Mathias (USA-athletics) was the first person to win two successive Olympic decathlon titles. After a first gold medal in 1948 when, as a 17-year-old, he became the youngest-ever winner of an Olympic track and field event, he set the world record defending his title.



Frank Havens.
In 1924, Bill Havens had been chosen to represent the United States in coxed eights rowing, but declined in order to stay home with his wife, who was expecting their first child. Twenty-eight years later, that child, Frank Havens, won a gold medal in the Canadian singles 10,000m canoeing event.



Emil Zatopek.
Emil Zatopek of Czechoslovakia, the 10,000-meter champion in London, not only repeated at 10,000 meters, but also won at 5,000 and in the marathon-an event he had never run before. He also set Olympic records in each race.



Harrison Dillard.
Harrison Dillard of the U.S. won the 110-meter hurdles. In 1948, Dillard, the world's best hurdler, failed to qualify for the hurdles and won the 100-meter dash instead.

History of the Olympic Games, Helsinki 1952.

Helsinki was chosen as the site for the Olympic Games in 1940, but because of World War II these were canceled. Instead, Helsinki was the site of the Olympic Games in 1952 (between 19 July and 3 August). The Helsinki Olympic Games symbolized for recovery after the Winter War.

The opening ceremony was a tribute to the Finnish Paavo Nurmi. When the best runner in the history of that country coming to the stadium as penultimate carrier of the Olympic torch, all the audience exploded of happiness. Then Nurmi gave the torch to his fellow Hannes Kölehmainen, now 62, who lit the cauldron.



In this Olympics games all the Olympic family were met again, including Japan and Germany. The Soviet union after 40 years of absence, return . It does so under a halo of mystery created by the famous Cold War. The athletes of the URSS, there were stayed in Otaniemi (is a site different of the others athletes that came from to others countries). Their trainings were so insolated, for example they take them to use one lane lap pool just for them.

In Helsinki already was noted the world economic recovery, because they were built sports facilities and infrastructure for the occasion. The Olympic village was built on, Kappy, two kilometers from the Olympic stadium and swimming pool.
To accommodate tourists and volunteers set up camp with a capacity of 6000 people on the island of Lauttarasi.
This was the first final Olympic of basketball between Americans and Russians first victory.