Helsinki Olympic Games

Games of the XV Olympiad

Host city	Helsinki, Finland
Nations participating	69
Athletes participating	4,955 (4,436 men, 519 women)
Events	149 in 17 sports
Opening ceremony	July 19
Closing ceremony	August 3
Officially opened by	President Juho Kusti Paasikivi
Athlete's Oath	Heikki Savolainen
Olympic Torch	Paavo Nurmi and Hannes Kolehmainen
Stadium	Olympic Stadium
Summer:
<  London 1948 Melbourne 1956  >
Winter:
<  Oslo 1952 Cortina 1956  >

The 1952 Summer Olympics (Finnish: Kesäolympialaiset 1952; Swedish: Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Helsinki, Finland, in 1952. Helsinki had been earlier selected to host the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were cancelled due to World War II. It is the northernmost city at which a summer Olympic Games have been held. These were the first games to be held in a non-Indo-European language speaking country. It was also the Olympic Games at which the most number of world records were broken until surpassed by the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, Indonesia, Israel, Thailand, and Saarland made their Olympic debuts in Helsinki 1952.

Helsinki was chosen as the host city over bids from Amsterdam and five American cities at the 40th IOC Session on June 21, 1947, in , Sweden. Minneapolis and Los Angeles finished tied for second in the final voting.

The voting results in chart below:

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