Great Britain at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Men's 100 metres

• McDonald Bailey

• First Round — 10.4s
• First Round — 10.5s
• Semifinals — 10.5s
• Final — 10.4s (→ Bronze Medal)

Men's Hammer Throw

• Duncan Clark

• Qualifying Round — 50.69m
• Final Round — 51.07m (→ 18th place)

Women's discus throw

• Suzanne Allday

• Qualifying Round — 36.37 m
• Final — 37.96 m (→ 15th place)

Men's Flyweight:

• David Dower

1. First Round – Defeated Abdelamid Boutefnouchet of France (3–0)
2. Second Round – Defeated Leslie Donovan Perera Handunge of Ceylon (3–0)
3. Third Round – Lost to Anatoli Bulakov of Soviet Union (1–2)

Men's Bantamweight:

• Thomas Nicholls

1. First Round – Lost to Pentti Olavi Hämäläinen of Finland (0–3)

Men's Featherweight:

• Percival Lewis

1. First Round – Lost to Georghe Ilie of Romania (0–3)

Men's Lightweight:

• Frederick Reardon

1. First Round – Defeated Roger Cuche of Switzerland (KO 3R)
2. Second Round – Defeated Aleksandr Zasuhin of Soviet Union (0–3)
3. Third Round – Lost to Aleksy Antkiewicz of Poland (0–3)

Men's Light Welterweight:

• Peter Waterman

1. First Round – Defeated Oscar Juan Galardo of Argentina (2–1)
2. Second Round – Lost to Alexander Grant Webster of South Africa (0–3)

Men's Welterweight:

• John Maloney

1. First Round – Lost to Július Torma of Czechoslovakia (1–2)

Men's Light Middleweight:

• Bernard Foster

1. First Round – Lost to Petar Stankoff Spassoff of Bulgaria (1–2)

Men's Middleweight:

• Terence Gooding

1. First Round – Defeated Moustafa Mohamed Fahim of Egypt (2–1)
2. Second Round – Lost to Boris Georgiev Nikolov of Bulgaria (2–1)

Men's Light Heavyweight:

• Henry Cooper

1. Second Round – Lost to Anatoli Perov of Soviet Union (1–2)

Men's Heavyweight:

• Edgar Hearn

1. First Round – Defeated José Victorio Sartor of Argentina (2–1)
2. Third Round – Lost to Ilkka Rickhard Koski of Finland (0–3)

Road Competition

Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)

• Desmond Robinson — 5:18:08.9 (→ 26th place)
• Brian Robinson — 5:18:08.9 (→ 27th place)
• Graham Vines — 5:22:33.2 (→ 31st place)
• Leslie Ingman — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Track Competition

Men's 1.000m Time Trial

• Donald McKellow

• Final — 1:13.3 (→ 5th place)

Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race

• Cyril Peacock — 4th place

Men's 4.000m Team Pursuit

• Alan Newton, Donald Burgess, George Newberry, and Ronald Stretton

• Bronze Medal Match — defeated France (→ Bronze Medal)

Men's 3m Springboard

• Anthony Turner

• Final — 151.90 points (→ 7th place)

• Peter Heatly

• Preliminary Round — 63.37 points (→ 16th place)

• Peter Elliott

• Preliminary Round — 61.85 points (→ 20th place)

Women's 10m Platform

• Phyllis Long

• Preliminary Round — 43.23 points
• Final — 63.19 points (→ 5th place)

• Diana Spencer

• Preliminary Round — 43.16 points
• Final — 60.76 points (→ 7th place)

• Valerie Lloyd-Chandos

• Preliminary Round — 35.39 points (→ 12th place)

17 fencers, 14 men and 3 women, represented Great Britain in 1952.

Men's foil

• René Paul
• Luke Wendon
• Raymond Paul

Men's team foil

• René Paul, Luke Wendon, Emrys Lloyd, Raymond Paul, Harry Cooke, Allan Jay

Men's épée

• Allan Jay
• Ronald Parfitt
• René Paul

Men's team épée

• René Paul, Allan Jay, Christopher Grose-Hodge, Ronald Parfitt, Raymond Harrison, Charles de Beaumont

Men's sabre

• William Beatley
• Bob Anderson
• Olgierd Porebski

Men's team sabre

• Roger Tredgold, Olgierd Porebski, Bob Anderson, William Beatley, Luke Wendon

Women's foil

• Mary Glen-Haig
• Gillian Sheen
• Patricia Buller

The British Gymnastics team competed in 15 events and was made up of 14 gymnasts, (6 men and 8 women), including Frank Turner and George Weedon, both of whom had competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Three male pentathletes represented Great Britain in 1952.

Individual

• Leon Lumsdaine
• John Hewitt
• Jervis Percy

Team

• Leon Lumsdaine
• John Hewitt
• Jervis Percy

Great Britain had 23 male rowers participate in six out of seven rowing events in 1952.[2]

Men's single sculls – Fourth

• Tony Fox

Men's double sculls

• John MacMillan (born 1932)
• Peter Brandt

Men's coxless pair – Fourth

• David Callender
• Christopher Davidge

Men's coxless four – Fourth

• Harry Almond
• John Jones
• James Crowden
• Adrian Cadbury

Men's coxed four – Fourth

• John MacMillan (born 1928)
• Graham Fisk
• Laurence Guest
• Peter de Giles
• Paul Massey (cox)

Men's eight – Fourth

• David Macklin
• Alastair MacLeod
• Nicholas Clack
• Roger Sharpley
• Edward Worlidge
• Brian Lloyd
• William Windham
• David Jennens
• John Hinde (cox)

Twelve shooters represented Great Britain in 1952.

25 m pistol

• Henry Steele
• Henry Swire

50 m pistol

• Ronald Guy
• William White

300 m rifle, three positions

• John Pearson
• Jocelyn Barlow

50 m rifle, three positions

• Steffen Cranmer
• Charles Hyde

50 m rifle, prone

• Charles Hyde
• Steffen Cranmer

100m running deer

• Cyril Mackworth-Praed
• Ingram Capper

Trap

• Enoch Jenkins
• Charles Lucas