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1952 Summer Olympics - National Flag Bearers

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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 were absent from the Parade of Nations, meaning only 67 nations participated in the parade.

List

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