Cycling at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race

Men's individual road race; at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue	Käpylä, Finland
Date	2 August 1952
Competitors	154 from 31 nations
Winning time	5:06:03.4
Medalists
	← 1948 1956 →

The Men's Individual Road Race at the 1952 Summer Olympics was held on 2 August, the 2nd last day of the Olympics on an 11,2 km course running counter-clockwise from Käpylä through Pakila and Maunula and back to Käpylä. The course was circled seventeen times, so the total length of the competition was 190,4 km. About half of the road was hard-surfaced, the other half sand-surfaced.

There were 154 entries from 31 nations and 112 participants from 30 nations.^[1]

Results

Final Classification

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	TIME
	André Noyelle (BEL)	5:06:03.4
	Robert Grondelaers (BEL)	5:06:51.2
	Edi Ziegler (GER)	5:07:47.5
4.	Lucien Victor (BEL)	5:07:52.0
5.	Dino Bruni (ITA)	5:10:54.0
6.	Vincenzo Zucconelli (ITA)	5:11:16.5
7.	Gianni Ghidini (ITA)	5:11:16.8
8.	Oscar Zeissner (GER)	5:11:18.5
9.	Hans Andresen (DEN)	5:11:18.5
10.	Arend van 't Hoft (NED)	5:11:19.0
11.	André Moes (LUX)	5:11:19.0
12.	Jacques Anquetil (FRA)	5:11:19.0
13.	Alfred Tonello (FRA)	5:11:20.0
14.	Roger Ludwig (LUX)	5:11:20.0
15.	Bruno Monti (ITA)	5:11.35.0
16.	Yngve Lundh (SWE)	5:12:15.2
17.	Rolf Graf (SUI)	5:12:45.3
18.	Stig Mårtensson (SWE)	5:13:00.0
19.	Jørgen Frank Rasmussen (DEN)	5:14:09.4
20.	Josef Schraner (SUI)	5:15:06.1
21.	Allan Carlsson (SWE)	5:16:19.1
22.	Jan Plantaz (NED)	5:16:19.1
23.	Claude Rouer (FRA)	5:16:19.1
24.	Odd Berg (NOR)	5:17:30.2
25.	Erling Kristiansen (NOR)	5:17:30.2
26.	Desmond Robinson (GBR)	5:18:08.9
27.	Brian Robinson (GBR)	5:18:08.9
28.	Lorang Christiansen (NOR)	5:20:01.3
29.	Constantin Stănescu (ROU)	5:20:01.4
30.	22x20px Alois Lampert (LIE)	5:20:06.6
31.	Graham Vines (GBR)	5:22:33.2
32.	Donald Sheldon (USA)	5:22:33.3
33.	Virgilio Pereyra (URU)	5:22:33.4
34.	Peter Pryor (AUS)	5:22:33.5
35.	Jim Nevin (AUS)	5:22:33.6
36.	Thomas O'Rourke (USA)	5:22:33.7
37.	Wedell Østergaard (DEN)	5:22:34.1
38.	Luis Angel de los Santos (URU)	5:22:34.3
39.	Hugo Machado (URU)	5:23:33.7
40.	22x20px Yevgeny Klevtsov (URS)	5:23:34.0
41.	Marin Niculescu (ROU)	5:23:34.1
42.	Raino Koskenkorva (FIN)	5:23:34.6
43.	22x20px Ewald Hasler (LIE)	5:23:34.8
44.	Victor Georgescu (ROU)	5:24:27.5
45.	Ángel Romero (MEX)	5:24:33.9
46.	Petar Georgiev (BUL)	5:24:34.0
47.	Luu Quan (VIE)	5:24:34.1
48.	Paul Maue (GER)	5:24:44.5
49.	Adrie Voorting (NED)	5:24:44.6
50.	Fausto Lurati (SUI)	5:24:58.0
51.	Nicolas Morn (LUX)	5:26:25.0
52.	Helge Hansen (DEN)	5:27:08.8