1952 Summer Olympics

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Games of the XV Olympiad

Emblem of the 1952 Summer Olympics
Host city	Helsinki, Finland
Nations	69
Athletes	4,932 (4,411 men, 521 women)
Events	149 in 17 sports (23 disciplines)
Opening	19 July 1952
Closing	3 August 1952
Opened by	President Juho Kusti Paasikivi[1]
Cauldron	Hannes Kolehmainen[1] Paavo Nurmi
Stadium	Helsingin Olympiastadion
Summer ← London 1948 Melbourne 1956 → Winter ← Oslo 1952 Cortina 1956 →

The 1952 Summer Olympics (Finnish: Kesäolympialaiset 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (Finnish: XV olympiadin kisat), and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland.

After Japan declared in 1938 that it would be unable to host the 1940 Olympics in Tokyo due to the ongoing Second Sino-Japanese War, Helsinki had been selected to host the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were then cancelled due to World War II. Tokyo eventually hosted the games in 1964. Helsinki is the northernmost city at which a summer Olympic Games have been held. With London hosting the 1948 Olympics, 1952 is the most recent time when two consecutive summer Olympic Games were held entirely in Europe. The 1952 Summer Olympics was the last of the two consecutive Olympics to be held in Northern Europe, following the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway.

They were also the Olympic Games at which the most world records were broken until they were surpassed by the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.^[2] The Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Israel, Thailand, and Saarland made their Olympic debuts at the 1952 Games. The United States won the most gold and overall medals.

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