Netherlands at the 1952 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	NED
Nocname:	Dutch Olympic Committee* Dutch Sports Federation
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1952
Flagcaption:	Flag of the Netherlands
Website:
Location:	Helsinki
Flagbearer:	Simon de Wit
Rank:	29
Gold:	0
Silver:	5
Bronze:	0
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1900
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games

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
  1. First Round - Lost to Anatoli Bulakov (Soviet Union) on points (0-3)

Men's Light Welterweight ( - 63,5 kg)

• Piet van Klaveren
  1. First Round - Defeated Roy Keenan (Canada) on points (2-1)
  2. Second Round - Lost to Terence Milligan (Ireland) on points (0-3)

Men's Welterweight ( - 67 kg)

• Moos Linneman
  1. First Round - Defeated Peter Müller (Germany) by walk-over in third round
  2. Second Round - Defeated George Issabeg (Iran) on points (2-1)
  3. Quarterfinals - Lost to Günther Heidemann (Germany) on points (0-3)

Men's Middleweight ( - 75 kg)

• Leen Jansen
  1. First Round - Bye
  2. Second Round - Defeated Robert Malouf (Canada) on technical knock-out in first round
  3. Quarterfinals - Lost to Floyd Patterson (United States) on knock-out in first round

Men's Light Heavyweight ( - 81 kg)

• Toon Pastor
  1. First Round - Defeated István Fazekas (Hungary) on points (3-0)
  2. 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

• Johan Hijzelendoorn

• 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

See main article: article and Rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Netherlands had 12 male rowers participate in four out of seven rowing events in 1952.^[1]

Men's single sculls

• Rob van Mesdag

Men's coxless pair

• Ben Binnendijk
• Carl Kuntze

Men's coxless four

• Frits de Voogt
• Ruud Sesink Clee
• Jan op den Velde
• Kees van Vugt

Men's coxed four

• Ton Fontani
• Han Heijenbrock
• Jan Willem Pennink
• Jaap Beije
• Hans Caro (cox)

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

• Gerrit Bijlsma

• Cor Braasem

• Joop Cabout

• Ruud van Feggelen

• Max van Gelder

• Nijs Korevaar

• Frits Smol

References

1. Netherlands Rowing at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417165916/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/NED/summer/1952/ROW/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 10 March 2018.

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