Highlights

The 1952 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VI Olympic Winter Games, were celebrated in 1952 in Oslo, Norway.

• In the speedskating Hjalmar Andersen won 3 gold medals in the 1,500 m, the 5,000 m and the 10,000 m.
• In the alpine skiing the winner of the downhill was the Italian Zeno Colò in a time of 2:30.80 and in the slalom event Othmar Schneider was the champion with Antoin Miliordos falling 18 times before finishing his run, as he went over the line backwards.
• Bandy was a demonstration sport but has so far never returned to the Olympics.

Medal count

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway (host nation)	7	3	6	16
2	United States	4	6	1	11
3	Finland	3	4	2	9
4	West Germany	3	2	2	7
5	Austria	2	4	2	8
6	Canada	1	0	1	2
	Italy	1	0	1	2
8	Great Britain	1	0	0	1
9	Netherlands	0	3	0	3
10	Sweden	0	0	4	4