Canoeing at the 1952 Summer Olympics
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C-1 1000 m	men
C-1 10000 m	men
C-2 1000 m	men
C-2 10000 m	men
K-1 500 m		women
K-1 1000 m	men
K-1 10000 m	men
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At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, nine events in sprint canoe racing were contested. The program was unchanged from the previous Games in 1948.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Finland (FIN)	4	1	1	6
2	Sweden (SWE)	1	3	0	4
3	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	1	1	3
4	France (FRA)	1	0	1	2
5	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	0	1
	United States (USA)	1	0	0	1
7	Hungary (HUN)	0	2	1	3
8	Austria (AUT)	0	1	1	2
9	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
10	Germany (GER)	0	0	3	3
11	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		9	9	9	27

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 1000 metres details	Josef Holeček  Czechoslovakia	János Parti  Hungary	Olavi Ojanperä  Finland
C-1 10000 metres details	Frank Havens  United States	Gábor Novák  Hungary	Alfréd Jindra  Czechoslovakia
C-2 1000 metres details	Bent Peder Rasch and Finn Haunstoft (DEN)	Jan Brzák-Felix and Bohumil Kudrna (TCH)	Egon Drews and Wilfried Soltau (GER)
C-2 10000 metres details	Georges Turlier and Jean Laudet (FRA)	Kenneth Lane and Donald Hawgood (CAN)	Egon Drews and Wilfried Soltau (GER)
K-1 1000 metres details	Gert Fredriksson  Sweden	Thorvald Strömberg  Finland	Louis Gantois  France
K-1 10000 metres details	Thorvald Strömberg  Finland	Gert Fredriksson  Sweden	Michael Scheuer  Germany
K-2 1000 metres details	Kurt Wires and Yrjö Hietanen (FIN)	Lars Glassér and Ingemar Hedberg (SWE)	Maximilian Raub and Herbert Wiedermann (AUT)
K-2 10000 metres details	Kurt Wires and Yrjö Hietanen (FIN)	Gunnar Åkerlund and Hans Wetterström (SWE)	Ferenc Varga and József Gurovits (HUN)

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres details	Sylvi Saimo  Finland	Gertrude Liebhart  Austria	Nina Savina  Soviet Union

• 1952 Summer Olympics official report. pp. 624–37.
• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-12-19.

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