Hong Kong competed in the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.
Four athletes competed for Hong Kong, and a non-participant served as flag-bearer for the Hong Kong delegation at the opening ceremony.[1]
Athletes
- Francisco Xavier Monteiro (1926 Hong Kong-2002)
- Men's 100 m Freestyle -- Final Rank: 52
- Men's 400 m Freestyle
- 1500 m Freestyle
- Cheung Kin Man (1932 Borneo -?)
- Men's 100 m Freestyle -- Final Rank: 23
- Men's 400 m Freestyle
- 1500 m Freestyle
- Cynthia Eager (1936 Hong Kong-1996 Keizer, Oregon)
- Women's 100 m Freestyle
- Women's 400 m Freestyle
- Irene Anita Kwok Kam Ngor (born 1933 in Hong Kong)
- Women's 200 m Breaststroke
References
- ^ "15th Olympic Games Opened as 70,000 See Rites in Rain". The Milwaukee Journal. 19 July 1952. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
Hong Kong sent a flagbearer and four athletes