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Athletes from the Netherlands competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.
Medalists
Silver
- Bertha Brouwer — Athletics, Women's 200 metres
- Jules Ancion, André Boerstra, Harry Derckx, Han Drijver, Dick Esser, Roepie Kruize, Dick Loggere, Lau Mulder, Eddy Tiel, Wim van Heel, and Henk Wery — Field Hockey, Men's Team Competition
- Hannie Termeulen — Swimming, Women's 100m Freestyle
- Geertje Wielema — Swimming, Women's 100m Backstroke
- Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, Hannie Termeulen, Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen and Koosje van Voorn — Swimming, Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay
Results by event
Boxing
Men's Flyweight (–51 kg)
- Hein van der Zee
- First Round — Lost to Anatoli Bulakov (Soviet Union) on points (0-3)
Men's Light Welterweight (–63,5 kg)
- Piet van Klaveren
- First Round — Defeated Roy Keenan (Canada) on points (2-1)
- Second Round — Lost to Terence Milligan (Ireland) on points (0-3)
Men's Welterweight (–67 kg)
- Moos Linneman
- First Round — Defeated Peter Müller (Germany) by walk-over in third round
- Second Round — Defeated George Issabeg (Iran) on points (2-1)
- Quarterfinals — Lost to Günther Heidemann (Germany) on points (0-3)
Men's Middleweight (–75 kg)
- Leen Jansen
- First Round — Bye
- Second Round — Defeated Robert Malouf (Canada) on technical knock-out in first round
- Quarterfinals — Lost to Floyd Patterson (United States) on knock-out in first round
Men's Light Heavyweight (–81 kg)
- Toon Pastor
- First Round — Defeated István Fazekas (Hungary) on points (3-0)
- Second Round — Lost to Karl Kistner (Germany) on points (1-2)
Cycling
Road Competition
Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)
- Arend van 't Hoft — 5:11:19.0 (→ 10th place)
- Jan Plantaz — 5:16:19.1 (→ 22nd place)
- Adrie Voorting — 5:24:44.6 (→ 49th place)
- Jules Maenen — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Track Competition
Men's 1.000m Time Trial
- Final — 1:14.5 (→ 8th place)
Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race
- Johan Hijzelendoorn — 9th place
Men's 4.000m Team Pursuit
- Eliminated in quarterfinals (→ 7th place)
Rowing
Netherlands had 12 male rowers participate in four out of seven rowing events in 1952.[1]
- Frits de Voogt[citation needed]
- Ruud Sesink Clee
- Jan op den Velde
- Kees van Vugt
Water Polo
Men's Team Competition
- Qualifying Round
- Defeated Soviet Union (3:2)
- Preliminary Round (Group C)
- Defeated Argentina (9:3)
- Defeated Sweden (7:1)
- Defeated Yugoslavia (3:2)
- Last match was replayed after a protest by the Yugoslavs against one of the referees; The Netherlands lost the replay (1:2) on August 1, 1952.
- Semi Final (Group F)
- Tied with Hungary (4:4)
- Defeated Soviet Union (4:2)
- Classification Matches
- Defeated Belgium (5:3)
- Defeated Spain (7:1) → Fifth place
- Team Roster
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Netherlands Rowing at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
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