Sweden competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. 206 competitors, 183 men and 23 women, took part in 124 events in 17 sports.
Road Competition
Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)
Yngve Lundh — 5:12:15.2 (→ 16th place)
Stig Mårtensson — 5:13:00.0 (→ 18th place)
Allan Carlsson — 5:16:19.1 (→ 21st place)
Lars Nordwall — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Men's 3m Springboard
Frank Landqvist
Preliminary Round — 60.11 points (→ 23rd place)
Gunnar Johansson
Preliminary Round — 59.11 points (→ 27th place)
Ten fencers, all men, represented Sweden in 1952.
Men's foil
Bo Eriksson
Nils Rydström
Rolf Magnusson
Men's team foil
Rolf Magnusson, Sven Fahlman, Nils Rydström, Bo Eriksson
Men's épée
Per Carleson
Carl Forssell
Sven Fahlman
Men's team épée
Per Carleson, Carl Forssell, Bengt Ljungquist, Berndt-Otto Rehbinder, Sven Fahlman, Lennart Magnusson
Men's sabre
Henry Nordin
Bo Eriksson
Three male pentathletes represented Sweden in 1952. Lars Hall won gold in the individual event and all three pentathletes won silver in the team event.
Individual
Lars Hall
Thorsten Lindqvist
Claes Egnell
Team
Lars Hall
Thorsten Lindqvist
Claes Egnell
Men's double sculls
Tore Johansson
Curt Brunnqvist
Men's coxless pair
Bernt Torberntsson
Evert Gunnarsson
Men's coxed pair
Ove Nilsson
Ingemar Svensson
Lars-Erik Larsson
Men's eight
Lennart Andersson
Frank Olsson
John Niklasson
Gösta Adamsson
Ivan Simonsson
Ragnar Ek
Thore Börjesson
Rune Andersson|
Sture Baatz
Ten shooters represented Sweden in 1952. Sweden won silver and bronze in the trap event and silver in the 100m running deer.
25 m pistol
Gösta Pihl
Torsten Ullman
50 m pistol
Torsten Ullman
Hugo Lundkvist
300 m rifle, three positions
Holger Erbén
Walther Fröstell
50 m rifle, three positions
Uno Berg
Walther Fröstell
50 m rifle, prone
Walther Fröstell
Uno Berg
100m running deer
Olof Sköldberg
Thorleif Kockgård
Trap
Knut Holmqvist
Hans Liljedahl
