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United States at the 1952 Winter Olympics
Flag of the United States
IOC code	USA
NOC	United States Olympic Committee
in Oslo, Norway February 14–25, 1952
Competitors	65 (55 men, 10 women) in 4 sports
Flag bearer	James Bickford (bobsleigh)
Medals Ranked 2nd	Gold 4 Silver 6 Bronze 1 Total 11
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The United States competed at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway.

Medalists

The following U.S. competitors won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Andrea Mead Lawrence Alpine skiing Women's giant slalom February 14  Gold Ken Henry Speed skating 500 meters February 16  Gold Andrea Mead Lawrence Alpine skiing Women's slalom February 20  Gold Dick Button Figure skating Men's singles February 21  Silver Stanley Benham Patrick Martin Bobsleigh Two-man February 15  Silver Don McDermott Speed skating 500 meters February 16  Silver Tenley Albright Figure skating Women's singles February 20  Silver James Atkinson Stanley Benham Howard Crossett Patrick Martin Bobsleigh Four-man February 22  Silver Karol Kennedy Peter Kennedy Figure skating Pairs February 22  Silver United States men's national ice hockey team Ruben Bjorkman Len Ceglarski Joseph Czarnota Richard Desmond Andre Gambucci Clifford Harrison Gerald Kilmartin John Mulhern John Noah Arnold Oss Robert Rompre James Sedin Allen Van Donald Whiston Ken Yackel Ice hockey Men's tournament February 25  Bronze James Grogan Figure skating Men's singles February 21

Medals by sport Sport Total Alpine skiing 2 0 0 2 Figure skating 1 2 1 4 Speed skating 1 1 0 2 Bobsleigh 0 2 0 2 Ice hockey 0 1 0 1 Total 4 6 1 11 Medals by gender Gender Total Percentage Male 2 4 1 7 63.6% Female 2 1 0 3 27.3% Mixed 0 1 0 1 9.1% Total 4 6 1 11 100% Multiple medalists Name Sport Total Andrea Mead Lawrence Alpine skiing 2 0 0 2 Stanley Benham Bobsleigh 0 2 0 2 Patrick Martin Bobsleigh 0 2 0 2

Alpine skiing

Men

Women

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jannette Burr	Downhill	—				DSQ
Andrea Mead Lawrence						1:55.3	17
Katy Rodolph						1:57.4	23
Betty Weir						1:55.7	19
Jannette Burr	Giant slalom	—				2:19.2	22
Andrea Mead Lawrence						2:06.8
Imogene Opton						2:15.8	15
Katy Rodolph						2:11.7	5
Jannette Burr	Slalom	1:11.2	19	1:09.3	15	2:20.5	15
Andrea Mead Lawrence		1:07.2	4	1:03.4	1	2:10.6
Imogene Opton		1:07.4	5	1:06.7	5	2:14.1	5
Katy Rodolph		1:17.6	31	1:06.4	4	2:24.0	21

Bobsleigh

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Stanley Benham Patrick Martin	Two-man	1:22.03	2	1:22.12	2	1:21.21	2	1:21.53	3	5:26.89
Frederick Fortune John L. Helmer		1:23.46	7	1:24.48	8	1:23.15	7	1:22.73	5	5:33.82	7
Stanley Benham Patrick Martin Howard Crossett James Atkinson	Four-man	1:17.44	2	1:17.78	2	1:16.72	2	1:18.54	4	5:10.48
James Bickford Hubert Miller Maurice R. Severino Joseph Scott		1:19.13	8	1:19.97	11	1:19.49	11	1:21.09	11	5:19.68	9

Cross-country skiing

Figure skating

Individual

Athlete	Event	CF	FS	Total
		Rank	Rank	Points	Places	Rank
Dick Button	Men's singles	1	1	192.256	9
James Grogan		3	2	180.822	24
Hayes Alan Jenkins		5	3	174.589	40	4
Tenley Albright	Ladies' singles	2	3	159.133	22
Virginia Baxter		8	1	152.211	50	5
Sonya Klopfer		3	5	154.633	33	4

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Points	Places	Rank
Janet Gerhauser John Nightingale	Pairs	10.289	54	6
Karol Kennedy Peter Kennedy		11.178	17.5

Ice hockey

The tournament was run in a round-robin format with nine teams participating.

Summary

Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
United States men	Men's tournament	Norway W 3–2	West Germany W 8–2	Finland W 8–2	Switzerland W 8–2	Sweden L 2–4	Poland W 5–3	Czechoslovakia W 6–3	Canada T 3–3

Roster

Tournament

Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Canada	8	7	0	1	71	14	15
United States	8	6	1	1	43	21	13
Sweden	9	7	2	0	53	22	14
Czechoslovakia	9	6	3	0	50	23	12
Switzerland	8	4	4	0	40	40	8
Poland	8	2	5	1	21	56	5
Finland	8	2	6	0	21	60	4
West Germany	8	1	6	1	21	53	3
Norway	8	0	8	0	15	46	0

• Norway 2-3 USA
• USA 8-2 Germany FR
• USA 8-2 Finland
• USA 8-2 Switzerland
• Sweden 4-2 USA
• USA 5-3 Poland
• USA 6-3 Czechoslovakia
• Canada 3-3 USA

Nordic combined

The cross-country skiing part of this event was combined with the main medal event, meaning that athletes competing here were skiing for two disciplines at the same time. Details can be found above in this article, in the cross-country skiing section.

The ski jumping (normal hill) event was held separate from the main medal event of ski jumping, results can be found in the table below (athletes were allowed to perform three jumps, the best two jumps were counted and are shown here).

Ski jumping

Speed skating

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Bobby Fitzgerald	500 m	44.9	15
Ken Henry		43.2
Don McDermott		43.9
Johnny Werket		44.5	11
Ken Henry	1500 m	2:25.0	17
Don McDermott		2:28.8	28
Pat McNamara		2:25.5	18
Johnny Werket		2:24.3	12
Al Broadhurst	5000 m	9:09.2	34
Chuck Burke		9:06.4	33
Ken Henry		8:59.9	29
Pat McNamara		8:53.4	24
Al Broadhurst	10,000 m	18:44.2	25
Chuck Burke		19:07.1	27
Pat McNamara		18:08.7	16
Johnny Werket		DNF

References

• (ed.) Rolf Petersen (1952). The Official Report of the Organising Committee of the VIth Winter Olympic Games 1952 at Oslo (PDF). Oslo. Retrieved 2008-01-31. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2008-06-10.
• Olympic Winter Games 1952, full results by sports-reference.com

• Nations at the 1952 Winter Olympics
• United States at the Winter Olympics by year
• 1952 in American sports