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 First Round — Lost to Anatoli Bulakov (Soviet Union) on points (0-3)
Men's Light Welterweight (–63,5 kg) Piet van Klaveren First Round — Defeated Roy Keenan (Canada) on points (2-1) Second Round — Lost to Terence Milligan (Ireland) on points (0-3)
Men's Welterweight (–67 kg) Moos Linneman First Round — Defeated Peter Müller (Germany) by walk-over in third round Second Round — Defeated George Issabeg (Iran) on points (2-1) Quarterfinals — Lost to Günther Heidemann (Germany) on points (0-3)
Men's Middleweight (–75 kg) Leen Jansen First Round — Bye Second Round — Defeated Robert Malouf (Canada) on technical knock-out in first round Quarterfinals — Lost to Floyd Patterson (United States) on knock-out in first round
Men's Light Heavyweight (–81 kg) Toon Pastor First Round — Defeated István Fazekas (Hungary) on points (3-0) 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 Adrie Voorting, Daan de Groot, Jan Plantaz, and Jules Maenen Eliminated in quarterfinals (→ 7th place)
Diving
Women AthleteEventPreliminaryFinalPointsRankPointsRankEls van den Horn3 m springboard49.4412 Did not advanceLenie Lanting-Keller47.3314 Did not advance
Rowing
Netherlands had 12 male rowers participate in four out of seven rowing events in 1952.
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)
Swimming
Men Ranks given are within the heat. AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankJoris Tjebbes100 m freestyle 59.1 2 Q 59.8 5 Did not advance400 m freestyle 4:54.4 3 Q 5:01.9 8 Did not advanceJitse van der Veen100 m backstroke 1:09.1 4 Q 1:10.5 8 Did not advanceDaan Buijze200 m breaststroke 2:41.9 2 Q 2:42.6 6 Did not advance
Women Ranks given are within the heat. AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankIrma Heijting-Schuhmacher100 m freestyle 1:06.7 1 Q 1:06.7 2 Q 1:07.3 6Hannie Termeulen 1:07.3 1 Q 1:07.1 3 Q 1:07.0 Koosje van Voorn 1:07.4 2 Q 1:08.1 5 Did not advanceIrma Heijting-Schuhmacher400 m freestyle 5:45.2 6 Did not advanceHannie Termeulen 5:45.5 5 Did not advanceGeertje Wielema 6:02.6 6 Did not advanceRia van der Horst100 m backstroke 1:17.0 1 Q colspan=2 Joke de Korte 1:15.8 2 Q colspan=2 1:15.8 4Geertje Wielema 1:13.8 1 Q colspan=2 1:14.5 Lies Bonnier200 m breaststroke 3:00.6 1 Q 3:00.3 5 Did not advanceRika Bruins 3:04.7 3 Q 3:02.4 6 Did not advanceNel Garritsen 2:59.4 2 Q 2:59.5 3 Q 3:02.1 8Marie-Louise Linssen-VaessenKoosje van VoornHannie TermeulenIrma Heijting-Schuhmacher4 × 100 m freestyle 4:30.6 2 Q colspan=2 4:29.0
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
Official Olympic Reports International Olympic Committee results database