| Date | 22 – 23 July 1952 — 08:00-14:00 (both days) | |
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| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Messuhalli II, Helsinki | |
| Participants | 134 from 18 countries | |
| Format | Placement determined by best scores on apparatus in individual all-around event. | |
Soviet women were pretty good in this event. They finished 1-6, with the medals won by Yekaterina Kalinchuk, Mariya Horokovska, and Galina Minaicheva, in that order. The top non-Soviets were Sweden’s Karin Lindberg and Poland’s Helena Rakoczy, the 1950 World Champion, who tied for seventh.