Czechoslovakia at the 1952 Winter Olympics

Czechoslovakia at the 1952 Winter Olympics
Czechoslovakia at the Olympic Games

Flag of Czechoslovakia – Flag bearers
IOC code   TCH
At the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo
Competitors 22 (men) in 3 sports
Flag bearer Vlastimil Bubník (ice hockey)
Medals Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
0
Total
0
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Czechoslovakia competed at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway.

Contents

Cross-country skiing

Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
18 km Štefan Kovalčík DNF
Vladimír Šimůnek 1'12:34 47
Vlastimil Melich 1'10:09 29
50 km František Balvín 4'21:19 21
Jaroslav Cardal 4'01:49 14
Men's 4 x 10 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Vladimír Šimůnek
Štefan Kovalčík
Vlastimil Melich
Jaroslav Cardal
2'37:12 8

Ice hockey

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

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 4th 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
  • Czechoslovakia 8-2 Poland
  • Norway 0-6 Czechoslovakia
  • Czechoslovakia 6-1 Germany FR
  • Canada 4-1 Czechoslovakia
  • Czechoslovakia 11-2 Finland
  • Czechoslovakia 8-3 Switzerland
  • USA 6-3 Czechoslovakia
  • Czechoslovakia 4-0 Sweden
  • Sweden 5-3 Czechoslovakia 1

1 Sweden and Czechoslovakia were tied with identical record and goal differentials, so a tie breaker game was played.

Contestants
  • Slavomír Bartoň
  • Miloslav Blažek
  • Václav Bubník
  • Vlastimil Bubník
  • Miloslav Charouzd
  • Bronislav Danda
  • Karel Gut
  • Vlastimil Hajšman
  • Jan Lidral
  • Miroslav Nový
  • Miloslav Ošmera
  • Zdeněk Pýcha
  • Miroslav Rejman
  • Jan Richter
  • Oldřich Sedlák
  • Jiří Sekyra
  • Jozef Záhorský

Nordic combined

Events:

  • 18 km cross-country skiing
  • normal hill ski jumping

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).

Athlete Event Cross-country Ski Jumping Total
Points Rank Distance 1 Distance 2 Points Rank Points Rank
Vlastimil Melich Individual 211.818 10 56.0 58.0 179.0 22 390.818 16

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