1952 Summer Olympics national flag bearers

During the Parade of Nations section of the 1952 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, athletes from each country participating in the Olympics paraded into the arena. The Parade of Nations was organized according to the Finnish name of the country. Greece led the parade followed by Netherlands Antilles. Other countries marched by following the Finnish alphabet, except the host country, Finland, which marched last. The athletes from British Guiana and People’s Republic of China was absent from the Parade of Nations, making only 67 nations paraded in the parade.

List

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Order	Nation	Finnish Name	Flag bearer	Sport
1	Greece (GRE)	Kreikka	Nikolaos Syllas	Athletics
2	Netherlands Antilles Netherlands Antilles (AHO)	Alankomaiden Antillit
3	Argentina (ARG)	Argentina	Delfo Cabrera	Athletics
4	Australia (AUS)	Australia	Mervyn Wood	Rowing
5	Bahamas Bahamas (BAH)	Bahama
6	Belgium (BEL)	Belgia	Charles Debeur	Official
7	Bermuda Bermuda (BER)	Bermuda
8	Brazil (BRA)	Brasilia	Mário Jorge	Basketball
9	Bulgaria (BUL)	Bulgaria	Boris Nikolov	Boxing
10	Burma Burma (BIR)	Burma
11	Ceylon (CEY)	Ceylon
12	Chile (CHI)	Chile	Adriana Millard	Athletics
13	Egypt Egypt (EGY)	Egypti
14	Spain Spain (ESP)	Espanja	Luis Omedes	Rowing
15	South Africa South Africa (RSA)	Etelä Afrika	Schalk Booysen	Athletics
16	Philippines Philippines (PHI)	Filippiinit
17	Guatemala (GUA)	Guatemala
18	Netherlands (NED)	Hollanti	Simon de Wit	Chef d’equipe sailing
19	Hong Kong Hong Kong (HKG)	Hong Kong
20	Indonesia (INA)	Indonesia
21	India (IND)	Intia	Balbir Singh Sr.	Field hockey
22	Iran (IRI)	Iran
23	Ireland (IRL)	Irlanti
24	Iceland (ISL)	Islanti
25	Great Britain (GBR)	Iso-Britannia	Harold Whitlock	Athletics
26	Israel (ISR)	Israel
27	Italy (ITA)	Italia	Miranda Cicognani	Gymnastics
28	Austria (AUT)	Itävalta	Willi Welt	Gymnastics
29	Jamaica (JAM)	Jamaika	Arthur Wint	Athletics
30	Japan (JPN)	Japani	Bunkichi Sawada	Athletics
31	Yugoslavia (YUG)	Jugoslavia	Oto Rebula	Athletics
32	Canada Canada (CAN)	Kanada	William Parnell	Athletics
33	South Korea South Korea (KOR)	Korea
34	Ghana (GHA)	Kultarannikko
35	Cuba (CUB)	Kuuba	Federico Lopez Carviso	Basketball
36	Lebanon (LIB)	Libanon
37	Liechtenstein Liechtenstein (LIE)	Liechtenstein
38	Luxembourg (LUX)	Luxemburg	Camille Wagner	Football
39	Mexico (MEX)	Meksikko	Joaquin Capilla	Diving
40	Monaco (MON)	Monaco
41	Soviet Union Soviet Union (URS)	Neuvostolitto
42	Nigeria Nigeria (NGR)	Nigeria
43	Norway (NOR)	Norja	Martin Stokken	Athletics
44	Pakistan (PAK)	Pakistan
45	Panama (PAN)	Panama	Carlos Chávez	Weightlifting
46	Puerto Rico (PUR)	Porto Rico	Jaime Annexy	Athletics
47	Portugal (POR)	Portugali
48	Poland (POL)	Puola	Teodor Kucerka	Rowing
49	France (FRA)	Ranska	Ignace Heinrich	Athletics
50	Romania (ROU)	Romania	Dumitru Paraschivescu	Athletics
51	Sweden (SWE)	Ruotsi	Bo Eriksson	Fencing
52	Saar (SAA)	Saar	Toni Breder	Athletics
53	Germany (GER)	Saksa	Friedel Schirmel	Athletics
54	Singapore (SIN)	Singapore
55	Switzerland (SUI)	Sveitsi
56	Denmark (DEN)	Tanska	Erik Swane Lund	Fencing
57	Thailand (THA)	Thaimaa
58	Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	Trinidad	Rodney Wilkes	Weightlifting
59	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	Tsekkoslovakia
60	Turkey (TUR)	Turkki
61	Hungary (HUN)	Unkari	Imre Német	Athletics
62	Uruguay (URU)	Uruguay
63	New Zealand (NZL)	Uusi Seelanti	Harold Cleghorn	Weightlifting
64	Venezuela Venezuela (VEN)	Venezuela
65	Vietnam (VIE)	Vietnam
66	United States (USA)	Yhdysvallat	Norman Armitage	Fencing
67	Finland (FIN)	Suomi	Väinö Suvivuo	Athletics

References

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